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with Doc-Sandy-Matt dialogue (trialogue?)
But, Doc, with due respect (all of which you have earned) please stop the "Jack Wilson is $8M" talk.  He knows he won't get $8M on the open market and the Ms know it too.  If he comes back, it will be because they negotiate a buyout of the option and an extension at close to market value.  Buying a one-year semi-solution for $8M and still not having anyone in the pipeline seems like the least likely outcome.  Buying a couple of years of stability at $4-6M per while Z seeks the SS version of Guti seems much more likely.
Speaking of which, a year ago no one was figuring that CF would be a non-issue and I don't recall loads of folks on the net saying "Z should really go out and get Franklin Gutierrez" -- but Z told the Mets he wouldn't pull the trigger w/o a CF and Guti was the one he wanted.
My guess is that Z knows now that SS is in a similar situation.  He knows Jack W. is not a long-term answer.  Much more likely than a one-year $8M option for Wilson is a "Putz-type" move with a "building block" SS as a part of it  -- and I anticipate that it would be Lopez or Morrow, or both, at the center from the Ms side.  (And I'm not trying to get rid of Lopez, I just think that's who they would move.)