It's believed that the Mets had expressed interest in Matt Capps last week ( source Daily News).When the part-time closer was surprisingly non-tendered Pirates there were reportedly at least 12 teams interested in bringing him aboard, for the Mets he would have competed with Iggy for the Set-up role.
Over the last 72 hrs Capps had narrowed it down to two teams the Cubs and Nats and an answer had been expected on Monday. It appears the delay might have been a late bid by the Mets to swoop in and steal the reliever.
While it would have been nice to have a 26 y/o potential closer in the pen for the 8th inning, he wanted to close and it would have been quite the coupe for Omar to pull this one off.
Capps signed a one year deal worth approx. 3.5MM from the Nats who have now significantly improved their ballclub while we've done NOTHING.....
It's $3.5 million. He can make another $425K in incentives. Capps had an offer from the Cubs and a late one from the Mets, but he'll almost certainly get to close in D.C., however, so it may be a better situation for him even if those offers were better or equal. source Circling the bases
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