The Mets have until Friday to decide whether to give free agent Daniel Murphy the qualifying offer of $15.8 million dollars. Mike Vorkunov of The Star-Ledger tweets that Sandy Alderson said that the Mets decision would come right down to the wire. Whatever the decision, the Mets should not re-sign him.
The question of whether to sign Murphy to a lucrative long-term deal was always a difficult one, and that was before he went wild in the NLDS and NLCS.