The Mets are reportedly interested in signing Brett Lawrie, likely as insurance for David Wright at third base. I don’t see why they would bother with him.
The White Sox released Lawrie loose last Friday, just a few months after agreeing to a $3.5 million contract to avoid arbitration. By cutting him now, the Sox will only owe him 30 days of severance pay, or about $575,000. Lawrie spent one year in Chicago, hitting .248 with 12 homers and 36 RBIs in 94 games.
He was with the A’s the prior year, coming over to Oakland in what will go down as the worst trade of our generation — the genius Billy Beane sending Josh Donaldson and three years of team control to Toronto for Lawrie and three minor leaguers.