Jose Reyes will be back with the Mets next season, but there’s no guarantee he’ll remain with the team beyond 2011.
“This means I’m gonna be in New York one more year,” Reyes said yesterday, one day after his $11 million option was exercised by the team. “Then we’ll see what happens.”
The shortstop said he was not opposed to agreeing to an extension beyond next year, but that hadn’t been discussed with new general manager Sandy Alderson, who said on Wednesday that a new deal wasn’t “out of the question.”
“We’ll listen, but we haven’t talked about that,” Reyes said.
Reyes, who spent yesterday at an Old Navy store in Midtown with New York City public school students, added that he hadn’t met Alderson yet.
“I don’t know too much [about him],” Reyes said. “A lot of people say good things. I’m excited.”
He’d also like to play more than the 133 games he was limited to a year ago because of oblique injuries — after missing the start of the season with a thyroid condition. Reyes said he will begin working out with his personal trainer next week and hopes to play more than 150 games next season.
The 27-year-old added that he hasn’t been following the team’s search for a new manager.
“Whoever comes is gonna be welcome,” he said.
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Joaquin Arias
, whom the Mets got in the Jeff Francoeur
deal, was claimed off waivers yesterday by Kansas City.
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The Mets also sent five players to Triple-A Buffalo after they cleared waivers: RHP Eddie Kunz
, LHP Raul Valdes
, INF Mike Hessman
, OF Jesus Feliciano
and C Omir Santos
. The club now has 34 players on its 40-man roster.