Mets counting on connections to land free agent
Delgado

Jan. 13, 2005
SportsLine.com wire reports

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Mets executives met with
Carlos Delgado on Thursday, hoping the tactic that
helped land Carlos Beltran and Pedro Martinez would
lure the free-agent first baseman to New York.

Already in Puerto Rico with Beltran, general manager
Omar Minaya and three others met with the 32-year-old
slugger in a San Juan hotel, Mets spokesman Jay
Horwitz said.

"It was just kind of a meet-and-greet thing,"
Delgado's agent, David Sloane, said. "It was all
non-contractual, just a chance for those guys to get
to meet each other. The meeting was over in about 20,
30 minutes."

In his first visit to his native Puerto Rico since
signing a seven-year, $119 million contract with the
Mets on Tuesday, Beltran said the presence of two
Latinos in New York's front office -- Minaya, who is
Dominican, and his special assistant Tony Bernazard, a
Puerto Rican -- gave the Mets a family appeal that
made him lean toward the team.


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