He needs only three bases on balls to surpass the leader, Babe Ruth, and he needs only 68 runs scored to knock out Ty Cobb. Last season with the Mets and Seattle, he stole 36 bases, and while he batted only .233, which was better than many multi-millionaire players, his on base percentage was .366 with 88 bases on balls. He is still baseball's best lead-off man, and the most productive in the history of the game. Let him play himself out and walk off the field on his own volition, because he alone knows when to quit. The establishment, continually throwing money around as if it were water, owes him that much and they can get him for the minimum.
Somebody wake up.
There has never been any question that Mets reliever Turk Wendell is quite an unusual character. He now looks forward to playing one year for no salary, which means giving away nothing to charity as well. He just wants to show the world that he enjoys the game and is willing to go out there for zero bucks. He is the most radical player in decades. But the alleged union, the Players Association, wouldn't allow such a thing to take place.