MLB.com: Mets wait for their turn to strike a deal

It’s possible that the Mets might swing a minor deal between now and Thursday afternoon, perhaps even grab catcher Bengie Molina or a mid-level starting pitcher off the free-agent pile.
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“Overall, I feel that some of the free agents that are out there,” Minaya said, “it’s going to take a little bit longer than in past Meetings.”

As is custom at this point in the winter, the main snag between the Mets and some of their free-agent targets—Matt Holliday and John Lackey in an ideal world, Molina and Joel Pineiro in a more realistic one—is contract length. Many of the available mid-market starting pitchers are asking for contracts of more than two years, whereas the Mets are unwilling to commit long-term deals to most of them.
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In the interim in Indianapolis, they will continue to have dialogue with player agents—the Mets met with Fernando Cuza, the agent for Molina, on Tuesday—and will continue to keep abreast of the trade market.
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After the Yankees, Tigers and D-backs agreed in principle to a three-way trade that, among other things, would send Edwin Jackson to Arizona, Minaya admitted that he inquired about Jackson only to learn that Detroit was underwhelmed by what the club had to offer.

So it goes for the Mets, a team unwilling to spend gobs of money, unable to woo clubs with their prospects and unsuccessful in their initial attempts to make something stick in Indy. With so many needs, from a starting left fielder and catcher to a No. 2 starter, the Mets are bound to strike soon.