Scott Boras says Mets ‘need more astronauts’

Guess they could always bring Jose Jimenez into camp…

Meeting with a pack of reporters in the lobby of the resort hotel, Boras suddenly became the Prince of Puns when asked about the Mets.

“The Mets are like NASA,” the high-powered agent said. “They have big rockets, a lot of platforms and very few astronauts. Astronauts are hard to find. They’ve got one guy with the Wright Stuff and a lot of Arm-strongs but they need more astronauts.

Boras, of course, was referring to third baseman David Wright, the franchise cornerstone and young right-handed starters Matt Harvey and Zack Wheeler. Harvey, a Boras client, will miss next season, though, after undergoing Tommy John reconstructive elbow surgery last month.

The Mets have had five losing seasons, including consecutive 74-88 seasons. Despite playing in the largest market in the country, they again will not big players in the free agent market this winter as the franchise is still recovering from the fortune owner Fred Wilpon lost in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme.

The Mets’ projected outfield, at the moment, is Eric Young Jr. in left field, Juan Lagares in center and Lucas Duda in right. Yet the Boras said the Mets have not expressed in signing two of his clients who are among the top astronauts, er, outfielders on the open market in Jacoby Ellsbury and Shin-Soo Choo.

...Mets general manager Sandy Alderson took Boras’ remarks in stride and even jokingly said he was going to meet with an undisclosed free agent for a “Sonic burger.”

“I’ll just say I’m not sure Scott has his intergalactic analogies completely correct or even if I understand what he meant,” Alderson said with a smile.