Mets trade for Putz

According to Tim Brown of Yahoo, the New York Mets just acquired J.J. Putz in a three-way trade with the Seattle Mariners and Cleveland Indians.

As reported by the AP:

The Mets shipped reliever Aaron Heilman, outfielder Endy Chavez, lefty Jason Vargas and three minor leaguers to the Mariners for Putz, center fielder Jeremy Reed and reliever Sean Green in the first trade by new Seattle general manager Jack Zduriencik.

Promising outfielder Franklin Gutierrez was sent from the Indians to Seattle. Cleveland gets reliever Joe Smith from the Mets and 23-year-old second baseman Luis Valbuena from Seattle."

It appears Putz will be setting up for Francisco Rodriguez. I'm not a Mets fan, but I have some good friends who are and they must be THRILLED to see Heilman go. Whenever he entered a game I had to talk them off the bridge.