CARLOS BELTRAN It was the old scout in Omar Minaya, not the new GM, who convinced Mets ownership to sign Carlos Beltran to a seven-year, $119 million, no-trade contract. During his years as an area scout for the Texas Rangers, as he eyeballed thousands of kids on thousands of fields in Latin America, Minaya learned to look at a player not for what he was, but for what he could be. That is why Beltran can be NEXT even with a seven-year body of major league work. Look at the 27-year-old centerfie ...

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