Jeff Passan over at Yahoo Sports looks at who baseball is shelling out too much for, and who is a steal at twice the price.  The good new? Passan sees young Mets Wright and Reyes as bargains based on their current salary.  Both signed new contracts last season that extended their time with the Mets well into the future. Passan's feelings on these two can easily be summed up with this little quote:

No arguments here. Reyes has improved drastically as he's matured, and as long as he stays healthy is easily on pace to rack up better numbers than he did last year. We've seen how nervous he makes pitchers, and his increased patience has resulted in him reaching first safely at least once in all but four games so far this season. He'll never be a homerun guy, but considering his speed he'll have plenty of doubles and triples, not to mention infield singles.

On the other side of the coin, his most overpaid athletes include Carlos Delgado, who just recently seems to have broken out of his slump.  Delgado struggled for…seemingly forever. Of course, he hit two homeruns in one game just days ago, so he's back in all of our good graces. He's even broken back out his diary. I mean umm….at bat statistical journal.  Ex Met Armando Benetiz gets the nod for relief pitching.

It was a long slump, and even the elder statesmen in the Mets blogosphere were starting to queston Carlos. So I guess we can't hold it against Passan.  I know he did this by position, but for this one instance perhaps he should have started with the man the overpaid list should be named after: Carl Pavano.  Delgado wasn't hitting, but he was at least out there every day, chasing down pop fouls and providing calming words of advice to young Met pitchers in need, and probably tips on good places to by Cigars to left side infielders.