Mets Decline Green's Option

Mark Hale at the NY Post, writes about the Mets declining Shawn Green's option for 2008:

Although a report said Shawn Green is considering hanging up his spikes after this season, the Mets right fielder said yesterday he anticipates playing in 2008.

"There's been no decision on the future at all as far as I'm concerned," the 34-year-old Green told The Post yesterday by phone. "I'm planning on playing and seeing how things go, but there's been no determination by anybody."

An NL East preview on Yahoo.com on Sunday said that Green is "thinking hard about retiring after the season." Interestingly, though, Green revealed that his 2008 mutual option has been rejected by the Mets, saying, "It was a mutual option, but they declined theirs."

Green now has no contract after 2007 and no options.