Another No Name From The Omar Minaya Era Comes Through For The Mets
Metsblog – “I feel very happy,” Valdespin told WFAN after the game. “When I saw Nickeas hit, I thought, ‘I can do it. I’m the man right now.’
Jordany…For 3! Nothing more satisfying that shoving it right up Papelbon’s ass and beating Doc Halladay and the Phillies in the process. And the fact that it was yet another young, home grown nobody doing it makes it that much sweeter.
I’m not one of these Mets fans who’s dick gets hard because they start 8 or 9 home grown players every game. As a matter of fact I actually don’t like it. As a big market team, the fact that there’s not one premier free agent out there makes me puke. Just reminds me of the penny pinching Wilpons and this new “plan” they’ve concocted with Sandy Alderson to try and win without spending any money. So I don’t want to sit here and praise this organization, because although these individual guys have done a tremendous and inspiring job so far this season, I think the fact that half the roster is cheap pieces from the farm is a fundamental problem with the franchise.
But, that being said, we’re 30 into the season. 16-13, 3 games over. Ahead of the Phillies and Marlins in the standings, a better record than the Yankees and Red Sox. Obviously its early, but somebody deserves credit for this surprising start, and that’s Omar Minaya. I’m not 100% positive how many of these guys were drafted by him, but its obviously gotta be a large majority of them. At the end of the day, this team is, in all likelihood, a middle of the road collection of young cheap ball players. But for the time being, they’re playing exciting winning baseball. They’ve already withstood two or three slip ups that I thought was going to be the beginning of the end. They continue to bounce back and win ballgames, and the guys getting it done all come from Mr. Minaya. So, I just figured its time for a dude who got booed out of town to get a little bit of love. Being a baseball GM is always a bizarre scenario where multiple regimes can overlap, and right now even though he’s long gone, its the Minaya Regime thats winning baseball games at Citi.
Again, though, just to reiterate, hypothetically speaking I’d rather have one or 2 premier players or pitchers out there in exchange for 5 or 6 of these guys it would have taken to pull off a sign and trade.
Johan. Enough said.
I would make that Johan trade 1,000 times out of 1,000.
Glad to see you measure your team against the Yankees Red Sox. As an FYI, you’re probably going to need to do better than both to make the playoffs.
So when they spend lots of money on players like Castillo, Perez and Bay and then play like shit, you hate the ownership. When they decide not to spend and build through the farm system, you hate the ownership. Make up your mind!
THe problem is Minaya put us in a spot where we’d have too many contracts locked up for multiple years, and then they’d all come off at the same time. It’s called flexibility and he sucked at it. What Alderson is doing is just wiping the slate clean and starting it from scratch, to eventually sign free agents but to do it right so each year you have one or two large contracts coming off the books and the ability to go out and sign new free agents, each and every year. Otherwise you sign a bunch of guys in one year, sit for 5 years with your thumb up your ass, and then go out and sign a bunch of players to big contracts again.
ok, thekman, so this past winter was year 1 of the new plan. What free agent did Alderson, in his infinite wisdom, decide to sign? You know, so he doesn’t have to sign multiple free agents next offseason and lose the precious flexibliity.
Jocko, did you read the part where thekan man said he was wiping the slate clean. They still have two massive contracts they need to get rid of Bay/Johan’s before they are going to go out and sign any A+ kind of guys. Who would you have liked them to go out and get this winter?
kman I agree with wiping the slate clean, its called rebuilding. But you’re a fool if you think the wilpons have any intentions of opening the wallet any time soon to compliment any of this young decent talent with championship caliber players. The wilpons are fuckin DROOLING over the fact that they have a team above .500 with guys like Justin Turner and Lucas Duda and Josh Thole etc etc. Best case scenario for them. They can say they are competitive without spending.
If Omar were still around all these young guys he drafted would be gone and you’d have your wet dream of all expensive superstars at every position and a repeat of 2004 team
PS you HAVE to get off the Wilpons case eventually. im starting to believe its a personal thing with you now
The roster isn’t gonna improve anytime soon. Johan will be traded for prospects, no doubt. Then they’ll probably see if they can compete over the next few years by bringing up minor league aces, Matt Harvey and Zach Wheeler. If they can, thats when ownership will open the wallets to bring in some talent. Despite how they are playing now, though, Thole and Tejada seem to be the only ones worth keeping. Maybe Kirk Nieuwenhuis. Lucas Duda is a dud, hell Ike Davis looks like a dud too.
Ike Davis is not a dud, and you’d have to be crazy not to keep Nieuwenhuis. With the two young guns in AAA this team has a lot of potential. But I agree with KFC they need to sign a big bat in the middle of the lineup. The Mets want Bay to be that bat but that sure as shit ain’t the case (still think Bay can contribute though). I would love to see the Mets go after Andre Either, Curtis Granderson, or Robinson Cano all of whom are free agents next year. Wishful thinking I know, but the Yanks are gonna have to fork up alot of cash on an already huge salary.