Sometimes you just have to face the facts. Mets fans have very little patience. The 2010 baseball season can be a success even if the Mets don’t win the World Series.
Plan B might indeed be the best way to go. There are so many holes to fill that it is unlikely to happen in just one off season. Hopefully we’ll improve, then re-evaluate our needs in order to put us over the top in 2011.
Don’t blow the whole wad this winter. Save some dollars for July if we are contending. Don’t make moves that might be regrettable in 2011 and beyond.
First and foremost we need our injured players to recover and have solid years. Then we need other guys to have comeback years. We need a couple of good signings and trades, and we need a little luck.
- Jose Reyes – the most important cog in the wheel. As he goes, so will the Mets. A BA of .290, OBP of .350, 100 runs, 65 SB
- Carlos Beltran – If healthy he will be great in CF. 25 HR and 100 RBI
- David Wright – the 2010 comeback player of the year?
- Jeff Francoeur – 25 HR
- Daniel Murphy – 40 doubles, 18 HR, and 85 RBI
- Johan Santana – 20 wins
- Trade Castillo – then sign DeRosa to play 2B and platoon with Murphy at 1B.
- Trade for pitcher - Ricky Nolasco or Roy Oswalt.
- Sign Jason Marquis or Joel Pineiro.
- Sign one of Ben Sheets, Erik Bedard, Rich Harden, or Brad Penny.
- Sign Bengie Molina, Rod Barajas, or Miguel Olivo, to a 1 year contract.
Doing most of the moves above wouldn’t cost very much.
If 60% of the above comes to fruition, we’ll improve significantly. And it wouldn’t cost very much or leave us saddled with bad contracts going forward.
A $170 million payroll guarantees nothing. And it would be especially embarrassing to finish under .500.
Well when u see in the Dailynews that the Mets are talking about getting Jose Guillen and now in the Newsday the Mets are having discussions about trading for Pat Burrell and bringing in Delgado for 1 more year, it doesn’t paint a very good picture about the chances of the Mets getting Holliday as well as getting having Murphy at 1b and it also gives u the sense that where the Mets are going to spend there big funds on, which is probably lackey. I mean it would not surprise me now if the 3rd team the mets and cubs were looking for as far as this castillo/bradley trade mess is the Rays, the cubs seem willing to do Bradley for Castillo, Tampa was the other team interested in Bradley besides texas and now with this thing in Newsday by Ken Davidoff about the Mets and Burrell, do the Math. Plus Burrell is on the last year of a contract.
i agree we need top talent to fill our holes to revive this team in 2010 to be able to ‘contend’…win 85+ games.
My points were that Lackey would be scarfed up by the Yanks, Holliday by maybe the Yanks or Angels, and that there were other very good options out there across the board in FA-land and also potentially via trades that wouldn’t shred our entire system…and to do those that seemed best and not wait until teams had maneuvered around us and the pickings got very slim.
Turns out the Yanks look like they may indeed trade for Doc, which along with the Angles NOT chasing Lackey makes me very suspicious of Lackey’s health.
i now think Holliday would be a great choice for LF because of his hitting ability (not HRs). Or even a trade for Crawford or Phillips (assuming Castilllo gone).
Now, with the Burrell rumor (a 3-way trade to get rid of Castillo), i’m depressed. We need to sign Figgins for 2B, or trade for Phillips…and maybe Burrell rebounds in his last contract year to at least his 5-yr avg (04 – 08) of 30HRs/96RBI’s .876 OPS, .260 avg. We shall see.