Jayson Stark of ESPN, is reporting that the Philadelphia Phillies are targeting Placido Polanco as their next third baseman, according to a source familiar with their thinking.
Before Wednesday, the Phillies appeared to be locked in on three potential free-agent third basemen — Polanco, Adrian Beltre and Mark DeRosa. But talks intensified with Polanco’s agents Wednesday, a day after his old team, the Tigers, declined to offer him arbitration.
Polanco is a Type A free agent, so the decision not to offer him arbitration means the Phillies could sign him without losing their first-round draft pick.
I can certainly see the wisdom in that for the Phillies, as Polanco has played over 300 games as a third baseman and won’t hurt them defensively at all.
I was actually hoping that the Mets would consider Polanco as a replacement for Luis Castillo rather than than Orlando Hudson, simply because I believe Polanco’s style would play better at CitiField.
If the Phillies do get Polanco, it widens an already big gap between them and the Mets to a chasm. And yet, I get the feeling that the Mets are pretty nonchalant about everything lately.
Uh oh… I feel a momentary lapse of reason coming… Stand clear…
Here is a Phillies team that has just been to two straight World Series, and still their sense of urgency is far more vigorous than the Mets who seemingly appear to be stuck in the mud.
While two of our NL East rivals both seem committed to putting out a championship caliber team on the field, the Mets are busy window dressing. New uniforms, newly named areas of the park, newly painted walls, etc. Where’s the determination and commitment you promised us last October when you were doing your propaganda tour?
I’ve remained silent long enough.
You have the audacity to give us a deadline to renew our ticket plans and for what? Why should we renew anything with you? What have you given us besides three consecutive years of embarrassment and heartache?
I love this team with all my heart and I always will love my Mets, but that doesn’t mean I have to love the ownership and the management group.
You owe us big time.
I couldn’t care less that you have the second highest payroll, a fact which you never stop reminding us of. You trumpet it like it’s some sort of grand achievement and noteworthy accomplishment, when in fact it’s an indictment of what a colossal failure you have been. Any small market team would have done a better job allocating your precious misspent millions.
Furthermore, the worst part of it is that you have learned nothing from your history in the last five years. Your first move of the off season was to give $2 million dollars to a utility infielder who can’t hit and has two busted thumbs, that no other team in baseball had any interest in? Wow… If this is a sign of things to come we all better brace ourselves for another epic fail.
You still have a couple of months to get back on my good side, but right now I think you should all go to the corner and stay out of my way. I don’t even want to look at any of you right now. I’m putting all of you in time out.
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While I’m not as angry toward management as you are, I can understand your frustration. I come from a family of diehard Mets fans and some of them like my dad for instance is really down on this team right now. There was an article posted on this site which I tried looking for that was posted a week ago. It said that mentally we should expect the Mets to improve slightly, but to target 2011 as the year we can win it all rather than 2010. It makes sense and the Mets should not sign players just for the sake of appeasing the fans, only if they help the team now and in the long run. Making moves because of fan pressure can sometimes lead to the team making bad deals. I’d rather make some smart moves and fix what we can.
I absolutely agree. I have had about enough of this team telling us there are no limits on what they can spend and that they have the second highest payroll in baseball, as if they want a medal for all of their accomplishments. The bottom line is, however, that they have accomplished NOTHING! I have been a Mets fan all my life and it is not easy to know that your team has the capability of being a big time contender, but management fails every single year to do what it takes to bring a championship to this team. What makes it worse is that year after year I have to watch the Yankees spend hundreds of millions of dollars on all of the best free agents, contend every year, win championships, and then to have to be constantly reminded of it in the papers and on television. I am sure they will get Halladay to add to their rotation and then there will be no point of playing another season because they will secure yet another championship…something the Mets could do, but always choose not to.
I have been a Mets fan all my life, it is in my blood, and I can never ever change. But to all you young kids out there looking for a team to root for…don’t make the same mistake I did because you will end up with a life full of misery, disappointment, and heartbreak.
Welcome to the club of pissed off Mets fans. It’s time every last one of us got pissed about how this team is letting us down and the season has not even started yet. I don’t know about you guys, but I’m just NOT giving the Mets the benefit of the doubt anymore. See, what you have here is a long time Met fan (since ‘69) who is starved for a winner. 1986 was a long time ago. I don’t know about you, but I am getting tired of Yankee parade after Yankee parade. Not to mention how the Phils bitch slapped us in ’07 and ’08 and took away the dynasty that WE should have had. In addition, the Braves are coming on strong. Sure, the Mets teased us in ‘06, but then came the chokes of ‘07 and ‘08. I still hung in there purchasing season tickets for ‘09 in the new stadium. Did not even use a lot of the games because the team was so bad. It does not look like there is any recovery on the horizon either. The Mets have more holes than there are guys available to fill them and it looks like they are not even making a decent attempt to. Yet, they still expect us fans to spend our hard earned dollars on the team. No more, I’m done for now. What I am saying here is that unless I SEE the Mets invest in themselves, I will not invest in them. I will NOT pay money to see a team that is a doormat when they don’t have to be because they don’t want to invest in the team. Plain and simple. At least be straight with us and lay out a plan for putting a winning product out there, if not now then in 2011 or beyond. I could live with that. Don’t BS us by pretending that the team is something that it’s not.
The Wilpons will no longer get a dime from me, and I will not renew my ticket plan. If I want to see a Mets game I’ll just go on stubhub whenever I want to go. I wish they never spent all that money because that way I can just go back to telling myself that the Cou-Pons are cheap. The fact they spent so much money for three collapses in a row only serves to burn me up more. Seriously, could any team have done any worse with $145 million dollars than the Mets?
The Knicks
Hey, at least the Knicks have a plan in place and are not bull-shytting their fans pretending to be something that they are not.
This flood of ‘outrage’ by Met fans is long over-due, totally justified, and, i think, enhances the odds that the Mets will FINALLY be both aggressive and smart in addressing out needs this off season. Becasue, management realizes what would be likely to occur if they flub their chance to address the team’s needs once again.
Separately, it looks like Mets are making a move on Henry Blanco for backup catcher, will assign Chris Coste to AAA to provide depth and help Thole, and may be going after Benji Molina in earnest, now that no 2nd round pick would be given up if we signed him. i just hope we don’t sign the guy to a multiple year deal.
We shall see on all of this. i advise everyone to stay ‘irate’…the squeaky door gets the oil…
When people leave comments on this site, they really comment. lol The comments always seem as long as the posts, and I say that in a good way. I am glad that Metsmerized is finally waking up and realizing just how terrible Omar and his cronies have been. I blame Omar more than I do the owners who have done their part by shelling out as much money as Omar wanted. Minaya made all the buying decisions and the Wilpons footed the bill. Otherwise I agree with everything else on this post.
I am SO sick of these sky-is-falling posts stuffed with negativity. Oh no, the Phillies are rumored to want Placido Polanco, a guy they ran out of town 5 or so years ago! That means the Mets aren’t going to do anything to improve the team, here in the very first days of the offseason where virtually nothing has happened around the entire league!!! Why haven’t there been completely unfounded rumors linking the Mets to every player?????? They are not going to try and win!
Get a life and learn how to wait. The offseason has only just begun. It takes time to set an offseason plan into motion. Sorry the Mets didn’t trade for Adrian Gonzalez and Roy Halladay on the first day after the World Series and then sign Matt Holliday and John Lackey ther first day of free agency. They are thus assuring us another losing season!!!
Wake up dude!!! The sky IS falling, watch out for that asteroid it’s heading for your head. It’s about time this site shows some emotion and anger after seeing all the cotton candy puff pieces since the season ended. Get that anger out in the open dont keep it locked up inside of you. I’m tired of the pity parties everyones having because of the injuries. The Mets sucked and were in last place and playing under .500 way before the injuries came!!! Reyes was a big time screw up, Beltran wasn’t sliding and wasnt leading, Delgado wasn’t hustling, Ollie was absolutely terrible, Wright didnt home for almost 2 months, they SUCKED ASS! Get your head out of the sand!!!
Learn how to wait? We’ve already BEEN waiting since 1986 while the Yankees, damn them, have won 5 WS rings and gone to the playoffs countless times. We’ve already BEEN waiting while the Braves shyt on us year after year after year. We’ve already BEEN waiting while the Phils have punk’d us and become the dynasty that WE should have been while our team has become a doormat. We are what our record says we are. Now, the Phils are doing the shyting on the Mets. The way that the Braves are coming along, they are going to get another turn too. The only thing I am waiting for at this point is for the Mets to SHOW me that they are interested in giving us fans a winner. If that happens, I’ll be right out in front cheering them on. Already, the Braves and Phils have moved ahead of the Mets this off-season and here we are…..still waiting.
You guys are proclaiming that this offseason is a failure and it hasn’t even started yet! That’s my point! Plus, you readily admit you are a fairweather fan when you say that if the Mets will win then you’ll be right there cheering for them. It sounds to me like you’d rather just sit around all day proclaiming how stupid they are and how they failed this offseason already when it hasn’t even begun yet! We don’t need needlessly negative fans like you. Wait until we make a terrible addition to the team, then maybe we can complain. Have some optimism for the new season. I’ll hold off on complaining until I actually have an idea of what the 2010 Mets will look like instead of just doing the whole “this stink, that stinks, they are dumb and I’m so smart!” routine.
If you are so brilliant how about offering some ideas to improve the team instead of crying about moves that haven’t even been made yet??
TYhe off season didn’t start yet? It started when they re-signed Cora for 2 million and guaranteed Chris Coste a spot on the roster.
Dude, I’m not saying that the Mets offseason is a failure. I’m not saying it is a success either. I’m saying that it’s time for the Mets to step up and show us that they are committed to winning, not just saving money. We have yet to see any indication that the Mets are after any big names at all and this team has many holes. This is not the Pittsburg Pirates we are talking about here. I admit I am STILL bitter about what has happened since 2006. I am hardly a fair weather fan. No real Met fan is. Suffering is what we do. In fact, the opposite is true. I love my Mets and I used to be like you, making excuses for every bad move the team makes. This time though, I am not going to spend my hard earned $$$ on the Mets until they show me something. That being said, I feel that it is not fair to us fans that the Mets were foolish with the money that they did spend (Ollie Perez, Luis Castillo, etc.). I do give credit where credit is due with the Johann signing, even though he kind of fell into the Mets’ lap. I just want to get it out there that we Mets fans have suffered enough. I would like to see the Mets win it all sometime before I leave this earth. It is time to go all in and do what it takes to put a winner on the field. Trust me, they will make lots of $$$ if they do. If they really cared about what we fans feel about the team, they would know that.
Sorry guys, i just don’t think that Holliday, Wolf, Molina, Delgado makes the mets a championship contender don’t care what Omar and Jeff says, Mets have to get Halliday or Lackey behind Santana no matter what they do, if they don’t I don’t want to hear the words Championship contender out of the mets. Even in that Franceseca interview, u go back to it, the one where Omar, Jeff and Howard were all there,Francesca says ” Hey Jeff u know the Yankees spent 400 mil to rebuild their team, why don’t u spend half” meaning 200 mil, and Jeff’s response is what piss me off he says “U can Mike, u can, Omar may save us money Mike”. Why should Mets fans have any confidence in Mets management at all?
well said. I am a big polanco guy as well. he is reliable and clutch. the phillies seem to know this. orlando hudson is flashy and unreliable. figgins wants way to much for what he brings to the table. unfortunately, this ownership group is not capable of making sound professional decisions. The only good one they have made in the last fifteen years was valentine, and if I recall, nobody wanted to touch valentine at the time. other than that, it has been one miserable evaluation after another. boycott.
I’m with Josh. It’s too early and unfair to assume failure.
Remember- Everyone was thrilled with last winter’s off season moves and look where it got us. LOL.
Games are not won in December and January. No one can predict the intangibles that certain new players will bring. And also the luck involved in finding comeback players and players who have career years.
Finally, it’s not very realistic to think that the Mets can go from 92 losses to 92 wins. It’s not impossible. We need our injured guys to come back and have good seasons. We need a trade or two and a couple of B-level free agent signings. And we need luck!
Well…after reading this, this morning out of Buster Olney, this doesn’t exactly give me a lot of confidence or get me all excited to tell u the truth:
•The Mets appear poised to sign two or three veterans for $5-7MM per season. We know they’re interested in Bengie Molina and they’re looking for pitchers, but they have other needs, too.
•Olney expects the Mets to land a starter like Randy Wolf, Jason Marquis or Joel Pineiro.
•The Mets have discussed Mike Cameron, who would consider playing left or right, and Xavier Nady.
So u guys can drink the Met-Koolade and waive the Mets Pom-Pom’s all u want, if that is there off-season, i am not buying tickets to see this team, no way.
Anthony – Do you think the Mets had a good off season last year?
How many wins did you predict they would have?
Good off seasson? We needed a leftfielder and a number two pitcher, and after the Maoof news broke Omar announced Murphy was our everyday leftfielder and Pelfrey was our number two starter. The Phillies got Raul Ibanez and we got Murphy? The Barves got Javier Vasquez and we got Pelfrey and Perez? Good off season? Really?
My points exactly. Why the eff would I but season tickets to see that? Enough said.
what about Rodriguez and Putz?
The Mets biggest need last year was the bullpen so what do they do they get 2 closers. The reason why Murphy was playing Left was because he batted 313 the year beofore. and the reason why they had Pelfry as number 2 is beacuse he pitched excellent in the 2 half.
It was ok, K-rod yes, Perez no. Did anybody expect the mets to have 12 to 13 injuries…no. But did the mets make a mistake with their assumptions of Murphy as an everyday player let a alone an OF, yes.
Joe D. This is a heated and well overdue discussion. As you can see, like myself, there are some very frustrated Met fans out there who feel like we are being played for suckers and the time to speak up is now or else we’ll be played for suckers again.
Everybody calm down. Help is on the way. The Mets just signed Henry Blanco.
Joe,
Well said. You are on the money. Alex Cora and Henry Blanco are really going to make me want to renew my ticket package for next season! This organization is a joke right now. All I hear about in the rumor mill is what the Yankees and Phillies are doing to improve. WHERE ARE THE METS! Wake up! Oh and don’t worry….the Braves, Marlins and yes the Nationals are getting better too! The Wilpons are so out of touch with how to build a championship team. I am quickly becoming convinced that as long as they own the Mets…we will not win anything. I wish Nelson Doubleday bought out Wilpon after the 2000 season. He was the one that pushed for the Piazza trade….if it was up to Freddy……we would still be waiting for Todd Hundley to come back from injury and develop into a star. Please give me a break.
We should all protest this off season and NOT RENEW OUR SEASON TICKETS! Let Citi Field “The House the Dodgers Built” be quite and empty in 2010….Maybe that will wake them up!
I know the Yankees and Phillies really imporved.They signed alot of free agents.
Hear, hear. The Wilpons are running this team into the ground. I thought the opening of Citi field was supposed to coincide with a chanpionship calibre team. Not. The Mets need an intervention from us Met fans. I do believe we are at that point. If there is no other way to give them one other than not buying tickets, I say let’s not buy tickets.
I personally think that we should protest and get together as many Mets fans as we can to take a stand outside the doors or Citi Field. I am so sick of listening to the Wilpon’s feed us the same crap all the time. We as Mets fans need to stop being tortured and start being heard. Who’s in?
im ready tell me time and date TO PROTEST…This is embarresment the other teams are signing top player and my loser team does NADA….ha,ha, yea i will buy a ticket. MR wilpon …in your dreams ! !
I’ll say it again. Off season moves don’t win games. As Chicho said, Putz and K-Rod were all we needed to put us over the top.
There were mistakes – Pelfrey is no #2 and Perez was a terrible signing. Murphy only got the chance at first because Delgado was injured.
Raul Ibanez was not looked at like a great signing – overpaid in a down market and no glove in LF. No one would have predicted a career year.
Now Polanco – don’t get bent out of shape on him. His numbers have been down since his great ’07 year and he is 35 years old. He’s got to prove it in ’10 on the field. If he’s in decline, and he very well might be, he’s a bad signing.
It’s great if we got Halladay. But if Reyes and Beltran are not healthy, and Wright doesn’t come back. we could finish under .500 again.
I believe you are correct in the fact that off-season moves do not literally win games. However, Championships ARE won in the off-season. The moves a teams management makes in the off-season are the building blocks to a WS title. I’m with Joe, there seems to be a lack of urgency on the part of the Mets management/ownership so far this young off-season. If my job was on the line as Omar’s is reported to be I would be out there buying my ass off. Omar’s slow approach is concerning.
Frustration does not even begin to describe the feelings I have when I contemplate the Mets future. If I were to try an accurately describe this state that I am in, it would be a state of nothingness. I can’t even begin to address team needs because I still can not figure out what direction this team is in. Are we “rebuilding”, are we shooting for “2010″, “2011″, or what… What I want to know, better yet, what we as Met’s fans want to know and diserve to know is a game plan. Why is it that “us” the heart and soul of this organization has to play guessing games to try to figure out what management is trying to achieve. If I were to go into a bank to apply for a buisness loan, would they not expect me to present them with a buisness plan. I can’t understand why there must be such a huge break in communication between the ownership and the fans. Why can’t they clue us into what their 5 year plan is. If they need to rebuild, then tell us, we are much more patient than what the media and others give us.
If they are trying to win now, then they should say this and do whatever it takes. Who cares about what it cost and contracts this, contracts that. I personally don’t care if they spend $500 million dollars on players, and raise ticket prices to $400 a seat. The bottom line is, if they are approaching it in the “Win Now” mentality, then I want to win, no matter what it costs. And if we win the World Series, trust me, everyone will forget about expensive contracts and bad contracts and yada yada yada.
Now if their approach is to rebuild for the future, than dump everything, sign young unproven “lightning in a bottle” players and make moves to position us for a better future.
But, either way, I feel we deserve to know what direction we are headed, so we can understand why the hell management does what it is doing.
We should just go for it all. Sign Holliday. Trade castillo. Then trade Pelfery,martinez, Flores and others for phillips, Arroyo and A.Rhodes. Resign delgado if he is healthy. Sign Sheets and Duchscherer. Sign a good pitcher for the 8th inning I would like Gonzalez.
1 Reyes
2 Phillips
3 Holliday
4 Beltran
5 Wright
6 Delgado
7 Francouer
8 Santos
1 Santana
2 Arroyo
3 Sheets
4 Duchscher
5 Maine/Perez
CL Krod
Su Gonzalez
I think that can compeat with anyone. we need Reyes to stay healthy Wright to bounce back.I think Arroyo is a number 2 because he pitched 200 innings 5 years in a row. Comeing to citi field will help him alot because he is a fly ball pitcher. He gave up 31 Hr’s last year.I wouldn’t be worried about Duchscher becuase most pitchers make full recoveries from tommy john surgury see Josh Johnson. Even if he looses speed on his fast ball it wouldn’t hurt much because he never a power pitcher.
I hope the Mets do something like this or better. We shouldn’t let the Yankees and Phillies walk all over us.
Chico you are on crack. Phillips arroyo and 50 yr olf arthur rhodes for our farm system. I mean. Get real. Put in our rotation both sheets and duscher and resign delgado….glad ur not the mets GM!!
Your right I probally gave up to much to the Reds. does it matter how old A.rhodes is? He still does his job. He held Left handers to 227 BA. The Mets really need another lefty in the bullpen. Remember the game when the Mets put in Takahasi to face Utley? That didn’t turn out to well.
Whats wrong with sheets and duchscherer? both are very good pitchers and are expected to make full recoveries.
If you don’t want Delgado at first your only other choice is to play Murphy or get somebody like Glaus/Nady to platoon with him. Wich isn’t a bad idea. NO way the Padres or Brewers are trading for gonzlaez or Fielder.
Hi Chicho, why not go after a Garland/Marquis instead of Arroyo? They are a couple years younger and i think they have better stats and are equal inning hogs. Also, why not try to sign Harden or Bedard instead of Duchscher, assuming they’re healthy, of course? Mr. D hasn’t pitched all that much prior to 2009, either.
It would be nice to smite the Red Sox, following their taking us for suckers in the Wagner deal.
I took Arryo over Garland and Marquis because we wouldn’t have to give as much to get Phillips. I think Arroyo is better pitcher than Garland/Marquis. Arryo pitches in one of the smallest satdiums in the league. Now he would go to one of the biggest. And as I said before he is a fly ball pitcher.
I think Duchscher will be fully healthy this year. He was never a power pitcher so even if he looses speed of his fastball he should still be effective.
Forget about 2011, there are no guarantees that the FAs we think will be available, will actually be available. The trend these days is to keep your best players and sign them to extensions. I’d try to upgrade as best as I can NOW. While you’re at it, lets bring in better medical staff and some better scouts. Best way to win these days is to bring in and develop players and keep them healthy. All you get is fleeced with FAs these days.
Look…win 100 or lose 100, I buy a certain amount of tix every year. That’s my thing. HOWEVER…
They’ve got a BRASS PAIR sending me this letter, DISGUISED TO LOOK LIKE A BILL that says “payment due by December 18th”. Seriously. Disguised like a bill. It’s in triplicate, with carbon paper, and a printout, and a pink envelope and everything.
I got news for you, Mets Front Office. I owe you NOTHING. You should be sending me these ticket plans with a bow and a box of chocolates and the most gentle reminder imaginable that you want me back in my seat.
And it’s NOT because the team sucked last year that I’m angry. It’s that the team sucked AND the loyal fans were treated like crap AND the lies and excuses AND the mishandling of the injuries AND, etc etc etc.
Amen Mikey,
Let me ask u as a season ticket holder, say the Mets signed bengie Molina to C, Sp Randy Wolf, 2b Orlando hudson, bring Delgado back for 1 year for 1b, traded Luis Castillo for LF Pat Burrell and signed a RP say LHP Joe Biemel. Would u re-up on ur tickets? I would be 50/50 on it, maybe leaning against it. U?
Chances are, I’ll cave in and buy some kind of ticket plan REGARDLESS of who they sign or they don’t sign.
What raised my blood pressure is the sneaky, rude, demanding way that they’re trying to get people like me to buy tickets. They’re gonna have a hell of a time filling that stadium this year, so you’d think they’d be a little nicer about it. Especially when you consider the damaged goods we purchased in 2009.
I wish I could scan this thing and put it up here. It looks like a freight invoice or an overdue credit card notice.
The biggest mistake they’ve make is keeping Warthen and Manuel. I don’t care how much they pay adequate backup players if it doesn’t keep them from spending where they need it. And that takes time.
I’m with you Joe, as I have been very vocal about this subject for months. That Francesca interview did not sell me, mostly because they apparently expect different results with the same management that has failed to bring a pennant home for several years. If the rumors are in fact true about the Mets target free agents this off-season, we can expect more of the same. “Fluffing up” Citi is a crystal clear attempt to boost ticket sales, and a cheaper option than replacing management and re-building the organization. The Coupons put bandaids on the complaints of season ticket holders, the same way bandaids a placed to the roster in the way of one-two player moves just to appease ticket sales. Watch the games on TV, this is the only real way to get the coupons attention.
Joe, you of all people should know better than to hit the panic button even before the Winter Meetings. Couldn’t you hold out for at least another week? You know Omar’s pattern for crying out loud you’ve been covering the Mets closely for a few years now. Omar always makes his big splashes in the hotel lobby of the Winter Meetings. I’m sure we’ll see some action next week. If not, I’ll be right along side you ranting like a lunatic too.
Dont bother tuning in to Winter Meetings updates on Mets. The Wilpons just said they will not attend. That means Omar cant buy.
Omar already issued a statement at the Krivsky press conference saying not to expect any free agents signings until the end of the month.
What do the Omar apologists have to say now?
“What do the Omar apologists have to say now?”…good question…..notice the silence
I really think that our only hope is that Omar pulls off a trade.
Major free agents signings at the end of the month sounds fine with me.
JOE, I’D LIKE TO JUST ADDRESS ONE IMPORTANT, TO ME, ASPECT OF YOUR POST; “Furthermore, the worst part of it is that you have learned nothing from your history in the last five years. Your first move of the off season was to give $2 million dollars to a utility infielder who can’t hit and has two busted thumbs, that no other team in baseball had any interest in? Wow… If this is a sign of things to come we all better brace ourselves for another epic fail.”
I FULLY UNDERSTAAND YOR GRIPE, AS I FOR ONE, HAD HOPED TO GET YOUNGER BY REPLACING CORA WITH A-HERN AS REPL MIDDLE INFIELDER & TATIS WITH MURPHY AS CORNER B/U. YOUR TOTAL FRUISTRATION IN THIS REGARD, IN MY OPINION, ELIMINATES YOU FROM EVER COMPLAINGING ABOUT CLUBHOUSE LEASERSHIP, SINCE THAT’S OBVIOUSLY WHY CORA WAS RETAINED. GRIT? WHO HAS MORE GRIT THAN A VET REPLACEMENT PLAYING WITH THOSE 2 BUSTED THUMBS?
NO, IT WASN’T THRILLING, EXCITYING OR SEXY TO INK CORA; BUT AT LEAST THERY’RE TALKING WIOTH BORAS & NOT BOYCOTTING HIM AS ATLANA HOLLOWLY THREATENED BEFOREW INKING LOWE(LMAO) CERTAINLY PHILY & ATL MADE ‘COSMETIC’ IMPROVEMENTS; BUT ISN’T IT ‘PITCHING’ THAT RULES? AT THIS MOMENT PHILY IS LOSIMH MYERS,PARK & EYRE FROM THEIR INEPT PEN, BRAVOS ARE ROTATIONALLY TOO HEAVY FOR THEIR LIMITED BUDGET AND ARE MOMENTARILY THE PITCHING BEAST OF OUR DIVISION. WITH A REPEATED [PERFORMANCE, QUESTIONABLE IN WAGNER WHO’S YET TO GO BACK-BACK-BACK CRITICAL APPEARANCES ON HIS “BIONIC” ARM. SAITO IS EXCELLENT INSURANCE WHILE THEIR OFFENSE IS STILL CERTAINLY A TANGIBLE WEAKNESS, THEIR CORNER HOLES 1B,3B ARE PALPABLE WITH CHIPPER VERY ALOUESQUE ON THOSE PINS. ALL 3 ARE FALLIBLE, WITH OUR BIG 3 TARGETS(BAY,HOLLIDAY,LACKEY) GETTING LITTLE BY WAY OF MEANINGFUL OFFERS, PATIEBCE IS LIKELY OUR MOST VALUED ASSET ON BOTH BAY & LACKEY (MY 2 PREFERRED INKINGS) SINCE I DOUBT THER’S MUCH THAT MAKES BORAS DOUBTFUL OR INSECURE.
You make good points, Mets62. It’s frustrating because we want some remedies for this mess ASAP, but it is too early to complain. That said, we can’t wait like we have in years past and be left with scraps. So, there’s a fine balance to manage here, and Omar/ownership haven’t been too swift in recent years.
i’d go hell-bent for Lackey and trade for a LF. My favorite trade, at this point, would be to KC (who has ‘targeted’ Pagan as a potential option). KC needs a catcher and also wants to shed payroll. i say we talk with them, and offer Pagan, Pelfrey, Santos, Stoner for DeJesus, Meche, Bannister.