16
2010
Omar Flying To Atlanta: Is It Hammer Time For Jerry Manuel?
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According to a tweet via David Lennon of Newsday, Omar Minaya will be making an unscheduled flight with the team to Atlanta for their series with the Braves, although the decision was not made during today’s game.
I may be reading too much into this, but Jerry Manuel has been on the proverbial hot seat of late, and the team has lacked the life and enthusiasm that seemed so prevalent only two weeks ago when the Mets were riding high and sitting temporarily in first place.
The team has fallen back on some bad habits and disturbing trends that could signal the end is near for any of the coaches in addition to Jerry Manuel.
- Mets starters have allowed more walks than any other team in the Major Leagues despite all the talk of making it a team focus in the spring.
- Their premier hitter David Wright may have found his power stroke, but nobody expected him to lead the league with 50 strikeouts in only 129 at-bats.
- Their lone offseason major signing Jason Bay, has failed to ignite the offense as expected and has yet to provide any bang for the buck this season.
- The Mets own the worst road record in baseball and are last in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage and runs scored.
- The third highest paid player on the team, Oliver Perez, has been a colossal bust and has been yanked from the rotation and refused an assignment to the minors where he could have worked out his problems.
- John Maine has lost so much velocity that he can no longer be counted on to provide quality innings. Making matters worse is his inability to consistently throw strikes.
- Lefthander Jon Niese was removed from todays game after sustaing a hamstring injury. It’s same injury and the same leg that forced him to miss the rest of the season in 2009. He is flying to New York for an MRI on Monday.
- Mets starters have not registered a win in sixteen straight games. It’s the longest winless drought since the 1982 season.
Jerry Manuel could be having another meeting with Omar Minaya after todays game, only this time Oliver Perez will not be the primary topic of discussion. In fact, I’m wondering if Jerry Manuel still be the manager of the NY Mets when the meeting concludes?
Stay tuned… This could be a long and very interesting evening…
About the Author: Joe DeCaro
Went to my first Mets game, a Mayors Trophy game at Shea, in '73. We beat the Yankees 8-4 and I was hooked. I marched in two Banner Day parades, and before the Grand Slam single, there was the "Hendu Can Do" grand slam - I was there. I've collected Mets memorabilia all my life and started Mets Merized Online to feed my addiction.
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From your lips to God’s ear
bring back bobby valentine
Yeah?
He’s going to Atlanta for the three games.
I thought it was a 2 game series with Atlanta.
Anyway if Jerry Manuel gets fired for this team that Miniya has given him, Jeff Wilpon needs to fly down to D.C. and fire Miniya just because of Perez not wanting to go to the minors.
And Oliver Perez needs to be DFA’ed ASAP because that simple minded M.F. is not a team player for not going to the minors where he belongs, and is nothing but useless dead weight on this team.
But how do you really feel about Ollie? LOL
My apologizes but I’m a P’ed off Mets fan today.
Oliver Perez has won a grand total of 3 games in his last 21 starts.
After not wanting to go to the minors for the good of the team…he’s my most hated Met. Even more than Castillo, Aaron Heilman or G. Mota.
Cliff Lee was man enough to go to the minors and work on things.
I know Oliver Perez and he is no Cliff Lee…he is a selfish as$ho!e
who doesn’t belong on this team.
I would like to know what Jerry Manuel really thinks about Perez and Miniya.
Greg, how does Perez’ refusal at reassignment get blamed on anyone in the frontoffice? Wise up, they’ll never eat Ollie’s contract, they’d prefer to let him rot with an unlisted number in the pen until he gets so desperte as to beg to pitch anywhere or until Boras realizes his client’s down to zero value due to insctivity should he choose to “play out the clock”
Before u rant on about how much Ollie’s being paid, try to come to grips with the simple fact that olluie was never the Mets’ first choice, that Lowe was made a reasonable 3Y/36M offer before Perez’ name was mentioned. it was not until Atlanta succombed to Boras’ demand for 4Y/48M on Lowe that Perez was initially offered a 2Y/24M deal countered by Bras demand for 3/36 & with no significantly better options still available, the Mets sealed the Ollie deal. U may recall that once Sabbathia, Burnett & Lowe were off the board, the options remaining were ALL ? i one form or another
Hmmm, maybe that is why Bob Melvin and Chip Hale joined the NY Mets organization. Two potential fall backs in case Manuel gets the toss?
Who’s the architect of the team??? Just wondering..
Who signed castillo, cora, alou, livan, perez since 2007??? He was given 150 million dollar and started bringing in garbage, untradeable, unreleasable and now we’re stuck with that, what is the manager supposed to do???
If manuel gets fired the stupid ass gm should be let go as well.. my opinion
THE SAME GUY THAT BROUGHT YOU JOHAN SANTANA, CARLOS BELTRAN, FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ,BILLY WAGNER, XAVIER NADY, PAUL LO DUCA, JEFF FRANCOEUR,JASON BAY, DARREN OLIVER, DUANER SANCHEZ (CIRCA 2006), ROD BARAJAS, PEDRO MARTINEZ,CARLOS DELGADO, AND UNHERALDED AQUISITIONS LIKE TONY VALENTIN, ENDY CHAVEZ, AND ANGEL PAGAN…OH AND BTW…HE IS THE ONE THAT SECURED DAVID WRIGHT AND YOUR FAVORITE PLAYER REYES TO LONG TERM DEALS LONG BEFORE THEIR VALUE WENT WAY UP. NOT SAYING MINAYA HAS BEEN A GENIUS, HE HAS A HANDFUL OF BAD MOVES TO HIS CREDIT, BUT HE HAS DONE ANOTHER HANDFUL OF GOOD ONES AS WELL; NOT EVERY MOVE EVERY GM MAKES IS A GOOD ONE (REMEMBER BRIAN CASHMAN AND CARL PAVANO? OR MAYBE CASHMAN AND JAVIER VAZQUEZ TWICE!?). I DO NOT THINK IT IS MINAYAS FAULT WHRN IT IS THE WILPONS WHO TIE HIS HANDS REGARDING SIGNINGS OR TRADES; WE ALL KNOW MINAYA IS A VERY AGRESSIVE GM WHEN IT COMES TO THAT. MANUEL IS ANOTHER STORY. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT…
Both Jerry and Omar should go
According to Jerry and Dan Warthen last year it was the catchers fault why we had all of those walks LOL. David Wright he’s the face of this franchise but the Mets should seriously considered about what is his future he can’t continue being the type of player he is now and considered a leader. Bay signing was a big mistake said it at that time the Mets needed pitching not hitting.If Niese is out longer or for the whole season again that three spots they have to fill up in the rotation. Great job Omar if anyone hires this guy to ever run their team as their gm they deserve what they get i just want him fired.
That’s okay, Joe, JMan will let all of this “marinate” (WTF?) for a while and come up w/ another dazzlingly brilliant plan.
Yeah, well, seems that Metsdom is on the same page today. Stars are aligning.
Too bad about Niese.
Omar is probably going to Hot-lanta to convince Bobby Cox to retire then un-retire and coach the Mets. Sorry I was taking a nap and my fingers were out of control.
Mets have now lived up to the billing as the laughing stock that they apparently are.
Yep, when Warthen threw Mets catchers under the bus for the pitchers walks I saw Warthen as the problem not the catchers and he was just making excuses for himself.
How in God’s creation can we pick up two veteran signal callers and still lead in walks plus we must lead in walking opposing pitchers.
I have never seen anything like this before and Maine’s start last night just cemented the fact that our coaches Warthen, Manuel and HoJo are not doing what they are being paid for.
I think the Met that should represent the team at the All-Star game should be the guy who cleans up the clubhouse. It has to be the hardest job at Citi Field-cleaning up the crap these guys leave behind! You sure as heck send a Met player to the game-they would be arrested as an imposter!
Omar’s flight could mean a number of things.
1. He wants to meet with Jerry to discuss firing Dan Warthen and Howard Johnson. Remember when this happened to Willie Randolph?
2. He is going to fire Jerry. Before he gets there, it will be leaked by someone else in the front office. Jerry will ask Omar to tell it to him straight. Omar will say nothing and then fire him in the most uncomfortable and unprofessional way he can a few days later.
3. He wants to meet with Jerry to tell Jerry he is going to be fired if things don’t turn around.
Or,
General manager Omar Minaya changed his itinerary and planned to accompany the Mets on their trip from Florida to Atlanta, but a team official insisted that was nothing more than to lend support in the midst of a five-game losing streak. The official added that Minaya may not even stay in Atlanta long.
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-yorkmets/post/_/id/2805/omar-revises-itinerary
Minaya is going to take Perez’s spot in the rotation.
MINAYA WENT TO ATLANTA …WHO CARES? WHO CARES WHAT MET TEAM OFFICIALS SAID? PERHAPS THE SAM OFFICIALS WHO WENT ON FATZO DA FRANCESSA SHOW LAST FALL AND SAID THE METS WERE GOING TO PERSUE PITCHING IN THE OFF SEASON …DO THE WILPONS LIVE IN NURTH JOISEY?
MINAYA WENT TO ATLANTA …WHO CARES? WHO CARES WHAT MET TEAM OFFICIALS SAID? PERHAPS THE SAME OFFICIALS WHO WENT ON FATZO DA FRANCESSA SHOW LAST FALL AND SAID THE METS WERE GOING TO PERSUE PITCHING IN THE OFF SEASON …DO THE WILPONS LIVE IN NURTH JOISEY?
[...] least he has the good sense to fire his manager in person this time around. From Metsmerized Online: According to a tweet via David Lennon of Newsday, Omar Minaya will be making an unscheduled flight [...]
It’s Déjà vu all over again.
I want Willie back!!! LMAO