Resigning your own players is not what I was referring to.

The Yankees signing a relief pitcher and a non tender catcher, the Yankees? Wow big move.

The problem with the Angels was and still IS their offense.

The Giants didn’t add Huff and Burrell this off season and they lost Uribe and Tejada to play SS? Your kidding me right.

The Angels took their offer OFF the table to Beltre for reasons we are not aware of but can certainly say that it had nothing to do with setting their sights on a different free agent THIS YEAR. (I think it had everything to do with a certain FA eligible SS next year)

The Reds, Twins and Blue Jays haven’t added anyone. Tampa’s lost a lot of guys and is even trading other guys for minor leaguers.

My point is you can’t go into the postseason and expect to get the perfect guy (Tejada?) every year. Sometimes it’s better to wait rather than make a bad or short sighted signing.

We have been huge off season traders and signers for many of the years the Wilpon has been at the helm. Some of them have been really good. Piazza, Leiter, Santana (so far) Olerud, Delgado but many others have been horrendous (there are way too many in this category to name) and even the one’s who did do well here wouldn’t have made a big enough difference if it weren’t for some of the Alfonzo’s, Ordonez’s, Wrights, and Reyes’ they joined up with. Thole and Davis are good parts but with 3 expensive players gone at the end of the year, another hopefully gone and another probably a FA and once again 3 guys coming back from injury maybe not risking a bad signing this year is a good idea. Apparently we are not the only one’s that feel this way.

Yankees spent $100M to keep Rivera and Jeter, and signed the best available lefty reliever on market in Feliciano who got paid more than any reliever in free agency.

The Angels needed to bolster their bullpen and signed Downs and Takahashi. Plus they were in on Beltre until he made the choice to sign with Rangers.

Giants lost no key players except for Renteria who they replaced with Miguel Tejada, and they added Pat Burrell and Aubrey Huff.

You are just a Mets apologist or just ignorant of baseball moves in general. Which one is it?

Maybe it was a bad year to make movezzzz.
That’s a good thing for us because our budget was already spent.

Their outfield is ok, they need to replace Thames, and their pitching staff after CC and Hughes (who also lost some steam at the end) is not exactly the Philly’s staff………

Please save the resign of Jeter and Mariano argument – seriously big deal, that was a given.

I’d like to see Perez off the roster as badly as anyone else.

He should have been provided “competition” last year in the form of Joel Pinero who got 16M over 2 (about the same financial commitment as Felciano and Takahashi combined but for 3 times as many innings)for a pretty good starting pitcher that would have provided help last year AND this year.

Failing that he should have been cut when he refused to vacate his roster spot while we were on the periphery of the pennant/wild card hunt in June but either Omar was unwilling to admit his mistake or the Wilpon was holding out for another Rojas/Bonilla opportunity.

Personally if you were OK with giving him Pedro type dollars and were still saying at this time last year IF IF IF we could get anything out of him (in a year that we were pretending to be in the hunt) then I fail to understand how you could complain about the new administration using him as a LH relief pitching option and clogging up the roster for a third year when we realistically have no chance to compete because of all the buffonery that has gone on here over the last 6 years not to mention the last 25.

No one can deny that the market for relief pitchers has exploded this year and the chance to get a better LH relief option mid season with a smaller contract AND a year or two more on it would make living with Perez for a few months palatable to me.

Getting rid of him just to satisfy us isn’t going to make us better, just like keeping him isn’t going to make us better but if he gives us time in which to get the RIGHT guy, then we will have finally gotten something out of him however miniscule it might be.

Whether it’s March, July or even God forbid, September at least he’s gone and some sort of coherent roster composition can begin to be assembled. Until then we can boo the living s**t out him if shows up here in April and that would provide a little satisfaction for us all.

There is a mention of “three or four” other “leaks” but no mention of who they were about. Credible reporting? Not if the author doesn’t note WHO these “other leaks” supposedly involved.

Everyone who follows this team is aware of how sensitive to criticism the Wilpon is and how that character flaw has manifested it’s self into a lack of leadership from the top on down resulting in a constant every changing cast of freaks, retreads, vagabonds and formerly productive players looking to cash out at our expense.

The lack of resolve and strong leadership from the top, always settling for the “look good” easy quick fix is what has doomed this franchise since the Wilpon became a full partner 25 years ago. Perhaps the mere indication of a leak points the finger at the Wilpon because of so many of their previously thin skinned attempts to deflect blame or appear to be proactive but that is no reason to point the finger at the new FO, especially without any thing to back up the assertion.

Fans have to realize that we are where we are because the Wilpon has tried to fix the Major League roster every year with ever more diminishing (and infuriating) returns.

If the Wilpon hadn’t spent so much on THIS YEARS roster every year we could have had numerous prospects in high A and AA right now. If that was the case it would certainly make sense to resign Takahashi, consider Pavano, take a chance on Webb and even think about Lee. but that’s not the case.

Three of our highest paid players are gone after this season, another we’re hoping will be a free agent, another one definitely will be. Any long term decisions have to be made with the idea of constructing a coherent roster for the next five years. How that can be done with so many players sure to be gone and other ones we don’t know if they’ll be gone is a mystery to me.

Twenty five years of being the most mismanaged team in sports history can not be undone in one off season.

I’d call it a “C” based simply on the front office not adding anything to the mess of bad contracts that already exists. To me that combined with not wasting any of the limited minor league assets in short term gain trades makes the long term future much brighter.

Will the short term suffer because of that? Perhaps but coming off a very uninspiring 79-83 season which followed multiple unrewarding seasons I’m prepared to suffer in the short term for the benefit of the long.

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