J.J. Putz has admitted the Mets never gave him a physical until Spring Training. Two months after the trade. For a guy EVERYONE knew was injured. Then he was asked not to reveal the injury to the Media and to try to pitch through it which made it worse and ultimately required surgery. But what I would like to know is what was the thought process behind letting this injured relief pitcher, pitch in the WBC?

Seven Million dollars plus 5 prospects plus 2 players all for 29 innings of 5.22 ERA and then selling Wagner to get back 5 of that 7 million and give Boston two highly rated prospects who coincidentally are at the exact same areas of need that we had before this deal and will continue to have for a long time forward.

And some people blather on about Alderson taking his time working on trades. Unbelieveable. With the franchise crippling types of trades made around here under Minaya and his slip shod way of doing business anyone with any intelligence would understand the need for a pragmatic and patient approach to making trades.

At some point Omar decided that he was going to get Putz after hearing he was “possibly available.”
for better or worse when Omar decides to “get his guy” he rarely misses out. This time it was for the worse. Looking at the pieces leaving here it just looks like what ever Seattle wanted was no problem even though the main benefit to Seattle wasn’t even coming from US. Gutteriez came from Cleveland and yet we wound up giving them Carp, Endy, Heilman and Vargas too. It just didn’t matter. Omar was gonna make the bold off season move and he sure wasn’t going to let anything get in the way. Certainly a physical or a surgeon’s review of the medical records wasn’t going to deter him.

How would anyone feel about having a 31 year old LHP coming off a 31 start 2010 with a 3.78 ERA making a million a year and under team control for another 3 years in our starting rotation right now? If Omar had just bothered to have a physical done before consummating this trade we would have exactly that and assuming we drafted the same players the Red Sox did, we would also have a great shot at finally having a second basemen and ANOTHER starting pitcher in a few years because we wouldn’t have had to sell Wagner to pay for this boondoggle of a trade.

And people are STILL advocating making trades just to “do something.” Unbelieveable.

And why exactly would we trade our best player for someone who plays videogames?

If the Mets do have another 10 they can spend and add that to the 5 Sandy’s been saying then you still have 11 million for this year after the first move. You let Feliciano go or you can keep him instead of Taka. I prefer spending on Taka because he’s a starter too. Maybe he could have done a better job than Capuano as a starter! It’s possible.

Now I have that 11 million and you can use that to sign a 10 million dollar pitcher maybe and borrow another 5 against next year. That’s 9 million borrowed against next year with 50/60 coming off books.

Now after that 2nd move I still have 6 million left. You can still do a lot of things including trades and even picking up parts of other contracts to close a deal. Or even maybe somebody picking up part of a contract you’re offering.

Also I would have started it all off by hiring either Valentine or Backman instead of all that money on executives and I would have generated ticket sales while still feeling I hired the best man for the job.

I may even have more money available because of generated ticket sales. That would have been my proposal – completely different than saber Sandy’s.

Oh..and I said either Feliciano or Taka..not both…read again.

Folks, you can’t make this up.

But maybe another GM would trade what Alderson would not trade. Maybe what he values is different than what Alderson values. I know I would have another approach and explored moving Wright because I think other teams would value his production and I would move him for gamers and make up whatever loss in production from another source. Has he looked into moving K-Rod? Maybe he has, maybe he hasnt. And I would definitely borrow against next year to stay competitive this year.

That sir, is fact-based opinion, not Adam Rubin’s kool-aid.

You asked how I knew and I told you. Adam Rubin tweeted that a month ago.

I dont feel like rehashing the rest right now. I have answered it before..I would not post it out here and flat out lie if I didn’t do it but I have. Not getting into it right now….He could have retained either Feliciano or Takahashi by taking off money from next year and maybe sign a starting pitcher similar to Bedard, Garland, Penny..somebody like that in a modest price range..it went something like that.

Your question has been answered

Sandy can spend more money and won’t

It’s one of the best things MMO has.

..be as competitive as can be. He’s here and he’s not going anywhere so I’m dealing with it.