Comments on: Five Worst Mets Free Agents Contracts

By: theonlymaskman

theonlymaskman — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:21:03 +0000

And all of it Madoff money that has to be reimbursed and still pay him.

By: Mike B.

Mike B. — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:22:08 +0000

Jason Bay might end up on this list. KRod maybe too if we have to pay him next year. Beltran wasn’t the worst, but we didnt get max value. I also think we should let someone else pay Reyes $100 million. Now that steroids are (mostly) gone, ballplayers are again most productive and cheapest the first 5-7 years of their big league careers. As long as we continue the team that pays players the big money for guys after their best years, we will continue to be also-rans. Hopefully, Alderson can change this culture without the ownership issue stopping him before he even starts.

By: Donal

Donal — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:47:48 +0000

I agree. I think Beltran’s pay check makes him the target of a lot of misplaced anger.

By: Donal

Donal — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:46:00 +0000

Who says it’s just Ollie and Castillo?

By: Donal

Donal — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:45:26 +0000

Ollie is just the poster child for the bad deals of the Minaya era. It’s not so much Ollie himself, its a combination of a lot of things. Ollie’s attitude just makes it easier to go after him.

By: TruFan

TruFan — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:40:52 +0000

Beltran is already one of the most productive position player the Mets have ever had. No question it was a good signing.

By: Metsie

Metsie — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:15:54 +0000

George Foster should have made thast list!

I think we calculated once that he was being paid 1K per Ground out DP!

By: t agee

t agee — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:09:39 +0000

I’ve only seen the replay but there was very little room to sneak one in into the upper deck fair and he was the only one who did in 46 years.

I have a friend in Sydney who was telling everyone when he retires he’s moving a little north where it’s warmer and we’re all thinking 50 degrees would be just fine with us.

By: francis

francis — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:10:45 +0000

look at what the red sox pay julio lugo, the angels paid gary matthews and kelvim escobar ( and now vernon wells ), what the phillies are paying brad lidge. and those are just the good teams. i don’t even want to look at magglio ordonez, and forget the yankees …

ollie’s contract is only run of the mill bad, not colossal bad, and frankly so is castillo’s.

it took alot for this team to do so bad the last 2 years. saying ollie and castillo is a cop out.

By: francis

francis — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:00:09 +0000

that’s my point.

everyone points to the ollie contract as the worst, but in reality, it’s just the straw that broke the camel’s back.

ollie this and ollie that, but teams overcome much worse to do much better all of the time.

By: tlagee

tlagee — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:58:11 +0000

I remember when he hit it. It was a shot off his bat and was still rising when it hit the upper right field corner. It was hit so hard that it hit the stands and when right back onto the field.

I live in Sydney Australia now and haven’t gotten to see Citifield yet – but I did take my daughter to Shea during their last season there.

By: t agee

t agee — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:07:16 +0000

When your farm system produces Tim Lincecum, Mark Cain, Jonathon Sanchez, Madison Bumgarner, Buster Posey and Brian Wilson you can overcome those sorts of contracts.

When you have so many injured or under performing players on big contracts year after year after year eventually you can no longer over come the bad contracts. They just sink you.

By: t agee

t agee — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:59:33 +0000

I don’t know but I made sure to get a picture of it on my last visit to Shea. I’m sure TL Agee did too.

By: Donal

Donal — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:05:07 +0000

No, Perez’s contract is not as bad as Zito’s. And the Hindenberg was not as bad as the Titanic.

And Zito was not on the Giants’ playoff roster. They won in spite of him. The Giants farm system produced some monster pitchers and a couple hitters who got hot and the exactly right time. They were able to eat the Zito mistake because they weren’t weighed down by other bad contracts.

And they still needed the rest of the division to fall apart to make the playoffs.

By: francis

francis — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:36:25 +0000

y’all bitch and moan about ollie’s contract, when it was about a fifth as bad as barry zito’s contract, and the giants won a world series regardless.

ok, ollie sucked, but if freddy could have afforded to eat the 8 million a year that he was overpaid ( yes, 4 million a year is a low estimate of his worth at the time, no sense in using hindsight to say he was worth nothing ), then it would have been forgotten already.

3yrs / 36 million is not that bad of a bust. if that’s the worst ever, then I’d be happy.

Now, Bonilla’s was the worst … and Coleman was probably second.

By: Craig Lerner

Craig Lerner — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:25:58 +0000

Still kind of new and getting used to the crowd here. Thanks for clearing that up. No doubt a great Met. I wonder whatever happened with that Agee homerun marker that was painted at Shea in the upper deck?

By: tlagee

tlagee — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:09:56 +0000

No – both fans of Tommie

By: L.J. Phipps

L.J. Phipps — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:03:43 +0000

Add Randy Jones to that list too, he won the CY Young in San Diego then signed a deal with the Mets and made Pete Falcone look like Koosman.

By: Craig Lerner

Craig Lerner — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:42:46 +0000

Are you different commenters? Or am I seeing double?

By: t agee

t agee — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:16:52 +0000

Yeah, I agree. Pedro helped usher in a new era. Entertain with his brilliant pitching and hopefully contribute when we were ready to win. Didn’t turn out that way but I enjoyed watching Pedro pitch for the Mets very much and he certainly didn’t do the team any harm either financially or in any other way.

Seems like such a long time ago.