10
2011
Collins Is Concerned Over Still Missing Paulino
An article by Hojo's Mojo
Opening Day is now 20 days away and catcher Ronny Paulino is still MIA. The worst part is the Mets still have no idea when he will arrive in camp. The delay is all because of his suspension from using illegal performance enhancing drugs and violating baseball’s policy on banned substances. He was supposed to be in camp on February 13th when all pitchers and catchers were to report to camp.
Paulino will miss the first eight games of the season due to the suspension, however, it now appears he may miss even more than the first week or two of games.
Speaking with reporters, Manager Terry Collins, is far from pleased.
“I’m concerned,” Collins said. “There’s no question about it. I’m hoping that he gets in here shortly. Obviously I don’t think it’s going to be until this weekend — hopefully this weekend. We’re going to have to do some fast work with him getting him ready to catch and get him in some games, and if we have to get him some at-bats in the minor leagues. I’m concerned right now that he’s not here.”
With an entirely new pitching staff to acquaint himself with on top of the normal routine all hitters go through in the spring, Paulino will have his work cut out for him when he does finally get here.
For a player who has been very inconsistent defensively and offensively missing all this time can’t be good. In the past, Paulino has had periods when he simply loses focus and some have said he can be very lazy at times. Throw in a career struggle with weight problems and this is starting to look more and more like a move that may turn out to be a thumbs-down rather than a thumbs up.
It may also translate into a big opportunity for Mets farmhand Mike Nickeas, who is having a good spring and batted .283 for Binghamton last season. Although not highly regarded as catching prospect, he should be good enough to be a backup for Josh Thole.
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The only one Collins should be mad at is his roid lovin GM who signed the druggie in the first place.
Getting excited about Mickeas eh? Even Royal fans aren’t treated with so little regard. Every one knows what he is, and trying to build him up is really insulting.. The only one who’ll buy it is the parrot.
I wouldn’t say I pumped him up by saying he sould be good enough to be a backup. I did say he wasn’t very highly regarded.
Roids, huh? Druggie? Do you even know what Paulino tested positive for? Or is this another pro-Phillies post?
smh
Why are you still here if everything sucks so bad? Doesn’t that make you the fool?
Omar apologist – it’s ok that he signed crap – MOTA come to mind?
You must be new.
If he doesn’t make it to camp at all, just void his contract. Although Nickeas has looked impressive with his arm in Spring Training thus far, I’d be more comfortable dealing for another catcher since nothing is out there in free agency.
I think we’d have a shot at Paulie!!! Would he and would we? I don’t think so on both accounts. LOL
Paulie will need time off for his girlfriend’s HS graduation, lol
Are we kidding ourselves here? do we just love negativity that we must search for it? Evif Paulino arrived on Feb 1, exactly how buoyant would u be about a backup catcher typically slotted to bat 7TH or 8TH. Handling this pitcjing staff? unusual? unlikely, we didn’t sneak swap it for Phillies’ staff overnight did we. Certainly he won’t be familiar with them; but aside from RA what’s so special they can’t pitch to a cookie cutter catcher? It’s done effectively by the very best one game every year(ASG) Certainly Paulinio’s absence is an inconvenience after ’09 & ’10 inconveniences are a trifle. I doubt his signing made anyone other than his mother & creditors think, GOOD, THE METS HAVE A CHANCE NOW! Don’t fret, I’m sure Mackey’s available in a pinch!
Lets see, Paulino has laziness, drug, & focus issues and Emaus has attitude & hustle problems and a rock for a glove, and we’ve signed 2 pitchers who we HOPE are healthy
But hey! According to the beliefs of this front office and their army there’s no such thing as hustle, clutch, desire or anything else that’s really more important than numbers. Just numbers and OBP.
The future has arrived.
It’s great, isn’t it? Finally some smart baseball.
yeah, really smart
Considering all the kids coming up through the Mets farm system now under Omar Minaya’s reign. Could we go as far as to say how many kids has Paul Google Boy Depodesta has signed? Looks like Omar is the better talent evaluator after all. Just keep Omar away from the GMs desk that’s all, and while we’re at it keep Depo away too.
All this talk about such a star, such a stud Depo is it looks like Minaya is the one who has the record of being the better talent evaluator?
You are too much. You need to get a clue because you posting some outrageous stuff here.
why is it outrageous?
Is Minaya a better talent evaluator than Depo or is Depo better than Minaya?
There’s a lot of good talent coming up through the Mets farm system and that’s why I thought of that question so why is it outrageous?
Minaya’s a tremendous talent evaluator. You’ll see tomorrow afternoon after my scheduled post hits how highly I think of Minaya in that regard. That being said, what does talent evaluation have to do with anything you had said? Or what anyone said? Or Paulino specifically, since that’s who this post is about. Or does today end in a “y,” so it’s your day to say something stupid to get attention?
When did you ever hear anyone in the front office say there is no such thing as hustle for one? I mean, that’s ridiculous. As for comparing Depo to Omar, Minaya has a 10-15 year advantage in time served, of course he’s scouted and drafted more major leaguers.
BTW that is not to say Minaya was not a very adept talent evaluator. The guy had an eye for spotting talent, no doubt.
That’s not to say that Omar didn’t almost blow the Mets money on the Barry Zito affair. Omar was going to go to at least $75 million and possibly to $95 million. Whew. I’m glad Barry’s ego and the Giant’s stupidity prevailed. Bad contract by San Francisco.
There were more, but less egregious. Omar won some, lost some. He is a personable guy though.
the “not hustle” part was a facetious way of expressing how I think the FO is too much into numbers. And if you think there’s no such thing as clutch, which is the serious part, then you and I are not going to get anywhere.
I will assume you are just expressing your opinion since you have shared nothing factual to prove your statement that the
FO is too much into numbers.
In which case i respectfully disagree with your opinion since in my opinion i have yet to see anything that supports your opinion.
Bayonne, Maybe you will accept what I’m going to say here because you know I am not what anyone could call a Saber Rattler.
You are being just a bit unfair to Alderson by attributing things said by a few self identified Saberattlers HERE as if all guys who like sabers believe what those few have said. And therefore attributing statements from a few isolated posters as beliefs of all posters who believe in the same numbers. (I won’t name the FEW names here but I think we all know who falls into this category)
The truth of the matter is those few believe numbers are all that matter. Thats not a Sabermetric philosophy it is something that has existed long before Sabermetrics ever were invented. These same people don’t feel they need to watch the game they believe they can tell you everything you need to know by looking at the boxscore.
They don’t care if the guy was robbed by big fielding plays 3 times they don’t care! They only care that outs were made 3 times!
Don’t confuse Saberattlers with Stathounds.
Yes both use statistics but that doesn’t mean they use them the same way or weight them the same way.
A serial Killer and a Butcher both may use the same type of Knife but one is an Evil Killer and another is a useful service to people who don’t have the capability of hacking up their own food into manageable seperated meals!
I would suggest that if Alderson really didn’t value scouting and those other intangibles (which in this case are things that don’t shop up on the stat sheet) that he would not have made all the changes he has made to the scouting and development departments he did.
If Hustle were not important why did he pick a manager who is known for nothing BUT his hustle and fire? Remember Sandy is an Ex-Marine! Marines are Hustle Incarnate!
Don’t let the few (and there are VERY FEW) dolts who argue that numbers are all that matter and spout Sabers (because they are easy to look up) lead you to believe that all Saberattlers feel the same. Its as bad GENERALIZATION as those who think numbers are all that matter!
Hardly anyone here talks about scouting in a meaningful way simply because they don’t see enough of the behind the scenes work and development to know that this guy has a mechanical flaw and is likely to blow out his arm or that a player is vulnerable to the low inside fastball because he has a quirk in his swing.
It doesn’t come up much because it’s not exactly something that can be published or WOULD BE by the team who owns them (Why give the enemy a hint at defeating you?)
That does not mean that people here think it isn’t important it’s just that those pieces of info are not available unless a media story about it breaks or the guys on SNY cover it for an extended period of time during the course of the game.
None of us can really tell who is a hustler or a clutch guy until we see something clutch or some hustle during a game.
And there are lots of displays that go un noticed because the main story is usually something else and the hustle and leadership is expected to be there.
As an example look at all the folks who knocked Beltran as not a team player despite all the evidence to the contrary.
1 – They bitch about his having surgery late as a selfish act but it was the team that delayed it and if they had let him have it the season before (when he played hurt that season to try and help the team as a good soldier) as he wanted to, he might not have missed as much time last season.
2 – His leadership has been questioned numerous times (sadly I admit even by me!) But this same guy is the one who (while injured) retaliated for the hard slide to Tejada despite a shaky knee and just recently stepped up and said He will move to RF for the benefit of the team.
I think you need to be a little more fair to Sandy and not attribute things someone says here to be the same things Sandy believes. Truth is we don’t really KNOW what he believes, we haven’t given him enough time or money to show us that yet!
And just because people who believe in the same philosophy as Sandy say something, it does not mean that they really understand how Sandy’s philosophy works.
As a recent example people use Boston as an example of how Sabers are successful but the truth is they only play a small part on the STATISTICAL side of Boston’s team building. Epstien uses a lot more than just Sabers to decide who to keep and who to get!
They don’t really know what Epstien does they assume they know.
Others think they got it all down because they read a book on moneyball which has less to do with Sabers and more to do with being poor and trying to win games anyway!
Sure it uses some sabers just as the Yankees do but Sabers are not the only thing that goes into those decisions.
Anyone who thinks there is a single KEY to creating a winning team is wrong!
It isn’t just numbers and it isn’t just development and it sure as hell isn’t just leadership and hustle.
It is a combination of all of those things and a healthy dose of good timing where all those aspects come together into a winning season and maybe even a WS title.
Anyone who thinks they have the holy grail of success in their pocket had better beat everyone every year befotre they will have actually proved it!
Why are you stealing Plascke’s line about calling D3PO “Google Boy”?
Is it supposed to be an insult? If so, do you know what Google actually is? Do you know what Depodesta’s job actually is?
How are the two related?
Let me just ask out of curiosity to everyone that happens to read this. When Bayonne says that the Mets front office beliefs are that there is no such thing as “hustle, clutch and desire”. Is that due to something they (and by they I mean Alderson, DePodesta and Ricciardi) said?
When Alderson was hired his 1st interview with Francesa he was asked if someone described your team how would he want his team described. This was his reply.
Francesa: What did you want your team to be?
Alderson: We got 25 baseball players. Guys that love to play the game guys that know how to play the game. Guys that may not have 5 tools at every point but we may not have 5 tool players at every position but we got players that know how to play the game and maximize through their effort and through their approach to the game whatever results were going to have on the field.
Look at some of the teams that were in the playoffs. The guys, the few of the no names. Everybody hears about Josh Hamilton with the Rangers but how about Ian Kinsler and Mike Young guys like that? The lots of them.
Francesa: Lifers
Alderson: Lifers. Guys that grit it out guys that play hard.
Now I don’t know but that sounds like a GM that believes in hustle and grit and playing hard.
You can listen for yourself just scroll to the 39:20 mark. Here is the link.
http://realdirtymets.com/2010/10/30/audio-alderson-vs-francesa-round-1-talk/
The problem as I see it MNJ is people around here don’t look past what they read and assume that what is said is all there is.
Take Bill James’ books as one small example.
Bill wrote a book(s) about Statistical Analysis not about being a good GM. Sure some of what he said goes into being a good GM but it is not a comprehensive plan for picking players. No more than an ingredient list is comprehensive to making a good meal. It’s part of the proccess but not the exclusive or ONLY component to success. HOW you cook those ingredients is AS IMPORTANT as the ingredients and proportions of them to the end product! Which is where scouting, coaching and player development take over. Subjects not addressed in Bill’s book in any meaningful way.
Some Misread him and think it’s all about the stats and nothing else. Just follow what Bill said and that’s all you need. That isn’t exactly a problem of Bill’s book it is a problem with the reader not applying the lessons in the book in a proper way.
Now BJ also claims that he can find no statistical data that proves some players are more clutch than others. No one else has found it either. Does that mean “Clutch Hitting” doesn’t exist?
Of course not it just means they can’t find the numbers that PROVE it because numbers don’t describe SITUATIONS they merely describe results. The situation is key!
Scientists also can not find any statistical data to prove life exists on other planets but ask any scientist and he will tell you it is very likely that life DOES exist on some other planet that we have not found yet!
Just because a statistical model doesn’t show that particular result does not mean it does not exist or is not a factor in some way.
Leadership, Clutch, and Hustle (Player makeup) will manifest itself in ways that vary so much that their effect on TOTAL performance can not be identified in any SINGULAR stat but they instead increse the WHOLE DATASET across the board which makes it difficult to identify statistically.
Since it is a force multiplier to individual talent the only way to identify how important it is to a player is by taking two players with the SAME individual talent and seeing how those clutch and hustle qualities make one player’s numbers better than another. The reason that doesn’t happen is because a players talent ALSO can not be quantized in a meaningful way.
This is why scouting is important and MORE important than the numbers so you can make SOME determination how much extra a player gets from his “Makeup” compared to other players who scouting says has the same basic “TALENT” but maybe not the hustle and leadership of another player.
If both players have the same numbers then one may have better hustle and less talent than the guy with more talent but less hustle.
They seem the same but one will (if coached properly) be able to ADD to his talent and is more likely to ADD that talent because he Hustles, works harder and doesn’t sit back and just LET things happen.
The Hustle is important but many find it hard to believe because they won’t look PAST the numbers or WHY the numbers are the way they are!
Thats one side.
On the other we have folks who hear Sandy uses Sabers and then read others that use them say rediculous things because they misread Bill james and think numbers are all there is that is important.
I doubt highly or dare anyone to post the passage where Bill James says you don’t need scouting or that harder workers don’t translate into better results because Bill only really discusses the results not much about what type of player will get those results!
His book is not about scouting it is about statistical analysis!
The main issue regarding quantifying the leadership, Hustle and work Ethic is those qualities affect more than just the player who has them. They will tick up the production of the people around them.
As an example Would Pagan be Pagan right now if Beltran did not mentor him and teach him how to be a better player? Did not pass on those qualities he has to another player? It didn’t show in Beltran’s numbers but it certainly did show in Pagan’s!
Does a guy who hustles not only add to his numbers but the numbers of the guy’s behind him? Or the Pitcher because he hustles to get to ground ball some slacker might not have gotten to to start off that double play?
Is it irrelevant?
Some here think so only because they don’t look at the affect of EVERYONE just the player himself. Kind of like Saying wood burns and Oxygen isn’t important but wood doesn’t burn without the presence of oxygen!
You can quantify how well wood burns and say some wood burn better than other but none of it will burn without that oxygen and the more oxygen the BETTER it burns regardless of the type of wood your talking about.
Whenever you LEAVE OUT facts or facets of any situation and make a judgement the judgement you make will be only as good as the facts you included. And the correctness of that judgement will be proportional to the amount of IGNORED data the judgement used.
This is why I always rail against the OBP stat because it ignores and mashes together data that obscures situsational awareness when you could do the same task without obscuring those details.
Sabers are fine as an ADDITION to the standard data that has been used for a century but to use them exclusively and ignore all the rest is a recipie that is incomplete.
No major league team WILL or has EVER done that!
Not even Boston ignores things NOT SABER nor do they ignore scouting and leadership and hustle.
Only the ignorant and closed minded who misread books or ignore data are the ones who do that and THEY are dead wrong!
Unfortunatly the internet does not pass judgement on the validity of what it posted on it it merely passes on that information be it right wrong or rediculous!
And people who don’t know any better believe it because they don’t want to or are not capable of thinking for themselves.
Just to show an example here I will bet EVERYONE of you will get an email sometime soon that says Mars will make it’s closest pass to earth in the last 100 years or so.
It’s true mars DID make it’s closest pass since recorded history…
About 10 years ago!
But it’s on the internet so it must be true!
Just because one Saber guy thinks Hustle and Leadership are not relevant doesn’t mean ALL Saber guys believe that.
And just because that is circumstantial association.
Sandy being an Ex Marine knows how important effort is in the long run and despite what Sabers says about a guy he knows it has value that the sabers do not show.
Just because he likes using sabers does not mean that he subsribes to ONLY what is in Bill James’ book.
And just because you like the color blue and he likes the color blue does not mean he believes everything YOU believe on every issue!
We need to remember these things when we try to attribute our beliefs with people who have similar beliefs.
ie: Some muslims believe they are doing Gods work by strapping on explosives and killing people.
Doesn’t mean all people who believe in Islam feel that way or will implement their beliefs in the same way!
So we should not try to characterize them that way!
I always think of the point of sabers is to try an translate stats into wins (that is, which set of numbers gives you the highest probability of winning). It really doesn’t tell you which factors are going to lead to them, that takes scouting, and projecting the future.
any stat is going to be historical
“I always think of the point of sabers is to try an translate stats into wins”
Well not really. Stats are a sort of recipie for looking at the same stats people have always looked at only now they come prepackaged and published where before you had to sit down and actually do the math yourself.
So before you had to make your own bread.
Sabers are basically wonder bread you don’t have to worry about how to make bread just eat it!
And most are devised under the bias that all OUTS are the same and the worst thing you can do is make an out.
But there are good outs and bad outs! The bias of the metrics only work if you NEVER make an out.
And we all know that is impossible!
You get dumber by the day. You must have been asleep the last 5 years. Killing this front office already, and backing a guy that signed crap after crap. Old broken down players was ok, yet YOU are questiong the signing of Young and Capuano? YOU MUST BE KIDDING?????
Funny you call others out about not knowing the game………….hysterical really.
the dumb person here is you, still believing the Mets are good and that the Wilpons will get things turned around, the results speak for themselves and now that we turned into the pirates things will only get worse from here, cannot wait to hear all the apologists, like yourself after this yr, should make for good laughter. defend, defend, defend is not working, we need the wilpons out to get the Mets back on top.
Yeah, that’s what I said, I said the Mets are good and that the Wilpons are going to get things turned around – in fact those were my exact words…
Oh and I’m an apologist too.
Stop living in your own fantasy world and making up what people say and think.
Our American Education system sure is failing us……..
5 years? The cycle of dependence on the aging free agent/suddenly made available 35 year old has is going on 20 years now.
Never once has the root cause of this chronic dependence ever been fully examined despite the fact that that we have had ELEVEN losing seasons in the last TWENTY years, WITH the HIGHEST PAYROLL in the entire League.
Giving away our 1st and 2nd round draft choices.
Hamstringing our payroll with well compensated, ageing players who are typically on their last contract and A) Underperform, B) frequently are on the DL and C) Retire and leave nothing in the way of prospects, draft choices or any other value going forward.
Drafting players who will sign for Bud Selig’s slotting guidelines instead of the best players available.
Many times we’re drafting college seniors who have no choice but to sign if they want to continue their baseball careers. Guys who were drafted 4 years before out of high school and a year ago as college juniors and either weren’t offered big enough bonuses because they weren’t considered to be high ceiling, top notch prospects or who’s stock has plummeted.
We are basically picking through the discount bin and then forced to pay top dollar for less than average major league production because “well who else were we going to get to play 2B, LF, RF, SP, Closer ?”
There is a way to go about building a team for this year AND future years that doesn’t involve robbing from the future.
Joe Mcilvaine sIgned Lance Johnson as a Type B free agent (no compensation due), got a couple good years out of him and then traded him for Turk Wendell. He also traded for and bought low on Bernard Gilkey and John Olerud. Both played great here and Olerud left behind a #1 pick and a supp round pick (both busts with Utley, Wainwright, Cliff Lee, Grady Sizemore, Kelly Johnson on the board) and Gilkey was traded by the next administration for s**t but at least they COULD HAVE provided (if we put money time and effort into the draft)an Ike Davis or a David Wright, and they played well here and instead of costing future teams a prospect they added one’s.
Mcilvaine looked ahead and saw RF was going to be a need and traded a well regarded 2B (Q. Veras) for Carl Everett who did put up good production in his prime after we traded him.
Without Mcilvaine rebuilding the farm we don’t have the pieces for Leiter and Piazza. How do we go to the post season without them?
Mcilvaine once said that “free agency is a short term solution to a long term problem.”
Steve Phillips once said “Prospects will get you fired.” That’s how we wound up Alomar, Cedeno, Burnitz and Vaughn, crashed and had to start from scratch all over again.
When you look at the way Mcilvaine was putting together a team you see that he was adding to inherited pieces like Ordonez, Alfonzo, Kent, with Gilkey, Johnson, Olerud and Everett and draft choices like Payton, AJ Burnett and Darin Erstadt. That would have been a potent offense that went a lot deeper than 1-5.
Unless we someday end our dependence on other teams ageing players, we’ll never have a competitive team year in and year out and only occasionally make the post season, like we have been. THREE TIMES IN THE LAST 20 YEARS.
If a long lag time is anticipated getting a player into this country, I don’t understand why our front office doesn’t work with the subject player and start the process earlier. As I recall, we had a similar situation last year. It’s likely someone in the FO isn’t on the ball. Unlike last year, we can’t blame it this time on Omar.
+1
Any link to where this story is from? Or is this original reporting?
Which story? Who are you addressing?
Dont know if that was directed toward me, but if it is, listen to this podcast about 2:00 in.
http://www.metsblog.com/2011/03/10/recap-collins-talks-gee-and-valdespin/
I’m sure he is referring to your comment about him being lazy.
Thanks. Yeah I meant the original post. There’s a quote from Collins but no source linked. I was wondering where it came from. Usually links towards the original source material are provided.
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Excerpts from a New York Times story by Dave Seminara on Feb. 23, 2011:
“This year 12 teams estimated that 17 players — from the Dominican Republic, Japan, Mexico and Venezuela — would arrive late to camp because of problems with their visa applications. Although most are not household names, a late arrival has the potential to disrupt a team’s preparations and can derail a prospect’s chances of making the big club.
According to Dave Sohier, the nonimmigrant visa chief at the United States Embassy in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, delays most commonly affect young players who have had brushes with the law while in the United States. Many established Dominican stars, meanwhile, have attained resident status, or green cards, enabling them to live in the United States.
If a visa applicant has a criminal record, the embassy requests additional information to determine whether that crime makes him ineligible for a visa. If he is deemed ineligible, he can apply for a waiver. How quickly the player responds and the severity of the crime usually dictate the length of the delay.
Sohier and Brian Simmons, the deputy visa chief at the American Embassy in Caracas, said drunken driving was the most common criminal offense for ballplayers, with substance abuse issues, including the use of performance-enhancing drugs, close behind. And though neither transgression is in itself grounds for denying a visa, offenders must submit to a medical evaluation. A typical delay to sort it all out, consular officials say, is two to three weeks, though some cases can take much longer.
Teams often appeal to immigration officials to help resolve or even to head off visa problems. Major League Baseball sometimes gets involved, too, and at the end of each season sends out a memo providing teams with immigration guidelines, alerting them to changes in the law and reminding them to file early for players who have criminal records.
Still, some holdups result from mundane mistakes: clubs filing paperwork late, errors in the application process or players forgetting to renew passports or simply failing to show up for their interview.”
A quote from Depodesta (from a Patrick Flood interview). Does not sound like nothing but spreadsheets to me!
Paul DePodesta: Well, a huge part of my job right now is scouting, and it really has been for the last four or five years. I think they’re all pieces to the puzzle, and you try to put the puzzle together as best you can. I’ll say this again, as I’ve said before: One of the principle aspects of our job is dealing with uncertainty. Whatever we can do to get our arms around that uncertainty will help us make better decisions. Some of that will be through analysis, other times it’s just getting out and not only seeing a player, but even getting to know a player. We’re trying to predict the future performance of human beings, you know? We can’t forget that they’re human beings. So I think [scouting and numbers] really go hand in hand. Ultimately, when we’re out scouting, what we try to do is to try to explain the performance, rather than just observe the performance, if that makes any sense. The stats help us do that.
Yeah when he said “We can’t forget that they’re human beings.” so that’s why he thinks scouting & numbers go hand in hand. I don’t see how that fits with some of the comments others make about him.
Which just goes to show that Podesta know the MORE information you have the BETTER the judgement you can make.
Sure he uses Sabers and I will bet he uses a ton of NON sabermetrics to make his decisions and even then he looks at who has the ability to rise ABOVE those metrics because they have yet to achieve the best they are capable of doing.
A good hitter in Metrics might have a bigger upside than even the metrics show. But you won’t know that unless you look to see why he has success and what he needs to make the metrics even better!
I love how a Visa issue with Paulino turns into a bash fest of the Front office.
It rained yesterday, it’s because the Mets have the worst front office in Baseball
People are willing to give the new regime a year or two and that means they drink koolaid and are apologists.
Young and Capuano awful risk taking signings yet same people defend the guy that signed the likes of: Alou, Livan, El Duque, JJ Putz, Castillo, Perez………….
the front office was picked by the wilpons enough said…..
Actually, the FO seems to have been assigned to the Wilpons.
No not enough said, that was the smartest thing they EVER did, and do be so ignorant just because you don’t like the Wilpons does not mean it was a bad move.
I wonder if Mike Nikeas has a friend in the State Department. That might explain a few things.
since this problem happens every year, why don’t they start the visa process a lot earlier? worst that happens is they arrive to camp before it is officially open!
UPDATE: According to Adam Rubin, Paulino has arrived.