In other words – relax already people………

He leads all candidates in hitting
Castillo .318 .400 .318

Emaus has shown to be a typical example of selecting based on OBP.
.304 OBP but hitting .200

As much as many would not like to admit it the truth is Castillo has literally won the job in deed but not in decision.

Most likely because Collins and Alderson (and yes you fans too!) all decided before a pitch was thrown and an at bat was made WHO it was you wanted to win the job and now that they haven’t and Castillo has it is a problem for everyone!

Well I say remember all those posts about taking the best players to the regular season?
If you are true to your word then you should be wanting them to take castillo!

I say give him the job and when the trade deadline comes around agree to pay most of his salary and throw him into a trade package that nets us some starting pitching!

the argument does become valid when fans start calling for them to eat a large contract, then turn around and sign another big money player to replace him!

Hell, pitch him Tuesday then wednesday, and see what he does.

It is the wfan interview he did with boomer & Carton. You can hear it here if you like.

http://realdirtymets.com/2011/03/14/audio-collins-talks-about-santana-ollie-and-beltran-oh-my/

“If we catch the baseball cause we aren’t going to strike a lot of guys out. But if we catch the baseball.There is no reason why we shouldn’t be able to compete”
- Terry Collins

Terry Collins when asked if he is frustrated with the lack of progress with some of the other players other than Luis Castillo on the 2b situation:

“I’m not frustrated by it boomer. I was hoping that somebody would jump up and really just grab the job. Luis has played very well lately I mean really really well the last four games he’s been out there. Dan Murphy is actually swinging the bat very very good.

What we need to see certainly out of Murph is some action around the bag. We have not seen that yet. I’m not sure how it’s going to go when it does happen. I don’t want him to get hurt because that is what happened last year to him when he was in Buffalo that somebody slid in and re-injured the knee.

You know Brad Emaus and Justin Turner we think they probably gonna hit something we just haven’t been able to come up with the guy that we think is going to be able to go out there 140 times.”

“There are rumblings around baseball that Terry Collins is firmly in the not-Luis Castillo camp for second base, but there’s still a chance he gets Castillo on his roster at second base anyway because Collins has bosses too. ”

http://proxy.espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/16807/castillo-or-not-castillo

I bring it up cause i saw somewhere someone say that the Mets did not want to pay the extra money it would cost to replace Ollie if he was released.

I mean if replaced with a minor leaguer we r talkin about 400K to begin with but i just wanted to know if in fact it is not even 400K so long as Ollie signs with another team and the Mets replace him for someone making the minimum.

If the Mets wind up releasing Ollie and he ends up going say to the Nationals. The Nationals would most likely pay the minimum salary portion of the $12M owed to Ollie which is around 400K and the Mets the difference.

Then if the Mets replace Ollie with say Gee. The Mets would pay Gee the Min which is again around 400K and since the Nationals are paying Ollie the minimum 400K portion and not the Mets. The Mets are in the end simply paying Gee the 400K they would have paid Ollie to begin with.

Does that sound about right?

which coincidentally, will nicely offset the minimum wage amount they will pay to either guys replacement. So literally no $ cost to releasing these stiffs.

Oh, in theory, there could be a bidding war, and he could end up getting more than 12mill from some team. But somehow, I don’t see this happening!

And is Warthen (who I still think should have been purged with the rest of them) really willing to bet his career on having “fixed” ollie? the same guy he pretty much punted on last year?

I will be really pissed if they lose any potentially viable RP to waivers to keep Ollie.

one outing? He pitched to a scrub LH hitter, and damned near walked him. That is wonderful? would they have a group orgasm if he hit 90 and K’d a guy?

I mean as far as Ollie is concerned nothing changes right?

He would still get paid the same regardless or am I missing something?

If the new team signs him for 4 million a season, the Mets pay the difference or 8 million.