Mets DFA Misch After Doubleheader To Make Room For Gee

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• BTF April 16, 2011 at 1:20 pm

  Wow, just wow.
• chris April 16, 2011 at 1:22 pm

  If you play with fire, you’re going to get BURNED! How many players like Young did we sign? Like 7 or 8? I could see gambling on one player like this but not so many. This wasn’t taking a gamble by Alderson, it was just plain stupid.
  • happy little mets fans April 17, 2011 at 8:31 am

    Uh oh…Hasone of the Sandy loyalistas jumped ship already……lol
• Mr North Jersey April 16, 2011 at 1:34 pm

  Young is scheduled to be back in 10 days. As long as he is not lost for the season it is better to have him miss 2 starts now than miss the rest of the season with Mets truing to throw him out there to see what he can give them. Something that seemed to happen often in past years.

  The concern is that Young is not lost for an entire season. Missing starts here and there was to be expected.

  I already am reading a few pointing their “Aha!, I told you so finger” round the blogosphere. As if the idea that Young could go on the DL was never a possibility being considered when he was signed.

  Course that was always a possibility that is why he was signed for so cheap but of course some don’t want to hear that.

  Anyway, I will watch to see how serious Young’s tendinitis is going forward.
  • Met Manaic April 16, 2011 at 1:51 pm

    So according to your logic, we should expect this:

    Chris Young: 2-3 DL trips 45 days lost

    Chris Capuano: 2-3 DL trips 45 days lost

    Taylor Buchholz – 2-3 DL trips 45 days lost

    Blaine Boyer – Oh nevermind he’s already toast.

    Boof Bonser – Oh wait he’s toast too.
    • Mr North Jersey April 16, 2011 at 1:55 pm

      Yea that is exactly what I am saying LMAO.

      wow…
  • happy little mets fans April 17, 2011 at 8:32 am

    you keep watching little metsie from jersey. You will be very lonely but keep on watching. And the good news for Young, if he gets healthy he’ll play for a real team next year, and if he doesn’t sandy will give him another chance because he’ll be cheap.
• Bayonne Mets Fan April 16, 2011 at 1:36 pm

  How many times was it argued here that we needed HEALTHY starting pitchers. Our lineup was one that can contend and with the rest of our staff being what it was they deserved HEALTHY starting pitcher. Signing Young was okay but we needed a HEALTHY starter. Now look.

  So Alderson decided NOT to get any healthy starters and does not put a premium on defense. How many games has this man cost this team so far with his decisions and his beliefs. So far it appears he’s destroying the Mets not making them better.

  Simple healthy starting pitching for a very good lineup that can contend and some good gloves to help your pitchers and support our lineup. Not genius just simple standard baseball.
  • Mr North Jersey April 16, 2011 at 1:46 pm

    Yea that’s what Alderson decided. He said “I know what I am going to do. I’m going to purposely avoid signing healthy pitchers.”

    -SMH
  • t agee April 16, 2011 at 5:50 pm

    “How many games has he cost us with his decisions and his beliefs?” What are you kidding us. What sorts of decisions could he have made with no money to work with? You wanted us to resign Feliciano and Takahashi and sign Wang and Harang.

    Feliciano’s probably out all year. Wang who knows, he hasn’t pitched yet anyway, might be out all year again. Takahashi (who I also wanted back too) has so far pitched like **** with a 5 ERA and Harang who was hurt all July and August last year took a one year deal for 3.5 Million to pitch in his home town. We would have had to at the least give him 2 years to make it worth his while to come here.

    So that’s 2 years 8M for Feliciano on the DL, 2 years 8M to Takahashi who is off to the same start everyone else is, 1 year 1 Million to Wang for whenever, or if he makes it back and at least 2 years 8 M for Harang if he would have even come here (with his bad back) That’s the whole 13 M Alderson had to work with for everything and those guys aren’t any more of a sure thing than any of the guys we did sign.

    Trust me, the days of giving Scott Schowenweiss 11 M, Guillermo Mota 5 M, Jorge Sosa 2 M, Tim Redding 2.5 M and resigning an Oliver Perez for 36 M are over and a good part of the reason those days are over is because of how those guys did.

    There were a lot of injured rehab project type pitchers available in free agency the last couple of years and not a lot of healthy quality aside from Lee but he wouldn’t have come here unless we overpaid. That wasn’t an option.

    Last year among the rehab projects like Sheets, Marquis Wang ect there was a healthy quality arm that would have made a lot of sense and it came at a pretty reasonable price too. Joel Pinero at 2 years 16 M would have let Maine and Perez battle it out for the 5th spot and hope the combination could do something rather than count on both of them again for 2 spots in the rotation but now he’s hurt too. So even a healthy arm on a reasonable 2 year deal is no sure thing.

    The fact is that talented and healthy pitchers aren’t going to make it to free agency that often anymore. Their going to be traded like Halliday was or locked up like Felix. If you want good starting pitching (that’s not a rehab project) your going to have to draft guys who want more than the slotting guideline because they have more talent or your gonna have to have talent in your farm to trade. Not 7th-13th round talent either. Guys like Thole, Parnell, Murphy, Duda and Evans aren’t getting you near a Roy Halliday.

    So with the vault reduced to a piggy bank what else could have been done? What would Omar have been able to do? Feliciano, Takahashi and Wang don’t look like your getting 9 M in value out of them and Harang after having made 40 M in his career wasn’t coming here for an extra 500,000 and he was out 2 months last year.

    Tell us who else we should have gotten now after the fact?
    • theonlymaskman April 17, 2011 at 9:36 am

      By your logic, it’s hopeless. So you may as well put the white flag up the pole now.
• Matt April 16, 2011 at 1:50 pm

  “In a surprising turn of events,”…Really?! Young to the DL is a surprise…to whom? If anything this is an expected turn of events. I had Young pegged for 24 starts this season, I think I aimed too high.
  • Hojo's Mojo April 16, 2011 at 1:56 pm

    Matt, I meant surprising in the outcome of the 24 hour news cycle. It was reported at first that Young may start Sunday or just miss a turn. Surprising that that changed so quickly in 12 hours. I have Young pegged for 20 starts this season.
    • Mr North Jersey April 16, 2011 at 1:58 pm

      Here is what Collins had to say on it HoJo.

      “Collins indicated Young was not going to make Sunday’s start even if the series had been played without rain forcing Saturday’s doubleheader.

      “He was not going to pitch tomorrow,” Collins said. “… I didn’t sleep very good. I woke up this morning and just said, ‘I’m not going to do it.’ I just don’t think it’s worth the risk.”
      http://proxy.espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/19613/gee-on-sunday-misch-backs-up-carrasco
    • francis April 16, 2011 at 5:41 pm

      I have him pegged for 4.
• Russell Zanca April 16, 2011 at 2:27 pm

  By my calculus, the one reliable pitcher we had is gone…for a while anyway.

  Pat Mischtake and DJ Crapasco–gonna be hard to make that run for fourth!
• Jerry M April 16, 2011 at 3:07 pm

  Here we go again just like 2009 all over.
• andy April 16, 2011 at 4:11 pm

  the great sandy, lol the wilpons always hire the worst people for every job, this group no different, anybody could have made better moves then him in the offeseaon, please dont tell me throw away yr with that lineup, some pitchers that are not trash would have went a long way, but hey the MMO writers are happy, they get interviews full of hot air.
• baby al April 16, 2011 at 4:37 pm

  the great geniusalderson,the sage of roosevelt avenue,messed up again.just yesterday people were dancing on these pages because feliciano got hurt. they said thats one for the geniusalderson.i feel bad for young a class act…that does not mean the guy who signed him is.
• Des April 17, 2011 at 12:17 am

  Do Chris Young and Moises Alou share the same DNA?

  One kewpie doll for the correct answer….
  • baby al April 17, 2011 at 12:37 am

    they,as far as i know,don’t share the same dna but they share the same black cloud….the honorable wilponzie mob!freddye wilponzies onions are in madoff’s shorts…without bernies guidance feddye can’t get out of his own way…much less run a buisness.
    • Des April 17, 2011 at 1:39 am

      baby al, are you claiming the kewpie doll? Or should it be held for the answer?
      • metsaddict77 April 17, 2011 at 9:30 am

        who else can we DFA, i can think of a few.