Did you mean Emaus or Castillo? lol
Whatever Luis has cost us for the 2011 season, it is less than cutting him, paying him anyway, and also paying Emaus.

P.S.: Cot’s Baseball Contracts tell us about the Mets non-performing assets:

2011 payroll obligations for former players:

* $12,000,000 (Oliver Perez)
* $ 6,000,000 (Luis Castillo)
* $ 1,000,000 (Gary Matthews Jr.)
* $ 725,000 (Blaine Boyer)

Any of the above will do.

Fully 82 Million of the 143 Million is is in dry dock, has to be towed into port, is all but unseaworthy or had to be dumped into the ocean.

This whole team didn’t get to be the Titanic in one off season. It’s been 13 years in the making. A philosophy espoused from ownership and FO that is completely at odds with the way we won our only World Championships. A philosophy that thinks it can take short cuts, beat the odds and is smarter than everyone else. A philosophy that thinks a 32 year old Castillo or a 34 year old Pedro or a 40 year old Alou or a 50 year old El-Duque are the players they were a decade ago

The days of fixing long term defficincies on the roster with wildly expensive short term hopeings is over and to tell you the truth didn’t provide much in the way of results anyway. Alou at 40 at a cost of 15 M and a first round draft choice to play 100 games over two years, like that couldn’t have been forseen ahead of time. Schowenweiss at 11 Million, Mota at 5 Million, Igarashi and Cora at 2 Million apiece, Redding at 2.5 Million, Perez at 12 Million, Castillo at 6 Million, I mean give me an effin break.

We consider a nice complimentary part like Josh Thole or Lucas Duda to be a bright spot. The Braves consider Jason Heyward or Craig Kimbrel to be one’s. The Giants consider Tim Lincecum or Brandon Belt to be one’s and the Marlins consider Logan Morrison or Mike Stanton to be one’s. Get a freakin’ clue.

Good thing they aren’t Red Sox (the predicted BEST TEAM IN BASEBALL with a TRUE GENIUS GM!) fans or we would need to open a suicide hotline just to handle all the fans.

Don’t get me wrong, the team is playing terrible baseball–esp., pitching and fielding.

I think it may get worse, too, but the Mets will get better. Lots of new folk on this team, and there’s obviously been no gelling yet. But it will come.

Heck, the team battles back in almost every contest, which is huge considering how F*()ng deflating it must be to have your staff pitch batting practice to the opponents.

Incidentally, Tulowitzki doesn’t appear to have a problem hitting HRs at Citi; guy makes it look like a bandbox.

Okay, enough for a glass half-full guy.

Look Sandy is not a genius but then again no one here has ever claimed that except the guys who hate him.

I personally think he is too obsessed with OBP and believes too much in some saber ideas that are outright wrong. Such as the Fielding isn’t all that important argument made by Saber/stathound guys all the time when they dismiss a bad glove because of his hitting stats.

Emaus is a perfct example of what those beliefs bring you.
A Passive batter too busy trying to walk instead of hitting because his BA is dirt. And glove that is not even bronze let alone Gold.

Just look at the splits to see what kind of player that High OBP/Weak BA selection got us:
Ahead in the count he has 9 PA 1 Hit 3 walks and 3 K
Behind in the Count he has 14 PA 3 Hits Zero Walks and 1 K.

Being ahead in the count is a Hitters count! He doesn’t hit and he should have more hits when ahead in the count. But he is passive and tries to walk and sometimes gets bitten by that called third strike he looked at. The problem? He is not aggressive at the plate and looking to walk instead of a hit when ahead in the count.

He hits better when he is behind in the count. Why? Because he knows the walk is not likely and then goes into plate protection mode aggressively swinging trying to foul off pitches until he can get the count in his favor. He strikes out less because he is focusing on hitting the ball close enough to be a strike and as a result gets more hits and strikes out less because he changed his focus on making contact not taking borderline pitches! But the fact the BA was ignored in favor of OBP shows why he only has 3 hits in 14 PA. The guy can’t hit and the OBP is not something he can really control unless he pay the pitcher to throw balls at him!

It is beliefs like this that cause me concern about Sandy. If you come into evaluations with a bias your picks will be biased and if that bias is wrong your evaluation will be wrong as well.

Is that why this team is losing though?
HARDLY!
It is pitching! And lets face facts here you have to admit the pitching available this year was pretty slim to none. Even if you had money the only guy worth buying was Lee who we had ZERO shot at getting!

You can complain about letting Takahashi and Feliciano go but what are either doing right now?
Feliciano is nursing that arm we destroyed and Takahashi would not have caused Pelfrey to not have a 2 Inning start, or Kept Dickey’s nail from breaking.
AT best he would maybe have stopped two games that the Bulpen blew which when added to our record would at best put us 1 game under .500

Pretty much where our winning percentage was last year at this time.
Anyone who expected SA to turn this around in a year was a fool!
Anyone who thinks he will DEFINITLY turn us around is a FOOL!

I personally don’t buy into his philosophy but I do know that you can’t really say which way the wind blows on Sandy until we see what he does once he doesn’t have salary restrictions to work with.

If it is more Emaus then he will fail. If it is more Young than maybe not!
I would have to say that the new FO is about 50/50 on their decisions so far.

Feliciano was a Plus, Takahashi will maybe be a minus.
Emaus is a Minus but Beato seems to be a potential plus.
Hairston is not showing what he did in spring so I will give him a minus but then you got Harris who despite his fielding issues has gotten a few big hits that have been wasted by the pitchers.

Funny how the best performing players we have are all Minaya guys. The same guys who have been good all along.
Davis is lights out this year! Wright is better, Reyes is Better and even Beltran has done more than most people expected playing almost every game.

Who have been disappointments from the Minaya selections? Exactly the guys who came out of nowhere and we all asked if they could reppeat that impressive showing.

Pagan and Dickey!

Sandy is not a genius but he isn’t awful either, he got handcuffed in the wallet and he will do better once those restrictions come off.
But Minaya wasn’t awful either. just look at the names of the guys you think are doing good for us. Most of them are from the team he built.

If they continue to lose you have to wonder is it because Snady screwed up a good team or because he could not fix a really bad team minaya built.

Truth is if you are not prepared to be patient and give them a year or two to try to fix it then you would be unhappy no matter who was the GM. Because no one can come in a turn a sub .500 team into a division winner in a single offseason!

NO ONE!

How many of Alderson’s Moneyball signings have flopped or been suspect already? Maybe he doesn’t belong in a market like New York City? When does Alderson become the story in main stream media? Maybe Alderson’s judgement is that bad? When is the last time a GM got off to this kind of horrible start for the Mets? Outside of 1962 or the late 70s?

It’s about time Alderson starts answering questions from the media about his own judgement of talent.

This was a nice lineup he inherited and ANYONE who thinks that this was a throw away season is completely out of their minds. He did a TERRIBLE job in the off season.

Guys like donutz and especially the false agee deserve every bad play!!!!!!!! For the few good metsies like Bayonne sorry guys, the rest of the metsies have ticked the gods of baseball off… Hey donutz, where the heck are you. did you enjoy the games!!!!!!!!!