Turner Sets Record But Mets Get Bombed In 7-3 Loss

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• Dennis Ribant May 22, 2011 at 10:10 am

  Don’t forget to thank Omar Minaya for seeing the potential in Justin Turner. Don’t forget to stop raving about the new GM. Don’t ever forget whom he shoved down Met fans’ throats; Emauas and Hu. This is the guy to rebuild the team? Dark dark days ahead for the Mets.
  • Even Flow May 22, 2011 at 12:18 pm

    Shut the hell up. Who’s the one responsible for the bullpen? You know, the same bullpen that’s been the best pen in the last few weeks? Who’s responsible for picking up the guy who still has an ERA of 0.00 in Pedro Beato? You’re a tool, Ribant.
  • MetsMan86 May 22, 2011 at 1:07 pm

    Ah. So Turner being a Minaya guy mean he must have played a lot last year, right? No… wait… he only played in 4 games last year! Minaya has an eye for talent for sure, but his faults are not pushing the right buttons (and a lot of the time, not even looking at the button at trade deadlines) and his ability to give out HORRID contracts. Your point, INVALID!
  • MetsMan86 May 22, 2011 at 1:13 pm

    Also, Jason Bay, Luis Castillo, Ollie Perez vs. Blane Boyer, Hu. Minaya has the bigger busts at 100x the price. Please, stop trying to compare. This is Minayas mess Alderson is inheriting.
• t agee May 22, 2011 at 10:43 am

  Turner, Pridie and Hernandez are the types of moves Omar should have done a lot more of rather than the Castillo, Perez, Alou and Bay kind of moves he is synonomous with and he should have started with these types of moves before 2010. If he had he’d still be here and there would have been no need for to acquire Hu, by anyone.

  Argueably he did much more of the type of move that he wasn’t good at and far too few of the type he was good at.

  Roster problems, players out of options, rule 5′s, career minor league free agents, non-tenders all have to be explored especially with a team that had so few ML quality players in the farm system.

  There are always some players available a team with a weak farm system can get to upgrade the 25, 40 or minor league system in general. Jose Valentin is a good example. So is Jayson Werth. So is Heath Bell, Matt Lindstrom and Darren O’Day.

  Player procurement is a vital part of a GM’s job. Anyone can play fantasy baseball GM with guys like Beltran, Pedro, Wagner, K-Rod, Schowenweiss, Mota, Bay and Alou but the good GM is the one who’s not painted into a corner with guys like Castillo and Perez because he provides options for himself AHEAD of time and therefore doesn’t have to use the old tired refrain of “but who else were we going to get to play (insert position of latest FA bust”) to explain yet another expensive mistake and the resulting games lost because of that mistake.

  If Minaya was still here he undoubtably would have resigned Takahashi and Feliciano as he did Alou, El-Duque, Delgado, Valentin, Maine, Castillo and Perez cause in Omar’s world everyone stays 28, never regresses, never is an injury risk, never needs a competent backup.

  Takahashi and Felciano have combined to pitch 19 bad innings and give up 10 runs so far for 8M. That more than anything illustrates the difference between Minaya and Alderson, not a no harm/no foul attempt at obtaining a second basemen in the rule 5 draft.

  Omar got half a season of good play out of 2B in six years and spent millions on the position. It’s not even close to the same thing. In fact it’s the polar opposite.
• Met Maniac May 22, 2011 at 11:37 am

  Pedro Beato also set a record too last night for the most consecutive scoreless innings to start a career. Lets see how big Pelf really is today, in the past he has been a bust as a big game pitcher.
• Hitman May 22, 2011 at 12:28 pm

  I wonder if Crapuano is once again on the hot seat. I never understood what was so great about him. After watching last night’s debacle, I can only hope Santana comes back very, very soon so Crapuano gets his walking papers.
• sarge May 22, 2011 at 12:59 pm

  Too many hittable pitches up in the zone by Capuano, what does it matter if you don’t walk guys but you allow them to get comfortable in the box and swing away at your hittable pitches?

  Wow, if not for Turner and Jose where would the runs come from?

  It seems that Beltran is a slump too since that big game in Colorado so we have the 3 and 4 hole hitters struggling so then how do you score runs?

  Bay is just Bay, tired of hearing I am just this far away or I am almost there; it is getting so Bay will be the new, more expensive Castillo/Ollie in fans eyes if he doesn’t turn it around. One year maybe so far he is up there with the biggest busts in Mets history.

  Everytime he gets a hit there is no one on base but he can’t stay away from that outside breaking ball which pitchers will continue to throw if he continues to swing at it.
• MetsMan86 May 22, 2011 at 1:09 pm

  Last nights game makes me wonder has MLB can allow teams to build such tiny stadiums. None of those HRs last night were shots, most were just barely scrapping the shallow walls of “The Stadium.”