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.

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.