Time To Send Bay to Buffalo

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• Jimmy June 9, 2011 at 8:04 pm

  LMAO @ All the prejudiced Met fans screaming @ Omar Minaya for signing mostly Latino star quality players. There’s something SO richly deserving for those Met fans whenever Jason Bay screws up.
  • t agee June 9, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    99% of Met fans just want great young talented players here. No one gives a fiddlers **** where they come from.

    Some of our best players have been from the Caribbean like Milan, Alfonzo, Ordonez, Beltran, Delgado but we didn’t need a GM to identify great Latin stars that were already in the Majors. We needed a GM who would identify great ballplayers BEFORE they became stars. Get ‘em signed, develop them with patience and get their best years in our uniform.

    More Familla’s, Mejia’s and Tejada’s and less guys on their last legs.
    • stick June 9, 2011 at 11:42 pm

      did you really put Rey Rey ordonez on that list? and left off Jose?
  • gregg June 9, 2011 at 11:28 pm

    The funny thing that no one remembers is that Omar started the whole race thing. His first offseason he played up the fact that him being Latin enabled him to get better Latin players. Which was total BS because the players he got was because he payed the most money, not because he spoke spanish. Delgado even called him out for the whole “hey I speak Spanish, you speak spanish, so sign with the Mets” pitch.

    Minaya also mentioned how he thought signing Pedro was going to help us rule the Latin American development. Which again is the logic of a fool because you get the best players by having the best scouts and paying the most, not because you signed a Dominican icon.

    In fact Omar played up the race thing so much that first year the media totally bought into it. They even wrote a book titled “Pedro, Carlos, and Omar: The Story of a Season in the Big Apple and the Pursuit of Baseball’s Top Latino Stars”.
    http://www.amazon.com/Pedro-Carlos-Omar-Pursuit-Baseballs/dp/1592288758/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1307676220&sr=8-1

    Omar genuinely wanted to be Branch Rickey. What he didn’t understand is that it was 2005 and no one cared what so ever about race. Fans just wanted to see a good team. Thats the idiocy of Minaya.

    But make no mistake about it. Minaya was the one to make race an issue right off the bat. Not the fans. For some reason people don’t seem to remember that.
• STUART June 9, 2011 at 8:04 pm

  I dont really see the point of demoting BAY. His problems are deeper than just going back to AAA. I think the best thing for him is to be put on the 15 day DL with some phony injury. They could call it” Tendinitis”. Then have him work out his problems in the Florida instructional league. Maybe do it the week before the All Star break.
  So if he get his head back on straight. They could always backdate his injury and have him return early.
• Midwestern Met June 9, 2011 at 11:53 pm

  Whatever works. That’s too much money we’re paying for 8 home runs.

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• Pat H June 10, 2011 at 12:41 am

  I was wondering maybe Bay doesn’t see the ball like he should he might need glasses.
  • 86mets June 10, 2011 at 12:56 am

    Interesting that you bring that up. Collins mentioned the dim lighting in Miller Park as a possible issue with Bay. However, the lighting can’t be dim in EVERY park Bay plays in. And it obviously doesn’t affect Braun or Fielder whatsoever. There may be something to the eye angle for Bay. It bears watching. Having said that, Bay probably has 50 people telling him what he’s doing wrong, how he should try this or change that. I truly believe that at least 50% of his problem is mental. I think the combination of the huge deal + the cavernous dimensions of the LF/L-center field gap have created the perfect storm of pressure that is affecting Bay’s ability to perform.

    Yes, he’s a professional ball player who is a veteran and should be able to overcome this. Would a trip to AAA Buffalo really help him? Only if it gets him away from all the voices trying to fix him. He needs to try getting away from the well intentioned advice of others and try to get back to what made him successful prior to signing with the Mets. In any event, T
    • 86mets June 10, 2011 at 12:57 am

      As I was saying: In any event, Terry Collins said that they are not considering sending Bay to the minors so that appears out of the question.
• jdon June 10, 2011 at 7:11 am

  It is clearly a tining problem of some kind. I have seen Bay drive the ball a little, so he is physically capable. But his propensity for pounding ground balls would lead me to believe that the problem is over-anxiety in the box. That is also why he swings at so much junk off the plate. He is afraid of getting beat by the fast ball so it leaves him vulnerable to the breaking ball. He just has to resolve to wait on the ball a step longer. Drive the fastball the other way for a while until he learns to calm down in the box.
• alex68 June 10, 2011 at 7:24 am

  jesseP

  while he should, he won’t be going to triple A anytime soon.. collins is sorta helping him out there by giving him as many days off as possible
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