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2011
Thankfully The 2011 Mets Season Is Finally Over
An article by Former Writers
Put It In The Books! The Mets 2011 season is finally over! What can I say about the Mets 2011 season except thankfully it has finally come to an end. Coming into this season I didn’t expect much and in turn we didn’t get much from this team Sandy Alderson and Terry Collins put out there this year.
I know there are people who will for some reason say this was a good season. I honestly can’t fathom what is so good about a team that finished their season 77-85, just 5 games out of last place. In fact the Mets actually finished worse than last year. That is not what I would call good. Far from it in fact!
I guess the writing was on the wall on how the season was going to go when our GM didn’t offer Jose Reyes, who won the NL batting title yesterday, an extension last off season. In fact he didn’t do much at all last offseason to improve this team. There were some free agent signings of course, bad free agent signings like Chris Young who after starting just 4 games had season ending surgery. That was no shocker, I fully expected to see him wind up on the DL. I know the Alderson defenders will cite that he was cheap but what does that matter? He was brought here to pitch for the season and if the season was only a month then it would’ve been a great signing but that’s not the case. How can we forget the great signing of Taylor Buchholz who went home and was never seen again? Let’s not even get into the mind-boggling 2 year deal that was given to D.J. Carrasco. Capuano was another bad signing by Alderson. R.A. Dickey was not deserving of a 2 year deal for one good year in 2010. Not good!
I know everyone just loves the trades Alderson did for K-Rod and Carlos Beltran. Paying most of K-Rod’s contract for what we got back was a horrible move! These guys are nowhere near worth that kind of money. In fact Alderson got played by Milwaukee. As soon as K-Rod got there, the Brewers got K-Rod to waive his option as K-Rod obviously wanted to test free agency at a year younger. It should’ve been obvious that K-Rod wanted to be a free agent next year when he enlisted the services of Scott Boras.
Beltran’s trade is another instance of paying too much. I thought Alderson was supposed to be great at saving money? Wheeler, a Single A pitcher is not worth 4 million or so dollars. If he was a Triple A pitcher on the cusp of the majors then I wouldn’t have minded so much, but of course Alderson botched this trade, I wouldn’t expect anything else from him.
Normally I would say I’m excited for the World Series to end and wait until next year, but we have to be realistic, Sandy Alderson is not a big market GM. Next year is already off to a bad start. With DJ Carrasco and Tim Byrdak returning to the pen and Terry Collins guaranteed to be back there’s not much hope. Adding to the Mets woes will be the departure of one of the best position players in this franchise’s history Jose Reyes and it wouldn’t surprise me if David Wright is traded.
In conclusion this year was bad and we should expect an even worse one in 2012.
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Please stop embarrassing yourself by writing an article like this. RA Dickey had a very good year and he got him for $2.75 million. We have him for 2 more years at a very reasonable cost. KROD trade was to dump money which sandy did. Sandy has pretty much kudos around the league for the Wheeler trade. Capuano was a .500 pitcher for 3.95 million dollars.It was an ok signing. It’s not like we are bogged down with a multi year contract with him
lol, this article will bring you A LOT OF COMMENTS man.. imo you were dead on. how can a team that finished 77-85 be better than a team that a year ago won 79? he didn’t do much to improved the team but his apologist will say it was because of omar. the trade for krod was horrible, but who knows what really went behind the scenes, we’ll never know whether he approach krod about an extension, all in all our bullpen wouldn’t have been as bad with him in it. about beltran i agree, we paid basically 6 million for wheeler, they paid for beltran and also the 2 million or so defferred to wheeler, and it won’t be 4 to 5 years till we see him pitch with us. we’ll see what’s in store for us, one thing i know, is time for him and his saber goons to put up or shut up and GTFO. i’ve said this anyways, he’ll come in, do a poor job, then bolt after the 2013 season. i can be wrong, but that is my prediction regarding alderson, i am not a second guesser, i say thing how i see them
I agree with Varun. This offseason is Sandy’s real test. This year was basically cleaning up Omar mess…Collins isn’t great but he’s just a manager. Dickey is a good cheap 4/5 option for the Mets to have while we wait and hope for the future starters. Mets have to be ready for 2013…2012 is still a rebuiling year. i say spend money on one good player this year. Get rid of Pelfrey/Pagan, change the dimension of Citi field and keep building up the farm…they should be ready by 2013 to compete with the Phillies, Braves and the Nationals! yeah that team! Reyes or Fielder would work for me.
I agree with most of what you said except for Fielder. As good as he is now, I would not touch him. Davis is a MUCH better 1st baseman and will hit for us. Fielder is a DH playing 1st. Hitting wise I think we should be fine with some change (CF) and C. We need better pitching, let Pelfrey and maybe Capuano go. WE need to find pitchers that give us better innings than they did. I C. Wang is a better pitcher than both and KNOWS how to win in NY.
I am a little bit more optimistic for 2012 because the young guys are maturing. 2011 proved that Duda is legit and is a power hitter, Jason Turner can play a number of positions and is solid at the plate, Nick Evans can hit off the bench, Ike Davis is coming back, Bay cannot possibly have a suck year like he did. I don’t know I just think we’ll improve by 10-15 games next year. Still won’t get us there but we are rising.
what good is a team is the offense is ok, then the SP sucks, and the Bullpen Sucks even more?? no lead at no point will be protected..
“R.A. Dickey was not deserving of a 2 year deal for one good year in 2010.Not good!”
Dickey this season
3.28 ERA 208.2 innings 1.23 WHIP 134 K 54 BB
Ya, horrible deal.
This is really funny coming from a guy who was preaching the value of Kevin Millwood this past offseason when the price tag was still north of $5 million.
not sure how anybody could feel any different. this article is on point and after this coming off season when sandy sits on his hands again and watches all the teams around him get better, the sandy lovers will finally have to own up to the fact he is a small mrkt gm that all he cares about is saving money, forget the ws, i guess that is why jeesep loves him.
will, You know the CORE is with you.. as i said before, he got a pass last year, let’s see how committed to winning a championship (a word he’s never used or i haven’t heard him) he really is..
“not sure how anybody could feel any different.”
Rudimentary reasoning skills?
“this article is on point and after this coming off season when sandy sits on his hands again and watches all the teams around him get better, ”
What could he have done to make the Mets better with $10 million to work with?
“he sandy lovers will finally have to own up to the fact he is a small mrkt gm”
Who made the A’s the highest payroll in baseball during his time in Oakland.
“that all he cares about is saving money,”
Again with this.
donal, time will tell but when we have big bird on the mound next year pitching in front of 10 people at citi, i guess maybe then you will wake up. but then agian……
then again maybe I am an adult who is able to put aside impulses and accept that building a winner from a broken organization takes time. More than 6 months, anyway.
you? adult?? aren’t you like 19 years old?? and act as if you were a grown up with much arrogance?? please !!!
So, do you ever get tired of being wrong?
Besides, what does age matter? You claim to be in your 40s, yet you can’t handle a simple back and forth exchange of ideas. Or type a clear sentence, in fact.
i know u cannot walk and chew gum at the same time but most gms can improve the team in the offseason and not just say oh well nothing can be done to improve the team so lets just sit here and watch everybody else improve and we can sit back and blame omar, as we collect the highest front offices salaries out there. u think they would have some knowledge and capabilities to improve the team and not make it unwatchable as the stands at citi and sny rating indicate.
So, cutting big checks is the only way to improve a team?
You think its easy to fix a broken franchise in less than one offseason?
So, cutting big checks is the only way to improve a team?
not by a long shot, just a piece of the puzzle, but not spending it will not work either.
You think it’s easy to fix a broken franchise in less than one offseason?
I think you can improve your team in some way each off season not just sit there and do nothing. i cannot answer what because i do not have the knowledge of what is available at what cost or what teams are willing to trade what players, etc but doing nothing or signing washed up talent is not going to get us anywhere. the yankees seem to have no problem improving their farm system and spending money each year, not sure why your hero cannot do both, if the wilpons cannot afford their business then do us all a favor and sell.
“not by a long shot, just a piece of the puzzle, but not spending it will not work either.”
The Mets spent lots of money in 2011. over $140 million in fact.
“I think you can improve your team in some way each off season not just sit there and do nothing. i cannot answer what because i do not have the knowledge of what is available at what cost or what teams are willing to trade what players, etc but doing nothing or signing washed up talent is not going to get us anywhere. ”
So, you admit you have no idea what is available, you just want something done.
Spend for the sake of spending.
“the yankees seem to have no problem improving their farm system and spending money each year,”
They spent a few years clearing out bad contracts as well. Remember Gene Michael?
“not sure why your hero cannot do both”
My hero? Excuse me? Do you suffer from such a lack of faith in your own position that you have to create strawmen against me?
“if the wilpons cannot afford their business then do us all a favor and sell.”
The Wilpons never had a problem spending money on big free agents, even when the biggest name out there was Oliver Perez. In case you haven’t noticed, it hasn’t worked out so well.
Why not try a different method for a little bit?
i agree the mets always spend money but the problem is they spend it on the wrong players, they bid againist themselves for players like olie instead of getting in on studs like holiday, cc, and lee to name a few. you can spend all you want that is not what it is about, it is about spending it on the right players, not sitting back and doing nothing or signing players nobody else wants.
will, oliver perez and castillo’s contract was what doomed omar minaya.. 18 million dollars wasted on 2 players.. then 2 more million on alex cora for no reason..
So, what are you mad about? Alderson has done what he could.
He was he getting for under $10 million this year? Keep in mind, he had to rebuild the bullpen and bench. We were also short 2 starters.
Besides, Alderson has had to tear down and rebuild the organization. that doesn’t happen quickly, if you want it done right. He’s still got to figure out what to do about Santana, Bay and Wright. all after figuring out Reyes’ situation.
And guess what: there’s no real studs out there outside of Fielder and Pujols. Sabbathia is going renegotiate with the Yankees and Wilson is a 30 year old reliever who has had 2 good seasons as a starter.
Besides, the Mets are not legit World Series contenders yet. There is more work to do. We are still weak in the bullpen, CF and C. In fact, the whole outfield has a lot of questions.
I have no problem spending big money on free agents. And Alderson doesn’t either. Oakland did become the highest payroll in the league while he was there.
My problem is spending for the sake of spending just to sell tickets in April. and that is what so many of you are advocating.
spending for the sake of spending?? so, when have we done that in 1 year?? please enlighten us since you use that term often..
castillo was a bad contract in 2007, perez horrendous contract in 2008, but when the new york mets have spent for the sake of spending??
bad contract are 1 thing, spending for the sake of spending is another thing you moron!
Bay in 2009.
Schoenweis before that. Wagner, Rodriguez
i’ll give you scho, but wagner?? he was a known choker ok, but he signed him at 10 million per, that’s good but he got hurt, again, krod wasn’t bad for us.. and whou would’ve thought bay would turned out to be clueless at the plate for us? nobody could’ve
Wagner had elbow problems coming in and besides, the entire bullpen was a problem, not just the hype man.
“krod wasn’t bad for us”
Statistically he was fine, but Minaya overpaid for him to begin with and in the end, he was a flashy accessory.
“and whou would’ve thought bay would turned out to be clueless at the plate for us? nobody could’ve”
the problem is, it was not reasonable to expect him to put up the same numbers he did in Fenway in Citi. And, even if he did, one power hitter was not going to solve the myriad of problems we had prior to the 2010 season.
Well Alderson is getting off to a good start with Boof Bonser, Taylor Bucholz, Brad Emaus, Chris Young, & DJ Carrasco.
In fact, Alderson is getting off to a much better start than Omar when it comes to bad signings.
Oh! And Chin Lung Hu!! How can I forget him.
He was the guy Alderson spent money on to do what Tejada does now.
What money did he spend on Hu? The man with two body parts in his name? None. He merely traded Mike Antonini for him, one bum for another. Why bother mentioning him? Emaus cost the Mets $25,000, chump change for a chump. Buchholz, Young and Bonzer were all low risk guys that got hurt, and Bonzer was supposed to spend the year at AAA anyway. The only one worth complaining about is Carrasco, who was a bad signing, and is totally worthless as a pitcher. But the rest is a bunch of baloney Bayonne.
I don’t care what money is involved. I’m taking about having a SMART off season and trying to get the best players you can for the positions you need regardless if they are role players, pinch hitters, or starters.
I’m not here to compare who cost what because i would not be surprised if better players at comparable costs to the guys i mentioned were picked up by other teams.
And if that’s the case then Alderson also showed bad judgement and showed him and his cronies were not good at making evaluations either. And that can be even MORE frightening than anything else.
So let’s leave money that does not belong to you or me out of it.
This year wouldn’t have ended 77-85 had they played better than 34-47 at home. They were 43-38 on the road, so why were they so putrid at Citi Field. Their hitting numbers at home were almost identical to those on the road (home: .262/.335/.391; road: .265/.335/.391). But they scored 62 fewer runs (328 at home, 390 on the road) at home than away. Why? They also pitched better at home (3.89 ERA home vs. 4.51 road). So what gives? 2011 was a bizarre season for the Mets, to be sure. I guess my point is that if they had the same record at home as they did on the road (and there’s no good reason why they shouldn’t have, except that putrid bullpen) then they end up 10 games over .500 and in 3rd place DESPITE injuries to Santana, Davis, Murphy and no-show bats like Bay, Pagan, and for the most part, Wright. So, the team’s finish lies exclusively with the players, and to a lesser extent, the coaches and not with the front office. They could have, and should have come through more often in their own ballpark but failed enormously to do so.
Mongos will be mongos…
Well let’s hope Alderson does better than Boof Bonser, Taylor Bucholz, Brad Emaus, Chris Young, & DJ Carrasco and Chin Lung Hu in his 2nd off season because his first was HORRIFIC!!
Remember Chin Lung Hu? The guy that was signed because Alderson felt Tejada wasn’t able to do the job? Nice job evaluating.
Boof Bonser
Taylor Bucholz
Brad Emaus
Chris Young
DJ Carassco
Chin Lung Hu
Val Pascucci
Beato? Meh!
And that was in Sandy’s first year so for the people that keep comparing Omar’s signings to Sandy’s (and t agee reminds us every day in his manifestos) I’d say Alderson is off to a helluva start.
THAT IS A HORRENDOUS LIST OF ACQUISITION BY ANY GM… but, as i stated many times, he was getting a pass because he was “cleaning” omar mess.. so, NOW is time for him to show us what he’s all about..
Doug Mientkiewicz, Miguel Cairo, Jose Offerman, Brian Daubach, Gerald Williams, Anderson Hernandez, Mike DeFelice, Kaz Ishi, Dae Sung Koo, Mike De Jean, Shingo Takatsu, Manny Aybar, Felix Heredia, Danny Graves, Jose Santiago, Mike Matthews, Tim Hamulack.
All from just 2005 and only guys that actually made it up here, despite having the ability to commit at least 250 million dollars in his first off season.
Sure the REASON is because the farm had been wiped out. Anyone with a brain in their head understands that but teams that are loaded in the minors rarely feel the need to fire their existing GM. These sorts of moves are the things most first year GM’s have to do but to me it indicates that we didn’t have the horses either in the Majors or the minors to support an extended run at the playoffs and a lot of subsequent go for broke moves, which in fact turned out to be exactly the case.
The proof of that is Minaya’s 2nd year was his best. By far. It wasn’t even until the playoffs that guys started dropping like flies. The following two years they started falling off almost right away which caused way too many guys like you see listed above playing way too many games down the stretch and even before.
Teams with guys like this on it shouldn’t be forking over #1, #2 and #3 draft choices or trading good useful players like Endy Chavez and Joe Smith ALONG with prospects to fill one need.
The team that Omar took over just didn’t have enough to support a six year run. By the time the big free agent was finished there was no one closing in. Maybe Ike. That’s it, one guy. Talk about Havens and Fern all you want and I’ll agree with you to some extent but everyone understands that prospects aren’t sure things. That’s why you need more of them, not less. There were guys like this on every single one of Omar’s teams and because of injuries, which are far more prevelent in older players, caused way too many of them to play far too key a role especially in September.
Both of those lists are reason enough to understand that more talent, and properly developed at that, is required to sustain a good long run that has a great liklihood of winning a World Series or two.
Omar Minaya has WON with the New York Mets and has also presided over GOOD TEAMS that were in the pennant races in 2007 and 2008.
Come talk to me when/if Alderson does that. In the meantime Alderson is off to an AWFUL START as far as the off season has gone.
Omar Minaya has WON with the New York Mets. Let that sink in.
And the collapses of 2007 and 2008 are NO DIFFERENT then the collapse of YOUR BRAVES this year – which was actually WORSE.
So SHUT IT!
of course here comes a 798 paragraph response listing 3,521 names filled with second guessing and excuses. that nobody will read
We didn’t so much have guys that choked, we had guys who couldn’t get it done regardless of the situation. Glavine choked, Wagner too, Schoweneiss as well but we had way too many Caudio Vargas, Brian Lawrence, Jorge Sosa, Luis Ayala, Aaron Sele, Guillermo Moto plus we brought up guys that just weren’t even close to ready. Humber, Pelfrey, Niese, Kunz, Parnell, none of them did ****. That’s more a case of lack of depth. Delgado had two bad half seasons, that wasn’t really a choke, it was just two bad half seasons but most of our problems were with depth. When older guys like Pedro, Trachsel, Wagner and El-Duque went down we were stretched. Perez and Maine kept us above water for a while but none of the others could. plus we had bad play from guys who we expected more than being at the bottom of the league like Church and Schneider, Redding and Livan.
We just didn’t have the horses, unless everything went right which rarely happens) That simple.
So you shut up jackass.
Omar signed a bunch of really old guys that fell apart. The Mets had no one to bring up to take the place of these aging injured players. He put all his betting on winning quickly and he lost the bet and had nothing to fall back on. It was great to have a winning team but he didn’t set up for a long term solution, he just bet on free agents that were too old. Didn’t the Mets have one of if not THE oldest team in MLB? Not say Alderson has all the answers but Omar definitely had a lot of flaws that didn’t help the Mets in the long term.
“Omar Minaya has WON with the New York Mets. Let that sink in.”
I guess I slept through the World Series parade
Oh I get it. When Omar Minaya wins a Division it’s called winning. When some one else wins a Division it’s called “he never won anything.”
You are nothing but a mutton head.
A mutton head and a jackass.
a nelgas de mula.
we’re talking about Minaya and Alderson and in that context Minaya WON with the Mets and we experienced 2 exciting pennant races under his watch. So when and IF Alderson can do that than I’ll accept that he’s doing a job even REMOTELY close to Omar Minaya so don’t twist things around you excuse making JACKASS.
You are also as bad a front runner that I’ve ever seen you make Dick Vitale look humble.
You are an unapologetic phony that rambles on here everyday with a million names. You’re not a fair person in the least bit. You have an answer for everything, even the day after your Braves COLLAPSED worse than the Mets ever did you’re hear on this Mets blog posting your LOVE for the Braves and how they operate and second guessing all of Minaya’s moves EVEN THOUGH the Mets collapse and Braves collapse happened ON THE FIELD and there’s nothing you can do about it.
You’re such an excuse maker that you have to have the last word on every post you ever address with anyone and that tells a lot.
Besides that i just think you’re a nut case that has lots of time on his hands to write those manifestos every day.
Now why dont’ you go back and learn about the Cardinals minor league system so you can come back here in a few days and tell us all how they did it since you ALWAYS have all the answers to every team’s success, right there in your apartment.
So, what you are saying is that Minaya and Alderson started in the exact same position?
And since Cashen took 4 years to make the playoffs, are you saying Minaya was a better GM than Cashen?
Cashen’s situation was a lot different as you and most people on this board know should already know. The Mets were terrible for years back then.
And obviously you already know i’m not saying Minaya was better than Cashen that’s you just being a wise ass.
But again back to the topic we were discussing. When Minaya wins a Division it’s called “winning.” when someone else wins a Division (or 5) it’s called “not winning.” As in “what has he ever won.”
What a mutton head.
Even better than that an intellectually dishonest mutton head.
The worst type of mutton head.
So, now you can acknowledge a GM has different expectations under different situations?
Minaya in six years had over 60 guys that never played in the Majors again after they left here and money was NEVER an issue for him.
Over sixty guys not good enough to catch on the following year with Houston, KC, Pittsburgh, Washington, Oakland, Baltimore or anyone else. Over 60 and counting. And that’s not even counting guys like Omir Santos or Robinson Cancel who played a couple of games each or Oliver Perez who’s trying to get back.
Even a lot of our AAA depth was waived from the minors by other teams. Turner, Pridie, Sullivan, Dusty Owens, Feliciano, Hessman, many of it by the Orioles. Now Omar wasn’t really here long enough to have developed a real good upper minor league system and anyone who could have, and should have been there was rushed up to the Majors but still does that indicate the readiness of a team to go blowing 1st and 2nd round draft choices left and right? Trading prospects and useful players off the Major league roster? To bring in who? Brandon Knight? Chan Ho Park? Brian Lawrence?
Way WAY too many of those guys through the years for a competitive club to have on it’s roster.
5 of those guys aren’t on the team anymore and Pascucci came here last year.
5 of those guys aren’t on the team anymore?
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Okay.
so wait, oliver and castillo weren’t on the team either.. what’s your point!?!?
This is about Alderson’s signings. do keep up.
Right. And all of them put together do not equal the disaster that was Oliver Perez.
You’re picking on role players who everyone knew were disposable. All teams rotate through guys like those every year. None of them were pegged as difference makers.
So, wait.. i hammered minaya for oliver perez and castillo, they were bad signing, so now they’re no longer here, is alderson gonna use those 18 million to get us 2 better players? when he does THEN you can come and talk sh**, until then, STFU. he was brought here to save $, not to build a championship, he’s never even use the word winning in the interviews i’ve seen him.. NEVER!
moneyballin us to the fullest.. he’s got $65 million off the book this year, let’s see how “CREATIVE” and “SMART” he really is.. remember san diego?? he did a poor job as the president there and left a mess… same here..
alex, the core salutes you…lol right on buddy. should be a lot more jumpers after this off season of more do nothing.
Cool, more beer for me.
will, lol, you’ve been on fire against these losers here today my friend, the CORE is with you as usual.. i wonder how many of these braves fans were tuned in watching the gagged job last night..
“so now they’re no longer here, is alderson gonna use those 18 million to get us 2 better players? ”
If we don’t already have a couple guys better than those 2, we’re in way more trouble than I thought.
Who do you want to spend money on? someone who plays one of the few positions we are secure at (1B)? A 30 year old pitcher? A player to compete at 2B?
“he was brought here to save $, not to build a championship,”
Yes, Selig sent him here to make the NL team of the biggest market in the world into a $50 million club. that is exactly what the guy who cranks himself to TV ratings and merchandise sales and revenue streams every night wants.
and you need a high profile guy to cut and run on payroll. like they couldn’t just tell Ricco to not sign anyone ever again. They needed Alderson and 2 more assistants. and the best way to cut payroll is to increase your staff.
Do you ever just stop and think: Is what I’m saying making sense?
Because you should.
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:05 am by XtreemIcon
Alderson did a pretty nice job this past off season with role players,
Talk to your best buddy xtreemicon about that.
Then he goes on:
So, Omar is great at finding young talent to be part of the future. Sandy is really good at finding fringe players to surround the team’s core.
He’s right. Omar’s young guys are part of the future and are doing quite well.
xtreemicon is a loser, he’s so up and down with his comments is not even funny… he wants chris young back next year.. that said all i needed to know about him in terms of baseball knowledge
I would like to know the lineup we should have next year if money and GMs were not the question like everyone here keeps arguing about. Lets look forward to next year and not what happened before. Omar, Cashen, Weis, Phillips are not here to make moves anymore, but if it was you what would you do. And it’s all your opinion.
Another dumb article that sounds like a fan rant on WFAN. KRod was a good dump of salary. He waived his contract only because he wasn’t in NY. If he could have gotten big bucks from the Mets and forced them into using him as a closer he would have but he wanted to get out of his contract with Milwaukee so he could go somewhere else and close games since they definitely weren’t going to use him as a closer. He would have cost $17 million dollars. Thats ridiculous for KRod. Beltran was going to go somewhere after the season anyways so the Mets got a great top prospect for him instead of the nothing they would have gotten after the season. If the Mets were leading the division they wouldn’t have done it but they had no shot this year so it made sense. Capuano was a good signing, one year and he ended up at being decent. Nothing spectacular but decent and who really would have expected more out of him? Dickey was a great pitcher this year that should have had a lot better record. I don’t know why anyone would have a problem with Dickey. Alderson signed another bunch of nobodies and got nothing from a bunch of them but paid very little for them. Thats not great but its not horrible like some make it seem. Signing Bay, Perez, Castillo to big contracts thats horrible. Alderson hasn’t been amazing but he hasn’t had a lot to work with this season. This offseason he will be graded on Reyes, which partially won’t be up to him because Reyes could decide to go elsewhere for more money.
Just because the Young signing didn’t work out as well a few others doesn’t mean anything. Alderson didn’t have much to work with and did what he could so cut him some slack. Dickey was deserving of a new contract yes his record didn’t show it but he was one of our better pitchers this year he just had no run support. How do you figure Alderson got played? What did you expect in return from K-Rod and getting Wheeler from San Fransisco was the best deal he could of made. Yes standings and record wise this was a bad year but not half way as bad as people projected it to be. If you read the article were they compare the stats such as on base percentage, walks etc there was a clear improvement from 2010. Of course it didn’t show in wins but that’s still a positive. If you hadn’t watched the games then I guess you didn’t see how hard Collins had these kids playing for most of the year. Things don’t change over night and things only get worse before getting better.