Comments on: A Look Back At Minaya As He Readies To Interview For Angels GM Job

By: Metsie

Metsie — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:07:32 +0000

Your right Any
Which begs the question…

Why is Omar painted as the patron saint of spending money?

By: any

any — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:43:05 +0000

but, higher annual value and hit FA again 1 year sooner.

By: Joe Diaz

Joe Diaz — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:44:19 +0000

How comical is it when someone calls Sandy a genius and spells genius wrong? Sandy the GENIUS drafted 3 straight rookie of the years.How many did Minaya and his goon Bernazard draft. NADA! Minaya didn’t even sign any of these IFA’s.It was Juan Mercado. I hear Minaya signs a helluva check though.

By: Joe Diaz

Joe Diaz — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:37:12 +0000

Amen Matt! Gotta look towards the future!

By: Joe Diaz

Joe Diaz — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:35:27 +0000

Beltran did go to the Yankees after the Mets offer and said he would come to the Yanks for 6 years and 100 million so that says to me Beltran was more about winning than the actual dollar amount of his contract.He was willing to go to the Yanks for 19 million and 1 year less.

By: Joe Diaz

Joe Diaz — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:31:57 +0000

I don’t think Zunnino will be around by the time we pick at 12.A few more losses wouldn’t have been so bad.

By: Edgar

Edgar — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:19:40 +0000

Funny, every post I read here, and many other places DO give him credit for what he did early on especially with Pedro and Beltran, so what are YOU talking about?

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:30:49 +0000

I learned. I learned that Omar is no longer here, so whatever he is doing now is none of my concern and it shouldn’t be any Met fans concern either. And, with Beltran not swinging at that pitch, I learned that even if he did, he probably would have missed it anyway because it was nasty and even without swinging at it, Beltran will go down as one of the greatest players to ever wear the blue and orange…not to mention I also learned that minus that 1 AB, Beltran batted .308 in that series including 3 HR and accounted for 9 runs in the 7 games, including a 2 run HR in game 1 which the Mets won 2-0!

By: Donal

Donal — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:58:47 +0000

Those who do not learn from history…

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:56:57 +0000

I meant fans (and bloggers) of the Mets. All people want to talk about is Omar Vs Sandy. Or the what if’s of 2006-2008. Omar is gone, who cares if he is interviewing anywhere? What if Beltran would have swung at that Wainright pitch…who cares…it’s in the past, everyone needs to move on.

By: any

any — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:44:17 +0000

every Gm makes some good moves, and some bad ones. And Omar certainly made some good ones.

But, the nature of MLB (hell, every pro sport) is that it is a results business, and guys get fired all the time the did not “deserve” it. Sometimes they get scape goated, othertimes it just reflects the record.

Also a fine line usually. 2 more wins in 2007 and 2008, and he is probably still here after 3 straight years in the playoffs. So maybe that 1 move made (or not made) was all the difference.

No GM anywhere is going to survive 2 straight september folds, followed by a totally lost season. hell, Epstein couldn’t survive 1 collapse!

anyway, I think that just as big a part of Omar getting bounced was the apparent organizational disarray (Tony B, etc.). that is a huge part of the GMs job, building a solid foundation (organization), and even if you love Omar, as fans it is hard to say that was one of his strengths.

It is almost too bad that Omar did not stay on as an assistant GM. Sandy cold have beenthe organizational builder (detail guy) and omar could have freelanced on player moves, then worked together to blend the 2.

By: any

any — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:38:31 +0000

again, draft picks are not a guarantee. Some bust, even ones from the top rounds, but quite a few from the 1st and 2nd rounds become very good players, and sometimes stars.

the only thing guaranteed is that if you don’t have a pick at all, you can’t draft someone good. So consider every skipped pick to be an automatic bust, without the upside potential.

remember to old NY lotto commercials (you have to be in it to win it?) Same deal.

By: any

any — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:35:38 +0000

not sure if you mean about this post? because it certainly seems that remaking your entire front office qualifies as looking forward.

By: alex68

alex68 — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:33:32 +0000

people just wanna crap on minaya’s parade as much as they can, never wanting to give him his credit, he signed pedro and beltran because no one else would’ve offered the same, i mean, really? give the man his due, i was in the bandwagon to get him out of here because he was way in over his head with the signing of castillo and perez proved my point, but again, this team was all injuries, is one thing to predict a player is not gonna be as good, but when that player is injured how do you even rate the player? and for those who LOVE TO SECOND GUESS about the draft picks we could’ve, should’ve or would’ve had, are you confident that our GENIOUS sandy and his goon depodesta are gonna draft studs based on their past history??

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:11:32 +0000

Always looking backwards. Maybe this is why the Mets never seem to have any success.

By: t agee

t agee — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:19:39 +0000

Joe Diaz, Victor Roache in corner OF in 2017 sounds good to me. Wouldn’t mind a catcher one of these days either!

By: any

any — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:25:16 +0000

thanks. I was thinking glavine wasn’t Omar, but I had forgotten he was around for so long.

By: Who

Who — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:22:05 +0000

Glavine was originally signed by Steve Phillips in 2003. I guess you could attribute the re-signing of Glavine to Omar but in fairness, that wasn’t an Omar signing.

But yeah, I agree with the rest of what you said here.

By: any

any — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:30:32 +0000

I don’t buy the FAs wouldn’t sign, or their agents were wary. The only thing that changed was the owner opened up the check book. Pedro came because no one else offered the years, and Beltran came because they offered the biggest deals. And agents, particularly Beltran’s , are all about the money.

trying to remember off the top of my head, but the only other big time FAs Omar signed were Glavine and Bay (not counting resigning his current players). Bay seemed to have no options, not for 4 years, and who knows about Glavine.

By: Joe Diaz

Joe Diaz — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:53:30 +0000

Draft closely I meant