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2011
With Thanksgiving Out of the Way, What Will The Mets Do?
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Now that we have had our yearly helping of turkey, stuffing, cranberries, a glass of wine, and shopping mall fights for a $2 waffle maker on Black Friday, its time to find out whats going to happen in the ever so unpleasant world of the New York Mets. Yes, I used the word unpleasant.
In less than one week, the MLB Winter Meetings will commence in Dallas, Texas where the general managers, players, and agents will be in order to present themselves so that hopefully a deal can be reached. I’m excited. Actually, scratch that. I’m horrified and petrified at the same time.
The MLB rumor mill will literally light up when these meetings begin. It will almost seem like the grand finale of fireworks going off during the July 4th holiday. I’m panting and holding my breath just like Joe D was when the Mets were one out away from clinching the 2006 NL East division title.
It was reported that the Mets were still in “exploratory” mode in regards to their offseason plans right before Thanksgiving came along. Now that we are all past that, what will the Mets do from here? I wonder what their game plan for the Winter Meetings will be? I certainly hope they won’t continue to be in “exploratory” mode and at some point move into “Action Mode”.
I believe we can all agree that Jose Reyes will be in Dallas meeting with teams including the Mets regarding his next contract. The whole Reyes aspect of the Winter Meetings has got me unnerved, but having to wait and see if the Mets make ANY moves at all during the Winter Meetings also has me on the edge. Will the Mets go out and find the best closer on the market? Or will they only focus on cheap players as a means to fill roster spots like the catcher, second base or even shortstop positions? Who knows at this point.
We will just have to wait and see what happens. I’ll be clinging onto my chair just waiting and hoping for some good news. Will you?
About the Author: Brandon Butler
Brandon is currently a MMO Minor League Staff Writer. He is also the co-host of the Mets Madness Podcast on Talkshoe Radio. Brandon lives in Hornell, NY.
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I think not participating in free agency is a great way to win 70 games. I’m tired of the blame Omar junk because we won more with Omar than we are now. I’m sick of this ridiculous complacency that let’s us hold on to 1986 like it’s the only great year of baseball ever; sadly, it was our last great year of baseball.
Also, I’m not buying this whole we need to build from the ground up because that’s obvious…every team must build from the ground up. I believe building from the ground up and spending on the MLB roster are not mutually exclusive. Dear Mets, you can do both. If you can’t, don’t insult our intelligence by saying it can’t be done. The only reason it can’t be done is because there is no money to spend. If there was money to spend, please tell me this team wouldn’t be better signing Reyes, C.J. Wilson, and two 5M “closers”.Our next year’s projected starting lineup has three guys not making close to league minimum (Wright, Bay, and Pagan). No matter what you say about the three, market value wise, only Bay is without a doubt overpaid. As for the pitching, only Santana is without a doubt overpaid. Pelfrey and Dickey are the only other guaranteed millionaires.
This team is already stripped bare. I’m just sick of this ridiculous lie they keep selling that we must build from the ground up, and for payroll flexibility. You take Bay and Santana and Wright off the team and we’d have like 6M in guaranteed contracts right now, maybe 20M if you include arbitration guys. Even with them, the payroll is about 63M guaranteed, maybe 80-85M with arbitration guys. How much more flexibility do they want? It’s not flexibility they want, it’s to not spend money and try to keep us at bay when they put out 70 win teams.
“I believe building from the ground up and spending on the MLB roster are not mutually exclusive.”
AMEN Hank!
If you can’t do both then you have no business running an MLB team!
If you need more than one 1st rounder to find the next great Met player then you have no business running a draft for an MLB team!
If you think letting good players go so you can collect a bunch of rookies for 5 years from now then you have no business being a GM and should go back to being a scout where your true love lies! Want proof see the Pirates! See the Oakland A’s!
The Yankees and Phillies didn’t get where they got by not spending and hoarding prospects!
They got there by spending when it was getting you a good player and trading those prospects when money alone could not get them!
Look at the Phillies pitching staff. Only ONE of them was actually drafted!
There is nothing about spending that stops you from building from within!
In fact it HELPS you do it because you don’t have to rush those kids and can develop them properly!
Our 1st round pick is protected this year!
This is the PERFECT time to buy into a Type A free agent as it does not cost you the ability to draft good players! Does not cost you picks!
Only the ones who want to see MONEYBALL implemented have used this can’t spend to build from within sell tactic.
Because they need any port in a storm to sell the NOT SPEND approach!
They blame the Wilpons for this and cite a boycott to fix that!
Which only makes the problem greater because the issue is lack of attendance not the Wilpons!
Only thing the Wilpons are guilty of here is not putting personal money up to support a team the fans themselves won’t support!
WE ARE TO BLAME truth be told!
With Thanksgiving Out of the Way, What Will The Mets Do?
NOTHING. sign a bunch of rejects, low risk/pray for high reward guys nobody else wants, and get those 2 draft picks for jose reyes.
What will Mets do? They will do what all small market teams do, the bare minimum. Watch what the Royals and A’s do for a better idea of what the Mets will do. When you hire a bunch of small market GMs to manage one team, you have to be an absolute moron not to see what the purpose of that was.
Well Brandon I certainly won’t be sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for good news.
I don’t waste time on what I deem to be unproductive uses! LOL
I don’t expect any good news to come from the Winter meetings.
In fact I expect very little news regarding the Mets from those.
A few non-descript no money signings and a couple of Rule 5 guys to discuss bt thats about it.
I also don’t expect reyes to make any announcements at the meetings I do expect we will hear of a new offer or two for him or rumors to that effect.
As far as if the mets will sign him or not I don’t expect to hear about that until after the meetings are over, Reyes has all the offers he is going to get and Sandy decides if he can survive the media and fan controversy of letting reyes go at the number he has been offered elsewhere!
If a big Mets story breaks at the meetings it would most likely be this:
Reyes resigns and Wright is traded!
Cause I don’t see Sandy keeping both at all!
We will not have BOTH Reyes and Wright on the roster past 2012!
So good new about Reyes at the Meetings just means bad news on Wright later on!
Metsie, I understand where your coming from, but its always an interesting couple of days because of what goes on. For all we know, Jose Reyes could resign with the Mets all because of one small meeting during the winter meetings. The Winter Meetings bring some uncertainty to the table. Heck, we didn’t think K-Rod was going to sign until late in the Winter instead of after the Winter Meetings. We just don’t know.
LOL Brandon yes it’s a good little newscycle to say the least…
Twitter will be aflutter with rumours and such.
Considering there won’t be any basketball news other than the next College coach caught snoodling in the showers with his students it will at least provide more conversations for us while we wait to lose 100 Games next year! LOL
I just don’t expect any big news to come from it as most of the top FAs like Sabathia have already signed and Fielder might be the only big story to come out of it.
Really aside from Reyes it’s the only other big story left to tell.
And I don’t expect any news to come on the Reyes front during those meetings.
Rumors yes, Facts no!
Sorry guys, but no significant expenditures will take place until the owners financial future is resolved. As long as they own this team the future of the franchise is dependent on that outcome. If I am being sued, and my future is in doubt I am probably not buying a new Aston Martin ($$$ free agent). The wilpons will not be spending themselves into bankruptcy. As fans we may not like the situation, but I believe the Wilpons will cling to any glimmer of hope to hang on to their ball club. Until the financial cloud is lifted, sit back, relax and enjoy the games for what they are ‘baseball’.
The owners situation is not the cuase of our current financial problems. It’s just not able to CURE those problems.
The problems are due to lack of fan attendance which is not getting any better by letting Reyes go! In fact it gets worse!
If we re-sign Jose Reyes it will be a good off season.
I couldn’t agree more MetsTheory. It will be successful if they do sign him, but at the same time I would be shocked. I would start asking if someone put something in Jose’s water or something?
It would be a good move but not what I could call a good offseason.
What I would call it though is maybe the turning point where we stop sacrificing good players in the name of Wilpon’s balance sheet.
If we keep Reyes we have a shot at some meaningful games in the next two years. If Davis and Duda play well, Wright stays and has his fence issues solved, Murphy can stick at 2B and Harvey and Familia can be all they could be we could compete by 2013.
The problem is that if Reyes stays most likely Wright goes.
And it remains to be seen if Ike and Duda can be big enough bats to make up for the loss of Beltran and half of the two franchise faces.
But I will definitly give Sandy more time to work if he recognizes that keeping GOOD players is a good idea and does it!