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Mets’ Front Office Discuss Plans For 2012 Season And Beyond
An article by Craig Lerner
On Wednesday, Sandy Alderson, Paul DePodesta, John Ricco and J.P. Ricciardi were on hand at Citi Field to discuss their plans for the 2012 season and beyond as they get ready for the Winter Meetings that begin tomorrow.
Here are some of the comments they made:
- Sandy Alderson: We are committed to a winning team and we want you to be proud of our team. We want what YOU want, but we want to make sure we do it right so that we can be successful for years and years.
- Paul DePodesta: All four of these guys (Wheeler, Harvey, Mejia, Familia) all flash extraordinary stuff – top of the rotation type stuff. Three out of the four, excluding Mejia, made tremendous strides last year in terms of the consistency of their stuff. They are among the top 30 pitching prospects in all of baseball. They will all be in Double-A and higher to start 2012.
- John Ricco: Johan Santana is doing great. Our whole plan was to make sure he would be ready to go in spring training. Sand and I saw Johan in the instructional league and he’s feeling great and we got him mentally at a place where we wanted him and he’s gonna come in next season ready to pitch. Ike Davis is also doing fine. He’s out in Arizona working out and feeling great and he’s excited and ready for spring training.
- J.P. Ricciardi: We want the same things you guys want. You want a World Championship and that’s what we want – we want a World Championship too. There isn’t a waking moment that goes by that were not trying everything we can to make the Mets better.
About the Author: Craig Lerner
I'm a data analyst and researcher for a leading news agency who loves life and is hooked on the Mets. I love following the Amateur Draft and have a particular fondness for the Mets Minor Leagues who I follow each day. Give me a cold beer, a summer day, and a Mets game, and I'm good to go.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Mets | 17 | 24 | .415 | 7.0 |
| Marlins | 12 | 32 | .273 | 13.5 |
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Well… JP said it. Now all the “this front office never vocalized that they want a world championship” people can shut up.
agreed. Not that it will make their “fans” any happier since they won’t believe it anyway.
If you want a winner then you have to make a move. Yelling about 4 minor leaguers as the future is pure BS. In case you forgot or were too you8ng to remember, Met fans were fed that line of BS in the 90′s and then these cruds brought back a re-broken down Isringhausen and sold to you bleievers in anything that it was a feel good story. Well it wasn’t. He was a reminder about bad GMS that sell a bill of crap called kids and do nothing besides talk.
Look, we aren’t Yankee fans…we don’t expect a World Championship EVERY season. I’m totally OK with that. BUT, we shouldn’t have to wear bags over our heads, either.
I want a competitive team in 2012. I want to compete with the Phillies and The Braves and at least spoil their seasons a little bit. What I DON’T want is to be competing with the Marlins and the Nationals to stay out of the cellar. That’s all. If this team can show me THIS YEAR that they’re on the road to recovery, and that we’re gonna win 85-90 games and keep improving, I’ll at least take some comfort in that.
Not going to be competing with the Marlins for the cellar…they will be competing with the Braves for 2nd place. Mets’ competition will be the Nats…and I’m hoping the Mets can provide the Nats with competition.
85-90 wins from this team is not even close to a possiblilty. They have no starting pitching (who knows what Johan will do), no middle relief, and no closer. Offensively, they should score some runs, but they also have no defense. Tejada is not Reyes at SS, they have no 2B, no C, they will be going with a first baseman in RF, and they have no CFer. 85-90 wins? That was a joke, right?
Just to be clear…I meant the Marlins when I said “they will be competing with the Braves for 2nd place.”
Agree! The good news is that Davis is here (hopefully) for the entire year, supplying needed power (along with Duda for the whole year)—and that Wright should be better at the plate (and, hopefully, in the field). The bullpen should also be improved, if and when they sign guys like Francisco AND Lidge.
But if they let the Marlins outbid them for Reyes by a few million dollars, that won’t be good. And the starting rotation will be putrid—even with Santana coming back. They really needed to improve it, but it looks like they won’t. Spending $95 million or so won’t do the job in NYC.
with Duda and Davis, at least LH power should not be a problem. And if Wright has a more normal year, that really leaves Bay as the wild card as to whether they have respctable RH hitting power. Bay is the killer, because if he was doing anything like he was signed to do, that would be 4/8 of the lineup that could actually generate legit power numbers.
the other 4 are a mystery of course, depending on who they are, but not many teams really have more than 4 legit thumpers, do they?
Actually any, GOOD teams have GOOD players EVERYWHERE. But if Sandy says the Mets are great it must be so because no GM would say his team is crappy would they. They all tell the truth. The guy in Pittsburgh has been saying the same lines for about 20 years now. Oh, just wait till those kids make it big. It is amazing how some people will beleive any lie. I guess Barnum was right and he didn’t even hear of Met fans.