Mets Re-Sign Queens Native, Mike Baxter

15 Comments + Add Comment

• baby al December 16, 2011 at 9:58 pm

  for goodness sakes this mutt looked like a bad babe ruth leaguer. geniusalderson does it again. this seasons brad emouse has been aquired. perhaps ownership feels they can sell a few duckets to baxters family. every little bit helps.in my opinion these are the WORST of times for this so called major league baseball club.keep breaking my ball club down geniusalderson.
• NJstuckinTX December 16, 2011 at 9:09 pm

  More depth. No issues here.
• Bayonne Mets Fan December 16, 2011 at 9:10 pm

  Another horrendous move and waste of money by the GM that “Shall Not Be Questioned”

  He’ll trade Ike Davis, Lucas Duda, & Jon Niese but he’ll resign Mike Baxter – a guy who didn’t even look like a minor leaguer – he looked like a semi-pro local county ballplayer.

  ….but David Wright is safe. These are the worst times ever in this organizations history and it’s not all the WIlpon’s fault either.
  • stick December 16, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    MiL depth, who was fine for that last year?

    And of all your moves, this is the only one that actually happened. But, I see you have Duda being traded now too.
    • Bayonne Mets Fan December 16, 2011 at 9:18 pm

      Don’t blame me on mentioning Duda, didn’t you just read Hojo’s post?
      • Bayonne Mets Fan December 16, 2011 at 9:19 pm

        Sach’s post not Hojo’s my bad…read it in the Darvish Bid post
      • NJstuckinTX December 16, 2011 at 9:20 pm

        Seth Smith is not the focal point of any trade for Niese. Thinking that way smells of blunt trauma to the cranium.
    • METS62FAN December 18, 2011 at 6:53 am

      BAYONNE, HOW CAN U POSSIBLY COMPLAIN ABOUT A MiLB DEAL THAT, THOUGH NOT ADDING A BRYCE HARPER, DOES ADD DEPTH TO WHAT’S BECOMING A PRECARIOUSLY THIN OUTFIELD CLUTCH IF U COUNT HEALTHY, RELAIBLE BODIES.

      IN CASE U HAVEN’T BOTHERED TO PEER AROUND THE ONLY REBUILDING TOOLS IN ALDERSON’S COMPANY PROVIDED TOOLBOX ARE BAILING WIRE & TWINE WITH A HAMMER & SCREWS. THE NAME OF THE ACTION LIST IS RESTRUCTURING NOT REBUILDING; IT’S AS IF U WERE A KATRINA VICTIM IN N’ORLENS TOLD TO REBUILD YOUR STRUCTURE ONLY USING THE LUMBER U CAN RECLAIM OFF THE SITE USING THE TOOLS I’VE DELINIATED ABOVE.
      ALDERSON FINALLY GETS TO ADD A CREDIBLE BACKFILLER ONLY USING BELOW MLB LEVEL $$$ & U BITCH & MOAN?
      U ACT AS IF WE HAVEN’T SEEN THIS OWNERSHIP DANCE BEFORE WHEN BACKACHES & 24+1 WERE THE EXCUSEES DeJOUR NOT MADOFF, PICARD

      HAVE U BOTHERED TO CHECK OUT THE $$$ PARAMETERS OF REYES’ NEW FISH DEAL THAT STOLE HIM OUT FROM UNDER US AS HE’LL ONLY EARN $10M PER FOR BOTH ’12 &’13 WHICH IS 1M LESS THAN HIS OPTION HAD BEEN FOR LAST SEASON.
      THERE IS ZERO INTENT TO REALLY COMPETE, ONLY TO NOT APPEAR TOO EMBARASSING IS THE NEW WILPON GOAL. WHILE U PREFER TO B;LAME AN EMPLOYEE U BELIEVE SGHOULD RISK HIS OWN SALARY TO PROTECT A TEAM HE’S ONLY PAID TO CARE FOR?
      LET’S FACE FACTS. ALDERSON, LIKE PHILLIPS, DUQUETTE, MINAYA BEFORE HIM IS ONLY AN EMPLOYEE; BUT UNLIKE ALL OF THEM, AS ONE IMPORTED FROM JOBS THAT RARELY CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE NYM OUT OF OAK & SD. HIS KNOWLEWDGE OF THE ROSTER HE’S CARRYING IS LIKELY LIMITED TO ONLY WHAT HE VIEWED FROM LAST FEB TO LAST SEPT. HE HAS ONLY “HEARD” OF ’07,’08,’09 IN FLUSHING; NEVER EXPERIENCED THEM AS NEITHER OF HIS 2 TOP ADVISORS HAVE EITHER.

      WHILE WE ARE DOWNSIZING; SCOFFING AT ANY ADDITION IS COUNTING A GIFT HORSE’S TEETH TO DETERMINE IT’S AGE. THE NY METS ARE NOW OFFICIALLY BEGGARS ON GIFTED HORSE’S BACKS SANS SADDLES(COST $$$) lol; TOO DEPRESSING BAYONNE WELCOME TO “WILPON WORLD”, WHERE FOR A FAN, THE OMAR ERA SHOULD BE REFERRED TO FROM HENCE FORWARD AS “THE GOOD OLE DAYS”

      BAYONNE, LOOK AT THE BRIGHTEST SIDE, UNDER THIS RETURN TO WILPONEZE “SANITY” THE WORD COLLAPSE WILL NEVER BE HEARD AGAIN UNLESS IN HISTORICAL REFERENCES BECAUSE U MUST FIRST HAVE A LATE SEASON LEAD TO SUFFER A COLLAPSE!
  • srt December 17, 2011 at 9:57 am

    Horrendous in this case is an exaggeration.

    It’s a minor league deal. There’s a reason tons of guys like Baxter sign these minor league deals. It’s b/c you don’t normally get major league quality guys willing to sign minor league deals.

    Depth is needed at all levels.
    Nothing to see here. Moving on.
  • Kramer67 December 17, 2011 at 12:11 pm

    It’s a minor league deal, how is that horrendous??? You’re the one who is horrendous! You make this site so distasteful to come to and while I still keep coming anyway, I wait for the day you are finally banned forever. You are such a waste of space, time and energy. I guess every sports talk radio show and sports blog site have to have their own “Jerome form the Bronx” , on MMO it’s Randy from Bayonne.
• larman December 16, 2011 at 9:11 pm

  Here we go agian, why resign him, he’s gonna give us a chapionship. We don’t have to spend lots of money, but please really.
• MetsMan86 December 16, 2011 at 9:49 pm

  Minor league contract. Enjoy Buffalo kid.
• Mr North Jersey December 16, 2011 at 10:13 pm

  Off Topic: The just announced the GIBBY for Wow Factor of the Year. The only nomination that included a Met well now former Met Jose Reyes. A New York infielder won but it was Robinson Cano.

  Wow Factor of the Year – Robinson Cano, NYY (33.5% of the vote, Reyes finished 2nd with 30.2%)

  The rest are as follows
  Closer of the Year – Jose Valverde, DET
  Setup Man of the Year – David Robertson, NYY
  Defensive Player of the Year – Asdrubal Cabrera, CLE
  Comeback Player of the Year – Lance Berkman, STL
  Rookie of the Year – Craig Kimbrel, ATL
  Breakout Player of the Year – Ian Kennedy, ARI
  Executive of the Year – John Mozeliak, STL
  Manager of the Year – Kirk Gibson, ARI
  Monent of the Year – Dan Johnson, TB
• Rickeybobby December 17, 2011 at 8:02 am

  Baxter is actually a real good defensive rf,, he may be able to spell Duda for late inning defensive replacemnt if he makes the team..
• Ghost of omar December 17, 2011 at 8:33 am

  There’s nothing wrong with any minor league sign. Its when its your gm’s big moive that it really sucks.