The man is a gamer and working hard will not be a problem, lets hope the results equal his effort. For all the players for that matter.

If he’s so easily distracted he wouldn’t be in professional baseball.

I remember a couple of times with GKR on SNY the good natured ribbing on Keith for all those who have worn #17 since he left. He was good natured about it but you could tell he had some thoughts on that better left off the air.

“Somos Familia!”

http://www.metsblog.com/2012/02/21/video-jeurys-familia-bullpen-session-today-in-psl/

You are not nearly as smart as you claim you are (303 IQ is still hysterical, by the way). the facts are against you and no matter how hard you try and manipulate what other people say, you’re still wrong at the end.

USING something is relying on it if you can’t win WITHOUT IT!

If you can’t win without using FA to get starts then you MUST RELY on it!

No, I said relying on it. Huge difference.

“You HAVE to rely on Free Agency!”

No, you don’t. you should utilize it, but when it is your go to move, you are only digging a deeper hole.

“And if you just got here as a GM and have no kids you have to rely on it MORE because your still building up the Minors with the Kids you need later on!”

In that situation you do not sign long term deals or try to buy “stars”.

“And he did manage to get you three awfully good seasons to watch in the meantime and despite all the money it cost we had the highest attendance in recorded met history!

Which paid all the bills!”

Ya, thank God he Wright and Reyes. The problem is, he gave us 3 seasons of falling just short at the expense of building a better foundation. So, 3 years of smoke and mirrors costs that much and more of lousy baseball.

I will quote so I can’t be confused for SUMMARIZING your thoughts…

“My point is relying on Free Agency is what gets into trouble…”

You HAVE to rely on Free Agency!
And if you just got here as a GM and have no kids you have to rely on it MORE because your still building up the Minors with the Kids you need later on!

See Davis, Tejada, Niese, Gee, Duda, Murphy, Harvey, Mejia, Familia

He was doing what you wanted but had to buy more early until they were ready!
And he did manage to get you three awfully good seasons to watch in the meantime and despite all the money it cost we had the highest attendance in recorded met history!

Which paid all the bills!

Compare and contrast the success ratio of college first basemen. It’s off the charts. Every other college 1st basemen taken in the first round makes the All Star team and 1/3 of them get HOF votes. Why? Cause there pretty much good to go right away. They have a proven track record of seeing ball and crushing ball and the athletic ability required to play 1B, as well as the skill and technique are very close to Major League ready the day their drafted.

Nimmo is a high risk selection that Alderson/Depodesta are gambling on the skills catching up with the tools over a lengthy development period. He’s exactly the kind of draft choice we haven’t had enter the system in 25 years. Think that doesn’t have something to do with the fact that we haven’t developed a star RFer since Darryl or a star LFer since Cleon?

Is Nimmo Paul O’Neill or Shawn Abner? Both came out of HS and only time will tell but if he doesn’t work out it doesn’t mean it was the wrong draft philosophy what it means is it was the wrong guy because one Paul O’Neil that hits is worth 10 one or two dimensional college bats that make it up here and have mediocre overall careers.

1) costing you draft picks

2) locking into a big money long term deal means that spot on the roster and on the field will not be opening up for the foreseeable future, even if you have a kid ready to bust out and the “star” at his position is failing.

On the Pitching side
Misch, Parnell, Nieve, Niese, Stoner, Broadway

Takahashi could be consider an MLB kid if you don’t count his japanese league time.

granted it was a bit too soon to expect a MiL system started in 2005 to be ready in just 4 years.
Pelfrey was the quickest of that bunch and everyone thinks he got rushed and I can’t deny that possibility!

Regardless of all that, most of those kids have been here awhile.
Which one is part of our Future at this point?
Niese, Thole (borderline at best) and who else? Parnell?

Like I said to Donal no one has an issue developing kids but getting free agents doesn’t stop you from doing that!
Even when you trade a very late 1st rounder for the Veteran who makes the kids you already have BETTER!

You need those FA guys in this day and age and anyone who thinks otherwise are just as out of times as the guys who refuse to use some Sabers are!

You CAN NOT just build a team with youth!
Only one team has EVER done it and they did it by selling off all their FAs for huge packages of Prospects not just one like we did with Beltran!

The rest is about good drafting with the picks you have and nothing about having or not having Free Agent STARS has any bearing on that!
Having them makes the kids you do get better once you have developed them and they play with those stars!