The Gms failed because of what happened on the field and the Mets HAD THE HORSES – take a hike. Oh, do you have any of your own ideas you wish to express?

Think about it each year each team draft 50 players plus sign walk ons. All the coaches, scouts and sports facilities cost must be factored into the cost of developing this talent.

The so called “cheap” rookie players that emerge each year may cost in the tens of millions dollars each. Thanks again for the good work.

If a guy hits .300 at age 28 and another at age 30 there is no REASONABLE reason to pay the 30 year old less!

It should be about WHAT you do not how old you are when you do it!

Something the Kiddies will never realize until they are no longer kiddies and realize they can’t get a job because of how long they have lived!

Secondly the problem wasn’t in signing a kid like Fern, it was in not signing a whole bunch of the top talented IFA’s and you can’t measure the results by the percentage of kids that make it, you have to measure it by HOW MUCH the one’s who make it do for you.

Big difference. Take the 2010 All Star game for instance. Of the 20 starters in that game 8 of them were IFA’s. If the average bonus is 500,000 (a more up to date figure) and one out 10 make it and the guy that does is an All Star he’ll probably cost you 10 M in salary during his cost controlled years and a 5 M investment in signing him and the other 9 guys who didn’t make it. 15 M over 6 years is an average of 2.5 M per year for All Star production, or you could go the Jason Bay route and pay 16 M a year for the “sure thing.”

While any prospect is in your system he’s an asset that can be traded as Montero was this off season or Vizcaino a couple of years ago in the Vazquez, Melky Logan deal between the NYY and ATL. Try getting someone to nibble on Bay.

Besides where else exactly were we supposed to ever wind up with a RFer if we didn’t attempt to develop one through international free agency? Bring back Bonilla? Well he is on the payroll, for about the same as we signed Fern for only it’s every year for 25 years. Bring back Church, Green, Diaz, Everett, Ochoa, Bell, Hildago, Burnitz? Maybe we could make another run at Winfield.

Really 1.3 M? That’s cab fare for a MLB franchise in NYC. This is one area that I give high marks to Minaya. If it weren’t for his IFA’s we’d have Harvey and a whole bunch of 4th and 5th OF’s starting for us along with backup utility players and AAA depth in the pen and rotation and behind the plate partly due to the owners self serving insistance on adhering to the ridiculous slotting guidelines that every other team in MLB scoffs at.

One reason the NYY were able to trade Montero is because of all the catchers they’ve drafted or signed internationally through the years. 2002- Cervelli, 2006 Montero, 2009 Sanchez. total cost 5 M for all three, plus they drafted Romaine and Murphy and traded for Martin.

Sure it’s a shame Fern didn’t make it, personally I would have platooned him with Bay and tried to at least raise his value but maybe there’s a good reason, who knows. the real shame of the whole thing is that we lavish millions upon millions of dollars on every one else’s retreads but cringe at the thought of spending a buck on attempting to develop our own players.

The writer should be sad that it didn’t work out with Fernando, not happy that it was Omar’s move who failed.

Oh and 1.3 million is a lot less than the 2.1 mill for Brando Nimmo. Point is they ALL DO IT for talent they believe in.

Second guessing and disgraceful BIAS