Could it be his being a disruptive force in the clubhouse that teams consider not worth the aggrevation? Don’t want to imply that, but it’s the only thing I can think of – ala Lastings Milege who became too much of a headache for the Mets, Nationals, Pirates, White Sox and soon to become a disruptive force in international relations.

I told JoeD earlier yesterday that I feel something has to be with him though. Why do so many teams dump him off to other teams?

For me, Washington’s entire 2012 season is dependant on Strasburg being healthy. If they don’t have his health plus Chien-Ming Wang bouncing back to full health, Edwin will just be a trade piece in the summer (again)

He’s an innings eater for sure, and an odd pitcher for sure. I like Edwin but nobody spilled my milk here so I refuse to cry about it.

I still don’t buy into this idea that the Mets are a 100 loss team. I think anybody who says that is just being negative because it’s trendy.

So the question is if the Mets had been serious in trying to be a contender this year and more money was available, would we want essentially two Mike Pelfreys in the rotation both who could still possibly break out or settle back into never having reach the potential predicted.

Washington is trying to move up in the standings and is hoping their gamble will pay off. Jackson might not be the answer to help them achieve that. If that was the same objective for the Mets, I could understand Sandy not going after an arm that would not be any much better than those he already has while at the same time, being committed to just one year could also be worth a shot for if successful, then one of the other starters could do long relief and shore up the pen.

If one believes the core of young talent on the parent club is going nowhere then one does have a valid point saying we have too many holes that could not be fixed all at once so indeed take the time to rebuild from within and it really wouldn’t matter if the Wilpons had the money to spend for it would probably be wasted. But those of us who do like the young talent we already have instead see the only objective of the Mets is for the Wilpons to retain ownership while working themselves out of debt and re-building was a result of finances, not players.

Clearly he should be psycho analyzed.

True ignorance. What is this? 1940????

What is this article about, I don’t know.

This:

“Every player is just dying to play in front of such a vocal yet statistically insignificant minority of the fan base, just ask Carlos Beltran.”

Is pretty hilarious.

Thank you Michael Corleone from III.

If you are right, I am going to be really annoyed.

LOL!

Really, I think I am here primarily because you, TRS, Stick, NJTX, and MF4D are here. I am not a follower, as I am sure you would agree, but I would follow you guys just about anywhere.

After all, you are the cool kids.

Oh, btw, that is a subtle retort to point out to someone that they are going kind of heavy on the rant juice.

That’s why he never offers an opinion before the fact, that way he can play it either way. Either we should have signed the guy or we shouldn’t have depending on what actually occurs.

No thought given to the fact that some players may prefer to play elsewhere as a first preference either.

Every player is just dying to play in front of such a vocal yet statistically insignificant minority of the fan base, just ask Carlos Beltran.

Well, if not having a trio of the biggest idiots in blog history like you, Pomes, and Metsie is having “failed”? Then sign me up for failure!

We don’t have people like you at our blog; we care about quality, not quantity.

Blogs who host your kind care solely about numbers, not quality. My guess is Metsblog (rightly) banned you after your one day of getting routinely pummeled over there.

And believe it or not, I actually often mock those who are over-reliant on things like WAR and UZR. I am far from a “Sabergeek”—to me, the wise person uses ALL of the tools at one’s disposal to evaluate players. WAR, OPS, BA, OBP, everything. It’s inane and foolish to solely rely on the newest stats OR to be like you, and have a 1975 approach, judging batters solely on BA/HR/RBI.