We have guys from A+ on up that another year of evaluation is worth skimping on at the 25 if need be because their potential over 6-8 years if they make it is so much greater than what a LOOGY or 5th starter might give you this year.

Guys like Flores, Kirk, Armando Rodriguez, Lagares, Mejia, Familiam Carson, Havens and Puello Which one’s going to hit big? Who knows but we’ll have a better chance of knowing if we can keep them while going year to year with some of the secondary pieces.

Is the potential upside on a guy like Taka, Dotel or Bell, Choate or Capuano worth that risk looking at things long range? For that matter was Carrasco or Francisco worth that risk themselves? But still and all the chance to sign a multi year deal right away takes away a fair amount of players we could have gotten here.

Add in players going to teams with the chance to win right away or even just play close to home and the inability to over pay and you just further constrict the choices.

Then you need spots on the 40 for AAA depth as well or you wind up losing a guy through roster mismanagement. The whole key to protecting your prospects is to get them to AAA by year 4 or 5 so they can be both your prospects and your AAA depth but we have an awful lot of guys needing protection still in or just promoted from A+.

Lose too many of those guys and we’ll never get on top of this thing.

The Mets “having interest” in certain players doesn’t mean they put or were willing to put a better offer out there on the table.

There might be some players who don’t want to play for the Mets, but I highly doubt all these players took less money from the team they signed with than what the Mets have offered. Its much more likely that the Mets “interest” in the player never got far enough to have serious discussions about money/offers or that the team the players signed with put together a better offer than the Mets did

“the last administration brought the Mets into the playoffs with 2 successive playoff runs starting with his 2nd year inheriting less than the current administration.”

I know you don’t like numbers because you aren’t very good with them, but the Mets went to the playoffs one time under Minaya. Just once.

And Minaya had a crappier farm system to work with, but he also had a huge payroll to use.

“So no it’s not status quo.”

Actually, you’re right. The status quo would be if we paid someone $100 million to keep us a laughing stock.

lolol

Ignore him, he’s like the San Fran Crab Mascot that took delight in having people throw things at him.

Dude – just because YOU’d go after different people doesn’t mean those people would come here just because YOU say they should and doesn’t mean they’d make the team any better.

Did you really type this “You’d think a “METS” fan would be concerned about the team and not who the GM is. But that’s not the case anymore” Funny because every thing you post says the opposite.

You mention the bad signings, difference between SA and previous admins is he got rid of them FAST, whereas your lord Omar would have signed them to a long term deal. Name me one GM in the history of MLB that has 100% perfection on every signing every year? There isn’t enough bandwidth to post all the waste that your lord Omar signed, but you turn a deaf ear to that.

Wake up, or just go away already, same thing every friggen day, it wouldn’t be a day ending in Y if you didn’t second guess what the FO is doing, ignore the actual facts and say the word TERRIBLE and HORRENDOUS.

You need medication, seriously, you are mental.

I can only imagine the real lives you must have to be this aggressive with strangers in spewing your mind-numbingly repetitive ignorance.

Omar destroyed this team with his failure to build upon 2006 and his outrageous spending on past-their-prime veterans. Omar was a HORRIBLE GM.

His legacy in Montreal was trading Cliff Lee, Brandon Phillips, Grady Sizemore, and Lee Stephens for Bartolo Colon. That’s nearly half a very good starting lineup for half a season of a fat, mediocre pitcher.

His legacy here is one playoff series win for hundreds of millions wasted, and Johan, Pedro, Castillo, Ollie, Alou, El Duque, KRod, Putz, Bay…even the good signings like Beltran and Delgado spent forever on the DL collecting countless millions. Was 2006 worth the last five years and the next few?

Alderson’s hands are clearly tied by the Wilpons’ finances and the hangover of Omar’s horrific spending decisions.

You two give the Internet a bad name.

Get lives already. Seriously.

So no it’s not status quo. Come back and do a podcast when, no wait, IF Sandy ever reaches those plateaus – with a bevy of young kids on the major league squad and in the minors as well.

Not status quo in the least bit

So, status quo?

He said “each guy in the locker room knows that if they could have done just a little more, things could have been different.” Not if just one guy could have a little more.

Now that’s a competitor, not a finger pointer.

We always knew there would be at least one GM out there willing to overpay. There always is, every year, for at least one FA.

Dang, I guess that is taking you out of the running for Mets fans?