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2012
Alderson and Wright Glad Mets Owners Reached Settlement
An article by Hojo's Mojo
Mets general manager Sandy Alderson said “there’s a sense of relief for the team” now that a settlement was reached in the Bernie Madoff case. Alderson told reporters at Digital Domain:
“From just an overall organizational standpoint, the landscape today is a lot brighter than it was two or three days ago, going into a potential three-week trial. Obviously we’re very happy for Fred and Saul. And putting something behind us that has been an overhang for the franchise for well over a year — just about from the time I arrived — I think is a real plus.”
Alderson said he’s focused on putting a better product on the field and moving forward and hopes fans can move forward as well:
“I think we as a franchise have a chance to go through sort of an evolutionary process to get us back to where we want to be. I do think the overall environment will be much more positive and will allow us and fans to focus more on the team and less on the other externalities, if you will. I think those externalities have affected people’s view of the team. I think that’s been unfortunate, but inevitable, and hopefully, all of this will change that.”
David Wright was happy for how things turned out for the Mets owners:
“I’m happy for the family,” third baseman David Wright said. “They’ve obviously been through some ups and downs and it’s good to see them happy, and it’s good to see them come out of this the way they hoped they did, so I’m happy for both the families and I’m happy we can finally start talking about baseball.”
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So, maybe next year we start acquiring good players???? We as fans are happy and sour i guess, it’s tough to decide, for me personally, The wilpons spend money, and even though back in 2008 they said the madoff situtation were not gonna hurt the team and they obviuosly did, they are willing to spend the money to put (or try to, no one can predict FA) a good product on the field, so i guess after one more year of putry and maybe citi field being a ghost town for all 2012, the sun might come out in 2013 in terms of some of the prospects to come up and help plus the addition of some GOOD free agents to help the team get over the hump.. you’d think that with 3 gm’s in the front office we’d have a better team on the field than we have today, but i guess just as everyone else is doing, we should conceide the 2012 season and give sandy one more crack at it before “judging” his performance as a GM…
Alex, lets have a little fun here and make some assumptions. Lets assume this off-season that money was not an issue for the Mets and they had 45M to spend. Lets assume that the Marlins were going to overpay for Reyes and no matter the offer we made they were going to beat it. So regardless of finances this off-season there was no Reyes.
If you were the GM who would you have spent that 45M on to make sure that this current team was competitive enough to win the division and beat out the Phillies, Marlins, Nationals THIS year?
So you wanna be hypotethical but you take out right away jose Reyes? no thanks… It is what it is… let’s move on..
Yeah, because I think we have beaten the Jose Reyes horse to death. I want to know what YOU think could have been done once Reyes was a Marlin to make this current team competitive.
TRS86, even right now,u don’t think oswalt can make us better? maybe having lidge as a bullpen guy would’ve helped?
Better or competitive Alex? Again, a shot to win the division because in this year’s NL East that is what you have to be thinking, not one of the wild card spots. Those 3 teams MAY be so close in wins that winning the division or wild card might be only separated by a game or 2.
So what moves would you make to turn your 69 win team into a 90 win team?
CJ Wilson, Buehrle, Yu Darvish, Oswaltt, Garza, Gio, etc.. all those pitchers would’ve made us better, had we kept reyes and sign one of those SP, then reamp our bullpen you don’t think we would’ve been WAY MUCH better?? i wouldn’t have minded andres torres as our #2 hitter behind reyes, with then ike davis, duda, wright, bay,tejada, thole or a Catcher with experience at least.. Our defense would’ve been much more better, specially up the middle, our SP would’ve been decent, and our offense with reyes at the top and ike davis healthy and duda thumping as our #4 hitter YOU DON’T THINK this team would’ve been so much better??????????
Hey no cheating, you are using Reyes again. But you are still missing the point, better or competitive Alex? You are on record saying THIS current team is a 69 win team. What signings would you have made with 45M that would make THIS team a 90 win team? 21 wins to go. Sign Reyes and Yu for 225M, does that turn a 69 win team into a 90 win team?
I am glad this cloud has been lifted and ownership can concentrate 100% on baseball now. I am also happy that the ownership has won what was an improper lawsuit.
I think pronouncements of how long it will take this team to compete are off base. There are big question marks or holes with every team in the division this year, not to mention the latest injury woes of the Phillies and Braves which seem more severe than what the Mets are currently experiencing. If the Mets can enjoy relative good health this season, I think they will be surprisingly competitive. A division title? No. But their win total should be way better than the ridiculously low totals some are predicting.
A division title? No. But their win total should be way better than the ridiculously low totals some are predicting”
Metro, every team has injuries, although ours seem a little unfair or at least have been since 2009, but my question to you is, how many wins you think the mets will have this year? even if 100% healthy for most players..?
100% healthy from all players? Over .500. I would put the Mets range from 74-84 wins this year assuming that no big names are traded.
Alex, a study done by Fangraphs a few weeks ago has the Mets with the most injuries of any team in baseball over the last 3 years. So, no, not every team has injuries like the Mets have suffered recently. Hopefully their luck will turn. It would be surprising if their horrendous injury record were to continue through 2012. So I am hoping for better things this year on the medical front.
And it now looks like it may be. Despite the string of spring training injuries, they are relatively minor. No one is slated to start the season on the DL the way Santana, Beltran and Reyes were in recent years. And it seems the Phillies may not catch the injury bug big time this year. Which should help the Mets a lot. Also, Vizcaino is getting TJ surgery.
As for a wins total? If they as a team stay relatively healthy, I’d say roughly 83 wins.
Should read: And it seems the Phillies may NOW catch the injury bug big time this year.
Metro, as i have said, the mets have been damage goods in terms of injuries, i’ve never seen anything like it to be honest, i guess i can see it but as i said, very rarely a team goes a season without injuries to the best players on the team, it’s up to the other guys to step it up when given the chance or the opp present itself, let’s hope the mets prove everyone wrogn and even make the playoffs, but… call me a pessimist, i just don’t see it!
No one is saying a team should expect 100% health throughout the season. What one wants to avoid are the really long-term debilitating absences of key productive players. A 2- or 3-week DL stint here and there is fine. But the Mets injuries in recent years have lasted months and months, if not most of the year.
If the Mets experience just and average number of injuries this year I think they will be much better than almost all are predicting.
OTOH, if the Phillies and Braves start experiencing the same types of injuries the Mets had in recent years, I see them coming way back to the pack, especially the Phillies. It looks like the Phillies are off to a terrible start this year in terms of injuries.
I think we all should be glad this is over. Best case scenario, otherwise appeals would have dragged this on for years.
Yes, I realize some wanted Wilpons out at any cost, but they weren’t going away anytime soon. They had no intention of selling this team and if they lost big, only last ditch appeals might have taken them in that direction. Meanwhile, the team and it’s finances would have been in limbo.
As to how long it will take until this team is competitive again? I have no idea. All depends on prospects panning out, on veterans having good years, on revenues…just to start.
Within an arbitrary four year timeframe, the settlement provides the best solution for Mets fans. Any other solution would delay the return of our Mets to reasonableness, if not competitiveness. Full steam ahead Sandy ….
http://www.masnsports.com/steve_melewski/2010/12/macphail-on-the-addition-of-adrian-rosario.html
I just found this while snooping around this morning. I did not realize that the O’s had though so highly of Rosario that they drafted him in the rule 5 draft after only pitching in rookie and low A ball. What I found interesting is the power arm and big body. He is still only 21 and with Herrea still around and this kid in the minors is it possible that the Mets could actually get a return in terms of players as well from Krod?
TRS86, there was an article about him when he was picked in the rule V.. there might be a chance he return to us though.. but given that is the O’s that picked him and they are not going nowhere fast he’d be there for the whole year with them.. i hope not, this kid is a monster and throws REALLY HARD… but can’t seem to find the strike zone
Wrong guy I THINK Alex. This is one of the guys that came over this summer from the Brewers but was selected in 2010′s Rule 5 draft by the O’s and evidently was returned to the Brewers in time for him to be traded to the Mets.
Am I right?
Rosario’s real raw despite 5 years in the minors. Big arm but wild and hittable. Still you have to start with the arm and if he can gain command then we just might have something. It took Venters 7 years to all of a sudden be an overnight sensation.
The rushing of guys has flat out cost us a lot of baseball games in the last 5 years. In the bullpen Kunz, Parnell, and Mejia were rushed up here, pitched like **** and who knows going forward how things will go for Parnell. He’s got a great arm but by now he such have a 3rd pitch and he just didn’t belong in the Majors in 2008 and 2009.
That’s part of what Rauch, Ramirez, Carrasco and Francisco are about, they give guys like Beato, Parnell and Rosario the time to develop solutions before being brought up so they can figure out how best to use what they’ve got. Edgin may get rushed up here but I’ll bet for a pure LOOGY he does a bang up job after all he’s had two successful years in the low minors against LH and RH hitters and would have been in AA anyway.
Getting the most possible out of the prospects we do have is so vital because we’re always down 5-8 men and we just can’t afford to get less than we could from anyone that we do have.
In addition to Parnell, Kunz and Mejia, Pelfrey, Tejada, Fern, Humber, Milledge, Gomez and Niese were up here too soon. Only Murphy, Davis, Smith and Gee were guys that came up and played well or at least OK right from the start and weren’t overmatched in their first go around.
Didn’t Sandy say the Mets could not loose $70 million a year and what happened with the civil suit, etc. would change that? Despite his jubiliation now, I think what he said a few months back is more indicative of the direction the team is headed for as has been argued back and forth amungst us is that the $70 million loss is only on paper and is offset by the revenue owning the team generates through the sale of television rights and profits via SNY, merchandising, etc.
That $70 million loss is just a smokescreen (IMHO) to justify the budget cuts and will still be so with the dwindling revenue again this year.
“Didn’t Sandy say the Mets could not loose $70 million a year and what happened with the civil suit, etc. would change that?”
My typo LOL. Meant to say “Didn’t Sandy say the Mets could not loose $70 million a year and what happened with the civil suit, etc. would NOT change that?”