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?”

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.

Am I right?

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.

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 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?

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.

So what moves would you make to turn your 69 win team into a 90 win team?

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..?

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.