The oly reason Murphy is being kept is he makes trading Wright easier because he has the bat to compensate. If not he would have been traded by now!

Well Satish your correct and the point that is being mised by the “all is wellers” here (I know your not one) is that the excuses made for the purge/rebuild were we were SO FAR AWAY from being a good team that it needed o be scrapped and redone!

I agree there is a ton of Talent, Talent that was ALREADY HERE! It’s what has been purged and replaced around them that leaves me thinking how good things COULD HAVE BEEN with all this young talent we have if only we kept the ALL-STAR VETERAN talent around it!

If say this team wins 77 games (same as last year) How many might we have won with Reyes at SS and K-Rod closing out games?

I think what many an argument here has sidestepped is many of us (Pessimists) feel we ALREADY HAD a ton of kids, a good solid CORE to build around, and it was the (Optimists) who downplayed how good this team actually was in the Kid dept in order to justify the Talent purge!
Lets face it other than guys coming back from inujury plagued seasons (Wright, Davis and Santana. You can also count getting a full season of Duda in there…)
The only other changes are we lost our top RBI guy, Batting Champ and Closer!

I have lower expectations only because I had such high expectations for this team last year before the purges knowing the kids we had close to coming up!
And that train is still about to bring in new arrivals for the next two years!

I have lower expectations merely because I think about how good this team could have been if we had Kept at least one of the three All stars or did not replace those All Stars BEFORE we had an answer to take over for them (see K-Rod and Beltran)

But if you look back at the complaint I have made in the offseason it all started because some thought this team was SOOOOO BAAAD OFF, that it needed to be scrapped!
And then when they realized what many of us KNEW about the Kids we had, they got on this kick of how good a job Sandy has done despite the fact he isn’t the architect of all this hope, someone else was and all he has done is let three all stars go with his only real future hope being Wheeler!

I don’t count Nimmo because Sandy didn’t orchestrate that anyone could have taken Nimmo in the draft!

Well said.

As someone who was around to experience the Miracle Mets of ’69, I ain’t getting any younger.
Here’s to them getting another ring sooner rather than later.

Nice article.