Comments on: Don’t Expect Any “Quick Fixes” From This Front Office

By: TRS86

TRS86 — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:08:14 +0000

Oh my bad you already did. I missed it last night. Great job anyway.

By: Gina

Gina — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:04:32 +0000

Are you kidding me? Great job Connor! I wish I could write this well and I’m ten years older than you. You should be proud of yourself to be part of such a well known and established site like this one! Lets Go Mets!

By: Metsie

Metsie — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 03:39:52 +0000

Yep thats the problem with guys who are 50/50….

Would you have been comfortable with them in there if there was only a one run lead to protect?

By: Russell Zanca

Russell Zanca — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 03:22:52 +0000

Dunno, Metsie, but Rauch, Byrdak, and FF didn’t look so bad tonight.

By: tlagee

tlagee — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 03:22:13 +0000

Connor – very impressed – keep it up!

By: Stick

Stick — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:42:28 +0000

well, to be fair, trading bay for some used sunflower seeds would still qualify as a “win now”

By: Hank

Hank — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:37:05 +0000

Connor, I made the same comments on Toby’s blog as well; you can read it (I’m BigBank). Basically, I don’t think trying to save the big league bullpen is reason enough to stunt his development.

Even Flow, as for Wainwright, he had twice as much innings in the minors before they moved him to the MLB pen. So my point is still legit. The kid needs more innings starting. As for Feliz, he excelled in the pen yes…but as a starter his development was stunted. This is why he’s still on an innings limit now.

I wasn’t saying a guy can’t help coming from the pen. I’m just saying when a guy is 22 and could be a starter, it makes more sense to keep him as an SP as long as you can.

By: Fonzie13

Fonzie13 — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:30:39 +0000

Exactly EvenFlow. I don’t know why people think you stunt a pitchers developement by putting him in the bullpen if it helps the team. Ever hear of Nolan Ryan? He helped the Mets win a title coming out of the pen and made the adjustment to being a starter just fine. If Mejia doesn’t make it as a starter it won’t be because they put him in the pen first, it will be cause he’s not good enough to be a starter.

By: Connor O'Brien

Connor O'Brien — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:23:08 +0000

Yeah, here is the link to the story… http://www.metsminorleagueblog.com/thoughts-about-jenrry-mejia-to-the-bullpen/

By: Metsie

Metsie — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:22:52 +0000

Hey someone call Fonzie he has another link he can use as proof Sandy ran everything before 1991! LOL

I wish Mr Cool Calm And Collected would coolect those losers he acquired in the offseason to be our Bullpen and shuffle them off to Buffalo!

By: Connor O'Brien

Connor O'Brien — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:22:23 +0000

Oh yeah, if he has the opportunity to get rid of Torres, Bay, etc, he will.

By: tony

tony — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:16:39 +0000

Good Job!

By: trs86

trs86 — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:08:10 +0000

Lol nah it’s fine. Link to the story on TRDM if you want.

By: ConnorUAF

ConnorUAF — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:02:47 +0000

LOL. Hope its not a prob though. Ill try to do diff stuff for rdmb and mmo during summer

By: trs86

trs86 — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 01:56:11 +0000

Hey… is this blogwars? You moonlighting now?
by the way give job.

By: jerseymet

jerseymet — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 01:16:51 +0000

Well done! I look forward to your future posts. So you feel that Sandy is not buying….Do you think he will sell off veteren players that don’t fit into the long term plan?

By: SaneMetsFan

SaneMetsFan — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:17:51 +0000

The only problem i have with that is with the way Ike is playing is he really the first baseman of the future? A season long slump on this and you have to start hedging some bets. Duda may be first base bound. At which point yes we have Kirk, and two corner spots needing to be filled. Hopefully Ike can right the ship and this will be a non issue, but you it’s at the point where that’s not a sure thing to me.

By: Even Flow

Even Flow — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:44:15 +0000

How do you figure? You got Wheeler & McHugh knocking on the door to AAA and they need to make space in the rotation. Did a move to the pen stunt Neftali Feliz and Adam Wainwright’s development? I don’t think so.

By: ConnorUAF

ConnorUAF — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:43:02 +0000

Toby Hyde explained it well on his blog today. It’s all about the innings for Mejia. He said the Mets as an organization have gotten very conservative with innings and Mejia hasn’t thrown more than like 75 innings in any year. He will be a starter in the long run.

By: Connor O'Brien

Connor O'Brien — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:25:45 +0000

Yeah, I don’t see anyone reaching that level of production but the point is that Sandy took it slow with them, and he will do the same with this team now.