The plan is obviously Harvey, Wheeler, Tejada and Ike and hope against hope that it all pans out. If it doesn’t, well then they will have nothing to fall back on.

In many ways, it will be 1997 all over again after they dug themselves out of the worst team money could buy, they sold the promise of young dominant pitching that essentially flamed out in one year. With Bobby V coaxing success out of Rick Reed and Bobby Jones; Armando Reynoso, Butch Huskey, the arrival of John Olerud and the emergence of Fonzie, they somehow won 88 games which signaled a jumpstart to a new era- luckily.

I’m not saying it’s a big deal. I’m saying that some of the players that are at Kingsport right now are really raw and would have been at GCL if that team still existed (like Kaupe, Nido, Cecchini, etc.). Nimmo started last year at GCL too, I believe. Their “rawness” is probably represented in the overall performance of the team.

I’m not saying that as a knock on them not having a GCL team, I’m saying not to put too much stock in the performance of the Kingsport team as a whole because of this.

The term Metropolitans comes from the club’s corporate name of “New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, Inc.” as well as the old “New York Metropolitans” professional baseball team that existed from 1880 to 1887.

The Metropolitan Club (the New York Metropolitans or the Mets) was a 19th-century professional baseball team that played in New York City from 1880 to 1887. Metropolitan Baseball Club of New York was the name originally chosen in 1960 for the current day New York Mets franchise, although the legal name has changed since then.

the owners ultimately selected “Mets” because it was closely related to the club’s already-existing corporate name “New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, Inc.”,

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The Schmooze always calls them the Metropolitans but I don’t believe that was ever their team name.

I don’t think there is enough ‘funny money’ – as you put it – to fill all the holes we’ve got going into 2013. The payroll was slashed 50 MIL this season for a reason. I believe until Johan and Bay’s contracts come off the books end of next season, that 2013 might be just more of the same as 2012 has been.

If this were one of the “knowns” regardless of $$, then it seems a team must make the draft extremely important. Yet, the Mets sign the fewest draft choices of any team. Why did this happen?

I’ve also stated in 2 other posts that KIngsport, our only Rookie level team in America, is not looking so hot for a team that pegs “development” as part of the solution.