Comments on: 2012 Mets Player Review: Chris Young, RHP

By: Metsie

Metsie — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:55:58 +0000

Win games to what end? Did they get us to the playoffs?

Some here are against signing Wright because we won’t win with him so why sign these guys who won’t win either?

By: Metsie

Metsie — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:43:51 +0000

“The team didn’t think Harvey was ready”
True for about a week!

By: Stick

Stick — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:43:47 +0000

Maybe they signed guys because they needed players to win games?

By: Metsie

Metsie — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:38:08 +0000

Read my response to you and stick above…

It was hardly over the top and nothing to do with winning or even saving money.

By: Metsie

Metsie — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:36:57 +0000

Then let them go elsewhere a year earlier than they are now!
Let someone else take the risk of giving them a contract while they prove they are an MLB player and lose that money for little to nothing gained no matter what he does.

What was the long term (hell even short term) benefit to signing both Capuano and Young?
and extra 2 Months in AAA for Harvey?

Let someone else pay them thier rehab allowance and if they prove to be good then we can sign them the way the Dodgers signed Capuano.

By: Des

Des — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:27:57 +0000

The team didn’t think Harvey was ready. If we brought him up earlier than the FO wanted to, we might have had another Mike Pelfrey on our hands.

Fans are fans, and the FO makes the decisions, though it’s tough for many of us to accept.

By: David

David — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:23:20 +0000

I am sick of this reputation we have of nursing injured players to health, taking all the risks, and then watching them walk away with no compensation for us. The sad part is we’ll just do it all over again with someone else. We could have had Harvey come up when Young did, we didn’t need him. If we were really rebuilding Young wouldnt have gotten signed in the first place.

By: Stick

Stick — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:06:37 +0000

you have to sign players that are actual ML quality if you want to try and win games, and as we know, that is the real goal.

By: Stick

Stick — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:05:48 +0000

nice idea, but it doesn’t work like that. Guys aren’t signing for multi year cut rate deals, so if you insist on that they will go elsewhere.

so decide if you want to try and fill holes to attempt to win, or refuse to and just plug in rookies or Mil journeymen

By: Des

Des — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:45:20 +0000

Metsie, he earned his money, as you said. He helped the team and the 115 innings he threw with a 1.348 WHIP was significant. His last start to earn more bonus money showed the team’s appreciation for him.

Your claim that the only thing we accomplished by signing him was to serve as a Player Paid Rehab facility where he could get back his career on our dime is a bit over the top.

By: Metsie

Metsie — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:43:40 +0000

He earned his money but in the end the only thing we accomplished by signing him was to serve as a Player Paid Rehab facility where he could get back his career on our dime.

I wish him well wherever he goes he did right by us but we should not do anymore of these one year at a time signings for players we are taking a chance on being good.

We want to do a reclamation project we should sign them for two years at the reclamation prices so if they show to be successful there is at least a payoff of another year of cheap and good we get out of it.