I’ll say this: in 2014 Bay and Santana’s contracts are done. That’s goodbye 50 million. Then they get the new television money that’s another 50 million(which every team will start to get). If they still are pinching pennies instead of fielding a good team, nobody better start pointing at the front office.

That would be yet another knife in the backs of the fans by those rascals the Wilpons. 100 millions dollars not otherwise available until 2014… Lets hope they get this team back into the free agent market. Whereas I like building a much better minor league system and also would love as many homegrown players as possible, a NY team should be able to plug whatever holes nesessary to field the best team possible.

If payroll is to sit at $100MM, the math does not add up.

Quickly turn around a sinking franchise: DONE
Quickly refill the fans in the seats: DONE
Re-Stock the minor league system on the cheap: DONE

This is why Omar got that extension

Murphy, Tejada, Duda, Mejia, Parnell, Niese, Ike, Harvey, Gee are all prime examples of Omar being a good judge of talent. 6 out of 8 were low risk choices

If you don’t no where you going any movement will get you there: That is 4th or last place.
Either intend to contend with a 135 M payroll: If not, then have a complete rebuilding almost a fire sale except for Ike, Niese, Harvey and Wheeler.
Yes, you have to know where you are going to have a plan to get there.

Indeed they were. Just didn’t want to elaborate on all the points that separates the legend from the truth.

And the players suggested by Davidoff wouldn’t exactly be a campaign for re-building, either. Since Sandy is achieving his goal of cutting expenses (one of many that were not baseball related) then let the kids develop.

Alderson seems to be taking the approach the farm system (and the international market) are imperative to long term success. Sadly, this takes time to develop which few Mets fans are willing to grant. The win now mentality has been a part of the Met culture for so long that it became an albatross. Success did not ensue. The Mets spent a lot of money in payroll and have nothing to show for it (the past 6 years). During that time period, the Mets have yet to develop a star prospect. The best player to come out of the farm thus far from Omar’s days is Niese. Obviously, he can still hit with Ike, Harvey, etc…but the fact is there was no David Wright or Jose Reyes in the mix.

The author should read MMO for the premise that Sandy was the architect behind the moves made in Oakland – and that he did it coming in cold with a combination of sabermetric evaluation and money ball economics – has long been proved to be more myth than factual.