We wouldn’t be wasting our time and trouble to discuss these moves if there weren’t representative of the typical ones Sandy makes. For other clubs, these are indeed stories that are buried in the last few lines of the baseball stories for the day – but not for the Mets.

And we shouldn’t assume that Hicks is going to comefrom the Western Division Champion A’s and just be given a spot on the Mets roster all at once – it might take a few days or so during spring training.

I think the sarcasm expressed toward this move is not about the move itself, but more about the frustration that these are the only types of moves this FO is making.

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/58973/report-mets-finally-make-wright-offer

This is his value, he’s not worth this kind of money, but at $16 mill per i can live with having the guy at 3rd base.. We’ll see how GREEDY he truly is or isn’t. This is more than fair for him, It’s his turn to backup his words when he said it’s not all about money it’s about winning.. then we’ll see whether he is a man of his words or just another greedy ballplayer

the guy hits under .200 and just about any kid off the street could hit that and all he would need to get paid is minimum wage!

This guy is not depth hes just a waste of money…

Promote a kid in AA to play there….
Trade someone to get something better….

I can’t even believe they wasted the time to look at him!

The San Francisco Giants just signed Omar Javier to a minor league contract. Javier just put up a WHIP of 1.73 and 64/56 K/BB in INDEPENDANT ball.

Go ahead guys, start with the Sabean/Giants jokes. Oh wait they just won the world series.

So only championship teams can fill their minor league rosters?…My bad.

And I’m afraid that we’ll get to enjoy spiteful posts about this organization with every of the 15 or so AAA veteran signings pretty much every team makey in a winter….

Who the hell knew we had cash?

So, Sandy, if you’re interested, I’m available too

I’m just worried about now and the future. I don’t give a damn if the Mets didn’t have a homegrown SS in 2002 or 1992 – It’s irrelevant. All those GM’s aren’t with the team anymore, and those players are all retired. It’s ancient history and it has no effect on today’s team.

So why must we KEEP harping on them?

Why don’t you point out more examples of things that had NOTHING to do with losing big games while you’re at it.

From 2002 to 2005 they weren’t good but that was also the transition from Alfonzo to Reyes

And Mets had Alfonzo and Ordonez from 1998-2001 when they were either contending for the post season or making the postseason.

So that leaves a 3 year gap so should they have filled that span too and this way your appetite for starting SS & 2B would have been whetted from 1995 to present. But you’d still complain and you know why? Because the bottom line is the Mets had chances to maintain some kind of dynasty or some kind of continuous success from 1998 to 2009 but you know what?

THEY LOST! They had chances and they lost the biggest baseball games in franchise history whenever it was presented to them.

Somehow play on the field has lost out to putting all responsibilities on front offices and that’s wrong. That’s the built-in excuse for Second Guessers and the flaskmaster is starting to rate right up there with t-agee as the biggest second guessing fools around. They have all the answers and everything figured out years AFTER the games when they’ve had time to look back and go ahhh…so this is how is should’ve been done.

If you think this is a class organization with a winning mindset you are way off base. The Mets organization is pathetic from top to bottom when Alderson walked in. How much better off they are now is debatable. But at least they are not going in the same direction they did the last 20 years which amounted to nothing of significance.

Open your eyes.

Reyes, Tejada, and Valdy is not a very good track record over the course of 10 years or so.

It sure as hell ain’t going to be our cash…..

And if Hicks is seriously being considered as utility infielder, that means it come to the point that Sandy has found a way to even downgrade from that of a Ronnie Cedeno. Granted, there are many much more qualified utility players out there than Ronnie but Brandon? At least Cedeno guarantees some sort of bat coming off the bench besides his ability to be a not good but adequate fill-in with the glove at several infield positions.

No, it’s just that Cedeno cost $1.2 million that he was granted free agency and will still make more than twice as much as Hicks will – if he isn’t cut before opening day – and that probably includes the cash necessary to have purchased his contract.

Oh and to the flaskmaster’s credit at least he was the only person to post the cost of minor league signings. They range from 39K to 79K i believe it was so add all that up over the course of 3 years and let’s see how much money Alderson has wasted on this baloney.

This is an insult to Mets fans. This brand new epidemic of an extraordinary amount of garbage signings of guys that don’t hit .200 and pitchers with ERAs over 6.00 is a complete insult to this entire fan base and for any jerk who defends this type of “team building” you get what you deserve.