I bet it’s even less than 25% of what that team did!

And in this case there ARE parallels between the way Cashen treated players and how Sandy has so far.

Cashen was clueless as to how important Ray Knight was to him….
And Sandy has no clue abut how important guys like Dickey and Reyes were to this team as well….

A spark like Reyes is just the thing that would have stopped that long losing streak in July that made Sandy Punt on the season and getting help.

Ya, hardly played.

1998
Jeter 149 games
Williams 128 games
Posada 111 games
Pettitte 33 games
Rivera 54 games

Ya, hardly played

Again the Yankees sustained success is because they began with a young core and added on to it.

It was all that Free Agent Pitchng that anchored them and allowed those kids to play in a pressure free enviornment as they were not tasked with carrying the team the way You suggested plan of Sandys does with ours.

Anyone who says they anchored the Yankees is just living in fantasy land, All they did was fill 2 or 3 positions that didn’t require expensive free agents to fill…
And yet they STILL spent 50mil more than we did at our highest which is why they won as much as they have!
They don’t CRY over a spilt milk of 80Mil over 5 years…They merely admit the mistake, replace him and move on. And they find teams to take those failures from them many times as they did with Burnett!

Thats the last I’m saying to you today, I am ignoring any other posts that start off with Donal…Find someone else to play with to make up for the fact you were bullied as a kid and restore your self esteem.

I hate to admit this but Dwight Gooden had he stayed clean would have ended up exceeding the greatness of the best player who ever put on our uniform, Tom Seaver. His “stuff” was as good as what Sandy Koufax had and at 21 years of age no less.

The “bow tie” and his staff didn’t handle these problems at all!.

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He is never anything but totally argumentative with almost everyone on this site and it has become more than annoying!

I would expect that he is really a closet Yankee fan whose joy in life is to disturb the devotion that real Met fans have for their team even in the toughest of times!

So, I suggest that we all join together and wish this man a Happy New Year and ask that he please find a hole to climb into and STFU.

Besides, most of those guys were just role players. You really are going to tell me Strawberry brought more to that team than Bernie Williams? Or that Kenny Rogers’ 4.68 ERA did more for the Yankees in 1996 than Andy Pettitte?

If Jon Daniels or Andrew Friedmann becomes Mets GM tomorrow, I´m absolutely fine with that. Or Walt Jocketty or Kevin Luhnow for that matter. Or John Mozielak.

However, I suppose you´re more in the Ned Colletti camp, i.e. a GM who can only do well when he can spend recklessly. Because if you don´t have any sort of budget, you can basically outspend your mistakes.
When the Mets were spending 70 + million of their 140 million $ budget on Francisco Rodriguez, Jason Bay, Oliver Perez, Johan Santana and Luis Castillo in 2011 and getting very little production, except for a decent closer and a decent platoon LF, obviously that problem could have been fixed by handing the GM another 30 million $ or so to spend on shortterm impact players to cover these past mistakes.

Up until this off-season, that has been the Yankees M.O. and it has worked out quite well. However, god (not Sandy!) beware that something changes – like this off-season when the Yankees haven´t had the money to hand out contracts to players under age 38 because of a sudden change of thinking by ownership due to future luxury tax concerns.

And speaking of World Series titles, how many of them do the Yankees have to show for their big spending ways over the past 12 seasons ? 2+ billion $ spent for one ring…
…of course, playoff success is tough to plan anyway.

Tell me Do they win a WS without the following?

Joe Girardi
Mariano Duncan
Wade Boggs
Paul O’Neil
Tim Raines
Darryl Strawberry
Kenny Rodgers
Dwight Gooden
Jimmy Key
David Cone

Hmmm They aren’t the reason they won a WS it was those Four kids who did it ALL!!!

Yep and Santa came from the North Pole and put stuff under your tree….
Next year Ask Santa for a brain!

He’s really the only guy that I wanted. I accept, however, that maybe the Mets aren’t ready to go and make a deal like that right now. they aren’t one guy from going over the top. I just think he wouldn’t have been the disaster someone like Josh Hamilton or Shane Victorino can potentially be.

They won because Gene Michael was able to grow the team’s core and then Bob Watson and Brian Cashman brought in pieces to put them over the top.

Is that the problem?
You can’t read and you just have a macro program of 100 snide remarks you press randomly?

How do you knw?
Your a Liar?
prove it!

Really Ignore on I have no time for such stupidity which you bring in bushels!

You know like that success of Oakland you love to cite when Sandy’s greatness is brought up?

You know the ONLY WS he has EVER won despite how many teams he has implemented his PLAN with?

Your not privy to the plan but you LOVE IT!

What are you David Wright or something?

So you think spending on Upton would have been money well spent yet you can’t knock Sandy for not signing him and you cite IGNORANCE as your excuse….

Why am I not shocked….

What do we need around here? A Power Hitting RH Batter who can play OF?
Was he not the PERFECT signing to get right now?
But you can’t bring yourself to suggest Sandy blew it by not paying what you say would be money well spent EVEN KNOWING that With Wright and Bay deferring money they had the money to spend…..

There is no hope for you until Sandy gets fired and takes the parts of him your head is currently stuck in with him!

Let review Cano and Jeter are homegrown….Who else? Nova @ 12-8?
Pettite @ 5-4

I mean really now I didn’t think even YOU were that stupid to try and suggest their recent success has anything to do with Homegrown…..