You can estimate what guys like Wright and Davis and even Dickey are due to get in 2014 but the truth of the matter is it does NOT matter…
If they won’t go out and spend it today to get the extra year of competitiveness after spending the money on Wright they won’t be spending it in 2014, 2015 or 2016 unless they have a change in the front office!

‘….now but we realize they wont’

Agree….I’m just pointing out that if they don’t do it now they won’t do it EVER!
At least not until Sandy leaves and then we will see who was really holding the team back from spending won’t we? (LOL)

Nimmo and Plawecki are more like 2-3 years away minimum and they are far from a guarantee to turn into anything.

By the way All Mets fans in their right minds want the Mets to spend money now but we realize they wont. And that the Mets management are content stinking for years to come pocketing money from tv deals etc

Look, either way, the 2013 Mets probably aren´t a playoff team.
However, they may well be a 2014 playoff team if Harvey & Wheeler are close to being as good as advertised, Ike Davis takes a big step forward and the plethora of young pitching currently in A-Ball jumps to Double A and thus becomes increasingly valuable as trade chips for impact OF bats – say the Rockies´ Carlos Gonzalez or Dexter Fowler or even Giancarlo Stanton if & when he gets shopped.

With 2013 being another transition year, it´s not necessary to fill the structural OF holes this winter at all costs (like selling low on RA Dickey or even Jon Niese just for the sake of getting someone better than the fringe guys currently on the roster).

McCann, Saltalamacchia, Aaron Hill, Zobrist, Morse, Ellsbury, Granderson, Choo, Cruz, Hart, Pence. and some decent names in the bullpen as well.

There are two players under contract for 2014: Wright and Niese. not sure what Wright’s 2014 salary is yet but let’s say that’s 20 million between the two of them. Plus 23 other players that would be making arbitration/min wage. That’s a projected payroll as of now of not even 40 million dollars probably. now if you think the payroll will be 40 million a year from now, we will agree to disagree. Let’s say the Wilpons are willing to even have a payroll of say 90 million, that’s 50 million to spend. If you wanna figure some wiggle room for mid-season acquisitions, let’s say 40 million. A lot can be done with 40 million dollars. We’d basically have the same team we have now minus Johan, plus new aquisitions (hence a better team), and it will cost 30 million dollars less than it does now. I don’t understand how people don’t comprehend this. have a mediocre team for 120, 130 million, or just wait a year and have a good to very good team for 80-90, and then have more room to build from there? hmmmm.

Next year is the year. If it doesn’t happen, then I will jump on the Whiner Wagon. But no one here can say it isn’t gonna happen just as much as I can’t say it is gonna happen. There are plenty of intriguing names there and we only need a few of them. With a projected rotation of Dickey, Harvey, Niese, Wheeler, Gee, assuming Dickey gets extended, the possibilities are exciting.

It’s pretty clear what the plan has been all along. Was Alderson going to come in to new york and say we’re punting every season until 2014? Hells no. “This is New York”. ugh. How entitled do you people think you are as New Yorkers that you can’t wait ONE more year to have a pretty decent run of teams for a bunch of years. Being across town from the Yankees has clouded your brains.

You and no one else thought that!

Everyone knew at the time he was overpriced because the market was bare (as it will be next year) and they made a move because people wanted them to make a kove without any clue as to what!

And you can’t use 2010 as an example…
No way you can beat the attendance in a year a new stadium opens…

How about Carlos Beltran…MUCH better example!
Went WAY UP before even one game was played! He was announced and there was a run on Season tickets! FULL Seasons too not just those Small Package deals which only consist of 10 games out of 81!

Mike Olt, Neftali Feliz, Robbie Ross, Ryan Rodebaugh.

From this deal, we get a guy capable of truly closing games and moving Francisco into middle relief (I don’t care how much he’s owed or what Collins says for that matter, I don’t trust him as the closer. Not only that, it was a stupid move to move Feliz to the rotation. With Texas’s deep pitching depth though, Feliz should be the true prize in this, not Olt.), a man capable of being the bridge along with Parnell to Feliz, and another lefty to complement Edgin & give Rob Carson the time he truly needs in AAA being groomed full-time for relief and working on his control.

I’ll miss Dickey, but I want a foundation of young, strong arms in the bullpen and at the same time, pick up some insurance (Lannan) as well as giving a kid a real chance like Mejia his chance to grow in the rotation.

Yay!

I thought she was playing Mrs. Clause with too much of her leave it beaver cleavage showing, not an elf. Either way, I also remember seeing a picture of that party with Paul LaDuca smiling from ear to ear as if it wasn’t Santa Clause he was looking at.