I’m sure initially, there wasn’t one single player with draft pick comp tied to them that the mets thought they’d be going after.

Bourn’s price dropped, so lets not start bashing the GM because he tried to take advantage of a market that suddenly was in his price range. If Bourn didn’t have the Indians, Sandy probably would’ve gotten him AND the pick. So lets stop picking apart every single thing this guy does.

Come 2015 when the Mets have a young and dominant rotation, a great infield, and tons of young pitching to deal from, I sure hope everybody is man enough to finally say this guy did the right thing.

-Go balls out & sign or trade for “top shelf” – Josh Hamilton, Stanton…
OR
-Sign good, inexpensive ancilliary players – Hairston, Crisp …

I think anything in the “middle” is just wasted effort/money

On the other hand, you get it at a bargain rate you didn’t expect to see – and you’ll need a car anyway next year, assuming you pass. It won’t get cheaper.

In this case, it would have been nice to add Bourn at 4-years, 48 million. However, it’s not a huge blow either as it’d have been more of case of something unexpected fallling into your lap.

And wouldn’t an Elvin Ramirez for Drew Stubbs sort of trade excite you ?

“They also tried to wait it out on Scott Boras, who is well-versed in a waiting game of his own. He informed the Mets that he had other offers, perhaps even better offers than theirs, and the Mets thought they were calling his bluff. However in actuality, he had a royal flush in his hand, and walked away from the table with all the chips in hand.”

I think this was a HUGE failure on Boras’ part, what did he get Bourn?
He couldnt get him a deal until February 11, and he got him exiled to a god awful team for less money than Bourn could have accepted months ago from the Cowards, Braves.
And Bourn could have locked up the deal in Atlanta w/o an agent & be 15% richer !
He was looking for 100M from a contender & instead settled for less than 1/2 of that from a team thats not sure what identity they’re after.
No, this was a major failure on Boras’ resume, and if I were Lohse I’d be plenty worried after seeing what just happened.

The story of Wilpon- we tried…

We tried to make money for nothing but it turned out it was invested in a Ponzi scheme which we may or may not have known about.

We tried, but we misread the market.

We tried, we tried, we tried.

Well, I tried to think of buying tickets, but you gave me no reason to…

The Mets were trying to get a good deal. When it didn’t materialize, they were smart enough to walk away. Obviously you would not have been.

BUT I seriously believed that the commissioners office was going to concede and protect our #11, thereby forcing SA’s hand.
Which would have obviously either forced him to sign Bourne or make hiim a ridiculously lowball offer Boras & Bourne reject, depending on what his actual intention was all along.

I say its fine that at this point we go with what we have, throw Turner out there in ST and let them all fight it out for the 3 OF positions.
Out of:
Baxter
Duda
Neuwenheis
Cowhill
Brown
Byrd
Patterson (my longshot favorite)
Turner
we should come up with something mediocre enough to run with, then go after a solid FA outfielder next offseason, OR, if we are out of contention in July, make a trade at the deadline for an outfielder with whichever of our players is doing well at the time. IE:Marcum, Santana, Lyon, etc…Maybe ship Santana & Lyon to SF for Pence !!

But at the end of the day this is a 4th place team with or without Michael Bourn, you simply couldn’t give up the 11th overall pick for him. That pick is too valuable.