It reads like d’Arnaud was being paid a compliment not being enshrined into Cooperstown.

If you want to see baseball in Pitt, the Pirates are it…Not true here…
Secondly, they don’t have the overhead a team in NY does….Just on tax burden alone they probably save 20 mil.

And as you pointed out, they get an extra revenue share from the League which is like a loan you never have to pay back. if they didn’t get their revenue sharing check they would probably all lose money.

I’ll be happy if d’Arnaud is healthy enough to play at least 130 games total, and puts up an OPS of at least .750 at the major league level this year. The last time the Mets had an everyday catcher who put up an OPS of over .750 was Lo Duca in 2006! That’s how poor the Mets catching has been. So I’m really looking forward to his rookie year.

That’s the problem I have even more than the trades themselves – that both Wheeler and d’Arnaud have already been anointed as saviors by so many instead of being looked on as top prospects who have all the potential of having good major league careers.

I think this over-doing it with advanced praise is in reaction to the controversial circumstances that led to obtaining both of them and all one can be certain of is what we had given up to obtain each of these prospects. The yield is yet to be determined.

They might very well lead to be good trades for the Mets in the long-term…., let’s not get ahead of ourselves and forget, for example, the predictions for Joba Chamberlain based simply on his late 2007 call-up

http://web.yesnetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070919&content_id=1431237&vkey=4

Or, let us look back at the history of one our own who was also destined for stardom based on his collegiate and minor league performances:

http://www.minorleagueball.com/2011/2/22/2008299/career-profile-mike-pelfrey-new-york-mets

Let us be excited about the potential both Wheeler and d’Arnaud could bring but let us not yet already act like it is a done deal – especially when it might be more an attempt to praise Sandy Alderson in lieu of his many critics.

The argument is often made that Sandy knows that the way for a baseball team to make money is by winning. That is why I felt it important to add “right or wrong” about Sandy’s approach so one could not argue that if he was just in this for the business, he wouldn’t be making the moves he is with the team.

Yes, he would – that is why in the past I’ve shown that Pittsburgh, Kansas City, San Diego, etc. have for a long time fielded losing teams in small markets while ownership still made profits. In the case of the Pirates, official records showed that all the money received from revenue sharing went right into the owner’s pockets.

So as we know, many cast this aside as not being the case in New York and perhaps out of their frustrations with how things turned out with Omar they are not reading between the lines that message of “rebuilding”. Even after we disproved the myth that Sandy was following the same methodology used by the Giants, Nationals, Reds and Tigers – all four teams that were also losers for many years. Especially Detroit, which I pointed out went from 42 wins to the World Series in just three seasons and has been a competitor almost every year since.

If they want to make a team that guys on Wall Street think is the right way to do it fine, let those Wall Street guys but all the tickets….

If they don’t then they had better run thier business the way most others run it and that is to PLEASE YOUR CUSTOMERS, not your broker, lender or Accountant.

The issue is they THINK they are making smart business decisions or decision based on the business but the most important thing IN business is Revenue which they have ignored completely in favor of looking for beans to throw away.

If you make a good product then you won’t have to worry about the bills or the bottomline.
And telling your customer don’t worry we will be selling a good product 3 years from now will only lead to one result…
They will find someplace else to go for the next 3 years and you will have an even tougher time getting them back.

It’s also frustrating with there are those who only think in terms of baseball and don’t recognize this is a big business interested in profit making and surviving times of fiscal losses when owners have to tread water in order to protect their financial interests in the long-term. Anyone who can distinguish the Mets from just being a baseball team and can look at the way the organization is being handled from a business perspective would find no disagreement about this being a corporation on hard economic times and implementing cost cuts and the reduction of products and services as either temporary measures to weather the storm or to restructure and downsize in order to make the company more profitiable again.

But somehow it seems baseball clubs are immune to that. Right or wrong in his approach, all Sandy is treating this organization as a business and using the word “rebuilding” instead of “downsizing” because such admittance would never sit well with the paying fans.

It’s no different than the half gallon container being replaced by the two-liter bottle. A U.S. half gallon equals about 1.882 liters, not quite two but even though one gets less, it might not be noticed with the price not going up. This is all Sandy is doing to make ends meet.

I don’t know why that point is being lost with others. We’re now getting that two-liter product, that’s all it really is.

Whats really going on here is these guys fancy themselves capable of being a GM and thinking that budgets are what makes a great Gm. As if they say the right things that would be said in a Job Interview for a GM position might mean they should get the job they will NEVER EVER GET!

I don’t care or ever want to be the GM of the Mets…I run other companies that are much more challenging than running a sports team.

All I care about is will my favorite team be something to watch that is worth watching this summer or do I have to just accept it’s 1978 again, they lost, and skip the sports section and go right to the Movie listings?

I wantg to see good baseball, How much the Wilpons have to spend to give it to me doesn’t concern me. No more than I care how much Spielberg spent to make one of his movies.
If it’s good I’ll pat him on the back…If it sucks I’ll say so even if it only cost him a $1.50 to make it! That was his problem not mine.

Um… Roy Halladay?

“Or was it the 7 Top 10 picks in 12 years that made them what they are today?”

- It was probably some guy named JP Ricciardi acquiring Jose Bautista for peanuts as well as acquiring Morrow for League

Then they made a blockbuster trade with a joke of a franchise using no real top picks to get the influx of talent

DeSclafani – 6th round
Marisnick – 3rd round (JP)
Nicolino – 2nd round
Alvarez – IFA 06 (JP)
Hechavarria – IFA

So I’m not sure what your point is?

Or was it the 7 Top 10 picks in 12 years that made them what they are today?

Funny how they still had to go out and buy talent to get as far as they got now didn’t they?

Tought he farted and $#!T in his pants….

Notice how at the time they thought he was worth a MUCH better Cy Young then decided he wasn’t worth having and would take a lesser Cy Young guy instead….

The point lost on many of you….

Who knows maybe in two years WE will trade him for a Cy Young pitcher as well…