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Added by Eddie Utley on July 25, 2012.
Mets GM Sandy Alderson has watched his team collapse since the All-Star break.
New York Mets GM Sandy Alderson has given Mets fans a lot of lip service from the very beginning of this season.
First, he brought in talent that brings very little, if anything, to the table. His replacements are no better than putting the Buffalo Bisons on the field. The only player who has done anything is Scott Hairston and even that has negatives along with it, like whenever he’s on the field.
I you could argue starting pitcher Chris Young has been okay but they keep leaving him in for the 7th inning where he loses it. At least former GM Omar Minaya stocked the team with good bench players, where the ‘B’ lineup wasn’t like a little league team.
Secondly, Alderson has been telling us that the Mets do indeed have money to spend. We all were under the impression that they have no money and this has been proven by the lack of moves. Alderson continued to say the Mets are buyers and the next 7-10 days will tell if we’re buyers. So, he was planning to wait until the 31st to make trades? Really?
What about this Triple-A shuttling. Ike Davis didn’t go down when he was horrendous yet Lucas Duda gets sent packing. I don’t care about defense for Davis; he has not been that good in the field this year anyway. I like Kirk Nieuwenheis but he has not been hitting after his hot start either so why isn’t he going to Buffalo too (probably will for Baxter). V
Jordany Valdespin is up but barely plays. He has done more for the Mets in his time in the majors than Jason Bay has done for the team in three years. Reliever Josh Edgin was left to rot in Buffalo while Ramon Ramirez is allowed to stink up the joint with no consequences yet Pedro Beato got about a week.
Now the Mets have fallen hard, Santana is on the DL and Batista was given a start which we all penciled in as a loss before the game started. The Mets have been in some of the games but errors and bullpen miscues have killed them. They probably would have had four or five more wins and still be over .500.
Now we sit here wondering why we bought in. We watch teams get players for very little in return. Even low budget teams are paying the freight. The Yankees got Ichiro and the Mariners are paying most of his salary. The Pirates got Wandy Rodriguez who is not the next coming of Cy Young but a solid starter. Someone to replace Dillon Gee would have been nice right? The Astros are paying about half of the money due to Rodriguez.
The Dodgers got Hanley Ramirez. Could the Mets use a right handed power bat? Oh wait; we have one…Jason Freakin’ Bay.
They have been trying to get Mets fans to back Bay and believe he’s still “that guy”. He’s not. Eat the money already. The Pirates want a right handed bat, maybe sending him there would revitalize him, but who cares, if we have to watch losing baseball then get him out of here already.
Teams were saying the Mets wanted to trade for their pitchers but wouldn’t pay any money. Some teams will take on the money to get a better player. The Mets were trying to give up nothing and not pay. What happened to having money to spend, as Alderson claimed.
When are you going to get a no hitter, a 13-1 pitcher using an ancient pitch, a batter hitting .350 and previously in the running for MVP until the team flopped, all in one season?
Alderson should have put the pedal to the metal. Omar was making trades in May some years and the Mets will do nothing this year. How do you expect the fans to back you and keep coming back? When you don’t win, you don’t get the fans. How will David Wright want to come back to this? Knowing they’re looking at 2014 with unproven pitchers and players. Who knows how they will fare. Harvey, Familia, Wheeler and Mejia can all flame out. Den Dekker can continue to be a strikeout machine.
You let down the players and the fans. The Mets were seven games over .500 and leading the wild card when the All-Star break came around and now…
There are still chances for the Mets to do something and try to turn it around or at least make it look like they are. They could have signed Wright to an extension but now the price has gone way up. They could have signed R.A. Dickey to a reasonable contract but didn’t. BJ and Justin Upton are still out there. Hunter Pence anyone? Teams have shown that you don’t have to mortgage the future but you can do something even if it’s more for next year.
Can you at least make it look like the Mets give a damn? Just a little.
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vlad
July 25, 2012 at 10:10 am
Amen! I keep waiting for Alderson to do something. It’s like watching a bad movie: you see that it’s bad, you have a feeling that nothing will change, but you keep watching because you think it can’t possibly stay this bad! I can’t believe that he is letting the season just die! The flaws – terrible bullpen, lack of power, no depth – have been there for some time. We were playing with house money with Dickey starting 13-1, Hairston and the AAA guys playing well for a while. Valdespin offers more than Hairston, but he’s basically picked up where the other left off, with HRs in bunches and little else. But now rotation is thin (we can only hope that Harvey wins a few up here) and we have no one to replace all the slumping guys. I shouldn’t be surprised by Mets lack of action to get better players; it’s so obvious they don’t have the money and had tried to sucker the fans to believe that team as constituted was enough because everyone hustled and it was a feel-good story. But Dickey and Wright had overachieved in first half to get us this far(let’s face it, one is not a 20 game winner and the other is not a .350 hitter). Tejada, after he got back, has been Prime Jose Reyes great. The rest of the scrappy guys did well to hold on for awhile. But now, reality has set in, everyone has floated back down to their abilities; as expected, the team is not contender-worthy. Assuming that Santana will return healthy in a week or 2, all we needed was a starter to replace Gee, some bullpen help and 2 more quality-if-not-superstar bats to remain above water for the 2nd WC spot. It apalls me that we have tried nothing!
Allan
July 25, 2012 at 2:21 pm
The Mets demoted the wrong outfielder. Lucas Duda should’ve stayed, and worked out his hitting slump. The Mets should demote Jason Bay or get rid of him. Bay is hitting .182 with ONLY 5 Homeruns. Duda has 12 HR’s and 44 RBI’s and his average is .241. Bay only has 8 RBI’s. The Mets are giving all the patience to Bay, and are showing very little patience with Duda. Lets face it, Bay is not going to come around. Bay is a BUST. Bay is one of those players who can’t handle the New York PRESSURE.
I don’t understand what the GM, Manager or the organization is doing. Can someone please explain to me why Jason Bay is still with this team.
E
July 25, 2012 at 3:15 pm
Can’t demote Bay unless he okays it. He just shouldn’t have been activated when he was. They should have left him on a full 30 day rehab assignment and see if he can figure anything out because he looked bad before they brought him up too, it’s not like he looked good at all.
I think Bay can handle the pressure, he did play in Boston which is close to the same pressure. The pressure of being “the man” is probably what got to him.
Duda needs a reset, still surprised by it.
E
July 25, 2012 at 12:20 pm
I don’t know if I’d say Wright overachieved, he’s been a .300 hitter until recent years where he had the head to the head, the back, etc. He was a .320 hitter before the problems.
Dickey added a new pitch which no one has seen before. I think as the summer goes on he will have problems because humidity. Lack of humidity is probably why he was so good early.
Tejada = Reyes? eh…with the bat but no on the bases. That is something the Mets seriously lack. They have no speed. The speed they do have can’t get on base. Torres can’t hit, Nieuwenheis isn’t a burner but can run, Bay isn’t a burner either but he has sneaky speed and instincts.
A starter to replace Gee is a definite. Was hoping Hef could hold it down for a while since they refused to call up Harvey or Wheeler.
Bullpen I think they would have been fine calling up their own guys and killing dead weight like Ramon Ramirez and DL Rauch when he has knees drained and elbow bone chips.
The bats are definite but the Mets aren’t going to get them because of Jason Bay. No other way to put it. Duda and Davis would be that power you need if they would be consistent and Murphy is a guy who can hit 10+ HRs but hasn’t hit anything this year. They have power but they aren’t hitting. The only place I could see them adding is catcher, Kelly Shoppach or someone. And one of the outfield positions whether it’s Bay or Torres. The Uptons are available, Pence and probably a few others who I can’t think of right now.
If it was me, I would capitalize on this year because next year may be a whole different ballgame.
eddie86
July 31, 2012 at 4:21 pm
Well what can you say?..Sandy did absolutely NOTHING this year to improve this team..he waited till we had a losing record and did not get us the closer we needed..if he had maybe we’d still have a winning record…NOT the most creative GM either because a smart GM finds ways to improve his team.I really think he could have done more.
E
July 31, 2012 at 7:37 pm
Exactly, anything AT ALL would have been better than nothing.