Omar to fly to PR to watch Delgado play (Brian Costa)
Mets to suspend participation in the VSL to consolidate all of their players in DR (Brian Costa)
Mets may be interested in Ben Sheets (Ahn.com)
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9 comments
wannybackstra
11/13/2009-10:02pm at 10:02 pm (UTC -4)
Sounds like the Mets are the laughingstock of the league. Following the fangraphs article quoted by Grave the other day which took a sarcastic swipe at Omar’s quick fix mentality, comes this from Gammons:
“One thing to do is change the general managers meetings. Then, rather than have agents set the fall agenda and allow teams like the New York Mets to set themselves up for public failure by being drawn into every agent’s speculation, continue to work by phone, see one another at the winter meetings and have the GM meetings at the end of January when serious issues from the draft to umpire development can be discussed.”
wannybackstra
11/13/2009-10:03pm at 10:03 pm (UTC -4)
on second read maybe it’s more sympathetic than laughingstock…
stickguy
11/14/2009-10:27am at 10:27 am (UTC -4)
even for Gammons (or most any of the other “journalists” who mostly make themselves laughing stocks) this was a dumb comment, or at least dumb spin.
The basic idea might be good (pushing the GM meetings back), but how does a GM meeting with agents (IOW, doing due dilligence, aka his job!) mean public failure?
Is every GM that speaks to an agent about a player a failure for not signing him? A good GM talkes to every agent, about every palyer just about.
I also don’t see how it makes Omar a failure when agents are obsessed with getting their clients connected to both NY teams even if their is no interest. Is Omar supposed to hide from Boras, et. al., and come out publically about every player he refuses to look into?
johan4cy
11/14/2009-1:51am at 1:51 am (UTC -4)
of course, we all know that sheets is great when hes healthy but we have already been too far down the injury road there is no way it will happen. hopefully…
stickguy
11/14/2009-10:23am at 10:23 am (UTC -4)
I like sheets, if he can prove to be throwing effectively 1st.
Hard to tell with some of these injury guys. Some I guess just have such serious structural problems that no way they can survive (shredded shoulders, stuff like that), but some others either have a serious of unrelated but fixable “fluke” injuries, or 1 basic problem that has to get fixed eventually.
The later situations actually can rebound for a string of healthy years, either by conditioning or luck (Wolf maybe?), or by finally getting the problem fixed (hopefully, John Maine!)
I honestly don’t remember what all the injuries that Sheets had. But, I would be much more willing to take the flyer on him if he fell into the structurally sound and fixable catagory.
Didn’t Petite have the same srugery 5 years ago? He seemed to hold up!
Also, a big difference signing him to a 1+1 deal with incentives, as oppsosed to a 5 year guarantee for ig money.
whataputz
11/14/2009-10:29am at 10:29 am (UTC -4)
I saw something that said he’d be 100% by ST. If this is true and he is still only getting a 1 year deal, I not only think it should be done, but I think it’s kind of a no brainer. This guy was an Ace 2 years ago. I remember him going up against Johan and outperforming him. The guy has nasty stuff. I’m not saying he’s the saving grace, but if you can sign him to a small deal with a chance to get a spot in the end of the rotation, I think we gotta pull the trigger.
stickguy
11/14/2009-10:31am at 10:31 am (UTC -4)
absolutely.
But, I do remember last year when he (or his agent) was kind of hiding him, pretending that he was practically ready to pitch, trying to get a 2 year deal. When no one bit, suddenly he was having surgery.
But, that is agent gaems. He is worth taking a shot at, probably a better option than Harden if Sheets can show himself on the mound.
whataputz
11/14/2009-10:25am at 10:25 am (UTC -4)
I don’t know if any of you saw that Fonzie article on mattsblog, but I think giving him his last shot as a met would be awesome. Obviously his career is probably over, but I’d love to see hm go out as a met. For us younger fans, Fonz is the man. I remember going to an LI Ducks game to get him to sign my old Mets Jersey. Those were good times, and if he has anything left in the tank, how great would it be if he could do it here?
stickguy
11/14/2009-10:29am at 10:29 am (UTC -4)
Didn’t they already give him a shot a few years ago, and he couldn’t even earn a promotion fro AAA when they were short handed?
Bring him in as a MiL coach, now that sounds like a plan!