Sep 28
Jay Jaffee from over at SI.com has been writing a series of articles titled “Wait Till Next year” that looks at teams that have been mathematically eliminated from contention. Today’s team was the New York Mets.
It covers what went right, what went wrong and finally his overall outlook.
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5 comments
srt
9/29/2012-11:03am at 11:03 am (UTC -4)
As stated in this article, the Mets are far from out of the woods financially. Not sure why some Met fans don’t get that. It’s very difficult for any FO to field a post season type team slashing payroll 50 MIL from one season to the next. I really believe SA was brought in to first save the team for the Wilpons first. Secondary goal is restructuring from top to bottom.
SA won’t be here long enough to see a championship team, IMO
gategem
9/29/2012-10:30pm at 10:30 pm (UTC -4)
Once you subtract the “sunk” cost the Mets discretionary resources are someone limited and with the Wilpons financial situation will be for some time to come. In theory you can build a strong ballclub by trading whatever talent you have for other team’s better prospects. As an example if they trade Niese for say three good prospects then in three years or so you may have three competent major league players. If you then turn those guys over for more prospects and keep on doing this in say seven or eight years you may have built a strong team on the proverbial shoestring. The problem occurs if the talent you get back does not develop as projected. Under those conditions you well be a bad ballclub in perpetuity.
gategem
9/29/2012-10:41pm at 10:41 pm (UTC -4)
SRT, have you seen the new Amazin’Avenue format? It looks like something that was created by the Mickey Mouse Club. I’ve always said those guys have PhD’s in basket weaving.
Stickguy
9/29/2012-12:00pm at 12:00 pm (UTC -4)
It is still mind boggling how bad they were coming out of the break. Even playing roughly .500 would have them right there in the WC hunt now.
Stickguy
9/29/2012-12:03pm at 12:03 pm (UTC -4)
also, lots of room for improvement next year, even without major changes.. About the only guys that had good or above normal years were Wright (career average really, just not done evenly!) and Dickey (who was almost this good the last 2 years also).
Other than that, everyone had down years or was fresh off the farm, so hopefully with upside.
Just please make the real horrid offenders disappear, since Bay, Torres and a few others are not going to improve next year!