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Jun
22
Tatis is the Mets' cleanup hitter on Monday night with Sheffield getting the night off.
BY ANTHONY LAFAMAN
STACHE WRITER
Unreal, with Beltran headed to DL the Mets are trotting out a bunch of clowns in tonights opener against the birds.
Cora, Murphy, Wright, Tatis, Church, Santos, Reed, Castillo and Pitcher.
This has to be an instance where Minaya earns that pay. He has to be creative, he can’t sleep until he makes a deal that plugs one of these holes.
Even if that means parting with Niese or Fernando Martinez. I’m always against trading blue-chippers but this is a extreme set of circumstances.
If the Mets are serious about winning this year something has to be done.
Categories: Anthony Lafaman , MLB , Mets
I’m sure the Mets WERE serious about winning this year, but that was before 3 of their allstar caliber position players, 2 of their top starting pitchers, and their premiere setup man all got hurt. It makes absolutely no sense to make reactionary trades that do nothing but bandaid the leaky dam. Every other GM is going to know Omar is desperate and will ask way too much in return for whatever they offer. I’m sure even Mark DeRosa would cost FMart right now. If the Mets weren’t trading FMart for Manny last year, what makes you think they’ll trade him now for a bum like Adam Dunn or Aubrey Huff?
Find me another team in history that has lost this many key players to lenghthy injury stints and still remained successful, or traded their entire minor league system to replace the injured. There comes a time in the season when you have to realize to cut bait, and this is it. The alternative is trading away your last remaining minor league gems for a couple 3-month rentals, with the chance of maybe sneaking into the playoffs this year, and then watching as the Mets fall apart from lack of depth and resources for the next 4 years. Take this season on the chin and regroup for next year. It’s a tough pill to swallow but the injury bug has forced the Mets into this corner.
At least isuzudude is a rational thinker. When you’re screwed, you’re screwed.
Ahh, who am I kidding? Let’s make some knee-jerk deals!
Never did I mention the blue-chippers were to be traded for the likes of 30+ year old bad defensive 1st baseman, all I said was Omar needs to do something to hold the water from breaking the dam. Blue-chippers should be moved for impact players only, if the opportunity presents itself say for a Matt Holliday. The McClouth deal was creative and cost the Braves pratically nothing, Omar is too smart to make reactionary trades ok but trotting out Wilson Valdez or fucking relying on Fernando Tatis is not the answer.
So trading for Matt Holliday is the answer. And what if Billy Beane doesn’t want to trade him? Is that Omar’s fault? What if it costs FMart, Niese, and Holt? To you throw caution to the wind and just go for it? Additionally, will Holliday single-handedly boost the Mets into better than a 2-game-above-.500 team? Or will his power numbers be zapped playing at CitiField just as David Wright and Carlos Beltran’s have? Is your plea for outside help really that well thought out?
Omar gets no credit for being creative in signing Fernando Nieve off the waiver wire scrap heap. No credit for resurrecting Gary Sheffield from the dead. Omir Santos. Livan Hernandez. Alex Cora. So Omar didn’t earn his pay with those acquisitions, and now must earn his pay (or risk being blamed for the landslide of injuries?) by making, what will be in essense, a reactionary trade. But, you mention Omar is too smart to make a reactionary trade, SO THEN WHAT’S THE POINT OF THIS ARTICLE?