Comments on: Braves to announce Glavine today; Mets maybe on Castillo

By: dave

dave — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:54:48 +0000

From Mets.com

“We are going to miss his quality starts [23, fifth most in the National League] and the innings [200 1/3] he provided,” Minaya said.

By: ed

ed — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:16:31 +0000

Glavin and Torrealba are not losses. How Glavin won fourteen games is a minor miracle. Major league hitters are all swinging for the seats, or Glavine would have had a 12.50 ERA.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:32:19 +0000

I don’t know Matt Garza. His numbers show he is a young pitcher trying to figure it out. Is he worth 3 players? One of whom is one of the Jewels of your farm?

By: ChiliGTC

ChiliGTC — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:06:13 +0000

Let me ask you all, Matt Garza’a name has been mentioned the last week. If the Mets were to obtain Garza for Gomez, Gotay +, and entered 2008 with a rotation of Pedro, Perez, Maine, Garza, and Pelfrey, isn’t that enough to compete? Get another quality bullpen arm (F Cordero). Milledge in right and Alou in left with Chavez as the caddy….we offer arbitration to LoDuca and get him for 1 year…isn’t this enough to compete? Then maybe get lucky and catch lighting in the bottle from a minor leaguer my midseason….I ask again, isn’t this enough to compete?

By: Stillsane

Stillsane — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:26:46 +0000

The GM Winter Meetings are in December. Let’s see what Omar does then before handing the pink slip. So far, he has not done much other than investigate a few free agents that really were not available to begin with either by the Mets not wanting to be held for ransom, or, the player running home to his home at a discount. I think giving up on the 2008 season and getting ready to crucify Omar on November 19th is a little premature.

By: graves9

graves9 — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:23:43 +0000

Ravi Livan will give you a worse 200 than even Glavine. The slob had a near 5 e.r.a no thanks.

By: adl

adl — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:18:33 +0000

Torealba’s not a loss; he was a targeted player that the Mets never landed. A healthy Torrealba wasn’t much to get excited about, except maybe that the Mets could have C settled for a couple of years. But if the guy can’t pass the physical then he’s not the player the Mets were targeting.

When does the non-tender list come out?

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:53:04 +0000

You follow up a disasterous season with a bad off season, and you know what that means. I fear it is going to be a long 2008 season for Met fans. Just when we needed Omar the most to make some big changes after last year’s collapse, look what we get. Nothing. Get ready Met fans, it is going to be a bad season coming up.

By: Ravi

Ravi — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:31:15 +0000

Graves9,

The way I see it, Omar needs a guy like that right now…Our rotation:

Pedro Maine Perez Pelfrey (blank)

I hope is able to get that frontline pitcher that he keeps mentioning, which would leave one more spot open. We need one guy who can give you 200IP, and face it, thats exactly what a guy like Livan can do for you, and at the same time be a serviceable 5th starter. Pelfrey has yet to pitch even 100 innings at AAA, where most young guys get about 200IP before the promotion. They would do well to leave him down there for the season. On top of that, Pelfrey is not going to give you 200IP this season.

It sucks that Omar will not be able to add the impact player as easily as he did previously, getting Pedro/Beltran/Alou/Wagner on teh FA market. There are no alternatives right now.

By: graves9

graves9 — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:58:44 +0000

Torrealba sucks and Glavine is shot. Four years for bad knees Castillo is insane. Omar seems to have become the Latin Steve Phillips. If Omar signs a whale like Livan and or Silva he should be fired.

By: Stillsane

Stillsane — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:24:47 +0000

I agree with Spiderpig on Torrealba. We never had him. And since there is very little buzz about other team’s breaking down his agent’s door to negotiate for him, there may be a very good reason why. As for Glavine, he is where he wanted to be and I would not be surprised to see him go into a performance slide similar to what Al Leiter did after the Mets would not re-sign him. The toughest thing for some of these athletes who have had wonderful careers is knowing when to walk away. The trend these days seems to be for them to hang in there until they hit the wall. I think Glavine is not too far from that point now. He sure looked like he was auditioning for it the last few starts as a Met.

By: Spiderpig

Spiderpig — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:07:36 +0000

I don’t think we lost out on Torrealba – we won by not getting him. More moves to comeÃ¢â‚¬Â¦

I heard at the end of Benigno and Roberts on WFAN just now that “Omar thinks the bullpen will be better because El Duque is there.” Does that mean he has officially been moved to the bullpen in terms of next year’s plans?

By: dave

dave — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:53:13 +0000

I can’t say the Mets have not been active.

They have locked up their FA they wanted back. Their catcher of choice mysteriously disappeared and the trade for the pitcher ( presumably ) will take a bit of time because they want to lower the cost.

The only problem is the signing of the catcher blew up.

In previous years Omar has gone out and got the free agents he wanted to get sooner rather than later. There are no ‘must have’ FA that he sees out there. Big Z never made it to the market.

By: dave

dave — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:49:18 +0000

Heilman can’t close.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:39:44 +0000

Sloppy, you’re too pessimistic. This team has some weaknesses to to be sure but they have some tremendous strenghts. They an MVP contending third baseman a terrific shortstop, a superstar CF, a starting pitching staff that could be anywhere from mediocre to excellent and a few good relievers in the pen. They will contend next year. Why are you so down on them? I peg them for about 88 wins next year. If things break well that could go up to 93 or 94.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:33:15 +0000

As sloppy pointed out, the Mets didn’t lose Torrealba. They never had him. I’m assuming you meant they ‘lost out’ on Torrealba.

By: sloppy

sloppy — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:28:38 +0000

Uh.. The Mets didn’t lose Torrealba. He wasn’t on the team last year. They lost Glavine and maybe they’ll lose LoDuca, but most importantly they are in decline and there has been nothing shown to indicate there will be any major change in the downward spiral. and since we’re not going to be in the race next year, I want no moves made other than finding a catcher from anywhere who can catch the ball.
Miledge in RF, Gomez in LF starting April 30 or so when Alou goes down, move El Duque to the pen and have Ollie, Maine and Pedro wth two from Mulvey, Humber and Pelfrey and hopefully be ready to compete in 2009 with 4 kids having a year under their belt. Then move F-Mart to first in Binghamton or New Orleans so he may be ready to help in 2009. I give up on the pen. Its gonna suck because the Wilpons won’t eat a penny of Mota/Schoeneweiss $$. Wagner is slowing and should be 31 July trade to help in 2009. Move Heilmann to close to finish the year or Sanchez if he’s ok.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:19:59 +0000

ESPN reported this morning that Castillo got 4 yrs. Glavine got 1yr for $9million from Atlanta.