Just waiting for the Mets to do something. Anything, actually.
Until they do, feel free to say whatever is on your mind about what’s turned out to be a very slooooooow winter meetings.
The Johan Santana trade, or lack thereof, has things bogged down in the trade market. So,, should the Mets just forget about Erik Bedard and Dan Haren and pick up who they can off the free agent scrap pile.
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Sounds like it.
If you cannot or won’t go for the gold get what you can ( paraphrasing the stones ) while you can still get it.
At least you can muddle along and hope things break right and Pelf/Humber figure it out and CarGo becomes useful again and..
Personally I want nothing to do with the FAs out there. I’d rather ignore the problem than settle. Pedro, Maine, Perez, Duque, Pelfrey, Humber…maybe bring some wild cards to spring training like last year. They’ll survive, and there’s plenty of time in-season to address problems. Who knows, maybe Heilman could finally even get a shot at a start or two…Would that be the worst thing in the world?
It wouldn’t be the most horrible thing in the world to let Pelfrey and Humber compete for the 5th starter job. An ace isn’t going to happen with what we got and we’ve depleted the farm system enough. If need be during the season, we could look into a deal if one of the pitchers just isn’t cutting it.
I just feel like everything has broken against the Mets here. Face it, two years ago, or even a year ago, Milledge and Pelfrey were on the cusp, Fernando Martinez and Carlos Gomez were practically babies. I mean, the farm system was looking great. Better than the Yanks’, for sure. Now look what happened. Everything that could go wrong, did you go wrong. We’ve already sold Milledge low – which I didn’t disagree with – but can we afford to sell them all low? From the sound of it, their stock can only go up from here anyway.
ok heres what i propose…
lets stop this nonsense and look away from the suspense for a minute…
we trade for AJ burnett…get him real cheap because he’s a cancer in toronto…he’ll either bust or success in the NY media…plus if he doesn;’t like it he can opt out in 2008…that’s ace potential
next, sign livan hernandez…innings eatter back of the rotation guy who’ll help young arms (assuming we dont spoonfeed them away to other times…looking at you milledge situation…yeah shutup the hair on the back of you neck tells you that trade was one sided)....
also get a prime bullpen guy*
i’ll leave this as an unknown
i wouldn’t be surprised if one of our “babies” turns out to prime stuff….i’m talking about tenderloins, grade A beefsteaks…none of those wussy sides…
I think it´s time to cut bait on the idea of getting an ace—we should just admit it isn´t happening and move on. A FA like Livan is a possibility, as is taking a chance on a guy coming off injury, like Colon, Jennings, Clement, Freddy Garcia…
I don´t think we can even re-tool (not that the Wilpons ever would in NY) by trading established stars for ready-to-go prospects. Beltran has a no-trade, Delgado´s value is low, Moises is old, Church is good but not valuable enough to get a serious upgrade. With the exception of Cabrera and maybe Tejada, all the big deals for prospects this year seem to be for top pitchers, which we don´t have.
Let´s just get ourselves some insurance in the rotation and hope the young guys develop better than they have. Maybe the lack of interest in them will be the wake up call they need to move to the next level.
Here’s my question: If the Mets failed to deal Milledge when his value was high, then should they hold off on dealing Gomez—or should they move him now, in an effort to not repeat the Milledge/low value mistake twice?
well when milledge’s value was high, it was WAY high. Gomez can’t bring back Joe Blanton, so what’s the point? It appears that Gomez is highly ranked in terms of the Mets prospects – but that’s not saying much since the entirety of baseball seems to think are prospects are a joke. it’s sad. let’s stop talking about it.
I believe the problem is the GM and his team. They don’t know how to make a deal for a big name player, they apparently don’t know how to find talent in HS, College or other countries, and they have forgotten how to sign good FAs. And they don’t know how to develop prospects.
Pelfrey and Milledge were bounced up and down for 2 years. Humber was brought up, left to rot for a month then told to start and save the season, Gomez was brought up and before he got hurt, everytime he did something good he was called out for being exuberant. FMART was put at a level he wasn’t ready for.