Mets in the Papers
Posted by CaseStreet on 10:05am, Monday September 28th 2009
Once again it’s time to get your daily dose of TRDMB’s Mets in the Papers.
Brian Costa, “Pitching Coach Dan Warthen Faces Uncertain Future With NY Mets”
With general manager Omar Minaya and manager Jerry Manuel both expected to keep their jobs, Warthen is the most high-profile person in the organization whose status for next season is unclear.
Bart Hubbuch, “Mets Win a Misch-Match”
Misch, who almost had his rotation spot taken away by Manuel this week after three horrid starts, scattered eight hits and three walks while striking out two in his first career complete game, a 4-0 Mets victory.
Bart Hubbuch, “David Misses Marlins After Loaf”
The Mets’ All-Star third baseman was conspicuously absent from the 4-0 win over the Marlins, less than 24 hours after Wright’s shockingly uncharacteristic lack of hustle prompted a personal apology to his teammates and a postgame Manuel tongue-lashing.
Bart Hubbuch, “Beltran Looking To End Career With Mets”
“I love it [in New York],” said Beltran, who homered last night. “I love the guys. I’ve made New York my home, and I feel happy. Even though we’ve gone through a lot of terrible things, I still feel like we have the potential to accomplish our goal of winning a World Series.”
Marty Noble, “Mets Aiming to Emulate 1979 Squad”
The Mets of 1979, Joe Torre’s Mets, lost 99 of their first 156 games. The franchise’s sixth 100-loss seemed a foregone conclusion. But the Mets won the second game of a double header at Wrigley Field, and Torre challenged his team to win five more games. They beat the Cubs the following day and swept a four-gamer series in St. Louis.
Marty Noble, “Manuel Speaks to Mets Through Wright”
The mistake, and Manuel’s measured reaction to it, allowed him to address the topic that he intends to emphasize from the first bead of sweat come Spring Training: that the careless, fundamentally flawed baseball the Mets have played for months will not be tolerated in 2010.
Marty Noble, “Misch Delivers Complete-Game Shutout”
Misch produced a Glavine-esque line — eight hits and three walks, all before the sixth inning. He struck out two. And in so doing he produced the Mets’ second complete game this season — Livan Hernandez pitched the other — and the team’s first one-man shutout since Johan Santana threw nine zeroes at the Marlins one year earlier, to the day, at Shea Stadium.
Steve Popper, “Wright Or Wrong, It’s Done”
“I think the thing is, as difficult as it is to probably have the experience that he had [Saturday] night with that particular incident, it probably was the best time for us I would say to move forward as an organization,” Manuel said. “Now we can face that issue, talk about it, bring him in right after the game and kind of lay the law down basically — say this is unacceptable, unallowable for you, of anybody.
Joel Sherman, “Realistic Way To Re-Tool Mets”
Here is what I would do: Put out strong one-year offers with a 2011 option to a group at each position. Say Rod Barajas/Bengie Molina/Miguel Olivo at catcher; Nick Johnson/Russ Branyan/Adam LaRoche at first: and Bobby Abreu, Mark DeRosa and Jermaine Dye for left field. The first guy to take the offer in each group gets the contract.
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I love Sherman’s first to accept approach. It’s so realistic. (sarcasm)
Still though, Sherman makes a valid point of not putting too much faith in small samples.
Like it really works that way. LOL. OK guys first one in the pool wins. We need a LF but we will just move on if all of you don’t sign by this date. LOL.
And as for Nick Johnson, after watching him this weekend I would not spend 2M on him. He can’t move.
I would explore a trade for Lyle Overbay and Brian Tallet.
yeah, I heard GKR say Johnson must have some injury.
Watching that last series, it was certainly obvious to me, Johnson has some type of injury he’s playing with. He’s got no range out there at first, and it cost at least one error in those games.
Agreed, after watching that I trust him to be healthy about as much as I do Delgado.
I really am liking the idea of trading for Overbay. Same price, durable and only a 1 year contract.
saying Johnson must have some injury is like a weatherman in Fla. predicting a chance of sowers in August. Odds are you are going to be correct.
problem is, at what prospect coast? He also doesn’t do mych for the power void, if you are worried about that for next year.
Still worth exploring Pena if the Rays are looking for a salary dump.
I don’t think now the Rays will dump Pena. I think they will play out until the Allstar break with Crawford and Pena.
As for Overbay, the Jays will be in rebuilding mode as I expect Halladay to get traded. Overbay should not cost much considering he is average and has 7M for 1 year left.
You know, I’m tired of reading ‘yes, we realize the Mets were devastated by injuries this year but they should have been better prepared’…..
I don’t see how you can be prepared to lose 3 of 4 of your core guys, your set up guy and two SP for multiple months. Throw in backups and backups to backups, plus at least 2 of your SP depth (as in Niese and Nieve). Yes, you should have some depth to cover a 15 day DL stint. Or a strong enough bench to cover one guy for multiple weeks/months. Having enough depth to cover half a season or better at half the positions? Find me one team that can do that…..
no team is likely to cover the depth through a long stretch of the season, so I agree that having enough above average reinforcements (or trying to trade for multiples at the deadline) was not plausible.
I think what bugs people more isn’t that the few backups still in aren’t enough to carry the team, it is that they continue to look like the bad news bears (before the end of the season!) on a regular basis.
Agreed. That problem actually started with the beginning of the season in April, before all the injuries. I have the sinking suspicion that had most stayed healthy, it still would have been a problem all year.
I remember commenting to my Dad going into May that this is not a team that was previously defensively challenged, so what the heck was going on? Was it some players playing out of position, not enough time in ST with the whole team to come together as a team, some problem behind the scenes? Was never able to put my finger on it. Then, with all the injuries, it kind of got over shadowed…..
“I think what bugs people more isn’t that the few backups still in aren’t enough to carry the team, it is that they continue to look like the bad news bears (before the end of the season!) on a regular basis.”
LOL!!
That is all I have been trying to say….