Minaya Out of Answers In Attempt to Improve Hapless Club
Roy Halliday is a Phillie today. John Lackey is in Boston and Matt Holliday may end up staying in St. Louis. The fourth big fish to be had this offseason, Jason Bay, is still out there.
The Mets have an offer on the table to Bay, the player they had the most chance of landing this offseason. The question is, will they close the deal on this much-needed asset?
I believe they will. Bay's current team, the Red Sox, spent their allowance on Lackey—plus Bay has already rejected their offers. The Mets will now do what it takes to land the 30-year-old slugger.
The real question for the Mets is: Even with Bay, which direction is this franchise going in?
The future looks dim. The farm system is in a shambles. The major league team has few stars to hang its hat on.
All the Mets have is Johan Santana (providing he returns 100% from his injury) and K-Rod. After that, all else is in question....
Carlos Beltran's knees are going. Jose Reyes' hamstring may never heal. David Wright is no longer an A-list player. Mike Pelfrey has turned out to be a fourth starter or beyond.
This past season could not have gone any worse. Injuries, poor decisions, lousy play and a level of unpreparedness has left fans in a lurch over the future of this team.
The fans are being asked to buck up for next season and the team has not assured its customers that the sufficient repairs and upgrades have been made.
They have retained the manager, Jerry Manuel, for unknown reasons. He should have been fired. It does not matter how well anyone thinks Manuel performed last year.
He is the face of a failed regime—an unmitigated disaster—and should have been removed. Its like reinstating the captain of the Staten Island Ferry crash. Or letting Jeffrey Skilling restart Enron.
Are they kidding?
Signing Bay and Benjie Molina—or whoever else they need to sign to field a team—is just another survival move for the Mets.
They should be building a championship organization from within. They are not. They are one of the worst teams when it comes to drafting and signing draft choices.
I agree that is only one avenue of several when it comes to acquiring talent. But it is an important one.
Omar Minaya relied too heavily on the likes of the banished Tony Bernazard, who specialized in recruiting Latin players. Even with Bernazard, the Mets screwed that up and now he is gone.
Now they'll have to try to operate like the other 29 teams in Major League Baseball instead of falling back on their financial might to lure players.
I don't see this happening. The organization is the worst in the business. Minaya was supposed to be building something here. Instead, he's destroyed it.
We know what color the seats at Citi Field are (green). We know that because many of them are left empty on game days, a trend that will continue for the foreseeable future.
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