Opinion: Don’t Rush To Judge Minaya, Yet
…sifting through the comments section, you’ll see a lot of criticism over Omar Minaya and company’s handling of the offseason so far..…and unwarranted criticism, in my opinion…
…since the unofficial start of the hot stove season, there have been exactly three trades – none of any significance, unless you count yesterday’s Angels-White Sox deal – and six free agent signings…there are roughly 161 players left in the free agent pool…
…yes, we have watched the Yankees dominant the hot stove by retaining Jorge Posada, Alex Rodriguez and Mariano Rivera, all of whom the Mets weren’t real players for anyways.…and yes, we have seen names from Jake Peavy, Johan Santana, Ramon Hernandez, Joe Blanton, Eric Bedard to Carlos Silva, Livan Hernandez, Yorvit Torrealba, Octavio Dotel and David Eckstein thrown about as possible targets for the Mets, but decisions to mortgage the team’s future on the trade front to handing out high-priced contracts cannot be decided in eight days…and no one should have expected minaya to revamp the 2008 Mets in that amount of time…
…i am sure the Mets want to build a team that makes everyone forget the disappointment of 2007, but we have to give minaya and company the benefit of the doubt for now…i’m not saying that if in the weeks after the upcoming winter meetings nothing has been done significantly to improve the team we should continue to give minaya a pass, but let’s not rush to judgment on minaya’s job to put together the 2008 Mets, at least not yet…
…posted by Matthew Cerrone…
…obviously, i agree with mike…also, speaking as a blogger, who crawls in and around the internets looking for information, i am astonished at the increase in available information compared to just one year ago, be it fact or fiction or something in between…which, i think, leads to a lot of panic, by me included, that so much can be done, but that no team is acting upon it…in reality, realistic options are probably far less, and most everything must take time to work out…
