I think you are absolutely on track here!…

The Marlins plan actually has merit, it just looks rather slimey and underhanded. The fans have to suffer through 3-5 years of terrible ball but they get a WS team as a trade off. Its not a bad deal if you’re a small market team.

They did make some rather poor choices on who they traded for, the LoDuca trade brought them nothing for instance. And I think firing Girard set them back a couple years, but I wouldnt be surprised to see this team compete for a playoff spot while Hanley Ramizes is still an arbitration player, and if Maybin becomes the beast everyone thinks they could have a solid team for 2-4 years.

As built now they kind of remind me off the A’s when Hudson, Mulder, and Tejada where thier future.

It looked like we were doing that for a minute. But now we have a team that is very similar to the ’02 team. If you look realistically at the Mets it’s a bunch of older players with a very limited minor league system. We’re 2 or 3 injuries from disaster. Sure you can say so is every other team. But if you look at the Yankees, Red Sox, Tigers, Dodgers and Angels they are all in better shape than us in having young major league ready players and a minor league system full of potential backups and valuable trade bait.

If you remove Reyes and Wright there is no other position player on our roster that anyone wants. Maybe teams would be interested in Beltran if he had a lower salary.

Bottom line, this Mets team is a house of cards. I hope it can be secured before it collapses.

Otherwise, it’s genious. They take a big star and trade him for 1-3 stars of the future that are somewhat ready to play now. It’s not like they are signing A guys, but typically guys who have got their feet wet in the majors and have done decent so its not as risky; see jacobs. Then after a couple years, they trade that player for a few more top players of another teams youth and repeat. This way they are constantly getting very good young players who are very hungry to show off their skills playing all the time and may not be intimidated to do so by a veteran being around. I doubt they’ll ever need to listen to “know your place rook”.

I think it’s great and wish the Mets did it to SOME extent. Imagine flipping veteran players like Delgado, Alou, Pedro, Castillo, Wagner and getting 2-3 good prospects a piece to build a team around Wright, Reyes, Beltran, Maine and OP. Say a few of those propspects pan out and now you have a good young players built around an already solid young nucleas.

In fact, if we did that minus the cheapness of the Marlins, we could probably get more back in return than the marlins typically do by eating some salary and we’d have a stacked farm to trade for any particular missing pieces. A. Jones fetched an incredible salary this year with such crap numbers last year. We could easily move Delgado for some promising youth.

and who’s talking about the yankees? im certainly not a yankee fan, if thats what youre implying.

(I wrote a good amount here, but never really made a good point, so I erased it and decided to go with just the following)

What would you rather see happen in 2008-2013:

1) The Mets win the World Series in 2008, but then demolish their team. By the end of 2009, Wright, Reyes, Beltran, Maine, Perez, Pelfrey, Humber, and Heilman are all traded away for prospects. Play awful baseball for a couple of years until the new group of guys mature and become playoff worthy in 2012.

2) The Mets continue to play quality baseball during these all these years, regularly make the playoffs, make the World Series a couple of times, but can’t seem to win it.

Would that really mean they’d have to have interleague games every day of the season? I know it would create a problem during interleague play, but I would think there’s some way it could be worked out with off days. No?

The Tigers now have huge parts of the 1997 (Leyland, Sheffield, Renteria) and 2003 (Pudge, Willis, Cabrera) Marlins teams.

We finished last season with 3 1997ers (Alou, Castillo, Conine) and of course Alou replaced a 4th in Floyd. Hopefully we won’t add another in Livan. The 2000 NL Champs featured 3 more (Leiter, Cook, Abbott). Toss in Bonilla and we’ve had half the 97 team play for us. And from 03 you’ve got Castillo and Conine again, plus Looper, Gerald Williams, and Castro.

For a team that doesn’t want to deal in the same division….