Comments on: News: LaRocque Leaves Mets for Cards

By: metsftw

metsftw — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:55:05 +0000

so depressing that there aren’t any new office episodes. give the writers the money you stingy rich pricks.

By: letz_go_metz

letz_go_metz — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:30:49 +0000

I don’t know about these two prospects specifically, but here, here man! bravo! Scouting and Player Development! How simple is that to get? Without it the Mets organization is just pretending to try. They have to go full tilt building that foundation before building the next level of the organization. A system is only as strong as its weakest link. A building is only as strong a the weakest floor closest to the ground.

Build from within and don’t go cheap!

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:05:36 +0000

Yes

By: TilMetsDoUsPart

TilMetsDoUsPart — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:43:27 +0000

Is that a reference to the American “The Office?”

By: Me llamo Pedro

Me llamo Pedro — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:25:30 +0000

Well, yea, but that’s assuming you want six years of them after they have developed.

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:30:34 +0000

It doesn’t even make sense financially. It’s a lot cheaper to develop elite, or even just half way decent players, than it is to sign them in free agency. You get 6 years of them before they’re arbitration eligible right.

By: the clap

the clap — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:25:59 +0000

LaRocque’s influence in the convoluted world of the Mets inner circle is certainly up for debate. He had various scouting titles over a decade and served under 3 official GMs with all the new faces a regime change brought, plus all the superscouts and even a computer geek they brought in to bring a Moneyball slant on grading talent. LaRocque may be a smart guy. He may also have had less say in the organization’s signings than Al Leiter, John Franco and Jeff Wilpon.

By: Nails

Nails — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:24:50 +0000

Wally … a fair point; I guess I wonder why he would reply to my comment, then?

Perhaps I need to learn to read more effectively, as well.

Regardless, we’ve probably already wasted too much time discussing a guy whose talent or eye will never be able to be accurately assessed, as yagottabelieve makes a good point about a scout’s intent v. dumb luck.

By: Free Wally Backman

Free Wally Backman — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:21:00 +0000

Nails, I think the ‘moron’ that HTWZ was referring to was Gary LaRacque in a completely sarcastic manner. I’m pretty sure it was a jab not at you, but at Mets management in ‘04.

By: toomanyuniforms

toomanyuniforms — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:53:08 +0000

we had better not be cutting costs at the player development level. Talk about a bass-ackwards strategy. . .