Comments on: Vote: Minaya vs. Hendry

By: Cactus

Cactus — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:18:58 +0000

the pre-omar mets had a lot of talent. if omar never made a move the team would look like:

c: flores
1b: jacobs
2b: keppinger
3b: wright
ss: reyes
lf: gomez or floyd
cf: cameron
rf: milledge

By: Cactus

Cactus — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:16:11 +0000

alomar and vaughn stunk, but there’s no way on earth that acquiring them outweighs bringing in reyes and wright. those two are by far more important, they’re going to be here for 15+ years each and are the main reason for the team’s recent success.

By: Volume11

Volume11 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:05:17 +0000

Didn’t he also bring in Mo Vaughn and Alomar?? Both of those busts far outweigh anything he did. But its a wash in the end…I just think Minaya gets a hard time when no one understands how hard it is to acquire talent and asses players behind closed doors…

…and, like I said, any GM that can score Santana in his prime for 4 prospects is a great GM in my mind. A year ago I thought the only way to get a Santana pre-FA would be to get rid of Reyes or Wright…which would obviously suck…

The biggest mistakes I think he made were some of his bullpen decisions from 06 to 07. Most of the guys he got rid are doing pretty well (Bell, Bannister, Oliver and so on).

By: Necciai27

Necciai27 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:11:20 +0000

For anyone to be nominating Omar as the worst GM in baseball…you’re officially out of touch with the rest of baseball. Hello? Wayne Krivsky anyone? Jon Daniels? Brian Sabean? Ed Wade? Whoever the heck is the GM of the Marlins this month? IMO, Omar is a middle of the road, just above average GM. He’s not great nor terrible. And actually yes, I think I would take him over Jim Hendry (who got the bright idea of hiring Dusty Baker as a manager…ya *really* think we got it as bad with Willie?).

And FWIW, Minaya only has 16% of the vote as being worse. Hendry has 83%. I didn’t vote because neither guy deserves to be the worst GM. Still, VERY radical split. Either Mets homerism, fatalistic Cubs fans, or (probably) a combo of both to help that out.

By: mackey_sassers_arm

mackey_sassers_arm — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:22:28 +0000

but those two inherited superstars were phillips guys. Heilman too. You have to give him credit for that one signing and 2 draft picks if you are going to kill him for everything else.

By: mackey_sassers_arm

mackey_sassers_arm — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:07:14 +0000

I love when people get on omar for trading nady away without giving him credit for getting him in the first place. which is it??

By: Cactus

Cactus — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:41:09 +0000

let’s give credit where credit is due – to steve philips, who was in charge when they brought in reyes and wright. that’s what turned this franchise around. omar gets far, far, far too much credit.

By: theCoop

theCoop — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:13:09 +0000

Yes and John Maine was also a throw in. good thing we can’t give Omar any credit for our two aces (well, technically, three, but I don’t think johan will even be the best pitcher on staff this season)

By: Midtown

Midtown — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:40:28 +0000

I’m sorry, but you should care about his intentions when making trades.

Omar made the Nady trade, and got lucky by getting Perez. And that’s great, I wouldn’t have had it any other way. But if you keep making strange trades like that, more often than not, you’re not going to get that lucky. Omar struck gold with guys like Maine and Perez, who were afterthoughts. But chance isn’t always going to fall in our favor, and you can’t rely on it to get the job done.

By: BucsDugout

BucsDugout — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:07:45 +0000

Nah, no offense taken. Thanks for the kind words, and good luck to you too.