Read: Gammons Breaks Down the Mets
In his blog for ESPN.com, Peter Gammons examines what we know and what we don’t know about the current Mets organization.
According to Gammons, despite yesterday’s vote of confidence in Willie Randolph, the Mets are just 77-83 since last May, however:
“We don’t know why Carlos Beltran sometimes plays as if he’s lost, or why Jose Reyes pressures himself out of focus, or if the Mets do the things they do because of overrated talent or underappreciation of the expectations that any big East Coast market presents. We don’t know the extent of misunderstandings on different levels of Shea Stadium. We know only that the Wilpons and GM Omar Minaya do not want to blame everything on a man who has represented dignity and championships before this managing job, one who endured a 2007 collapse that has left him scarred by a public asterisk.”
As some of the solutions to Minaya’s problems, Gammons suggests that the Mets ‘blow something up,’ such as trading Carlos Beltran, cash and ‘pieces’ for a package with Alex Rios and A.J. Burnett, or acquire a player like Scott Hatteberg, Kevin Millar or Ryan Freel, who ‘would change the mix.’
…i am so tired of this…what is wrong, what can be done, how do we fix this, who needs to be fired…in my experience winning fixes everything…enough said…
…added to by Matthew Cerrone…
…yes, but winning doesn’t happen with the simple flip of a switch, or from just hoping it will happen or believing that it can…a) you need to be consistently better than the opposition, which i am not sure the Mets currently are, and so b) to improve the team, and better on a consistent basis, roster changes may need to occur…like it or not…
Einstein put it best when he essentially said, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
…fact is, this roster, this group of talent, with this group of leadership, is just a .500 team during the last 160 or so games…and so, it’s hard to trust they’ll magically be better if no additions or subtractions are made…
