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This past weekend, the Mets signed 30–year-old free-agent OF John Rodriguez to a minor-league contract.
Rodriguez, who was 1 for 3 in his first game for Triple-A New Orleans yesterday, hit .298 in 158 career games for the Cardinals in 2005 and 2006.
He spent all of 2007 with Triple-A Memphis.
Meanwhile, the Mets bench is hitting .165, which is good for last place in the National League.
…and yet, this has not stopped them from carrying two back-up catchers, as well as Abraham Nunez and Ryan Church, who will see a neurologist today because he has been unable to play regularly for the last two weeks…
On Sunday, Willie Randolph told reporters that Marlon Anderson could rejoin the team on its current home stand.
Anderson is batting .167 and was hitless in his previous 18 at-bats before going on the disabled list with a hamstring injury.
The Mets entered this season assuming their bench would be Damion Easley, Endy Chavez, Ramon Castro, Angel Pagan and Anderson.
However, Pagan is still recovering from a banged up shoulder, while Chavez is batting .218 and Easley is batting .238, although they have both been hitting in the last week or so.
For what it’s worth, for Triple-A New Orleans, OF Jesus Feliciano is hitting .322, OF-1B Val Pascucci is batting .301 and OF Chris Aguila is hitting .296.
Of course, Robinson Cancel is batting 375.
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John ……………………………………….. Rodriguez. Excellent.
Alex … would have been a better Rodriguez to sign. Just sayin…
Omar has mismanaged this teams roster for the past three years. It’s not even the trades that don’t work out, etc. it’s decisions not to DL a guy and let him take a roster spot for an extended period of time. This whole organization is so frustrating right now from top to bottom.
This is pitiful.
I remember the Yankee championship teams of the late 90’s having Strawberry, Ruben Sierra and the like on their bench.
We have Cassanova and Nunez. Yea, that’s really gonna get it done.
Has Nunez even had an AB yet? Just DL Church and bring someone up!
Can we in the midst of frustration at least not make stuff up?
Minaya has mismanaged the roster for the past three years? Like including the year that brought a team whose two top starting pitchers went down within 14 days of the playoffs to within one game of the world series?
The roster has problems and holes, but it has an many freak occurrences as well. Last year Lastings Milledge breaking his foot, this year Church taking a knee to the head, how often do you even see that happen in baseball? And yet it happened to the Mets twice in a month with Reyes and Church.
No excuses this team has been mediocre since last June and borderline terrible in stretches of that time, but to say he has mismanaged the roster for three years is just innaccurate.
dude, he built a bench that’s hitting .165 at a whole. if that’s not mismanagement, what is?
Omar’s time is over, his window is closed. Anything more and the team is set back for the next 5 years. Don’t be an Omar apologist just because one club almost made the WS. Almost doesn’t count in the real world.
Actually he has done exactly that. When a person has two concussions in such a short period of time it raises a yellow flag. Church should have been DL’ed from the get go and another bat brought from the minors or where ever. This happened a couple of times to this team last year and Omar let guys sit on the bench without DLing them. WIllie used them as pinch hitters, thus losing about a week when they were obviously injured. This team has THREE catchers on it’s roster for absolutely no reason. The recent third catcher called up is inefective and he’s 36 to boot!!!
Again, I am just talking about the roster neeeds, we haven’t even gotten into the moves that Omar has done of late. I like Omar and think he has made some great moves, but his bad ones certainly are easier to spot at this point. I really think this organization needs to be torn apart from top to bottom.
And also, it was two years ago that this team was close to the WS. A lot has changed since then.
Roy Hobbs is available. That’s about the player we need right now.
Pathetic…
Omar would probably get his 50-year-old cousin, Ronaldo Hobbes.
hahaha! funny stuff
It actually wasn’t really funny at all.
My point was we need someone like a “Roy Hobbs” (not even a real person) who can do it all…can spark a team back to life, can run, hit and throw.
Getting one piece will not be enough.
C’mon, nrmax…it was a little bit funny. Admit it.
I thought it was pretty funny conceptually. How does ronaldo hobbes come into being? how is he treated in town? Was he in the will when the parents died, or did Roy get everything (though allowing Ronaldo to stay in the guesthouse)? that’s what’s funny to me.
Good questions, all.
First of all it was funny. Second, someone mentioned Ruben Sierra above. Omar actually signed him to a minor league contract last year and he was in spring training. Fortunately he asked to be released, or we would have seen plenty of him. I come from a mixed family. I consider myself of mixed race as well. But even I know that Omar does like to give opportunities to people who share a similar background to him. They are the players who get the minor league contracts when others don’t. The staff around him reflects that as well.
Before anyone bothers to mention the guys who don’t fit that mold, I’m not saying it’s a BIG issue, but it’s not something you can really pretend hasn’t existed if you’re being honest. For whatever reason, Omar does extend more opportunities to aging Latin players. Anyone who wants to flame me for it can do that, but you would have a very hard time convincing the people in my life that I am racist. It is what it is.
This is a AA bench.
I never heard anything about these guys having a drinking problem.
Hello everyone….
I just wanted to let you know that I just got off the phone with Omar. I’ve been signed to a minor-league deal and will be reporting to New Orleans immediately.
my press release will read:
“32-year old former P-OF hasn’t played in 10 years. He’s slightly overweight and has a torn rotator cuff. He was signed because he’s not on the Do-Not-Call list.”
route for me please…thank you
the wierd thing about this signing is that his last name is Rodriguez, which is nothing like Delgado, Beltran, Castillo, Santana, Nunez, Castro…..
What about Wright, Church, Smith, Pelfrey, Heilman, etc. He drafted 2 white guys in the first round. I cant believe how stupid most of you are. I mean yeah, the team is garbage, but you bash a John Rodriguez signing? Why? The guy was a nice bat off the bench for the Cards for 2 years. And yeah, obviously the bench is going to look worse when you have 3 or 4 starters out of the lineup and the bench players are starting and AAA guys are the new bench and Marlon Anderson is hurt and Tatis and Chavez are starting because we have no healthy corner OF and Easley is starting because Delgado is ineffective or Castillos knees are hurting, yeah, these things will make the bench look pretty bad. The one positive I get out of seeing the Mets play like this is seeing how mad it makes all you idiots. I wish all the fair weather, knee jerk, hypocrite fans weren’t able to root for the team when they won, because you guys just want people fired and traded and cut every single day. Plus most of you have no idea how baseball works to begin with. The worst thing about being a Met fan, by far, is being in the same group of the new age idiot Met fans who whine and cry and make us all look like ignorant baseball fans.
DIdn’t Omar once say that putting together the bench was one of his favorite things to do as GM?
Yeah, so he could get pensions for his old Latino buddies, not because he actually thinks any of them can play.
as for the non Latinos, they must have some kind of personal info on him to still have their jobs……..
.165 bench batting average. For the love of god……….
that’s pretty classy, sasseroni.
i ask you what’s wrong with the bench? plug alou and church into the outfield. that would give us a bench of marlon anderson, ramon castro, damion easley, endy chavez, and (insert 5th guy here). to me, that really isn’t all that bad. but with the injuries, these guys have been forced to start and we have seen teh likes of raul casanova, nick evans (who was overmatched), and robinson cancel. if you want to fault omar on the bench, it is that we are missing the one big bopper that you can call on when you need a 3-run homer to tie a game.
Exactly, this kind of post by idiots like Sasseroni show the type of intelligence of our fan base. Its embarrasing. Yeah, the bench will look bad when you have bench guys starting at 3 or 4 positions every single day. It is understandable for people to be upset, but people are so stupid and they look for anything to blame Omar or Willie for. Then they will complain about how bad our farm system is, which is great, because these same dopes were the ones saying “TRade the whole farm for Johan! Who cares! He is the best pitcher ever its a gaurunteed world series he will win 25 games and strikeout 280 guys with a 1.80 era!” Just such hypocrites, and such ignorance it is absurd. They all blame Omar, yet they all believed this team was destined to win 100 games and walk to a world series. Tell me people, if this was the common feeling coming into the season, which it was, atleast over here, then how can you blame the blatant underperforming on Omar? Everybody, the fans, the players, the media, even Vegas odds makers thought this team a lock to make the world series. So how can you put the blame on Omar? He put together a team that everybody though was far and away the best. How could he have foreseen this underachieving?
Omar put this team together. Omar signed Castillot to a four year deal. Omar signed Alou to a two year deal. Omar signed Pedro to a four year deal. Omar put the bullpen together. Omar did not offer enough money to keep Bradford. Omar has done some very bad things to this organization and has wasted resources. I like Omar, and he brought credibility back to the Mets, but I think he has also lost a lot of credibility over the past 9 months.
Why don’t the Mets bring up Aguila and/or Pascucci? They certainly won’t do any worse than what the Mets are putting on the field now. I have been a fan since the beginning (1962) and I can’t bear to watch them right now. They totally suck!!
i’m not willing to commit the future to a 31-year old minor leaguer.