Comments on: Opinion: Not a Playoff Team

By: General Millz

General Millz — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:16:20 +0000

Told ya so?

By: metsjam

metsjam — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:16:15 +0000

RISP doesn’t tell the story
1)The double plays mean something. He has killed many many rallies singlehandedly
2)His hits are weak. While he can potentially drive in someone from 3rd base with a hit, his singles are often too weak (e.g. the infield variety) to drive someone in from 2nd, and he has virtually no chance driving in someone from 1st. The goal is to score runs, not get a high RISP
3)Even though his RISP is OK now, it’s a small sample size
4)What does your gut say? If the Mets have 1st and 2nd with one out and Castillo is up, do you feel good about it? I don’t. I’m fairly confident it’s going to end up as a medium speed groundball to second resulting in a 4-6DP.

By: TBlz

TBlz — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:00:11 +0000

Eli,
Though I agree that the teams of 99 and 00 had more intangibles and better on-field leadership, they weren’t without talent. The 1999 infield was the best ever in history with only 33 errors all season (only 27 from the starters), leading to only 20 unearned runs allowed for the entire team. That’s how you make it to the post-season without superstars.

By: gowrightgo

gowrightgo — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:48:11 +0000

You grabbed my points completely and added to them nicely. The word I was missing is core. That describes them perfectly. THey are a very good foundation just as you said.

I agree with all your points on the reality that we can not get 13 new players in the next 12 months and be on our way. It will take some time and creativity.

I just hope we do not waste the best years of DW and Jose Reyes and the first few years of Santana’s brilliance on mediocrity. We owe it to these guys to surround them with the right kind of players needed to make the leap from a solid foundation to championship contender.

I have written off this season in terms of competing for a championship. To me…they may get the playoffs or not but we are not built to win the whole thing. Since that is the case, we should start to sell of the pieces we identify that are not part of the core and at the same time…start to identify people in the game that we target as part of the future core.

The biggest issue to me will be the 1b and Lf dilemma. We can not possibly deliver guys from the farm system in both spots. We need a bonafide slugger #4 hitter to be in one of those spots next year.

I am guessing we get Adam Dunn, typical all or nothing guy which I think would be a mistake. I do not think we will get Texiera

By: NickA33

NickA33 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:45:05 +0000

It’s not you….it’s me.

By: GravediggerHebner

GravediggerHebner — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:37:38 +0000

Well zen you’re entitled to your opinion. It is an indisputable fact, however, that the common denominator between the 1992 Mets and the 2008 Mets is Willie Randolph, I mean just look at the list. I’m not suggesting anything more, you are inferring and that reflects on you. The criticism I would have thought someone would note was the other common denominator that I missed initially, Howard Johnson. They are the only 2 people associated with both teams. Whether they have contributed to the failure of either I’ll leave to others to decide, but the fact remains, they were both at the scene of both crimes.

By: TobeRinkler

TobeRinkler — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:20:55 +0000

Not much of an “official” blog post–lots of posters on here have been saying the same thing all season, to varying degrees, and sometimes even in more detail…??

By: shinjosplints17

shinjosplints17 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:19:24 +0000

1. Fire Willie. 2. They are not a playoff team.
The sad part of the whole thing is we dont even have parts we can sell for prospects. Besides that the pantry is bare down on the farm, I’d love to say let F-Mart and the other young stars come up and show what they can do but there are none. Being a Mets fan right now is like being in purgatory. The only fun thing to root for the last few months was the maturation of Ryan Church and now even that is gone!!!! When does Football start AHHHHH!

By: jamie

jamie — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:13:53 +0000

BA aside, his obp is still right there, as are all of his other numbers, on pace to come out exactly in line with his career norms. He hasn’t had ‘blazing speed’ for years. I’ll give you the gold glove rep, but it’s not like he’s been a dog…in fact, he’s made some outstanding plays, particularly turning the dp. I’m certainly not defending the contract; in fact, the reason so many were/are against it is because we knew what we were getting…I don’t see how that qualifies as disappointing.

By: mikeyrad

mikeyrad — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:10:04 +0000

Lets remember that Omar is Steve Phillips’s protege. They both have the same “win now” philosophy The problem is that this lends itself to trades or free-agent signings for over-the-hill or soon-to-be over-the-hill players.