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Update, 1:15 pm:
Tim Redding is still in the clubhouse so no move has yet been made.
Original Post:
According to Adam Rubin at the Daily News, Julio Lugo, who was released by the Red Sox yesterday, is already working out for the Mets in the Dominican Republic.
Rubin also believes that this is bad news for Tim Redding, who may likely be released to make room for the 33 year-old shortstop.
In 37 games this season, Lugo is hitting .284, with 16 runs scored and has a .352 on-base percentage.
Redding is 1-3 thus far, and sports a 7.22 ERA.
…if this move happens, this will certainly spell relief for the overworked alex cora…
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2 million dollars wasted…I feel like there was some other guy we couldve used that 2 million dollars on, its on the tip of my tongue hes a gold glove fielding middle infielder, switch hitter, good clubhouse guy….orlando something?
Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez?
Julio Lugo fits perfectly on this team. Another player who doesn’t play fundamentally sound baseball.
But hey anyone right now to get the scrub Redding off this team. $2 millon for Redding, $36 million for Perez, $25 million dollars for Castillo. Hmmm, is there a pattern to all these signings? Yeah, his name is Omar Minaya. And don’t even mention the fact that he trades for Putz, who he knew had a bone spur in his elbow before he made the trade. The guy is a genius.
And if you were Reyes or Beltran would you give 100% to get back to a team that is run by a GM who just wants all his players to take a cortizone shot to get over their injuries? I wouldn’t, my career is much more important than coming back and playing for this clown.
Beltran certainly won’t. He has Boras buzzing in his ear who I’m sure is trying to convince him to get microfracture surgery, miss 2010 rehabbing and come back for 2011 so he can finish his contract out and get one more payday from a team like the Angels or the Rangers.
If Beltran plays another game this year or next, I’ll be shocked.
I guarantee you that you will be shocked. Your scenario isn’t completely off the chart the charts, but it’s close. We wil see Beltran before this year is out. The games he plays in won’t mean anything, but we’ll see him.
I want to be wrong, very badly. But I think it’s very telling that Beltran sought a second opinion and is supposedly outraged at the Mets training staff. And the person advising him to get a second opinion was Boras. And let’s face facts, Boras is only worried about Beltran’s long-term prospects for his next and likely last, payday.
Maybe Beltran comes back in late August and gives it a go – but this is going to end one way or another with him getting microfracture, and the sole purpose of that is so he can appear relatively healthy for post 2011….
Good observation. Look at how Lugo’s former team the Red Sox have built their team under their GM: minor leagues and trades. According to ESPN, “Epstein called Lugo’s contract “a mistake” and “a lesson learned.”". Instead of making trades and developing a farm system Omar continues to bring in AAAA guys for a couple million a pop and there really is no one to step in when people get hurt as we now know.
the injuries have really exposed minaya this year. because there is absolutely ZERO depth in the farm system. they didn’t have one player to come up from the minors to help the team this year. and murphy has been a bust as well.
Murphy has not been a bust. He is just another classic example of the Mets organization over-valueing their own players. Murphy had a great 150 at bats last season, that should not have been enough to proclaim a kid that hasn’t even played AAA your starting left fielder without even bringing in some competition.
And this same over-valueing is happening with Pelfrey, Evans, Parnell, Martinez, etc. These kids are not as good as the Mets organization says they are.
I don’t remember who it was who dubbed FMart the “teen age hitting machine”, but whoever came up with that name really did the kid a tremendous disservice by creating unreasonably high expectations.
And I agree that the Mets truly do overvalue their minor league talent. Our organization has done a truly s***y job of drafting and developing young talent. Reyes and Wright are the glaring exceptions to the rule.
That’s on Omar Minaya, but Tony “I could be GM if you just let me” Berenzard is the one overhyping these prospects, pushing them through the system without letting them get proper experience and seasoning, and convincing Omar that these guys are the real deal and shouldn’t be traded. But then again, there are plenty of Mets fans who think the way they’ve handled guys like Pelfrey, Murphy, Lastings etc. was A-OK because they didn’t like all the old guys we were signing.
Bottom line is this organization is a mess and will continue to be for as long as the Wilpons run it. Omar inherited a pathetic roster and farm system and was not good enough to correct it At least Theo inherited a roster in 2003 that had a bunch of Type-As departing within the next two seasons… that’s Ellsbury, Lowrie, Bucholtz and Hansen just from losing guys like Pedro, Lowe and Cabrera with Damon following the year after. The only draft compensation we ever got was for Glavine.
Fire Omar, fire Jerry, Fire Tony, but I don’t see any reason to expect a new person is going to get different results with an ownership that cares more about selling seats and honoring the Dodgers.
Gee, I will really miss Tim Redding and his +7 ERA. He was such a great asset to this team; I just don’t know if I can handle the sadness of his leaving us. And let’s not forget that grand total of 1 game that we won for us. Nice signing there, Omar.
Another example of a market misread. I think as a 5th starter he would have been fine, but after dropping $36M for Ollie and passing on the lowered prices for guys like Wolf and Garland, the move looks stupid. Redding also didn’t do himself any favors arriving to camp out of shape and injured.
Ever since October 2006, Omar has seen a lot of his moves backfire on him (trading away Bell/Lindstrom, not overpaying for Bradford, entrusting Murphy as a starter, picking up Delgado’s option…). A lot of these moves looked okay in a vacuum, but when so many of them keep hurting the direction of this franchise, you have to wonder if it’s just bad luck anymore.
AFter the second half Delgado had how could Omar not pick up his option? He would be fired if he didn’t! Bell’s demise wasmore WIllie than Omar. I wouldn’t have paid Bradford what he got either and the JUry is still out on Murphy! That said OMar only had so much money to work with and this isn’t the yankees there is only so much he can do. He hasn’t been perfect by any stretch, but he hasn’t been horrible either.
u guys will never be satisfied. Its funny, most people probably would be hard pressed to name 5GMs better than Omar. I would list all his brilliant moves that out wiegh the bad ones but that would be wasted typing.
The injuries is the reason we suck. Not Omar or Jerry. Furthermore, look around the league people….there a lot more mistakes going around without any wins to show for them.
Methead, Omar has a much larger payroll than many other GM’s in baseball. I think we can all agree that Omar has made some great moves, but he has also poorly managed young talent and built depth by adding too many old players. As for your top 10 check this out: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/jon_heyman/02/18/heyman.bestGMs/1.html
I would drop Minaya & O’Dowd from the list in favor of Friedman (Rays) and Daniels (Rangers). There are 10 GM’s better than Omar. Feel free to disagree, but right now the Mets have an organization that appears to be totally mismanaged and someone needs to breath a little fresh air into the organization which means some personal changes. As Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations, Omar Minaya shares some of the responcibility for the lack of depth, minor league talent, and a seemingly inept training staff.