Read: Failure and the Future
In what is a must-read post for Amazin Avenue, Sam Page explains how Omar Minaya has failed as a GM, and what it means for the team’s future.
… speaking of the SI Mix Master cover story about minaya, the Mets are essentially a .500 team in the 400 
or so games since it was published in the middle of 2007… not that this has anything to do with anything… it’s just, wow, it’s been a long two and a half years… and i am sure omar would agree…
…omar is a good GM… not great… but, good… he makes a lot of questionable moves… but, it cannot be denied that, despite a lack of post season success, prior to 2009, minaya’s Mets had the most wins of any NL team during his four-year tenor… to say this success was in spite of him is not fair… the thing is, how long can he keep it up… like page, i think omar made some nice bets in 2006, and they paid off… in 2007, 2008 and, certainly, 2009, not so much… and so, in the end, is omar capable of adjusting to the way baseball is changing as a business… is he capable of building a sustainable team using smart, calculated choices and less luck…
…i agree with page, in that it seems the most successful front office dynamic is the one that has the young, business-school, stat-oriented GM coupled with the savvy, old-school baseball mind, such as Mets assistant GM John Ricco and VP of Scouting Sandy Johnson, each of whom sit to omar’s side…
…or, on deck as some have speculated…
To read Page’s post for Amazin Avenue, click here.
