NYP: Omar Minaya looks Old and Beaten
In a weekend report for the New York Post, Joel Sherman wrote the following about Mets GM Omar Minaya:
“Rival executives and agents described a man not fully in charge of baseball operations regardless of what Mets ownership says. One NL official said that lag time between discussing business with Minaya and the time it took him to respond suggested he had to run the information through a committee.”
Sherman quotes an agent, regarding Minaya, “He looked old, beaten and without a plan this time.”
…this idea of a lag time when dealing with the Mets is something i have heard from all sorts of people around baseball, be it from other teams, reporters or agents… the thing is, i do not know 100 percent if it’s a bad thing… i’m not saying it’s good, i’m just not sure it’s the end of the world, either… for instance, some of these same people, some of whom work for the team, have said previous administrations were more controlling, more focused, and more slow, because everything, be it a press credential to a trade, all had to go through one person… and so, things were slowed down, just as much as they may be slowed down by too many people being involved… the way other people in baseball have explained it to me is, the Mets do not come across as confident or certain in what they’re doing, and that, more than anything, is what may be slowing things down… in short, they explained, it’s not the quantity of decision makers, its the quality of the decisions…
…in the end, these sort of things are meaningless if the ends up being better next spring than it is now… so, instead of blaming what hasn’t happened yet on the assessments of others, i think i’d rather see what the team actually ends up doing, and then judge it all when i can see the final Opening Day roster…
