Well...OUCH!!! That is all that can be said about the 2009 Mets season. A season that should have been so much better, just fell flat on its face. It still kills me how the guys on ESPN and other media outlets are dogging the Mets for having the 2nd highest payroll and having a losing record. Do these guys not realize that they had over $70 million on the DL?
Reyes played in 36 games, Delgado played in 26, Beltran played in 81...can't win with that many games missed by top tier players. So we had our Big 4 (Reyes, Wright, Delgado and Betran) in the line-up together for a total of 26 games...OUCH!!!
So what about 2010? What is going to happen? What do I want to see? Honestly, I don't know what I want to see...I know who I want back and if I could put together a line-up for that, it might look a little like this:
1. Reyes SS
2. Orlando Hudson 2b (Trade Castillo...he had a solid year and trade value is up)
3. Wright 3b
4. Beltran CF
5. Some power hitting 1st baseman
6. Francouer RF
7. Pagan LF
8. Thole C (I like the kid and we need to have a young catcher behind the plate who is on his first pair of knees)
Pitching is another story...we know Santana and KRod will be back, and probably Feliciano, but after that I think it is a crap shoot. We obviously need starting pitching...Perez will probably still be here because no one will take his contract...Maine is too often injured to get traded...Pelfrey needs to improve if he is to stick around.
Bottomline is that there are a lot of questions this off season for the Mets and it starts today.
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If Reyes, Wright, Francoeur & Beltran all have healthy seasons w/ numbers up to what's expected of them, the Mets should be in contention for awhile, anyway, pitching woes & all. If any 2 of those guys doesn't put up the numbers, I'd think we're in gigantic trouble.
The LF, C & 1B situation will be a crapshoot any way they turn. I don't see the prospects it'd take to make a big deal, as if anyone like Fielder or Gonzalez are available, it should be easy for any other interested team to put together a much more quality offer than we could. Same applies for any pitcher, catcher or outfielder worth trading for.
As far as free agents go, why on earth would anyone at the top of the heap be interested in coming into this mess...even for the absolute highest $ offer, which I do not see the Mets putting out there, anyway.
Lackey, Holliday or Bay would be insane to turn down competitive offers from contending, well run teams to come to this fiasco.
As long as teams like the Angels, Red Sox & Cardinals & Yanks are in on these guys, count the Mets good & out.
If we go into next season w/ Pagan & Thole as starters, even though I like them, we aren't gonna' finish much higher than we did this season. As far as the pitching goes, we're good & stuck w/ Perez...so just hope for the solid year he has in him with the right matchups & a little luck. Santana, Pelfrey & Maine will almost surely be locks if healthy, w, Niese, hopefully, healthy enough for the 5 hole.
I don't think a real upgrade in pitching is possible, Omar isn't smart enough to make a creative deal, ala Theo, where ha can create possibilities using multiple teams & talent.
Omar doesn't have the chips to deal, the brains to work around it,...& even if he has the money, the organization he's helped establish is now a laughingstock, & anyone worth pursuing will likely go elsewhere.
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