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METS: The understandable focus on the negative, but….not so fast

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How can it be any other way?

1. Two successive collapses at the end the 2007 and 2008 seasons.

2. The messy handling and dithering of Willie Randolph’s dismissal.

3. The Tony Bernazard saga that important parties are still in public denial over.

4. The flawed player development and amatuer talent acquisition philosophy.

5. 2009.

Nothing has happened over the last few seasons shows that the Wilpon-Minaya blue print for success has been correct since the 2006 season.

Minaya is still the organization’s front man on acquiring major talent, but the unique interpersonal skills we all once marveled are now a mytical notion from swoons past.

I doubt we will see long lines of fans waiting to get Minaya’s autograph this spring. Nonetheless, the man’s been busy. And he’s currently playing a bad hand fairly well.

Minaya seems to have read the market well. He hasn’t panicked to satisfy the vultures who create the back pages and has refused to be baited by agents negotiating via media propoganda. Unless they just don’t want to play for the Mets, Jason Bay and Bengie Molina could be Mets very soon. And at a cost to the Mets that wasn’t artificially ramped up.

The acquisition of Japanese reliever Ryota Igarashi is clever in that he didn’t cost the Mets what a seasoned MLB pitcher would. He could be lightening in a bottle at a very low financial committment.

The Mets focus on foreign talent payed off here. If they have any notion of being relevant in the future they will have to change their financial attitude to US talent. The trade of Billy Wagner at the end of last season was a disasterous misuse of an asset. Maybe the subtle changes that occurred in player development signals a change.

The market is coming back on free agents right now. Few teams are biting at what agents are asking for. I believe that Minaya will be bringing in either Joel Piniero or Jason Marquis who unlike most players makes no bones about wanting to play for the Mets. Some major league bats were let go last Saturday, too. Look for one of those to be a Met.

If something is indeed happening with the Reds, Minaya’s winter might not be one of discontent.


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