The Real Inventor of Money Ball Returns

Alderson has hired J.P. Ricciardi as an adviser.

 

That is a good hire and step in right direction for the Mets. Ricciardi is more current on the players than Alderson.

 

If I'm with the Mets, I start trying to put a team together instead of going the "Yankees Lite" approach that always seems to bite them in the ass. You might not win the back page, but you might win a few more games.

 

From your lips to Jeffey Wilpon's ears

 

Since they aren't going to be spending money unuless than can unload the Castillo and Perez albatross contracts, they have to build creatively.

Davis, Tejada, Reyes, Wright, Bay Beltran, Pagan, Thole is not awful if they stay healthy and Bay and Beltran hit.
Need pitching help, especially with Johan out for the first two months -- trade for Greinke? -- and the bullpen is a disaster.

 

Even if that lineup stays healthy and goes best case scenario, it's not a contender.

The core of Reyes, Wright and Beltran had its chance and Carlos watched a hanging slider fall in for strike three.

I'd blow it up and start over. I'd make all the expensive vets expendable. Build around speed, defense and pitching, playing to the strengths of Citi Field.

 

The Giants just won The Series doing just that. The took a risk on some out of favor players with high upside that all came up aces - Ross / Burrell/ Uribe/ Sanchez/

 

Yeah but the Giants have four young studs in the rotation

 

Expensive vets are Santana (shoulder surgery), Beltran (coming off injury, final year), Perez (basket case), Rodriguez (head case), Bay (just got here, coming off concussion), Castillo useless. That's about $80 million in bad or unmovable contracts.

 

Don't forget about K-Rod, who if he's healthy should be good, but still wouldn't command that money today.

 

Does anyone want to point out that the manager Sandy Alderson didn't want to keep in San Diego just won the fucking World Series? Or no? Or that his managerial philosophies have brought exactly zero World Series to Oakland under Billy Beane?

A beautiful harbinger, if you ask me.

 

How many years did he make the playoffs? I'll take my chance if I'm a Mets fan. How many unemployed architects of dynasties were sitting around waiting for the Mets to call?