Harvey, Edgin, Wheeler,
Familia, Mejia, Mazzoni, Pill, Montero, Tapia, Fulmer, Mateo, Matz, Verrett, DeGrom, McHugh, and Gorski.
Let’s see… the five
starters in 2015 will be: Harvey, Dickey, Niese, Wheeler and… wait a minute… we
got too many friggin’ pitchers.
Teams can be built a
lot of different ways but Omar Alderson decided
to do so with pitching, both through the draft and internationally.
(note: it’s interesting
to see that six of the top 16 pitching prospects in the system came from across
the gulf… the Mets have been accused so often of turning their backs to Latin
America, but it just isn’t true)
Wait until you see John Sickles’ ratings of the Mets system next
spring. Lots of pitchers and bunches of B ratings. Even Keith Law will be excited.
Some of these guys are
ceiling only at this point, but ceiling can make or break a trade.
Let’s all agree that David Wright will play 3B, Ruben
Tejada will be the SS, Ike Davis is at
1B, and Jordany Valdespin is in RF.
That leaves C, CF, LF
and 2B.
But, first, let’s build
a pen.
Josh Edgin, Mejia, Familia, Gee (long man right),
Gorski (long man left)…
We’ve used six of the
16 ‘prospects’ and we have to pick three more out of the 10 left.
That’s how you get bats!
Where’s the telephone?
6 comments:
Sick stat line from Montero last night. Could we see this guy jump to an A- prospect next year? K2BB consistently awesome. What does he need to improve on to be considered a potential front of the rotation guy?
Also agree the hitting prospects are in bad shape. I guess it is preferable to have all pitching over all hitting (though a balance would certainly be NICE)
there is so much in his way... I'm sure he will go where Frank Viola goes... he can't wait to get his hands on him
you can't project SP slots until AA
Even though it seems like a great idea to diversify our assets and trade for some bats, I really have a hard time imagining Alderson swapping big time prospects. He seems to be more inclined to stand pat and let the organization develop without much interference. Maybe afraid of taking a risk and getting burned?
I guess I just thought this front office would be more aggressive. Other teams were supposed to cower in fear at their collective brain power. Maybe the media oversold them and created unrealistic expectations.
Justin, Alderson is only the GM of a team that will lose over $20mil this year operationally.
The general public cares only about the wins and loses, but the real world doesn't work that way.
Additionally, the Mets continue to only pay the 'vig' on building costs from the new stadium. The economy is coming back, but Fred and Ethel just can't print new money. They too have to wait until their real estate properties return to a value that they can either sell off some or go back to a bank for a line of credit against those investments.
However, many of us have done that before. I did it two times and still went under.
'Line of Credits' may never be the way to go down the road. Paying off the Teamsters is.
Regarding Sandy's plan, we don't know his 'execution' year. 2013 will field a better team, but 2014 is when many of the better players in the system mature.
"Buying" someone short term a la Carlos Beltran and trading one of the pitchers I mentioned is NOT in his plan.
Eventually he has to trade some of the pitchers... Niese is under contract... Dickey will be... Wheeler and Harvey... you can't pitch 5 more guys in the SP5 slot in 2014.
I know this team won't be buying high priced players any time soon and that their finances are still F'd. Even if they were out making smaller moves, like swapping prospects to fill areas of need, it would make me feel better.
With bay and Santana coming off the books in 2014 they should start pulling a profit that year (with a 65-75 mil payroll).
Justin, I swear to you... this is a good plan in a bad economy for a business in he red.
Payroll will level off once Santana and Bay come off, but 2014 will bump up with 20+ for Wright and $11-14 for Dickey.
The team has the excess prospects to fill in the holes and get the team competitive.
2014 is still in the scopes.
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