Robert Flax – ‘The Future’, Flax Style

Forget the big big moves lets make some forward thinking moves for the fans that we can.

I’m writing this pre deadline, but here as some things as a Met fan that I would like to see the organization do.  Friday night’s thrilling win was a great example of why I love baseball and here are a few things I’d like to see my favorite team and my general manager who I like and believe in do.  None of them are gigantic pie in the sky trade for Tulo type stuff. More about the future becoming the present and how as a Met fan I’d like to see them behave. 

First: I’d like the front office to come in and talk to both David Wright and Daniel Murphy. 

The Murphy conversation goes: how would you like to be traded to a contender in a pennant race.  If we get a great offer we are going to have to think about trading you.  If not we might think about trading you this off season.  If you don’t want to, we should talk about an extension that’s team friendly. I respect your opinion but if we get overwhelmed we will still make the move.

David Wright is a little different: David you are our captain so we are keeping you informed. We might be trading Daniel Murphy.  We need to get a guy next to you or behind you on the diamond who can play at an all star level and we think trading Murphy will help us. We have organizational strength at 2nd base.  But if we do here’s what we have built already.  This year we think we found you some protection in the line up. Duda is coming along big.  Grandy is here to hit homeruns, bat 1-2 or 6th and be a leader with you in the community and with this young team.  T’DA is coming on and he might take the spot in the 2 hole or Flores will be stepping in for Murphy and we think hit 280 too. And if Flores can’t do it with 50 games left Herrara is hitting .340 in AA and is a leadoff hitter who is going to get on base for you to drive in after super 2 next year. Lagares is going to have his ups and downs, but that defense as a 7 or 8 hitter is worth the hitting struggles.  We have 3 young guys in a bullpen that can be dominant (all cheap too) and next year we are adding Parnell to build a monster 4 some out there.  We will not be losing games from now on because we don’t have talent in the bullpen.  Then there are the starters.  Neise is locked up.  Harvey is coming back.  Wheeler is looking like an ace in the making. Gee is a great number 3 in the 4 roll. DeGrom might win rookie of the year and look who is right behind him.

Now David if you wouldn’t mind also hitting righties like an all star again that might help too. 

The moves:

1.        Sign Wheeler to one of those team friendly 30 mm guaranteed 55 mm extensions. The kind that creates cost certainty for the player and the organization. No team that would trade for him would mind if he was locked up.  It actually increases his trade value.  It also puts some pressure on Matt Harvey to show he’s the ace next year, bc he wants to get paid.

2.        Trade Colon and pick up 4 mm in salary 2 this year 2 next for the best asset you can. Not necessarily a ss or outfielder but a tradable asset.  We are stockpiling assets to trade. Either for Stanton, Tulo, Lindor or someone that will cost a fortune and is virtually untouchable.  When we trade right now it’s to be able to top the red soxs for someone game changing. This would be the case for Murphy too so pitching is great.  You can never have enough pitching.

3.        After trading Colon announce the Thor is coming up to make his debut. No giving up on the season this guy throw 97 and is going to be our next big guy come out to the ballpark and see the next superhero.  It takes about a year for these guys to get comfortable so we’ll deal with the bumps and bruises now while we aren’t in the pennant race.  You like Harvey days welcome to Thor days too.

4.        In the off season we are going to go out and get a high priced older reliever 6-8 mm with an option year. I know this seems a strange way to spend or limited resources, but its thinking ahead.  He won’t be the closer because we have two right now and a 3rd who has the best stuff in Familia in waiting, but we are doing this because guys with closer experience are highly tradable and every contender needs that. And if we are a contender we will already have him.  Look at what the just traded to get Street and he’s not even good.  So either next year we are contenders or we have another big asset to trade. We don’t expect to worry about his full year salary anyway.

This is what we are going to do. The future is bright and the future is just about now.  We aren’t in win at all costs mode yet, but we expect to be a wild card team at least next year and we have the pitching to beat any team.