Q
and A from Bob Gregory -
Great
to see you posting your Friday morning reports. I hope you are doing well and
are finding your physical/mental/ and emotional health improving daily. I also
hope you are finding a renewed joy in the reports that you publicize on
Friday. From what I have read, comments
to your morning reports demonstrate much more appreciation for your thoughts,
insights, & comments. I am glad to
see this to be true.
I
am not sure if you remember but shortly before your stepping back from the
daily grind I sent you a question by email. I was looking forward to your
insight regarding the hypothetical differences and similarities in how DePodesta
or Ricciardi would have handled this past off season compared to Alderson?
This
is of course if Alderson did not resign as GM or promoted himself to a
president type position and one of the assistants were promoted.
If
you are capable And still interested I would love to read your best
"Mack-View" of how this would have played out.
Of
course I also understand if this is something that is not destined to see
print.
Wishing
you all the best. Bob.
Mack – Thanks for the question, Bob.
Your question is an interesting one
and let’s address it on two levels.
First, and sadly, I
really haven’t had much one-on-one contact with anyone in the Sandy Alderson era. My health and age, coupled with
the loss of my press credentials, prevented me from extending direct contact
past the Omar Minaya years. This alone prevents
me from speculating how either DePodesta or Ricciardi would have handled the
situation without Alderson being with the Mets.
I will say this… I don’t
think they would have remained in the Mets organization. They were brought in
by Alderson and seem to operate as his almost silent assistants who never make
the final decision in anything.
Anyone that knows
anything about the inner workings of the Mets know that everything that
is finalized and executed by the Mets, in every operational area, has
the final stamp of approval by Alderson.
Lastly, I do think the
makeup of the 25-man squad would be different. No one could have said ‘no’ to
as many trade possibilities as Alderson probably did. My guess is Noah Syndergaard wouldn’t be a Mets if either of these
guys were in charge. It would have been too tempting to deal him off for a new
shortstop or a better choice in the outfield than Michael
Cuddyer.
3 comments:
I would of preferred Rios and kept the 1st round pick than rolling the dice with Cuddyer. Hope all is well Mack
It would be interesting to follow all three for a week and see exactly who does what and how they interface.
It would be interesting to see if the others would have allowed the current manager a 5th chance to ascend to mediocrity from the losing record he's posted during the first four.
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