We have to first ‘go back’ to July of
2017, where this whole process began.
July 2017 –
Sandy Alderson is asked to
resign as General Manager. He refuses to do so, so the Mets fire him. He then refuses
to leave his office and barricades himself into the home bullpen of CitiField.
Local police and fireman are called to the scene where he is eventually removed
and arrested.
Phil Jackson is hired to
replace Alderson as General Manager. His first action as General Manager is to deny
Charles Oakley’s access to Mets home games. When
reached for comment, Oakley has a perplexed look on his face, stating ‘I’m a
Yankees fan’.
Special Assistant to the General Manager, J.P. Ricciardi resigns
in protest and it is decided internally that Senior Vice President, Baseball
Operations &
Assistant General Manager John Ricco will oversee the trading
period this month and will oversee the daily operations until Jackson gets up
to speed.
David Wright takes offense
to both the above actions and announces that he will retire and accept whatever
the Mets and their insurance company can work out as a payback. Jackson offers
Wright a future position with the team, which he abruptly declines.
Lucas Duda is traded to the New York Yankees for OF prospect Dustin Fowler. Fowler is assigned to AAA-Las Vegas.
Astrubel Cabrera and Addison Reed are
traded to the Boston Red Sox for 3B prospect Rafael
Devers. Devers is assigned to AAA-Las Vegas
Gavin Cecchini, Travis d’Arnaud, and Matt Reynolds
Fernando Sales, Jose Reyes, and Neil Walker are
designated for assignment.
Curtis Granderson and Jay Bruce are
traded to the LA Dodgers for 2B prospect Willie Calhoun.
Calhoun is assigned to AAA-Las Vegas.
Tim Tebow hits .220 in July for St. Lucie, with two home runs
and eight runs batted in.
August
2017 –
Tebow is promoted to AA-Binghamton.
Jackson
holds a press conference, slamming his own organization for keeping him out of
the loop during the trading processes. He says he is immediately putting Noah Syndergaard, Jacob deGrom,
and Yoenes Cespedes on the trading market.
Jackson is fired as General Manager and
is replaced with Geraldo Rivera. He promises to
remain out of the limelight, which would be a first in his career.
The
Mets begin the process of building the new Mets. They promote 1B Dominic Smith, 2B Willie Calhoun,
SS Amed Rosario, 3B Rafael
Devers, C Kevin Plawecki, and OF Dustin Fowler. All become starters for the remainder
of the season.
As
for the pitching, emphasis is placed on their health in 2018. Noah Syndergaard and Zack
Wheeler never pitch another inning in 2017.
Matt
Harvey is designated for assignment after being caught by The New York
Post’s Page Six photographers of him dancing half nude on the top of a table in
a Brazilian disco in The Hamptons. A trade is worked out with the Yankees for
the best they could get, P Giovanny Gallegos,
who is assigned to AAA-Las Vegas.
The rest of the Mets starters (deGrom, Steven Matz, Jacob Lugo, Rafael Montero, Robert Gsellman)
will have strict pitch limitations for the remainder of the year, regardless of
score. Gallegos will be the emergency SP6 on call from Vegas.
Tebow
hits .220 in August for Binghamton, with two home runs and eight runs batted
in.
September –
Tebow
is promoted to AAA-Las Vegas.
Rivera
is fired as General Manager of the Mets. Jay Horwitz is
named interim GM for the remainder of the season. He names Adam Rubin as the interim Press Secretary.
The
Mets quietly start fighting out the Philadelphia Phillies for the top pick in
the 2018 draft.
The
Mets fire manager Terry Collins, pitching coach Dan Warthen. Bench coach Dick
Scott is named interim manager and Las Vegas pitching coach, Frank Viola, is promoted to the Mets pitching coach
position.
Rosters
eventually are expanded and key secondary prospects are invited to Queens to
get a taste of their future. They include pitchers Marcos
Molina, P.J. Conlon, and Corey Oswalt,
plus catcher Tomas Nido.
Tebow
is promoted from Binghamton directly to Queens. The Mets brass designate a
5,000 seat portion of their upper deck to be called ‘The Tebow Tribe’. The
section is developed to create a healthy competition with the T7L section in
left field; however, it turns out to be a basic street fight before the games
even start. Tebow and Brandon Nimmo are brought
in to quiet things down, especially with the more religious fan base of The
Tebow Tribe. It doesn’t work and eventually, both sections are shut down. The
negative effect of this, especially the loss of The T7L fans, is devastating.
The home attendance drops to less than 10,000 a game as the team passes the
Phillies in amount of loses in the season.
The
season ends. For some reason, the Mets win the last three games of the season
and wind up with the #2 pick in the 2018 draft. Horwitz is asked to retire and
Rubin takes over the Press Secretary on a permanent basis.
Tebow
hits .220 for the Mets in September, with two home runs and eight runs batted
in.
6 comments:
Make all those deals ASAP. Insteady of Phil Jackson, maybe Andrew Jackson due to his leadership skills.
Tebow will transform the Mets' franchise. He says his model outfielder will be Don Hahn, showing he is a student of Mets history. He vows to be better than Kirk Nieuwenhuis was as a Met. That will prove to be easy.
that deal with boston... how can we make that one happen...
Thank you so much for making me laugh out loud with this hilarious post. I haven't gotten this much enjoyment from reading about the Mets in years,
scottmetfan -
you are welcome
The best part was the firing of Terry Collins.
GM Geraldo Rivera would insist on TJ Rivera and Rene Rivera starting every day. Not sure why, I am just guessing.
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