Mack – New Weekly Post

  

I’ve pretty much become only an administrator on my own site. Oh yeah, I put together the cut and pasted ‘From The Desk’ posts and I handle the information regarding the draft, but past that, you don’t see much original content coming from my laptop.

We do have four different primo writers here that give things a different spin:

          Reese Kaplan is our house Debbie Downer. ‘Dr. Kap’ can instantly turn a 50 home run hitter into an also ran and he’s never met a Mets manager he didn’t loath.

          Tom Brennan is the eternal optimist. The 367^th top player on his prospect list has shown ‘promise’ and he can’t get through a week without singing the praise about either Tim Tebow or Jeff McNeil.

          Mike Friere goes both ways… err… let me re-phrase that. He’s the closest thing we have to a sabermetrics guy and shows all sides of a featured player in his posts, leaving all of us to decided how to respond.

          And Tony Plate  is your rip and read old school newspaper guy who is in the witness protection program after a long and heralded career in the New York Mafia. Wait. Did I just bust him out???

          As for me, I’m just a curmudgeon wise ass who has probably pissed off as many people as I have friends. But like the four guys mentioned above, we all share the same general theme.

We love the Mets.

I’m going to return to writing a weekly column about things in my mind and always 100% about baseball and the Mets. I’m going to move some of the posts and steal back the time of Monday 10am fixed. This will follow Reese and probably proceed something from Tom.

I don’t have much to say today since I am writing this on the Sunday morning before today’s posting.

But I will say this...

I think our new General Manager has built a solid, experienced team and only lost a couple of primo prospect chips in the process. Will I miss Justin Dunn and Jarred Kelenic? Of course I will. But there also was a time that I never thought I could live without players like Fernando Martinez, Lastings Milledge, and Jordany Valdespin

What the Mets need to do now is review their top prospects and their projected ETA dates. Are there solutions in the near future for roster slots?

Remember… unless new contracts are signed, the Mets will tip their caps to Todd Frazier, Juan Lagares, Jason Vargas, Zack Wheeler, and Travis d’Arnaud at the end of the 2019 season.

We really only will have two ‘red chips’ ready on opening day 2020… SS Andres Gimenez and SP David Peterson.

2021 has a much heralded arrival… SP Thomas Szapucki, Anthony Kay, and Jordan Humphreys… RP Ryley Gilliam… and SS Shervyn Newton .

It’s obvious that the Mets are stacked up with starters and shortstops (that could be converted to second or third), but what it doesn’t have is any outfielders and only one currently projected reliever.

Second, third, and catching are covered through 2020, what with the addition of Robinson Cano, Jed Lowrie, and Wilson Ramos.

Attention Syracuse and Binghamton relief pitchers and outfielders:

You need to step it up this year what with the addition of Brodie in the house. This guy is not going to wait too long for your game to fall back in line.

Stop whatever you are doing wrong and get on a planned schedule of diet, exercise, and practice until camp opens up.

Once the camps open, be the first at the complex fence and the last to leave.

And when April rolls around, no matter what team you are assigned to, give us the best you have.

This may be your last time guys.