Some of you out there debate every day on Twitter on which player is in your dog house.
Others just chant "sell the team".
Question... in your opinion...
What is the Mets' first priority in taking steps forward towards a successful future in 2020?"
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I hate to see someone lose their job, but I have very little faith in Mickey Callaway.
He seems like a nice guy and perhaps, even a decent pitching coach (Cleveland, at least). But, I do not trust him to
skipper a contending team and that is what the Mets want to become next year.
If that doesn't count as a roster move, then I rank the needs like so;
A "true" Center Fielder
Starting pitcher (if Zack leaves)
Bullpen Depth (provided our current guys regain their "touch")
Top priority would be overall defense. That starts with stop playing players out of position and getting players that fit the puzzle instead of multiple 1st, 2nd and 3rd basemen playing all at once.
Cespedes and Lowrie? Nimmo too?
Add those guys if healthy to this team's offensive core and they could be real dangerous. No trades required, just Ben Gay.
Re-sign Wheeler unless a better deal is out there.
Give Edwin Diaz a big raise and tell him to forget about 2019.
RP are a biennial species IMO.
&btw, anyone else give Ramos the Save for firing a 90 mph 4-seamer back to Diaz after ball 5?
Look towards replenishing the farm system which is bereft of top tier talent at the upper levels. If it means trading away some of your excess middle infielders or first basemen to do so, then start working the phones.
I agree the defense has been abysmal, but you're not changing the right side of the infield and if McNeil or Lowrie takes Frazier's place on the left side, then that's pretty much a wash, too. All you can do defensively is look to centerfield or catcher. With Yoenis Cespedes, Brandon Nimoo, Michael Conforto, J.D. Davis, Dom Smith and Jeff McNeil there may be no room at the inn to change things out there. So that leaves catcher. Wilson Ramos is a hitter who happens to wear catcher's gear. The problem is that most good to great defensive catchers hit like pitchers (or worse). If you're getting real production out of guys like Robinson Cano, then perhaps you can withstand a defense-only catcher. If not, hold your breath and go with year two of Ramos.
1. Bring back Wheeler
2. Add another experience BP arm
3. If Cespedes comes back, he must play RF.
4. Bring back Lagares cheaply for late defense replacement.
5. McNeil takes over 3B. Lowrie rides the bench or becomes trade bait.
6. JD Davis plays LF
So the outfield is Davis LF, Conforto CF, Cespedes RF. Nimmo, Lawrie, Lagares are getting to know each other on the bench.
Not much else they can do with Cano, Cespedes so if they are healthy, they need to play.
Number one priority: immediately shut Edwin Diaz down, not only so we might, unfettered from his stinkiness, capture the wildcard, but to rest his arm aplenty for 2020. It's simple. It's logical.
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