Metstradamus - Steve Cohen Had A Busy First Couple Of Hours

 

By metstradamus | November 6, 2020 4:27 pm

First off, did we just witness swift, decisive leadership? Even with the caveat that Cohen had a few months to think about this … holy crap, this level of decisiveness has long been absent from this organization. Obviously, Sandy has his own people he wants to have in place, and he’s actually going to run the Mets in his own image and not with the spector of Jeffy hanging over his shoulder.

Second: Damn right you should especially thank Omar. Although I’m still upset about the Darren O’Day fiasco in 2009, Omar is a good baseball man and may he land in a place where he can sign large, hysterical contracts in the future. Good luck to a Newtown Pioneer from ten years before me.

Third: Look, I’m not a Brodie guy, and I feel he had to go. So anything I’m about to say in this stead comes from that perspective. Brodie Van Wagenen, whether he, or you like it or not, will be defined by the Edwin Diaz trade from now until he gets another GM job to rebuild his resume.

When it comes to the Cano/Diaz trade, I’m a process guy and not a results guy. Diaz had a very good year in 2020 and I kinda felt he got a little too much blame, while Cano has been fine, and we all kinda thought that Cano would have a good couple of years and he’s kinda had one and a half, so there’s that. But I’ll never like the process of trading a top prospect that early in his development for a closer and an aging player, no matter what kind of success that Cano and Diaz have going forward.

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