As we have had on the Breakfast Links the past few days, different Mets writers have suggested different questions for today’s Press Conference with Steve Cohen and Sandy Alderson. These have included:
SNY.TV: 5 questions Sandy Alderson
needs to answer at introductory press conference. What is the trade and free agency
plan? What about the future of Luis Rojas? Will you employ an aggressive draft
strategy? Is there an ETA for the front
office hires? How does this feel?
Ken
Davidoff: The biggest questions facing Steve Cohen, Sandy Alderson. His 12
questions for Steve Cohen ask about the process of buying the Mets? 2021
Payroll? Being a Community Leader? SNY? and if he plans to stay on Twitter? His 8 questions for Sandy include Luis Rojas?
Carlos
Beltran? And Tim
Tebow?
Tim
Healey Newsday also asks questions such as: “Does Cohen see the Mets as a
business or a hobby?” “What are the Mets' most pressing major-league needs?” and “How do they want to structure the front
office?”
I don’t
really have any questions for Steve Cohen.
I think he has a great job taking questions from fans on twitter.
I do have
one big one for Sandy and of course it has to do with defense.
JFA: “Sandy,
the last time you were here you did not put a lot of emphasis on defense. To be fair, that position enabled you to win
the National League pennant in 2015 with an Infield of Wilmer Flores at SS,
Daniel Murphy at 2B, and Lucas Duda at 1B.
However, the Royals then exposed that lack of defense during the World
Series as the Mets were not able to make plays at critical moments.
What is
your position on defense now and how would you plan to improve the current team's defense?”
What are the questions, you would ask today?
"Will Luis and/or FO personnel appear regularly on WFAN to be interviewed or answer phone calls from fans?
ReplyDeleteThat is a good one Bill. They should be more involved with WFAN now that the games are back on the sister station - WCBS.
ReplyDeleteBut not just WFAN, why not make the the team more accessible to the Media in general. For example the recent instructional league was very secretive.
Will there be a change in the international market as far as the Mets approach to signing these players? Will they compete with the Yankees, Dodgers and other teams for top talent?
ReplyDeleteSure hope so Raw.
ReplyDeleteIs the goal to win now or win consistently over the years? Approaches to each are different.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the plan to enhance scouting and player development? Will the system be integrated through all levels of the minors all the way up to the Mets?
ReplyDeleteDoes Steve Cohen expect to build a Mets team that could be considered a favorite to get to the 2021 World Series?
ReplyDeleteGiven the overall abysmal performance of the pen for the past 3 years, and its negative impact on the Mets' efforts to make the post season over that time frame, will Steve be committed to building a killer pen this off season?
Sandy, in the past you didn’t make the small upside trade to improve an area but only looked to make trades where you hit a home run and rip off the other team. Will that approach continue?
ReplyDeleteI highly doubt that Cohen will answer questions on specific players. That said, I’d love to know whether he will be willing to eat the majority of Cano’s remaining deal to make him attractive to a team looking for a LH DH. The Yankees come to mind, since they do in fact need LHH, and it’s a team for which Cano would almost certainly waive his no trade clause. Pretty sure that the Yanks would trade a prospect or two for Cano at around $7mm per.
ReplyDeleteCano’s exit would improve the defense at multiple positions (2B and wherever we would otherwise have to put McNeil), and/or keeping DH open for Smith/Alonso.