The Mets have had enough injuries to key players to give a pass for not making the post season, but did Omar make enough correct decisions, or are the injuries exposing him to his ineptitude as a decision maker. He signed Oliver Perez instead of pursuing Derek Lowe (13-8 with the Braves), He let Darren O'Day go for nothing (2-1 1.74 in 55 games with Rangers), He didn't let Nelson Figueroa pitch in the big leagues most of the year, he was lights out in triple A and World Baseball Classic with Puerto Rico, and in 3 or his 4 big leagues starts, 18 innings, 5 earned runs, 15K's. He didn't know about the talent of Omir Santos, and was lucky after Schieder went down. He left Niese in the minors after he started pitching lights out, and gave up on Freddy Garcia and he just pitched great for the Whitesox. He just gave away Billy Wagner for nothing when he gave every once of heart to make it back to the majors, and did so in dominating form. At the trading deadline did absolutely nothing and he didn't go after John Smoltz after boston dropped him, nothing. When all the injuries happened could have looked to independent leagues for replacement help, Carl Evertt Armando Benitez, Keith foulke, Ramiro Mendoza are out there, didn't check on guys not signed this year, Frank Thomas, Kenny Rogers, or even at Pedro Martinez. It goes on and on.
He had going into this season injury prone John Maine, inconsistent Oliver Perez, Mike Pelrey (one good season) and Livan Hernandez in the starting rotation. Yet, every decision I mentioned all worked out for other teams and the decisions he made hurt the team. This guy when times are tough, isn't sharp enough to see talent or guys who have the character that you can win with when your top guys are hurt, or find guys that at least have a proven track record instead of junk players who are at best, back ups or defensive replacement. Omar plays favorites and that is whole other discussion. Let me know what you think!
These are not afterthoughts, I have been mentioning this all year in my blog. Including directly about Nelson Fig, Billy Wagner, Omir Santos etc. Especially Oliver Perez I even had a conversation with Kevin Burkhart in spring training about the pitching staff, which I mentioned the same information I included in this. I live near the Mets Spring Training facility and I see the Mets injured players recovering and watch their rehab program. If Omar spent even a little time hiring quality scouts or just paying attention to the little things about certain players personalities and talents, he would put a better product on the field, including how deep the talent is. It's easy to throw 10 to 20 million a season to the top players, thats easy, its building a framework of secondary players which he fails completely at, mostly everyone he let go this year have produced elsewhere and the players he doesn't like he trades or prevents from playing.
He had going into this season injury prone John Maine, inconsistent Oliver Perez, Mike Pelrey (one good season) and Livan Hernandez in the starting rotation. Yet, every decision I mentioned all worked out for other teams and the decisions he made hurt the team. This guy when times are tough, isn't sharp enough to see talent or guys who have the character that you can win with when your top guys are hurt, or find guys that at least have a proven track record instead of junk players who are at best, back ups or defensive replacement. Omar plays favorites and that is whole other discussion. Let me know what you think!
These are not afterthoughts, I have been mentioning this all year in my blog. Including directly about Nelson Fig, Billy Wagner, Omir Santos etc. Especially Oliver Perez I even had a conversation with Kevin Burkhart in spring training about the pitching staff, which I mentioned the same information I included in this. I live near the Mets Spring Training facility and I see the Mets injured players recovering and watch their rehab program. If Omar spent even a little time hiring quality scouts or just paying attention to the little things about certain players personalities and talents, he would put a better product on the field, including how deep the talent is. It's easy to throw 10 to 20 million a season to the top players, thats easy, its building a framework of secondary players which he fails completely at, mostly everyone he let go this year have produced elsewhere and the players he doesn't like he trades or prevents from playing.