Cora Applesauce - Mets re-sign Cora, snag a perpetual Phillie, add Krivsky, rare Seaver video

by Joe Budd on Dec 1, 2009 10:10 AM EST in Applesauce Comment 28 comments

Maybe Omar signed Cora to such an obscene contract because he's next in line to be manager when Jerry gets canned in June.

Meet the Mets

Omar fired the opening shots in his offseason plan, unfortunately they involved a $2 million contract for Alex Cora (with a vesting option!) and signing backup catcher Chris Coste. The reaction to the Cora signing was almost universally negative. Adam Bernacchio points out that the White Sox signed both Omar Vizquel and Andruw Jones for less money. Joe Janish uses extreme sarcasm in response. Toby Hyde wonders what the heck the discussion in the Met war room has sounded like. Blue and Orange just doesn't get it. Neither does Ted Berg.

Mets Walkoffs sees the genius in Omar's plan: get all players who have had walk off hits against the Mets.

Oh, and Chris Coste will always see himself as a Phillie. Awesome.

In somewhat positive news, the Mets added Wayne Krivsky to their front office. I doubt that this will help land Felipe Lopez.

Howard Megdal thinks that the jerseys aren't selling because we don't really have any emotional attachment to them. Yet...

Also, to put a smile on your face, here's video of Tom Seaver's MLB debut.

Cookie Lavagetto. That's all.

Around the NL East

The Phillies are checking out Mike Lowell as a solution at third base.

Around MLB

Joe Mauer is in the driver's seat with his contract extension.

Aroldis Chapman's defection was pretty big news. This defection will probably get a lot less attention.

The Cardinals have picked up potential free agent bargain Ruben Gotay.

Chip Caray will be looking for new work after parting ways with Turner Sports.

David Roher goes all high-brow explaining why strikeouts don't matter.

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Happy days are here again

Chip Carey has left the building! Of course with my luck, he goes to DC and he forms some sort of nightmarish trio with Dibble and Carpenter.

by dcmetsfan on Dec 1, 2009 10:31 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I just shivered a little

by Joe Budd on Dec 1, 2009 10:31 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Caray, Dibble and Carpenter is the stuff of nightmares

by Syler on Dec 1, 2009 10:40 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I have nothing against Krivsky

But I just have a bad feeling that he (or another retread like him) will end up replacing Omar. I’ll be thrilled to get rid of Omar, but do we really need another old-school “baseball man” who doesn’t believe in statistical numbers? I feel Jeff Wilpon is so intimidated by the thought of having someone smarter than him running the show that we’ll never get an Epstein/Friedman type as GM.

by Bieser's Balk on Dec 1, 2009 10:34 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I don't think Krivsky is the type who doesn't believe in baseball numbers

And you don’t need numbers to win their are front offices who consistently put together strong teams without the use of numbers because they have strong scouts/minor league development systems, and their gms aren’t incompetent, the twins for example, the dodgers, even with Colletis idiocy, even if entirely on accident, the braves among others. Our problem is just a lack of numbers, it’s a lack of numbers mediocre scouts, mediocre development and an incompetent gm.

by Gina on Dec 1, 2009 10:40 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Krivsky graduated from Duke with a degree in management science

That doesn’t scream “old school” to me

by Syler on Dec 1, 2009 10:41 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Also i wouldnt consider him a retread

I think he got shafted in Cincy.

by Gina on Dec 1, 2009 10:49 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Fair enough

I could definitely be wrong on this. I’d just rather get some new blood in the front office — a young guy who hasn’t been a GM before with a guy like Krivsky as an assistant maybe. But I’ll take your word for it on Krivsky.

Either way, he’d be a major upgrade over Minaya.

by Bieser's Balk on Dec 1, 2009 10:52 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

The guy gave Francisco Cordero a $46 million contract

Something tells me he’s not an advanced numbers guy.

by saberkeith on Dec 1, 2009 12:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

actually that tells us he's not even a basic numbers guy

by KeithsMoustache on Dec 1, 2009 12:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

What? 46,000,000 has a lot of numbers. It's very advanced.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Dec 1, 2009 1:16 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Coste is right

He will always be a Phillie.

Over/under on .220 with 2 HR and 10 RBI this year?

3:45 PM on 10/25/09-changed signature to "Leon Washington for President"
4:45 PM on 10/25/09-Leon Washington suffers season-ending injury

by Prince on Dec 1, 2009 11:05 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

under

by fxcarden on Dec 1, 2009 11:20 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

i'm guessing over on all 3

but not by much.

by KeithsMoustache on Dec 1, 2009 11:25 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

under

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Dec 1, 2009 12:09 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Five reasons why new Mets jersey isn't selling

All these rants about why the new jersey is not selling makes no sense to me at all. Not one but two SNY contributor chiming in on disparaging sales?

Here is why the Jersey is not selling….

1. Baseball season ended over a month ago. They’re still shopping for football jerseys right now. It’s that whole duck season, wabbit season thing.

2. Outside of a couple of hundred Mets bloggers, do the other millions in the fanbase have any idea they even came out with the new jerseys? I haven’t seen them advertised on SNY or heard on WFAN have you?

3. If you’re making the decision to buy a new jersey, wouldn’t you first wait to see what big name players the Mets might add, or who they might lose? Kind of stupid to buy a 2010 Pelfrey jersey now and then he gets traded at the winter meetings. I’ve always bought my new jerseys sometime between the middle of spring training and Opening Day. When do you buy yours?

4. How can a jersey that’s been on sale all of five days, have entire blog posts dedicated to it for the lack of sales? I bet Mets Snuggies didn’t have any sales in the first five days either, or Crystal Pepsi.

5. Where’s the comparison data? Did the Brewers or White Sox sell any of their new jerseys on Black Friday? Did anybody sell new jerseys on Black Friday? Modell’s reported record earnings on their Black Friday, do you think they sold any Mets jerseys? Considering they were $20 bucks cheaper than Mets.com.

The point of this comment is that there is no point.

We gave Cora $2 million bucks. Where’s the outrage???

by Joe D. on Dec 1, 2009 11:13 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Good points on the jerseys

I think pointing to the lack of sales with any meaning at this point is kind of a reach.

by James Kannengieser on Dec 1, 2009 12:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe it's because

we do things like sign Alex Cora for $2 million

You don't cheer for the Mets. You drink for the Mets.

by Kevin H on Dec 1, 2009 12:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Now we're even...

Coste says he will always be a Phillie, Pedro said he will always be a Met., so did Piazza. Who cares?

Leave it to the Mets to sign a guy who’s only claim to fame is his book, “The 33 Year Old Rookie”.

Big freaking deal!

The Mets had a 40 year old rookie in Takahashi last season, so I’m not impressed.

by Joe D. on Dec 1, 2009 11:19 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

wait, Pedro said he'll always be a Met?

Red Sox Nation has a right to be offended by that…

"[The Giants] beat us down. We were beat by a grown-man team, a team we want to be like one day. They came in here and took it to us. Out-manned us, out-gunned us. ... It wasn't even close." - Raheem Morris, 9/27/09

by cjmulrain on Dec 1, 2009 2:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs