My Video Game Is Smarter Than The Mets' Front Office

Yesterday I was playing the game Out of the Park Baseball, a hyper-realistic baseball simulator, as the San Diego Padres. This particular franchise began with a fantasy draft, a draft of all players in baseball; and to prove how realistic this game is, it took ~250 rounds. (I was the Padres because I wanted to make the perfect "PETCO team.") The roster pack I was using had very accurate "ratings" on nearly every major and minor leaguer, including some players who had been retired for years. So after a year of play, the computer had shuffled all the players in baseball to all the levels they should be based on talent. Knowing that, during my first offseason, I began looking-up players who have played either for the Mets or the Bisons this year. The results are extremely funny, yet depressing.

• Livan Hernandez: Ace of the single-A Quad City River Bandits (Cardinals). Strikeouts left something to be desired.
• Oliver Perez: Mariner's fifth starter.
• Fernando Nieve: AAA
• Tim Redding: AAA
• Elmer Dessens: retired after a somewhat productive season in AA
• Casey Fossum: A
• Pat Misch: bounced between AA and AAA
  
• Jon Switzer: Rookie League
• Marlon Anderson: AAA
• Angel Berroa: A
• Omir Santos: AA
• Alex Cora: AA
  
• Jeff Francoeur: AAA Omaha Royals (perfect)
• Nick Evans: Starting LFer for the A's (hmm)
  
• Cory Sullivan: A
• Wilson Valdez: AA (bench player)

and some bonus Bisons:

• Javier Castillo: A
• Jose Coronado: A
• Bobby Kielty: A
• Jonathan Malo: A

Something else I noticed going through these names is that many of the regular Bisons who have really sabotaged that team were on the B-Mets last year and didn't really deserve a promotion. Seems like a pretty illogical way to build a AAA team. Of course, with the injuries and all, this post's title is tongue-in-cheek...sort of. It says something when a computer game cannot foresee a situation in which Cory Sullivan should be promoted over Nick Evans.