Don't Criticize Omar For The Sake Of Criticizing

everybody is sick of guys like Tatis, and Cora, Matthews and Garko are no better. If Omar wanted to stick to the purse- strings,or if it was mandated, and the only splurge was Bay, then so be it. But spending what they have so far on bench fodder, it makes no sense. Cora could have been signed for half- on a minor league deal. Matthews costed a pretty dependable reliever (Stokes), who was good for less than $1M. Now we are stuck with a declining, crybaby who will cut into Pagan’s playing time. Tatis has been serviceable, but why not get younger? Nothing added for pitching except Escobar, Fogg and Dickey. Then signing backup catcher fodder like Coste, Blanco and Luke Montz. Not to mention, old guys like Hessman and Cervenak to block Ike Davis and so-called prospect Bowman. Not only is the Met bench old and crusty, but the reinforcements in Buffalo will even be older. Start spending the cash on the draft, and don’t fill out the bench until you get your starting lineup defined.

so far. This has got to be the oldest, most useless group ever. My guess is that Stokes was traded so that Omar’s buddy Elmer Dessens could have a spot. Feliciano and Andy Green should have a tough time cracking an Indy League roster, but why, when Omar gives them meal-money and a guaranteed job in Buffalo. Hessman and Cervenak are a pure example of Omar’s AAA policy- you must be at least 30, or get lost. The only guy that may be of usefulness would be Russ Adams, aLH hitting middle inf. But Omar will cut him so that Green can play. Pathetic.

everyone blames omar led by the daily news writers who have an axe to grind with him. it starts with ownership . if u give a great chef lemons u get great lemonade but its still lemonade. thats what wilpons have given omar i’m tired of hearing about that we have the highest payroll in the nl the wilpons own two thirds of sny so there is no reason that they do not put more money on the table for omar to spend

I hold Omar responsible for neglecting the minors. If he ( or was it Jeff?) hadn’t thrown away so many high draft choices we might have had a low cost solution to one or more of our needs coming up right now. He started the job with 2 of the 8 everyday positions already taken care of and added Beltran shortly thereafter. Five years later, maybe 1B will be set next year, 2B in 2 years, 1/2 of catcher in a year or two, one OF spot if Fern comes through but by that time we’re either paying free agent bucks or looking for replacements at the original 3 spots and that’s only the starting eight.

makes me love the team even more

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I joined this site yesterday and all the TC are talking about how omar is doing a good job and not to criticize him…
Why should we be happy? We collasped for the past 3 years (last year was a total collapse).
How can we win games? Oh I have an idea, lets bring back everyone who collapsed and have another round and see if we can do it this year. NOOOOOOOOOO!! Dont give me that bs!
We need to change the culture, we need to bring in different people. I’m not saying we have to change everything we need to get rid of the players who have no use. But you guys will say the stats are worse for the other players (garko etc) and that it wouldnt be an improvement. Seriously stats are not everything, if fans dont believe the players on the field can win what makes you think that the players think they can win together.

This site is terrible, no apologies just how i feel. If you want to ban me, bash me or call your friend omar on me then w/e.

It’s not a great signing, and Omar doesn’t get a pass because it’s not a terrible signing. It’s more that people are upset with the continued philosophy of signing over the hill vets who won’t be as good as they were last year. It never ends. Let’s be honest, Tatis sucked most of the year, and a hot Sept. saved him, or he wouldn’t be coming back. Let’s not compare his signing to Cora, because the Cora decision is so bad, that anything looks good in comparison. I’d rather Evans get all of Tatis’ at bats (if they are going to play him vs. lefties, Evans is better vs. lefties). Tatis can play a lot of positions, true, but he will also go out of the strike zone and ground into many rally killing DPs. This will happen.

the sheer amount of his DPs was bad luck, but that fact that he will reach for the outside pitch, and roll over on it is not random, it’s a tendency. When you roll over on the ball you hit weak grounders often to the left side.

on Aug. 17 he was hitting .244 with an OPS of .708. He was not good in July.

I’m confused, I thought we were supposed to make fun of comments like that?

He has a reasonable track record with Type A free agents such as Billy Wagner, K-Rod, Carlos Beltran and Pedro. The trades for Johan Santana and Delgado/LoDuca were inspired. We’ll see if he got it right with Jason Bay. I still like trading Ryan Church for Francouer who is still only 25 years old and could really develop. But what Omar does on the margins of his roster with the limited dollars the Wilpons give him is baffling. He pads the team with too many past-their-prime, injury-risk players and usually he does this at the beginning of free agency when he almost must overpay. Blanco, Coste, Dessens, Igarashi, Kelvim Escobar, RA Dickey, Alex Cora would all have cost less now, than they did then. And now he has two of the same player in Tatis and Matthews Jr. and he also just added Frank Catalanotto on a minor league deal and he is arguably more versatile than Tatis and Cora combined. Then every reasonable non-John Lackey pitcher was scooped up and he’s left looking at 42 year old Smoltz and may-not-pitch this year Bedard. All of these guys are the type of players that should either be the 13th position player or the 12th pitcher on the team, yet Omar is asking most of them to not only make the roster, but also contribute.

On the other hand, it’s not at all contradictory to figure the money spent on Tatis combined with the money spent on Cora would have been better spent on truly bolstering 1b or 2b.

It’s a little bit… I dunno… less interesting than it could be to go after people who think the Tatis signing was bad and that everything Omar does is horrible. It makes for an easy column to write since those folks are so easy to skewer, but it doesn’t actually take on the more interesting issues of how to improve the ballclub going forward.

Just my opinion, at any rate.