Sam's 2011 Offseason Plan

This is creative. I am happy to see Rickie Weeks at the center of your AAOP. I think he’s a worthwhile target, and I think the Mets have quite a few ways to make that work. (I am tempted to submit an AAOP centered around an Ike Davis/Rickie Weeks deal.)

We already have Tejada if you want Gwynn’s offensive numbers. I just posted them on another thread and it’s eerie how close they are. Sure he might be a good defensive replacement but if you’re willing to swallow his line you might as well give some of our guys in AA or AAA some MLB time.

there’s a serious flaw your plan shares with most others, and that’s simply declining to add a good reliable starter to the rotation. (And yours is also the only one I can recall that aims to trade the Mets only starter as of the beginning of the year who has more than ONE good season to his name.)

I’m obviously in the minority on this site, but particularly when the rotation is as terribly thin as the Mets rotation is, why not spend the 8m you’ve alloted for two question marks, Correia and Penny, and include that in whatever package is necessary to get the best good, durable starter you can find? Correia has had one good, reasonably durable season as a starter. He wasn’t very good last year. Penny hasn’t been reliable in four years, and he seems able to keep his ERA under 5.50 only when he’s making fewer than 10 starts.

As for trading Pelfrey when the team desperately needs starters, I just don’t think you can do it unless the offer is overwhelming.

The rotation you’ve projected is less durable than it will be if the Mets don’t make any moves. That can’t be the right approach, imo.

I have been advocating the dealing of Pelf for 2 yrs. Now he actually has real value. I wouldn’t deal him for Weeks however cause we’ve already got one headache extension to deal with and we don’t need another… but I like the idea nonetheless…

if I dealt Pelf I was thinking more along the lines of returning a younger arm… was thinking Esmil Rogers and Chris Ianetta and maybe a minor league arm to boot… something like that.

Thing is that if we don’t have the resources available to build a real pen and with our ace out for maybe half the year or more, how are we going to make a serious run this year anyway?? May as well move some pieces around with an eye to the future…

I heard the Mets only got bout 5 million max to spend, so they’ll probably not get all tthese. However, i love your idea of trading big pelf away for weeks and cain. Creative but probbaly unrealistic. Keep up the good work dude!

Or are those projections not out yet?

In this year’s AAOP the Mets have about 25m to spend, and we’re dealing away our most durable starter because he has bad breath. And replacing him with two glass arms. And everyone thinks it’s a great idea.

Is it Pat Misch’s blazing ERA that has the site under its crafty spell?

Man, I wish you had been the GM last year. Hell of a job. Kelly Johnson is especially galling to me. For a position we have suffered at one way or the other for so long (excepting the brilliant play of the Fonz) and have the D backs with half our payroll picking him up for basically what GMJ got from us (or Cora) is really disheartening. With no strings attached yet still under team control and the potential of being more than a one or two year solution or returning a pick or two if Havens/Tejada forced their way up, it really just reinforces how crippling that Castillo contract has been. Here’s to hoping Sandy makes more moves like the one’s you suggested last year.

Why pick up a guy that’s going to hit at the top of the lineup and be among the league leaders in strikeouts? A guy with a career .784 OPS is a franchise player? Even with his D, I disagree with that. If so, there’s tons of franchise players out there.

And if Pelf’s value is high, you have to try and get a young arm back for him, don’t you? And I think you’re giving up on Duda without seeing how could he be.

I like the idea of moving Beltran, but I think you could get more at mid season when the Mets could pick up say 6 mil of the 12 remaining, or something like that. A team in the pennant race might like Beltran for 80-90 games if the price tag is only 5-8 million. Especially if he is playing well.

My feeling is that the Brewers may just want a touch more in terms of young players. Beltran is good but if the team is missing Weeks and Fielder I’d assume they’re calling it quits for 2011 somewhat and would probably want some more young leverage to make up for that.

Also I don’t much like Rickie Weeks enough to trade a guy like Pelfrey for him. Weeks has always been injured (with wrist injuries, no less, which tend to take a toll on power), and Pelfrey is always healthy and is a solid pitcher.

2 yr deal and see what happens. But like I said we don’t have the funds to take risks and gambles.

as long as LOLie and Slappy are gone for good, that is.