Scott Hairston is Why Sandy Alderson is a Good GM

than how is there nothing out there to replace him with?

They just cut ties with two players who weren’t part of the team going forward and got a pretty good prospect for one of them.

Unless you’re referring to trading Wright and Reyes, both of whom are still at an age where they can be productive while the team gets overhauled. Everybody else is at or around replacement level for minimal cost or are young and cost controlled players that hopefully get better over time.

wants to traid the clubhouze

You must not be a Met fan, because mediocrity is a joyous celebration for this franchise.

Hairston slumping is no reflection at all on Sandy. All players slump, it doesn’t mean it was a bad signing. No one is saying that the bench is the only reason Sandy is a good GM, it’s just one example of much more competent Sandy has been compared to Minaya.

My pet-peeve is when fans make statements like “mediocrity doesn’t cut it with me” yet offer no realistic solutions to make the team better, other than “cleaning house” What do you actually propose?, or are you just ranting and trying to stir up the pot?

Hu’s value came basically only from his defense. Willie Harris, too, to a degree- he’s always been meh with the bat, but generally positive, when it comes to defense. Using Hu as a pinch hitter? WTF? Using Harris as a pinch hitter? Less of a WTF, but how often do we see Harris used as a defensive substitution, where his main prowess is? Not often, not often.

But did you see the piece about why K-Rod wanted and agreed to a quick trade (don’t remember where it was from – maybe Rubin)? He said he felt that TC was going to prevent the option from vesting because there was a signular game where he wasn’t used in a non-save situation.

No real point to this – I’m just glad we don’t have to watch the vesting countdown anymore.

Endy!

Omar’s problem was not understanding that a lot of these guys were playing over their heads and kept them around too long.

He was on the late ’90s Mets, not the mid-2000s Mets.

and some of Minaya’s failures may have been do to bad luck. A lot of these guys crap out or get injured and its hard to predict who will work out and who won’t. As hard as it is, I could see Sandy and DePodesta really trying to figure out who to sign instead of just rounding up a bunch of replacement level players and crossing their fingers hoping one turns into a productive bench player. So far I think Sandy has done a great job bringing in complimentary players. I think that the Capuano, Young and Bucholz signings were smart and realistically we could of predicted of those three only one was likely to make a major contribution to the team, due to their injury histories.

It’s amazing to finally have a front office that knows how to run a baseball team. The Mejia debocle last year- taking a great young pitching prospect with front end starter potential and putting him in a major league bullpen before he had refined his secondary pitches. Just one example of the madness of Omar that Met fans don’t have to worry about with Sandy. He has struck me as the consumate professional- cool, calm, collected, really the opposite of Omar.

Omar had gone overslot and signed draft picks. I don’t know if that ownership’s decision or his, but he was pretty cautious in the draft and that is maybe why we have so many prospects who profle as 4th outfielders or utility infielders. With Sandy and Paul Depodesta I am confident that we will start getting more high upside prospects in our system and I trust Depodesta and Sandy to draft well.

But I wonder what the collective WAR is for Omar’s draft picks.

I really don’t care that he found some guys to use as organizational filler. That’s not exactly a tough part of being a GM.

He screwed up with making the major league team better whether it was with the actual team on the field or the pipeline of talent.

Weren’t because they weren’t performing.

we wouldn’t have had any of his negative WAR performance!