Fred “Im Broke” Wilpon’s AAOP. Because the Einhorn deal fell through I thought I’d make a very basic AAOP trying to use the least amount of money and as many internal options as possible to field a semi-competitive team.

Again it is not very specific as I have not yet looked into specific trade scenarios and free agents. I am hoping that you all can offer some ideas and I can include them in my actual AAOP. The lists on the bottom include what I think the Major league team will look like and I also offered a list of all the players that I think can come up and help either the big league team or our higher affiliates(and eventually the big league team sometime in 2012). Based on my estimates, the payroll of the major league team should be near the 100mil level or a bit less.

Mets Roster

C-Thole/Paulino

1b-Ike Davis

2b-Murphy

SS-Jose Reyes

3b-David Wright

LF-Bay

CF-Pagan

RF-Duda

Rotation

SP1-Santana

SP2-Niese

SP3-Dickey

SP4-Pelfrey

SP5-Gee

Bench

Evans(1B, LF, RF)

Satin(2b,1b)

Turner(ss,2b, 3b)

Paulino/Thole(whoever is not playing)

Need backup CF/RF/LF(keep Hairston)

RPs

Acosta

Byrdak

Herrera

Parnell

Stinson

Re-sign Capuano (long man/spot starter)

FA signing (1-2 mil for a proven reliever is plenty)

Buffalo

1b-Dykstra(should be promoted just to see if he can handle AAA and be a useful piece)

2b-Tejada/Valdespin

SS-Valdespin/Tejada

3b-Lutz

CF-Capt. Kirk

LF-Baxter

RF-F-Mart

SPs

Schwinden

Cohoon

Mejia

RPs

Beato

De La Torre

Lujan

Bing

2b-Havens

LF-Lagares

CF-Den Dekker

SPs

Brandon Moore(looking more like relief pitcher to me)

Collin McHugh(give like 7 more starts and see how he does, if well promote to AAA)

Familia

Harvey

Gorski(should start in AA in 2012)

RPs

Edgin(should be in AA along with Carr and Niesen)

Carr

Niesen

Holt

Priority

Sign Reyes!!!!

Trade Options

If Kirk is doing well, flip Pagan for a SP/prospects

If Schwinden does well, flip Pelf for relief help/prospects

I really hope that Alderson takes advantage of the depth we have at some positions and turns them into something we can use. Let’s take a look at positions where we have depth. Once Havens is ready only one of Tejada, Valdespin, or Havens can play (im assuming we keep Reyes and not use any of them as a bench player which would be a waste) I see Havens as the long term solution at 2b so we can trade Tejada and Valdespin once Havens is ready. It also seems like Murphy and Satin are the same player so we can make a package of Murphy/Satin, Tejada/Valdespin, along with others, maybe Lutz(poor guy is blocked by Wrongz and Turner/Murphy, if not traded, can rest Wright on occasion) and Gee for a decent SP. If Alderson can trade Bay(eat most of his contract) for a #4-5 SP, it would be fantastic. Then we can move Kirk to RF and Duda to LF and have Pagan CF. And if F-Mart perfoms(I still have hope) then we can definitely trade Pagan and have an outfield of Duda, Kirk, F-Mart. Again this is just preliminary and very general and I hope to work on it more once the offseason hits.