Fernando Martinez and Daniel Ray Herrera Placed on Waivers

He’s at a very low level for his age with numbers that aren’t going to blow anyone away.

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that someone (probably Alderson) was concerned that Herrera’s screwball becomes less effective as hitters see it more. And there’s no way Satin was getting waived – he’s the reigning org. Player of the Year.

11.2 K/9, a .222/.271/.333 line with a 36/6 K:BB ratio against lefties and they already re-signed him to a one year guaranteed deal late in 2011. Herrera’s younger and cheaper but his upside is probably to become what Byrdak is right now, which just isn’t all that high to begin with. With the way the pen’s currently made up, I really don’t have a problem waiving Herrera. I’m hoping he clears waivers and accepts an assignment to Buffalo as depth, of course, but I don’t think he’s that special to have to keep at all costs, so to speak.

Now I would’ve much rather seen them waive Carrasco or Schwinden or Satin or Armando Rodriguez instead of Fernando Martinez, but that’s a whole other issue.

Martinez would have already been promoted to another plane of existence by now, so he wouldn’t be much help to the Mets anyway.

They gave K-Rod away for salary relief for this year….so they could afford Ronny Cedeno and Scott Hairston, apparently. Man, I’m getting more bummed out by the minute.

The nature of the pitch is that, properly thrown, it’s entirely unpredictable.

I always thought they would claim Who? and they never did.

than Franklin Gutierrez at the very least

With Omar being part of their front office.

And I don’t think they’d have two lefty specialists in the bullpen.

2035 HoF first ballot.

We all know this is true.

We are in no way competitive so why not roll the dice?

If Omar made the same moves they would be idiotic, but since Sandy made these moves they’re okay? I get Omar has a bad track record, and he’s made a lot of moves without forethought, but I have to think a good move is a good move, or vice versa, regardless of who the GM is that made said move. We don’t have much to go on so far to give Sandy a free pass on any moves he makes. (Not that I dislike Alderson)

So far Sandy has two things going for him: 1) He’s not Omar Minaya. This is a huge part for a lot of the patience we as fans have right now. 2) He made two really good trades. But in both, he got the better end of the same GM (Brian Sabean). So objectively it’s a toss up whether these were savvy moves by Alderson, or just dumb moves by Sabean. The rest of his moves, to date, have been more about book balancing.

I have mixed feelings on Alderson so far. He’s done some good things, and some other things I’m not crazy about. I don’t agree with the 40 man cuts he made. There was other fodder that could’ve been cut. But maybe in the big picture it wasn’t a big deal. I think we need to stop, though, lauding Alderson by denouncing Minaya. Minaya got the team into contention again. He made bad moves after that, but it doesn’t take away from the fact that he did something good for this team. And I’m not even a Minaya apologist, but I get tired of people acting like Alderson has done so much more for this organization. Let’s wait and see how his tenure finishes out before we make the comparison.