Comments on: Mets Blogger Roundtable: Grading The Off Season

By: Review of 2010 Predictions

Review of 2010 Predictions — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:33:41 +0000

[...] for the 2010 season. You may find it fun to watch them again, now that it is after the fact:1. Grading the Offseason I gave the Mets a C-minus for not acquiring more pitching. Dave liked the Jason Bay signing.2. [...]

By: kerelcooper

kerelcooper — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:08:25 +0000

Good point on Castillo/2b. We don't really know the impact of the Madoff situation but that may be hindering the Mets "ability to suck it up, take a loss, and move on."

By: B. Decker

B. Decker — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:20:12 +0000

I agree with your comments, but why no mention of Second Base ?? I’m not one to suggest that the Mets occupy the same financial strata as the Yankees, but when the Yankees make mistakes with contracts they have the ability to suck it up, take a loss, and move on. Why can’t the Mets do this with Castillo? Second base needed to be upgraded because with Luis in the lineup, it creates all sorts of issues with where to put Reyes and Murphy. If Castillo is gone (or as a high priced, and very good, pinch hitter on the bench) then they could go: 1) Reyes
2) Murphy 3) Wright 4) Bay 5) Franceour —- and then slot in Pagan, Barajas, and a Second Baseman with pop in the 6 -8 slots. Just an idea.