Re: Article re the Mets' failure to trade for Victor Martinez

On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:23:37 -0400, O'Bob wrote:

He's not God, but he's not the idiot your making him out to be either.

Ruben

PS: True, I don't hold Minaya in very high esteem, but I believe that
is justified. Any logical comparison should be with GMs of other big
market teams, and I don't think he has done as much with the major
finances available to him. I'm not going to overstate the obvious, so
I'll only ask a few questions:

What is the state of the Mets' farm system? How do the Mets'
prospects stack up? (The repeated phrase is "The Mets don't have
any prospects to trade." Why is that?)

Who brought the belligerent Tony Bernazard on board? Who left him
in place even after confrontations with Mets players and weird
flame-outs were known?

Who was competing with the Mets to expand the contracts of Oliver
Perez and Luis Castillo? (Not arguing the signings, I'm asking why
the long terms were necessary)

How diplomatically was the firing of Bernazard and the subsequently
-created- Adam Rubin controversy handled?

Minaya has essentially done what the ownership and the fans have asked of
him. I didn't want Delgado. I didn't like lack of minor league
development. I didn't like the Milledge trade. I was sitting on the
fence with Beltran. I argued that they were stretching the system too
thin for years. And this is the harvest you reap.

But certainly Minaya knows how to negotiate constructive trades and
contract, and you said he couldn't.

Ruben

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