Multitasking not in the Mets repertoire
Written by Mike Mariano   
Thursday, 04 February 2010 12:53

You know this is getting out of control when I start to get tired of it.  More Mets organizational nonsense to talk about.  Today, the insight comes from Murray Chass who shares some information he gathered talking to various agents who've dealt with the Mets this offseason.  And the consensus seems to be that the Mets are incapable of multitasking.  It's one free agent at a time and everyone else has to wait until that has been dealt.  This would explain why the Mets lost out on so many targets this offseason, because simply they were focusing on someone else at the time.  2010 is looking more and more like the year of the Mess and less like the Amazin' Mets Matt has warned me are coming.  I'll end it with some quotes from the initial story:

But more than one agent cited the Mets’ inability to deal with more than one free agent at a time as the primary reason they lost out on free agents. “We’re interested in your guy,” more than one agent recalled the Mets saying, “but we have to deal with this other guy first.”
In one instance, the Mets were a player’s first choice, an agent said, but he was one or two down on the Mets’ pecking order – a phrase used by another agent – and the player and the agent weren’t going to wait for the Mets to deal with them. They went elsewhere.
Another agent said that Omar Minaya, the Mets’ general manager, told him at the winter meetings in December that the Mets would address their catching need in January. “How can they wait and be sure what will be there?” the agent asked.

Classic Mets.

 



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written by will.H, February 04, 2010
kind of like, pee before you poop? atta way mets, one step at a time.
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written by jerseybuc, February 04, 2010
Come on Mike if anyone should know how agents work it is you. Ask your roommate he might know a thing or two about this. Classic bad reporting citing unnamed sources too, "one agent, an agent", who exactly are we referring to? Tabloid journalism Murray, no wonder the Old Grey Lady fired you a few years ago.
Murray Chass think he is Bob Woodward now? If you are going to rip someone at least give all the details. Agents use NY teams all the time to drive up the prices. These unnamed agents are pissed because the big money Mets didn't drive up the prices for their players, most of whom are not worth the money they got in the first place. Not signing any of the overpriced pitchers this winter may turn out to be the best thing Omar has done all year.
Since Murray didn't properly explain who he was talking about, I will take a guess- Scott Boras.
Mets knew Holliday was being repped by the devil himself in Boras, and he would have strung them out til spring training if he could have. They rightly figured that Bay would be cheaper and easier to sign and left field was the obvious priority for them this offseason. So now he complains cuz he didn't get the money he promised his client. Screw Boras, he cost Holliday millions so now it is spin control time.
As far as double play Benjie goes, Mets played country hardball with him, offered him no more than a one year deal. Agent was looking for THREE year deal. Even Giants only gave him one. No big loss. They plan on having Thole take over in 11, and don't need another 36 year old catcher. We already have a couple of those.
I know the Mets are your pinata but your columns are starting to sound like Bill Maher flogging George W a few years ago. Take the high road once in a while.

Remember too, the hapless Phillies somehow found a way to get back in the races in 07 and 08 when they were clearly outplayed most of the season. You never know in baseball. If the all time losing sports franchise in history can go back to back there is hope for anybody.
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written by will.H, February 04, 2010
"the hapless Phillies somehow found a way to get back in the races in 07 and 08 when they were clearly outplayed most of the season."


Didn't the phillies go 12-6 against the mets in 2007?
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written by jerseybuc, February 05, 2010
yeah will, and the mets did the same to the phils in 08. It turned out well for you both times so the head to head didn't matter did it. Point is that for most of both seasons Mets outplayed the Phils vs rest of the league.
And yeah, I remember how both seasons turned out, don't remind me.....
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written by will.H, February 05, 2010
nah i dont do the whole world series bragging thing, but both 2007 and 2008 are hard to compare when talking phils/mets. 2007 came out of nowhere. 2008 i felt like it was bound to happen anyway. since the mets went 11-7 against the phils in 08, i can't see them outplaying the rest of the league with 70 some wins against teams not named the Phillies. Your point is good though, the mets did seem to outplay most of the league both years to come up empty in the last 2 weeks. which is worse, that or 2009?

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