One of the things I am concerned about for this upcoming off season is that the Mets will make changes, but the changes won't actually be changes, and it will just usher in another era of the same old same old in New York. Essentially, what I am nervous about is ownership playing up all of their changes, when in fact the changes are just who holds the titles, but the results will still be the same.
I was actually going to hold off writing this article until the end of the season, but with Torre's comments yesterday about how he is waiting for the phone to ring from the Mets office and would love to hear their offer, I feel compelled to write this article now. The following are crucial events to either in order to have actual change next season:
2) No to Joe Torre. The Yankees have their own history, we have our own. Yes Torre made an impact in the 70's and yes that technically counts as a Mets pedigree. The problem is Torre is way too laid back for this team right now. The Mets need someone like a Bobby V, Mazzilli, or Backman to add some spark to this team. Torre would be more of the same (although, I'll admit, his management of the bullpen will probably be a welcomed change in New York).
3) Yo Wilpon listen up. I know this is going to be really hard, because it is your money, but you need to stay out of the baseball operations of the GM. Minaya, especially this past year, had his hands tied by your meddling and to be honest if you think you can make better baseball decisions (which you can't, because that is not your job) then YOU should be the GM. Don't hire someone just to be a scapegoat for when your decisions go south, but take the credt for decisions when they are amazing.
Those are the three main things the Mets need to do this offseason from an office standpoint to make sure changes will actually come to Queens by next season. If any of the above three don't happen, then there is a good chance that mid way through next season,.we will see the Mets acting like this year because the personality change via a personnel change did not occur.
