Jon Paul Morosi posted his Winter Meetings Winners and Losers, and I must disagree with where he put the Mets. Now its easy to write off me, as a Mets fan and blogger, being upset about being categorized as a “loser” in the Winter Meetings, as me just being upset because of the label.
The reason I disagree and am upset with Jon, and any other reporter that ranks the Mets as a loser in the Winter Meetings is the reasoning that he used:
” Even with a new general manager, there isn't much buzz about this team. Sandy Alderson has been asked to be frugal with the Wilpon checkbook. And so D.J. Carrasco and Ronny Paulino were the Mets' most significant signings this week. None of this is Alderson's fault. But it's shocking whenever a New York team is one of the least-talked-about teams in the winter meeting lobby.”
Essentially from the above, the Mets were ranked as losers because we were one of the least talked about teams in the lobby. We are the only team on this list because of this. What about all the other teams that did nothing?
The reason this is upsetting is it gives a voice for Mets fans that are insatiable and impatient. The idea of making moves to make moves and to make a splash is stupid and destructive. These types of actions are generally under the guise of we are a playing to compete and are playing to win. That is why we have Castillo, Oliver Perez, Jason Bay, K-rod, and all of our other bad contracts. These were moves to “win now” without thinking about the Mets assets and ability to compete in the long haul.
The decisions that were made by Sandy Alderson this past week were just what the Mets needed. They didn't add a headache, they didn't hurt the bottom line, and they didn't impeded on our abilities to spend in the 2011 and 2012 winter meetings, when all of current contracts end. This was the necessary “reset” button the Mets needed to have. Jon Paul Morosi was correct in not listing the Mets as a winner of the Winter Meetings, but we didn't shoot ourselves in the foot, make winning next year anymore difficult at the end of the week than in the beginning, and we weren't detrmental so we shouldn't be a loser either.
