Mets GM Sandy Alderson on hot seat?

No More Excuses, Bro?

in fairness to sandy-
when the mandate is SPEND NO $$$
what could he do?

He's a Smart Guy, but sometimes guys start outsmarting themselves, he might be at that point! He should be in Japan following that Cuban Team and handing passports out, now that's how get an outfielder!!!

look. i'm a met fan, the teams stinks, no doubt, and all this talk about 'playing with passion' and 'let's wait until the all-star break to make a move', of course, is ridiculous. the wilpons want the glory without paying a price for it and they are hoping alderson can do that with a minimum payroll and 'hungry' ballplayers (re: guys who have no shot anywhere else but will take any paycheck to get the shot in NY). A few unexpected wins this year? you bet. competitive? absolutely. a contender, a playoff-bound talented team? heck no. not saying we need a-listers on this team, but we need a boat load of b-lister talent to lure the on or two or three a-listers to turn this team around.

You can put all the blame on the past management for bad trades, bad free agent signings, and bad draft picks for the shape they are in toady.

Insane. The guy inherited nothing but an empty farm and an overextended payroll. If he had Cashman money to work with, you can overcome that, but the Wilpons had the Madoff mess. That money funded the expansion of the payroll and led to dumb things ("Hey, Bobby Bo, take $25 million spread out instead of $5 million now! We earn 18% with Bernie!!!!" The idea was to work off the Beltran, Santana, KRod, Castillo, Perez, etc. contracts, and re-stock until the Wilpons found some cash. That is just happening now. Alderson deserves a chance to see this through, and "through" is not 2013.

John Pileggi

Yes he is. Sandy doesn't know what to do with the $$$. He's a 'moneyball gm'. Bye bye Sandy!!

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Originally posted 12:26 PM ET  03.10 by HellAwaits!!!

Yes he is. Sandy doesn't know what to do with the $$$. He's a 'moneyball gm'. Bye bye Sandy!!

Of what $$$ do you speak?

Have you seen their Outfield? A GM wouldn't put together an OF like that unless he didn't have much choice.

Yikes. He's got a hot seat? I hate hemorrhoids.

The Mets are in better shape now than they were a few years ago. They have lots of good young pitching, and overpaid guys such as Jason Bay are gone. Yes, they need some hitters, but Davis and Wright and d'Arnaud and Murphy are solid. Give him time.

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Originally posted 12:52 PM ET  03.10 by TheBone

Of what $$$ do you speak?Have you seen their Outfield? A GM wouldn't put together an OF like that unless he didn't have much choice.

Silly rabbit, the Wimpons already announced next offseason they would be spending like drunken sailors, but I bet you already knew that

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Originally posted 01:03 PM ET  03.10 by HellAwaits!!!

Silly rabbit, the Wimpons already announced next offseason they would be spending like drunken sailors, but I bet you already knew that

I might have missed that...

All I hear on WFAN is how bad they are gonna be this year :-)

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Originally posted 12:57 PM ET  03.10 by ...the best policy

The Mets are in better shape now than they were a few years ago. They have lots of good young pitching, and overpaid guys such as Jason Bay are gone. Yes, they need some hitters, but Davis and Wright and d'Arnaud and Murphy are solid. Give him time.

I agree, Alderson has brought in valuable prospects. I wouldn't dump him just yet

This thread is a year early......put it in a ziplock or tupperware....and break it out next spring......

Like I tell my mets fan friend, when you see the wilpons spend, start to spend in qn offseason, any future offseason, you can start keeping the good players like Dickey. Until then...thurn over the good players for prospect, not Alderson's fault.

Last two years,,, no dinero... yet they still competed in the NL East--- didn't do much worse than the SILLIES who spent the farm and their grandkids inheritance--- Didn't do bad considering... this year they didn't spend anything either, not much. Sillies won't be going to post season either...

He'd be lucky to get canned from that mess...seriously, that team is a cesspoole right now...how do you have marlon byrd in your outfield? someone else, not named alderson created that disaster and it will take more than a couple of years to fix.