This Is Why The Mets Front Office Sucks

Some of the moves the Mets in recent history have made have been just flat out confusing (who signs a 32-year-old 2nd baseman, whose been on the decline, with TERRIBLE knees to a 4 year deal?)  But that is not even what I am talking about.  Their treatment of young players is just horrendous.  Just look at the Health Bell situation.  Couldn’t make up their mind on what to do with a young kid with talent which caused his results to suffer.  He finally gets a STEADY role with the Padres and becomes and All-Star closer.

In present times they are just making themselves look silly.  Just about a week ago we got the humorous story about how great New York Mets’ front office communication is.  This story just hit home for me.  As a Met fan I try to stay positive, support the team, and ignore the public perception of them but they make it near impossible.  How can a GM and manager be so far apart on the outlook of the team and make comments like this just hours apart?  It really makes you question if anybody knows what they are doing.

The main issue that is pissing me off somewhat goes along with that story.  The why they are treating fellow top prospect, Jenrry Mejia, is just atrocious.  There really is no nicer way to put it.  I understand what Jerry Manuel is doing he, but it is just wrong.  He is aware just as everybody else that his job is on the line and he wants the best talent on the roster to help him keep his position.  Sometimes though you can’t be so selfish and look at the players needs above yours.  You can not wage the bright looking career of a young player on whether or not you get to keep your job.

Just two seasons ago Mejia was busy carving up pitchers in the GCL, which is pretty much equivalent to an ultra competitive high school league.  Now the Mets want a kid who is not legally old enough to drink in this country to make a jump to the big leagues?  This isn’t just a normal jump it is one the requires him to switch positions while doing so.  Even if it may not seem like it there is a big difference between starting and relieving there is a huge difference both mentally and physically.  Sure it was nice to see him pitch successfully on back to back days early in spring training, but how do you think someone who has appeared in 33 games in his career, all starts, would handle that in the dog days of September.  I would feel pretty confident in saying his arm wouldn’t have the same “magic” to it after being used early and often in the season similar to Bobby Parnell last year.

Am I also the only one who looks at the bullpen as a last resort for pitchers.  If you have a guy with plus stuff you try him in the rotation and if that doesn’t work you let him dominate out of the pen with his fastball and whatever else he has just like the Yankees did with Mariano Rivera.  I have a bad feeling that converting him to the pen so early in his career is going to have lasting repercussions no one wants to see