This season has been a new type of frustration for Mets fans. Well maybe not a new type, just a type we were hoping to not have to experience. Essentially, for the vast majority of the season, we have been told that “we are a contender and because we are a contender, we now need to rush this prospect and force them into this role”. On face value, there is nothing too wrong with this statement because we were a contender for a period of time. The problem arises in statements like, “The player hasn't succeeded in the role that we want him to, but we need to keep him around.”
Now we are just duping oursevles.
Gary and Keith had a great discussion about this yesterday. Keith obvisouly thinks that Mejia should have been down in AAA the entire time. Which is what we all think. Gary however played a good voice of reason. He explained what the Mets were thinking, and then where the Mets went wrong. The Mets were thinking we just lost Escobar and now we need an 8th inning man. Mejia should take that spot. Gary pointed out that this went wrong in April when it became clear that Mejia was not an 8th inning guy, and he should have been sent down at that point, not over a month later.
So what have we learned? We have now acquired a very specific example amoung many on why the problems with this organization go deeper than players and manager. That changes need to be made from the top down, where it goes all the way up to the owner, where the owner needs to reevaluate how accomplish the goal of winning a championship.
