http://mets.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/06/12/how-ownership-and-sandy-alderson-wasted-away-the-mets-championship-window/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Sat, 08 Dec 2018 07:19:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 http://mets.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/06/12/how-ownership-and-sandy-alderson-wasted-away-the-mets-championship-window/#comment-12863 Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:41:44 +0000 http://mets.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=7145#comment-12863 Whats so annoying to me is…so many of the fan base, as well as the talk radio in NYC, were actually happy that we signed Bruce, Frazier, Vargas…the front office keeps giving us aging players that came from championship teams yet they didnt want them; selling us on the idea that a catcher platoon of d’Arnaud and Plawecki was going to work; and trotting out year after year, the premise that with Mets rotation, they will once again go to the playoffs. Yet, they don’t. Whats that definition of ‘insanity’ again? doing the same thing over and over and hoping for different results? Maybe MLB commissioner Manfred will force the Mets ownership to sell, as ownership is, by definition, obviously insane; current state of Mets cannot be in the best interest of the sport, right? Sandy Anderson keeps insisting that his formula for winning: good rotation, home run hitters, no defense, no speed, and short on fundamentals will work. But the actual truth here, is that the Mets do not have a commitment to winning; the have a commitment to profit. Spend little, put a competitive team on field for a few months, sell season tickets, lure other fans to ballpark with cheap promotions, and pocket the bottom line, One would hope that a major league sports owner would commit to some fiduciary responsibility to the actual fan, to do whatever it takes to put the best product on the field; but the Mets are more concerned with making money, then winning.

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