Rubin's Rant - Trade Deadline Gone Wrong

By Dave Rubin

Yesterday was exactly the type of game that we can point to as what went wrong with the Mets trade deadline acquisitions.  

Baez is a beautiful fielder and a dynamic guy but he is another all or nothing type player and in a lineup that does not drive in enough runs or produce enough timely hits.  He becomes a drain on the offense more than he becomes a help.

Rich Hill can only go five innings at a time when Carrasco is still stretching himself out so you will have a drain on the bullpen two days in a row.

Our failure to bring in an arm that can go every five days and give us six or seven innings with any regularity becomes even more glaring.

Our failure to bring in another long reliever or spot starter also becomes more glaring because we are completely taxing out our bullpen and since the All-Star game our staff ERA is the second worst in the national league.

We gave up our only true centerfield prospect, but we held onto four shortstops or third base prospects and if we sign Baez to play third then that means that all four of them need to change positions.

We lost out on our #1 Draft Pick because we decided not to take a chance on medicals that may or may not be correct and when you consider the low success rate of the New York Mets medical system it's very hard to believe that there is not some way of fixing whatever ails him.

Since Sandy has been brought back he had trouble finding a president and was turned down by multiple people, he hired a general manager who ended up being fired because of harassment issues, multiple harassment issues were uncovered from his prior regime, they promoted the assistant general manager to the interim status, they failed to sign their number one draft pick and they did not add any important arms to a staff that is in desperate need.

While I truly believe in an ownership led by a Steve Cohen I am finding it harder and harder to believe in an organization that will be guided by Sandy Alderson- and that comes from somebody who really likes and respects Sandy as a man and as an executive.