Thanks Omar, Willie and the Mets for a great season. As much as this hurts right now, when I look back at what my expectations were back in April I would have to say the season was a success overall. If you knew the following facts BEFORE the season started, how would you have predicted the outcome:
1) Pedro will miss 1/3 of the season and be useless in September.
2) Jose Lima, Jeremi Gonzalez, Alay Soler, Dave Williams and Oliver Perez would all find their way into the rotation.
3) Jose Valentin will start the majority of games at 2B.
4) Cliff Floyd will revert to his old self and Endy Chavez will play a lot of RF.
If Miss Cleo had come to me with this in April, I might have cancelled my Extra Innings subscription ;-)
Friday, October 20, 2006
Some more constructive notes
from the excellent blog over at Metsgeek.com:
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Well, to some extent this is true: the Mets did an excellent job managing through all the injuries and you can't take that away.
That said, it really is hard to look at things that way. When you end the season so far ahead of the rest of a weak and inferior NL, you shouldn't lose to a team which barely made the playoffs. Especially in the best of 7 series. Especially when it's more that you lost than the Cards won - it's not like they beat us, we beat ourselves. Keith Law lays down the law at ESPN.com
Also, let's look at the list.
1) I didn't expect Pedro to miss 1/3 season but I DID expect him to wilt in September, as he's historically done in the past few years. Bottom line, he is frail and old now.
2) This is shocking, didn't expect to lose Bannister AND Maine most of the season. Especially since Bannister was listed as light hammy pull, 15 day DL.
3) What was the alternative, Matusi starts most games at 2B? Not sure how this is better.
4) Perhaps due to pessimism, I expected this too. Floyd in '05 was an aberration unfortunately. I would love to have had '05 Floyd in the '06 lineup, it would have been better than yankees. But floyd is also old and frail now.
Looking forward, this is also the future of Beltran. The only time he's not whining about his strained quad is when he's whining about his strained abdomen. He's always listed as "80%". Well, maybe his salary should be "80%".
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