Post-Winter Meetings Confidence Check

[Centerfield]

So the Winter Meetings are done. Not a lot happened there, but there were some good moves made get back to status quo heading into the meetings. Will that be enough? For all the goodwill of Walker and Cespedes, the Mets have made no additions to the team from the one that left the field in 2016. And in fact, they are actually looking to dump offense, rather than add it. Still, maybe Duda, d'Arnaud and Conforto bounce back. Tough to say. But I'm asking you to say it anyway!

[nymr83]

By virtue of health alone the 2017 Mets should be better than the 2016 version - but I don't think they've quite caught the Nationals.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Health is no given. My Cahn-fidence is currently luke-warm.

[Lefty Specialist]

All depends on the health of those arms. I'd feel better if Sandy had traded Bruce for something useful; but he got the Cespedes deal done, so he gets some zlack. For now.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm pleased he hasn't traded Bruce on the cheap.

[Zvon]

Centerfield wrote: Still, maybe Duda, d'Arnaud and Conforto bounce back. Tough to say. But I'm asking you to say it anyway!

I think we are neck and neck with the Nats on paper (translation, injury free, everyone firing on all pistons). I can get behind rooting for those guys to play up to their potential if there are no more moves to up the offense. Throw Lags in if he is still here. I can't see the outfield as it now stands, something will have to be done there. If we keep Bruce I will have to root for him to be "The Good Bruce". But one thing I don't want to go through is the Flushing of Jason Bay II. So if we stick with him and he still sucks I'll be bitchin bout it as I root.

I think we have 99.9% of the ingredients needed to get back to the big show. All off season I've been hoping for one thing. An additional bullpen arm that can be counted on. And the thing about that is if someone steps up we could possibly find that in-house. Sometimes the moves not made are the best moves.

[Edgy MD]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm pleased he hasn't traded Bruce on the cheap.

Yeah. The end of the winter meetings certainly isn't a real deadline.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm quite satisfied at this point. There's definitely more to come, but I think the Mets have a good team and I expect that they'll contend in 2017.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm quite satisfied at this point. There's definitely more to come, but I think the Mets have a good team and I expect that they'll contend in 2017.

Yeah. Things need to go right, I wish they had a little more O we could count on, but I agree they have the raw material to contend.

I tellya the thing that worries me is Walker. I don't believe he's going to hit like a $17 million guy

[Zvon]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm quite satisfied at this point. There's definitely more to come, but I think the Mets have a good team and I expect that they'll contend in 2017. Yeah. Things need to go right, I wish they had a little more O we could count on, but I agree they have the raw material to contend. I tellya the thing that worries me is Walker. I don't believe he's going to hit like a $17 million guy

You mean a 20+ HR guy, cuz who give's a shit about the $$ save our owners. I have to commend the Wilpon's as well, because I'm sure I said nasty things when they weren't spending what I though was appropriate.

And re: "Things need to go right", even the best teams need the breaks to go their way. How would we be remembering the '86 Mets if that ball never trickled through Buckner's legs?

I can see as usual I'm being over optimistic. But I do feel that comfortable with this team.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Does #3 include the fake playoffs like that one-and-done thing?

[Edgy MD]

Zvon wrote: You mean a 20+ HR guy, cuz who give's a shit about the $$ save our owners.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Guess this guy/gal thinks they're gettyimages?
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You don't see forbidden too much these days....

[Edgy MD]

Whoah.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I mostly like what they've done so far. (Though sniffing around someone like Uehara before he went Cubbie, or going hard and fast on someone a little under-the-radar like Neftali Feliz-- a righty who's stronger against lefties-- might have been a good idea, too.) Or, rather, done AND not done (holding fast on Bruce/Granderson/whomever, if the deal's not there).

Sandy's pretty good at trade poker, and right now he's not in a position where he HAS to make a trade. I like his odds. I just wish he played his hands a little more aggressively sometimes.