A Team In Turmoil

I've found yet another opportunity to ridicule the Mets, so I'm going to pounce on it. Yesterday, MLB officials announced who they had ranked as the top 50 MLB prospects. Leading the way, the Rangers had four players on the list, as did the Rays and the Royals. The Yankees, who just happen to have the best team in baseball, hands down, managed to have one guy on the list, in 19th-ranked, slugging 20-year-old catcher Jesus Montero, who finished last year at AA. The Mets, who won a grand total of 70 games last year, and since trading for Johan Santana prior to the 2008 season have been trying to restock their farm system, had a whopping 0 players make the cut.

Are you kidding me, Omar Minaya? What have you done to the personnel in that organization? The big league team is an absolute joke, and would have finished in last place last year had it not been for the dreadful Washington Nationals, who at least have two top 50 prospects (including 2nd-ranked Stephen Strasburg), and the Mets farm system is still depleted. There's something seriously not right about that. The only two other teams not to have a top 50 prospects are the White Sox, who at least boast a respectable big league club, and the Cardinals, who won the NL Central last year. Those two teams compete every year. The Mets... not exactly.

The Mets need far more than just changes to their everyday starting lineup. And on top of neednig a manager with more fire than Jerry Manuel, who's peaceful enough to make an excellent monk, they need a whole new front office, led be the hiring of a new GM in place of Omar Minaya. With all the money he's had to spend since becoming the Mets GM, what has the team done? One playoff appearance in the last decade for the team that's consistently had the highest payroll in the NL? Something tells me that despite Met fans being use to rooting for a disgrace of a team, they're not exactly satisfied with where this team has been, nor where they appear to be headed.