Who was the worst Mets GM?

[TheNextMetsManager]

What do you do when your veteran name-brand closer gets hurt and your team collapses down the stretch?

If you are Omar, you try to go out and get two name-brand closers for the next season.

I look at a lot of the Mets in first decade or so of the 21st century as putting too much focus on trying to solve last years problem.

At least they tried something. Current iteration just shrugged and went 75-87 instead.

[ashie62]

Joe McDonald here

I know his hands were tied but no one else has something even close to "midnight massacre" attached to their

I thought Eppler was unusually clueless. I thought he was filling a spot in advance of Stearns

I thought Minaya was largely pretty. I have to admit I don't really understand the consequence of what happened with Adam Rubin

Scott was a DUI guy without the conviction. That bothers me

The used to call Bill Virdon "style master" I could apply that to Brodie

[Edgy MD]

What do you do when your veteran name-brand closer gets hurt and your team collapses down the stretch?

If you are Omar, you try to go out and get two name-brand closers for the next season.

I look at a lot of the Mets in first decade or so of the 21st century as putting too much focus on trying to solve last years problem.

At least they tried something. Current iteration just shrugged and went 75-87 instead.

And the team that doubled-down went 70-92. It's tough out there.

See, I don't think the two choices are shrugging or doubling down on solving what looks like one of the previous year's problems.

If you do the systemic work, there's always someone to step in when a guy gets hurt. It may not be enough — it usually isn't — but over-investing in one area can be downing a poison pill for years to come, quite possibly to avert the wrong crisis. Joe Smith went on to pitch (and pitch well) for 14 or 15 more years. Jason Vargas had 94 career wins ahead of him at the time of that deal.

[Lefty Specialist]

We need a choice of 'All of the above'.

Boy, there have been a lot of dipshits running this team.

[Edgy MD]

Well, for some, it was hard to make a full judgment on the time and mandate they had.

It's easy to wonder how deeply Sandy Alderson was able to engage after the cancer fight.

[Centerfield]

Yeah. I think that kinda the point of this thread. Look at the idiots we've had as GM of this team. It's a wonder we ever won.

Earlier this year David Stearns was asked if he was looking to fill the GM role. His answer was something like "not really. I'm good with the leadership we have in place."

I don't blame him.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yeah, and frankly, I don't see what a GM would do, other then run out to pick up David Stearns' lunch orders.

[MFS62]

Yeah, and frankly, I don't see what a GM would do, other then run out to pick up David Stearns' lunch orders.

Where do I apply?
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[Lefty Specialist]

Yeah, and frankly, I don't see what a GM would do, other then run out to pick up David Stearns' lunch orders.

George Costanza knows where you can get a good calzone.