Bernazard Next In Line For Mets GM Job?

ha, this is just trying to sell newspapers. The Wilpons love Minaya. He doesn't even cite any 'sources', it's just complete speculation on his part.

Tony Bernazard? Wayne Krivsky? Take it back, man. Take it all back,

"ha, this is just trying to sell newspapers. The Wilpons love Minaya. He doesn't even cite any 'sources', it's just complete speculation on his part."

Exactly. This is nonsense. Minaya isn't going anywhere. The Wilpons do love him, and they recognize that almost every player has performed under their career averages. It also doesn't help that both of their corner outfielders have missed significant time.

If they finish they season playing below .500 baseball, Minaya could go during the winter, but I still find it unlikely.

Bernazard has been tlked about negatively for the last 2 or 3 years. He constantly underminded Willie in the clubhouse, and he supposedly was even gloating when Willie got the axe. Besides, the Mets are 5 games out of first place, and the season isn't half way over yet.

Dark, I think it is interesting that with the Indians you chalk their horrible start up to injuries and guys like Pronk and V-Mart not producing and say it is very likely these guys will bounce back and make a run. What is different about the Mets? So far ever single player besides Reyes has not reached their expectations, and the Mets have yet to be completely healthy all season.

Also worth noting is that the Mets have made 3 west coast trips in 6 weeks, and now start the much easier part of their schedule and some head to head games against Philly. Santana, Wright, Maine, Heilman, Sanchez, pretty much everybody has not

nr, you're dead on. Eaton in particular will come crashing back to Earth. Moyer just might be a tad better than last year, but if he is, he might be back next year. (Why not?) Myers may come roaring back to Earth, as well, and he's known to prefer the bullpen. If the Phillthies had a starter other than Hamels that could consistently get out of the sixth inning, I'd say that Mets' fans were in trouble.

Kendrick demonstrated that he is human this last week. Why are we to suppose that he'll be any good against the rest of the NL, especially when he's never gone a full season at the MLB level?

The NL East will go to the last week.

True, this post was actaully more addressing the post you made a few days ago about there soon being an opening at the Mets GM spot, where Bavasi could possibly be interviewed.

...."Oops, almost forgot to say it ~ Mets fans, better start sayin your prayers…

Willie wasnt the one who should have gone, and if they dont turn it around... Well, I imagine Bavasi will be in for an interview..."

That one. With the way this team was expected to perform, and all the pre-season predictions, I was just wondering how come you though the blame should go on Omar instead of on Willie. It might not be Willie's fault, but in my opinion it certainly is not Omar's fault, and the manager always takes the hit in these situations. Yes, the system is weak, but the only reason Met fans bring up this issue is because of the miserable start from the ML team, otherwise nobody would say a word about the system. Nobody cared in 2006, when the Mets were smoking the rest of the NL, that they had a pretty weak farm system. Also, I think some fans are under the impression that you can build a top tier farm system over night. This is not how it works. Especially when you trade 5 of your best prospects in one winter (the Santana trade people loved from the start, and the Church trade was bashed but now Church is like fan favorite number 1 in Mets world).

He also takes heat for giving out big contracts to veterans, which I also don't feel is true because for one, the only real old guy he signed to to be an everyday guy was Alou, and he got him cheap, its not like he signed him to a 5 year deal. He was a stop gap guy.

Then there are guys like Delgado, who people bash Omar for, but we have to remember that he was under pressure to come in and turn this team around quickly, which he did, and also remember he had no sort of farm system when he got here, so its not like he ruined a good thing. He had enough prospects to get Johan Santana, and I also don't hear any jokers complaining about Milledge anymore. What ever happened to Milledge out producing Church this year everybody? Another GM could come in and build a system too, sure, but Omar can do this also and it is easier to build and maintain your system when you have a good team on the field and you dont have to keep constantly making call ups and trading prospects to fill holes.

If you look at the roster Omar inherited, he did a nice job to have this team competing now. I also believe that now with his core locked in (Beltran, Reyes, Wright, Maine, Pelfrey, Johan, Church) and hopefully near ML ready guys in Havens and Davis making the leap to the bigs by 2010, he will have most of his big league team locked in and can focus more on building a system.

I hear people compare the Mets to the Sox and Yankees and bash Minaya for not having a similar system to these two franchises, because they all have seemingly endless budgets. This is not fair. Give all sorts of credit to Cashman, and especially Theo, for what they have done with their farm systems, because they have both done wonderful jobs, but also remember that they had a while to develop those systems. Epstein has had since 2002 and Cashman i believe since the late 90's. Omar has only been GM since 2005, and most of his time here has had to worry about keeping the ML roster competitive, and giving a backseat to the minor leagues because nobody cares about the minor leagues if you aren't winning. Its like they say, you can't rebuild in NY. You can build a system up once you have a competitive team, but you cant have rebuilding years at the ML level or you will not be able to keep your job.

Anyway, Dark, most of this is not directed at you just at the mets fanbase in general, but my prediction is in 6 weeks, the Mets will be playing much better ball (for all this madness going about, they are only 4.5 out of first) their pitching staff will hopefully have hit their stride, and Church and Alou (possibly) will be contributing again. Then all this fire Minaya talk will be finished. Sorry for the Guru-esque rant.

Yeah for sure.. most of that was just a long rant to blow off some steam is right. Atleast they have Krivsky in house in case Minaya does go down. Bernazard seems like the root of their problems. I always liked Krivsky and thought he got an unfair rep because of the one bad deal he made with Lopez and Kearns (which isn't even that bad because Lopez and Kearns really haven't done jack), but he built up a solid young system in Cinci and I like having him on board.