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Mets Notes: Wilpon, Minaya, Jaramillo
According to Peter Gammons, Mets COO Jeff Wilpon is the general manager of the Mets, not actual GM Omar Minaya.
Gammons went on to describe Minaya as "the one out there to take the heat” on Michael Kay's 1050 AM radio show Wednesday.
This has implications for how the Mets will proceed this winter, of course. The good news is that if Wilpon wants to spend money on a player, he doesn't need to run it by ownership, since he is, in fact, ownership. The bad news is, no one knows exactly how much baseball expertise Jeff Wilpon has.
The quote from former Mets' co-owner Nelson Doubleday in 2003 isn't encouraging:
“Mr. Jeff Wilpon has decided that he’s going to learn how to run a baseball team and take over at the end of the year… Run for the hills, boys. I think probably all those baseball people will bail… Jeff sits there by himself like he’s King Tut waiting for his camel.”
This has ramifications for recently-jettisoned Texas Rangers hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo as well. After all, Jaramillo has been linked to the Mets before, and the well-respected coach once managed a young minor leaguer named Omar Minaya.
While a failure to bring in Jaramillo doesn't prove much, if the Mets do bring him in, it goes a long way toward showing that Minaya still has some power with the Mets.
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Well, what is Omar doing then? Rudy may or may not make any difference with the Mets at all. They already have a great offense; they just need the majority of their team healthy. More important than Jaramillo, though, is signing another starter.
Posted by: drphonic7 | October 15, 2009 at 10:36 AM
This is why Duquette is not really the one to blame for the Kazmir trade. It was all Wilpon.
Posted by: jaydh2 | October 15, 2009 at 10:36 AM
Jaramillo isn't coming to the Mets lol... Dave Lennon already shot it down.
Posted by: Baseball Nut | October 15, 2009 at 10:42 AM
If any Mets fan thinks Minaya had full control..they were delusional.
Posted by: Moses Magnum | October 15, 2009 at 10:51 AM
The Rangers say they did not like the walks and strike out totals this year. Fine, but if Rudy is the best, why would they not want him back. They offered a one year deal and Rudy left. The Rangers are in finanical trouble and can't afford to pay top dollar to a hitting coach. I don't blame the Rangers or Rudy. Getting the best coaches is what any team should do. That being said, we all know coaches can only do so much. I agree, they need a starter.
Posted by: studio179 | October 15, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Not to be a prig, but there's a word missing: Wilpot is the de facto GM. I think covering it with a 2003 quote is a bit dubious.
I don't doubt that JW is way too involved but think that Minaya has been making his own moves. Has he been shot down on the Wilpots? Sure, but certain contracts, say Luis Castillo anyone?, sits with the GM regardless of JWilpot's needing to rubber stamp it.
As for Jaramillo, the Mets would only benefit by bringing him in as batting coach, and they are not going to fire or re-assign HoJo. I'm more interested in the Mets bringing back Manny Acta as third base coach and managerial benchwarmer. I think he got slimed for all the Nationals' problems when responsibility sits with MLB (for letting Omar gut the organization) and the Lerners for not opening their checkbooks after paying the hefty purchase price.
And there were a host of responsible parties for the Kazmir trade. It's naive to be an apologist for Duquette. His stink is on that trade as much as the rest of the Mets front office from that time.
Posted by: DG | October 15, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Not to be a prig, but there's a word missing: Wilpot is the de facto GM. I think covering it with a 2003 quote is a bit dubious.
I don't doubt that JW is way too involved but think that Minaya has been making his own moves. Has he been shot down on the Wilpots? Sure, but certain contracts, say Luis Castillo anyone?, sits with the GM regardless of JWilpot's needing to rubber stamp it.
As for Jaramillo, the Mets would only benefit by bringing him in as batting coach, and they are not going to fire or re-assign HoJo. I'm more interested in the Mets bringing back Manny Acta as third base coach and managerial benchwarmer. I think he got slimed for all the Nationals' problems when responsibility sits with MLB (for letting Omar gut the organization) and the Lerners for not opening their checkbooks after paying the hefty purchase price.
And there were a host of responsible parties for the Kazmir trade. It's naive to be an apologist for Duquette. His stink is on that trade as much as the rest of the Mets front office from that time.
Posted by: DG | October 15, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Like Cerrone said this morning...
"i don’t recall anyone ripping on jeff when the Mets were cruising through the NL East and headed to the NLCS in 2006, with players mostly acquired during the four years after doubleday"
Posted by: stellar | October 15, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Maybe Mark Cuban will buy the team, hire Billy Beane as GM, Bobby Valentine to manage, Rudy Jaramillo as the Hitting Coach, and Dave Duncan as Pitching Coach!!???!?
The madness never ends with this team. I just want real baseball news for once, not the continued circus.
Posted by: MrMet | October 15, 2009 at 01:54 PM
...and no I was not serious about Cuban, Valentine and so on.
Posted by: MrMet | October 15, 2009 at 01:58 PM
Who cares what Dave Lennon said? He is just another talking head in the large group of idiots we refer to as the NY sports media. Nothing any of them says means anything, ever.
Posted by: nrmax88 | October 15, 2009 at 04:11 PM
And God forbid the Mets replace Hojo, a totally useless, moronic coach, who has never done a good thing for any hitter on this team, with a guy like Rudy, who is known as one of the best hitting coaches we have seen for a long time, just because Hojo was a pretty good player 20 years ago. This is why the Mets are a joke. Send Hojo's sorry ass out of there a hire a coach who can actually coach, not a guy that all the old time fans can sit around and reminisce about how great 86 was while the current team keeps getting the crap kicked out of them.
Posted by: nrmax88 | October 15, 2009 at 04:14 PM
Amen
Posted by: MrMet | October 15, 2009 at 05:01 PM
Wilpon is a dirty rat. The team can only get worse with that monkey running the ship
Posted by: chefpete | October 15, 2009 at 06:55 PM
I liked Gammons, but this week's Joe Torre fabrication and now blasting another organization? I feel like he's either going senile or no one is reading his column anymore and ESPN is putting pressure on him to start some drama.
Posted by: GScott | October 16, 2009 at 02:25 AM