This is from Adam Rubin today. Sandy Alderson gave his reasons for having Ollie and Castillo both in camp and why they were released.
The GM indicated Perez’s velocity, which hovered in the mid-80s mph, was not enough to be successful in the organization’s estimation.
“The velocity was not there. The command was not there,” Alderson said. “It wasn’t going to work in a starting role. It didn’t appear as if it were going to work in a relief role, at least anytime soon.”
And in Castillo’s case Sandy said.
Anticipated negative crowd reaction played at least some factor.
Alderson also said he had no regrets bringing the two into camp and not releasing them before spring training.
“For a variety of reasons it was important to have them in camp,” Alderson said. “To start with, I didn’t want to do anything rash or reflexive given what I had heard about the situation here. And so I think it was important to bring them to camp, and then once brought to camp give them a legitimate opportunity. I think in both cases we tried to do that.”
Read the whole story here.
Okay lets see who is going to become the next Mets player that under performs and has the fans target on their back.
I am pumped that this will be the 1st year in about 3 that we will not have resounding boo’s on Opening Day. Think about it: no Willie, no Heilman, no Mota, no Jerry, no Omar, no Castillo, and finally NO OLLIE! The cleanse is complete. I love that Sandy has become the anti-Omar. He has made my team “professional” again, even if we may not be very good this year. Home-grown guys, likeable, hard workers…as much flack as Beltran may get, he still tries hard and is not a malcontent. This weekend should be a Met holiday going forward. In the past 4-days, we have rid ourselves of all the negativity and finally get to look forward. Lets break open that bottle of champagne Willie was talking about in 2007 and start working towards the NEW, BETTER bottle! LETS GO METS!!!
In Sandy We Trust…