His Mets bosses not only didn’t extend him past lame-duck status, they haven’t said a word one about his situation. Word going around is that Mets GM Sandy Alderson has deep concerns about the way the team has finished the past couple years, never mind that the overall talent is less than stellar and the Mets have been ending things poorly for years.
The Mets wound up winning 77 and 74 games in Collins’ first two seasons at the helm, and that’s at least as many as they should have won considering their talent. No one thought they underachieved, except maybe a boss or two.
via Mets have issues, but selfless, patient Collins isn’t one of them – CBSSports.com.
While I may not agree with EVERY decision Terry makes, I believe he deserves a contract extension. He can only make the necessary moves with the team he’s been dealt. If the axe swings after the season, Sandy Alderson is the one who’s got to go because other than slashing the payroll and acquiring Zack Wheeler, what exactly has he done? Enough said.
I mean, good Lord, they have like MAYBE a dozen players outta twenty-five who are playing as if they’d be on the twenty-five man roster. Four positional starters, two bench guys, two starting pitchers and… if you wanna be charitable… three or four relievers.
This is not at all on Terry and very little of it is on Sandy other than to say that his only glaring weakness as a GM is that he seems a bad judge of relief pitchers.
This is on an ownership that basically gave the GM and manager three bucks and a coupla Chuck E Cheese tokens for a budget. Put 83% of the blame on an ownership that is either broke or playing broke.
What was anyone supposed to do with the short-term resources allotted to this franchise other than hope they’d be better than the Marlins and the Astros?
One thing about this piece: In the part about Terry’s feelings re: Santana and the no-hitter, the reporter writes he twisted his ankle in “his very next start.” But wasn’t that during that Cubs game more than a month later, when Johan got stepped on while covering first?
And that’s why I’ve never bought into the “no-hitter wrecked Johan’s season, and maybe even his career” stuff. If you look at his game log, the rest of his June (save for the disaster against the Yankees his first start ever the no-hitter, something I attributed to him getting two extra days’ of rest — too much rest can be as bad as too little sometimes) was solid — including an eight-inning, three-hit shutout of the Dodgers on June 30. But if you look at Santana’s 2012 season, it seems clear the ankle injury is what led to his downfall.
Now, could it have been the 134 pitches thrown in the no-no that lead to the capsule tearing? Possibly. Could have also been in any of the other starts in June. Maybe even the ones in July. No one knows for sure. It’s still a pretty rare surgery that Johan had in the first place.
The point is, blaming the no-hitter is unfair, IMO. And honestly, I don’t get why some Mets fans are seemingly so eager to ruin a night we’d been waiting for all our baseball-loving lives.