(ducks)
From what I read, the Mets have a club option on Jerry for 2011. Stay with me….
Lets go back in time to April 2010 where I have been named manager of the Mets. Here’s my lineup given the cards I have been dealt…
Jacobs, Castillo, Cora, Wright, Bay, Pagan, Frenchy, pick a catcher, Santana/Pelfrey/Niese/Perez/Maine
A few weeks later Omar hears you and gives you Ike, and Reyes comes back. So…
Ike, Castillo, Reyes, Wright, Bay, Pagan, Frency, catcher, pitcher of the day. Isn’t that who you would have started?
So you tell Omar you need a pitcher and Dickey shows up. You still start the same 8.
You are two games out at the All Star break and Beltran is coming back. You might actually like your chances, no?
Now lets go to 2011. The 2011 Mets have been on the field for a month and they aren’t very good.
Maybe you just let Jerry ride out the lost year rather than saddle Wally with 75 and 85.
Maybe you let some contracts run out, eat the year, and start the new beginning in 2012.
Tough pill to swallow for fans but maybe it’s worth considering.
Of all the problems, I don’t think it was Jerry’s fault.