Tom Brennan - A TALE OF TWO ORGANIZATIONS
Once upon a time, there was a great city near a wonderful coast with two professional baseball teams.
One had more championship banners than could be counted on one's fingers and toes.
One had just two.
One seriously tried to win championships, the other targeted meaningful September baseball as the mark of a successful season.
The serious team knew that great players can be acquired or developed to win championships, and it took both player acquisition approaches very seriously. The other team, the one with just 2 banners, did not, although it tried to convince its fans that it did.
Sadly, this is not a fairy tale.
And we all know which team is the Mets.
Let's simply look at each organization's team records at each level of minor league ball. Let's for argument's sake called the two hypothetical teams the Yanks and the Mets.
AAA:
Yanks: 86-55 (.610)
Mets: 56-86 (.394) - 30.5 games behind the Yanks
AA:
Yanks: 92-48 (.657)
Mets: 85-54 (.612) - 6.5 games behind the Yanks
High A:
Yanks: 85-50 (.630)
Mets: 63-75 (.457) - 23.5 games behind the Yanks
Full A:
Yanks: 76-63 (.547)
Mets: 68-70 (.493) - 7.5 games behind the Yanks
Rookie NY Penn ball:
Yanks: 46-29 (.610)
Mets: 24-52 (.316) - 23.5 games behind the Yanks
Rookie Appalachian ball:
Yanks: 41-26 (.610)
Mets: 29-37 (.439) - 11.5 games behind the Yanks
Rookie GCL ball:
Yanks: 33-27 and 32-27 (two teams)
Mets: 19-37 (.339) - one team - 14.5 games behind the Yanks.
Notice the repetition of the word "behind" as it adhered to the team called the Mets.
The Mets trailed the Yanks by between 6.5 games and 30.5 games at all seven minor league levels!!
Collectively, the Mets' teams ended up 117.5 combined games behind the Yanks' teams!!
The Mets' 7 teams, which play the equivalent of 5 full major league seasons, finished 67 games under .500, or roughly the equivalent of 14 games under .500 (74-88) over 5 seasons.
The three Mets' rookie teams combined were 72-126 (.364).
Who would believe such a ridiculous fairy tale, that is actually a true, sad tale for long-suffering Mets fans.
Considering this, ask yourself why the Wilpons aren't either 1) selling the team out of utter shame, or
2) dumping the Sandy team of personnel responsible for this putrid performance?
I'm sure the excuse is "we've had so many minor league injuries", but I think it is much more because of poor overall player selection. Like picking players who almost to a man CANNOT EVER HIT HOME RUNS.
Shame on the Wilpons. Hire scouts, etc. as if you really are obsessed with winning championships, because it is sure an approach that works for the Yankees.
4 comments:
It is far beyond the point of simply noting that minor league W-L records are beside the point. This system is clearly and woefully short of talent, and is perhaps also terrible at developing what talent they do have. Yes, you can point to a couple of success stories, but every farm system has at least a few of those. But this FO, other than a two month run in 2015, done more harm than good here, and needs to go.
That's upon the Wilpons to decide. The manager can't fire the GM. The GM can't fire the owners.
The fans can "fire them all" by not showing up - the Wilpons are So lucky their team plays in a hugely populated metropolis, making the attendance floor a very high one, regardless of how poor and incompetent they and their organization are. They can put crap out there for years and still make $. Fans who want what it takes for consistent winning are out of luck.
Adam, I am starting to work up my top prospect series - when one guy in your Top 5 has under 4 pro innings, and another will miss all of 2018 after missing most of 2017, you know talent is THIN!
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