New York Mets: Mets will waste everyone’s time if they don’t blow it up

As the deadline nears, it has been reported that the New York Mets do not plan to rebuild this deadline. That is an awful idea and not selling off talent will result in nothing intriguing for a while.

Okay, the New York Mets need to be sellers at this deadline. I do not mean be content with just trading Jeruys Familia and Asdrubal Cabrera like they already have.

By rebuilding, I mean give up actual indispensable and talented players to gain more assets in the future rather than have performance now.

Apparently, that is likely not to happen. The Mets front office is delusional enough to think they can compete next year, according to Buster Olney of ESPN.

I am all for keeping deGrom and Syndergaard. They seem to be and should be untouchable because of how cheap they are for as long as they are under contract. The Mets, at some point, will be able to pay both of them long-term if the cards fall that way.

However, there is little to no chance that the Mets will be able to keep all the guys they have now for long enough to win with them.

This tweet irritates me.

The Mets already made moves at the deadline that involved giving up talent, but the return was next to nothing. Dumping players for salary relief and literally any player is fine if you have plans to make real trades too, now, the Mets do not, apparently.

So, if the Mets do keep Wheeler,  Devin Mesoraco, Steven Matz, Wilmer Flores, or anyone else who would call for a significant return, and they leave us with only the Cabrera and Familia trade, there will be zero doubt left as to why the Mets stink year after year and fall off.

Last year, the Mets fooled us. They blamed injuries as the reason they stunk. That was fine because it was only year one, but the falloff was still massively alarming.

Now, the Mets are even worse than last year despite everything clicking more. So, obviously, significant changes need to be made.

This is the year that can launch them into a quick rebuild and gain more potential superstars in the years to come .However, this is not a year to look at how things are going and even remotely think there is something there.

I’ll even be all for keeping even Wheeler. But, the Mets will not be able to get any good prospects without giving up their best thing right now, their starting pitching.

The Mets’ position players will not get them a lot of future star prospects or even a lot of money their pitchers, will.

The New York Mets need to get more young talent up through the ranks. They even need to get more talent up to the big leagues right now.

So, if the Mets do not blow this mess up, if they do not at least do whatever they can to change the losing culture, they are wasting everyone’s time.

I understand its New York and the Mets have good fans and losing is not ideal, but I’ve never seen a team that needs to be gutted more than the 2018 New York Mets.

This horrible season is not a fluke. Things have gotten away from Mickey Callaway and the fans’ relationship with the Wilpon’s is at an all-time low.

The narrative that this horrible team is a fluke is getting old. That’s what was said last year, and all the terrible team’s without a single ounce of accountability this decade has said.

The most aggravating thing is the Mets are not even bad a rebuilding. The Mets are pretty successful for being in the league for 56 years.

The Mets typically win a pennant or division about 10 years apart. That is not awful, by any means. When the Mets go all-in to have great players to have a two-year window to succeed, historically, it has worked for them.

The Mets should re-build. They need to gut this team, get whatever they can for all but maybe three players.

It is not a bad thing to lose for five straight seasons then put out a presentable team for three of four. It is awful to keep living life in denial and field a team that cannot win a while only to have fluke seasons of excitement and relevance somewhere far down the road.

Mediocrity lasts longer than awfulness in this game. That is just how it is. Smart drafting and having assets available to you will be more affective down the road than just patching things together every year.

No matter what the Mets do, their fans will support them. So, maybe none of this actually matters. However, the writing is screaming off the wall and popping out like a 3D movie that is time to move on.

Even the players who could be traded would benefit from a house cleaning. They are all due money within the next three years or so and can skyrocket their value by helping great teams be better.

There should be no more sympathy towards this hot mess of a team. The injuries are not an excuse but a chronic problem. The offense is not going through a rough stretch but is simply bad. The pitching staff is solid but the Mets record is awful.

It is one thing if the Mets had the money, competence, or desire to be a contender every year. We all know that they don’t have any of those things.

So, small ball, getting talent together at the right time, and hoping for a window of being good is all the Mets can shoot for. They had that three years ago, not anymore.

There are parts on this team that is still good and can remain in Queens, however, for the rest, its time to go. You all can decide where your favorite players fall.

The only way the Mets can make themselves useful is by allowing the teams future to look brighter.

And if someway, somehow, the Mets are right and can contend next year with this team that has proved nothing to us, then I will be so happy to be wrong.