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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 4692907, member: 210"] Is that the worst strategy? I've posted his before, but right now the Mets roster is constructed VERY poorly. - All of their pitchers other than Senga are at the end of their careers and falling off a cliff or young and bad. There is no pitching help on the farm for the next few seasons either. - Their veteran batters are all at the back end of their careers - Lindor is at the backend of his primes and seems to be really falling off - That leaves Nimmo, McNeil and Alonso as the only hitters in their primes - Then we have Alvarez, Baty, Mauricio, Vientos as the future Unless Cohen plans on spending $500mm next offseason I don't see a path for the Mets to improve their pitching enough to the point where they can compete in the next 2/3 seasons. The fastest way to rebuild their pitching is to trade assets for it. If you are GM do your trade one asset in Pete for a monster return or two or three in Mauricio, Vientos, Paredes, etc for smaller returns while continuing to bleed the farm dry? I don't have a great answer... but I do think trading Pete or McNeil or Nimmo for that matter is a strategy worth evaluating. Not saying it's the right strategy but it needs to be considered. This team isn't going anywhere in the near future unless the pitching is rebuilt and even then they need to get really lucky on hitting on any young pitching talent they can bring in. The other issue I see is why do hitters seem to consistently underperform their baseball cards when they get to the Mets? And when the leave they Mets they are all of the sudden better hitters. Turner, Murphy, D'arnaud, Rosario, JD Davis, Alfonso... all hitters who got better after leaving the Mets. I have seen talent from McNeil, Alonso, Nimmo, but I haven't seen anything from them to lead me to believe they are the heart of a WS winning lineup. Is it really the pressure of NYC or is there something rotten at Citi Field when it come to hitting? The Yanks don't seem to have this problem. [/QUOTE]

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