Thoughts on the Mets Hospital Bill

Ok, I've been caught as a lazy blogger once again. Time to write one.

I normally try and avoid talking about the Mets, to avoid bias, but when Johan AND Oliver Perez hit the DL, it's time to address the issues.

First, the Mets have around $105 million on the DL right now. If you want to count up how much payroll has been on the DL all season, that's around $120-$125 million.

I can't imagine in the history of the MLB has a team had 8 of the 9 members of the opening day lineup spend time on the DL for a significant length of time. A lot of analysts have cited the Mets struggles as not having the organizational depth to survive these injuries. But a realist would argue that only a select few organizations have the depth to field a competitive team, let alone a good one, if they sustained these types of injuries.

Second, beyond the catastrophe, is the consideration of how much this is a fluke, and if anything's wrong with the Met's training/medical staff, as Ken Rosenthal has recently suggested. The Mets need to address that situation immediately, to see if it's a problem, or not anything.

Thirdly, if I were the Mets I'd be working harder at developing and drafting high end talent, that's major league ready, or close to it so they can fill in if needed. They have developed some depth in the lower ranks, but it's all far from major league ready. When the Mets reached down for help this season, all they had that wasn't aging veterans were Niese (who got hurt) and Fernando Martinez (also hurt!)