The bad luck Mets :-(

When I read something like this, I truly wonder if Lupica is on the Mets' payroll:

"Alderson was asked this question: Does he ever consider what the current Mets record would be if Santana were healthy and Ike Davis hadn’t turned into such a hopeless case that he is now playing baseball in Las Vegas.
'Honestly?' Alderson said. 'I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think we could be a .500 baseball team. A little above. A little below.' "

The Mets are 15 games under .500.  Approximately 40% of the season has been played.

So Alderson is saying that two players ... Johan Santana and Ike Davis ... would be worth 8 wins through 40% of the season.  Which translates to 20 wins for the full season.

Unless I'm misinterpreting ... but the column specifically says current Mets record.

If that's what Alderson truly thinks, then he's quite unreasonable, because the math defies reason.

"Then he was talking about the arrival of Zack Wheeler. And about Travis d’Arnaud, the catcher he got from the Blue Jays for R.A. Dickey, who is still hurt, but is expected to play for the Mets before the season is over; talking about the draft, stockpiling young talent, how slow that process can be."

Just for clarification, it's d'Arnaud who's still hurt, not R.A. Dickey.  I know when you read the words "R.A. Dickey, who is still hurt," you'd naturally assume R.A. Dickey is hurt.  

Then you'd give the 3rd-grader a grade of "check minus" and return the paper for proofreading.

Last time I checked, Wheeler had an ERA above 4.00 in AAA.  I guess he throws really fast, but lots of pitchers throw really fast.  I don't know if he's going to be Nolan Ryan or Todd van Poppel.  For every Tom Seaver, there's a thousand Matt Kinneys.

Same for d'Arnaud.  Maybe he's Gary Carter, maybe he's Josh Thole.  Maybe he's Buster Posey, maybe he's Dioner Navarro.

"All that. And how this is a time of the year when teams still aren’t ready to make any kind of trade for another few weeks at least, and how right now 'you are reduced to the waiver wire or released players.' "

Boo hoo.

If only the Mets had a bunch of good players who stayed healthy, they'd be in first place.  Just like every other bad team.

Alderson and Collins don't get enough blame.  

The Mets are underachievers who play stupidly and sloppily.  The Mets bullpen has been awful for three years in a row while Oliver Perez is lighting it up in Seattle as a lefty specialist (Alderson can't even take responsibility for that?).

If Ike Davis stinks, it's the GM's fault for failing to recognize this.  Fans and WFAN radio hosts similarly overrated Davis's talent, but it's not their job to properly evaluate Davis's talent.  

If your players go down with injury, you need to have depth.

The day the Yankees blame bad luck is the day I know they're a bunch of losers.