Multitasking not in the Mets repertoire

Written by Mike Mariano | 04 February 2010

You know this is getting out of control when I start to get tired of it.  More Mets organizational nonsense to talk about.  Today, the insight comes from Murray Chass who shares some information he gathered talking to various agents who've dealt with the Mets this offseason.  And the consensus seems to be that the Mets are incapable of multitasking.  It's one free agent at a time and everyone else has to wait until that has been dealt.  This would explain why the Mets lost out on so many targets this offseason, because simply they were focusing on someone else at the time.  2010 is looking more and more like the year of the Mess and less like the Amazin' Mets Matt has warned me are coming.  I'll end it with some quotes from the initial story:

But more than one agent cited the Mets’ inability to deal with more than one free agent at a time as the primary reason they lost out on free agents. “We’re interested in your guy,” more than one agent recalled the Mets saying, “but we have to deal with this other guy first.”

In one instance, the Mets were a player’s first choice, an agent said, but he was one or two down on the Mets’ pecking order – a phrase used by another agent – and the player and the agent weren’t going to wait for the Mets to deal with them. They went elsewhere.

Another agent said that Omar Minaya, the Mets’ general manager, told him at the winter meetings in December that the Mets would address their catching need in January. “How can they wait and be sure what will be there?” the agent asked.

Classic Mets.