To a certain extent that is true of any team. As for now I do agree Jeff wilpon is essentially the GM you can't have three gm and assume we got someone in charge essentially. But I think SA had a lot more power before he left, and the mess we have now, I admit the hands are definitely actively in the cookie jar now, and I'm not sure they are gonna leave either.
As for cabrera and familia. The familia deal was terrible. I know it is early but so far Bobby wahl hasn't impressed me. And will toffey who admittingly I called a non prospect was moved up to double A and has over a 450 OBP there so ,so far he is making me look bad, but still have my doubt he is anything significant.
Now with the cabrera deal, I think we made out great with kilome to get a live young arm like this for a rental position player. Kilome since coming over 3 starts in double A 2.95 era. it is important to note that SA was nowhere near this process, and we got the best prospect in my opinion, out of any deal by a country mile. keep in mind this guy went from 10 in the phillies system to 5 on the mets. so I don't care if they threw in money or not I'm not complaining with kilome, whether he turns out to be a starter or and impact reliever I'm not sure, but I think he has a chance to help the ML team one way or the other. So you won't get me negative on Kilome.
Now do I think the wilpons say they are not adding money. absolutely. I also think they probably believe who cares about prospects most of them don't make it anyways and a overwhelming majority of them are crapshoots, I think there opinion has been swayed on that front by the awful job the SA administration has done drafting, they can say what they want 7 years of not developing talent is only on SA, not ownership. They were not scouting a kid from college. Granted that doesn't make a good story, and they are much more involved now than before, and maybe before they were involved a little more than we would like. But their is a huge difference between the level of involvement now, and the level of involvement before SA left. SA had autonomy on who to draft, and I believe he was given a payroll which admittingly was too low, but still 160 million should build something especially when you have quality starting pitchers on the cheap. But he wastefully spent and that is not ownership, that is on SA. Trust me the owners have alot of blame here too, and what I'm worried about is they are about to make a bad situation worse with taking a more active role in the Baseball decision making process, I hope I'm wrong, and this is just temporary until they find a new gm, but I have my doubts the gm will get the autonomy SA got.
