Well, good for Miguel Batista. His tour of duty in Buffalo has bore some fruit after all, as Batista came up from the minors to win his 100th career game. What this means is that in the last six games, every starting pitcher has pitched in a winner except Mike Pelfrey.
That includes Batista, organizational filler, who might have won his last game as youngsters might get the call from here on out. But at least he got his milestone, and in the process helped the Mets win four out of five from the Marlins at Citi Field … a rare feat. The Marlins helped the Mets by throwing the ball all over the place (an affliction that I’m always surprised doesn’t hurt the Marlins more than it does), which is good because it’s the Marlins, and because we’re used to that on the other side. Also, was that the same Clay Hensley that made the Mets look like lapdogs last month?
We might be seeing more of players like Miguel Batista and less of players like Jose Reyes because of the developments of early this morning, when it was announced that the minority stake sale of the Mets to David Einhorn has fallen through. After being so close to being on the path to a different voice running things, we’re now back to square one, and with the Wilpons moving back towards bringing in more investors for smaller stakes, there’s no end in sight. It’s hard to find a silver lining in this, and it’s hard not to think that this development is a nasty harbinger of things to come with Reyes. Sure the Mets now have enough capital to get through the 2011 season, and things may be looking better for them with the Picard lawsuit. But for the Wilpons to take these small developments and take it to mean they’re healthy enough to attempt to change the parameters of the deal is misguided.
And as usual, Mets fans will ultimately be the losers in all of this. Sure, good people are in place between Alderson, DePodesta, and Ricciardi. But their job has become a lot harder and longer now as the Wilpons’ egos threaten to keep this organization in an extended state of mediocrity. Not that the presence of Einhorn would have made the Mets a winner in 2012 … the resurgence would have taken longer than that anyway with the lack of quality free agents at positions the Mets need to foolishly spend cash on. But now? Get ready for a long term stay in a land known as mediocrity, or worse if Reyes leaves.
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