I blame Omar more than Willie

It's definitely NOT too early to be concerned about the Mets. Sure it's very early, but we have seen too little evidence that the team is in any meaningful way changed from last year's catastrophic collection of individuals.

I wrote a comment on Kranepoolsociety.com about this and thought I'd restate it here.

I get it that a lot of people question Willie's in-game management and, yeah, it's not great at times. However, the bigger problem is that this Mets team just seems to lack character.

The team was put together by Omar. There are simply too many aging, fading big name/big salary players on this team. You know all those jokes that Yankee fans (and others) like to make about how old the Mets are? Well, there's more than a grain of truth there.

Omar is responsible for this. He signed Castillo to a four-year deal. He traded Milledge and resigned Alou. He decided that it was okay to believe in Pedro and El Duque. He put together this bullpen. He assembled the squad of characterless players. And, he's presided over the understocked farm system. That's all his doing and that's a bigger issue than anything Randolph has done.

Oh, and Omar's responsible for hiring Randolph. I don't think Willie's a bad manager, but he sure looks like the wrong manager now. Bad fits, bad arms, bad legs, bad contracts - that's all on Omar.