Omar Minaya and Jeff Wilpon have officially declared the Mets offseason over, save a few low profile AAA level guys they may shoot cheap deals at to add depth. All the MLB signings are finished, they said, and they are comfortable with the team. They expressly said no manny, and this also means no dunn, no abreu, no hudson, no sheets, and no wolf. I had hoped for a little more considering the size of the offseason class and our holes at 2B and LF, but no team has stars at every position and i like our roster if we can stay healthy. Here is a review of our offseason...

Losses: RP Scott Schoenweiss, RP Aaron Heilman, RP Joe Smith, OF Moises Alou, SP Pedro Martinez, SP Orlando Hernandez, OF Trot Nixon, OF Endy Chavez, IF Damien Easley, RP Matt Wise

Perhaps the best way to get past a loss this devastating is to look forward. it is no secret what our biggest flaw was this season. it is in a way sort of suiting that the mets lost due to schoenweis letting up a late homer. i think our starting pitching and bats are the best in the NL, other than with RISP, but we could use some help there too. we have some ap room again so it's time for minaya to go to work. here are my proposed moves for this offeseason.

1. fire heilman.
2. fire feliciano.
3. don't resign pedro. i think he is done.

It seems like everybody on the other post agreed the mets need to improve their corner outfeilding positions, as church will not risk his career to rush a return to a pesky head injury and alou can't stay healthy (btw, alou just pulled his hammy diving for a ball in his AA binghampton rehap start, eraasing any chance he will be back before the break, even though he was scheduled to be back by Friday. point proven). i for one am not comfortable rotating endy chavez, marlon anderson, fernando tatis and whatever too-young minor league callup we can find for the remainder of the season, and would like to make a move to bolster our options at the corner outfeild position. so everybody put on your omar minaya thinking caps and try to come up with some possible acquisitions!

There has been quite alot of trade talks happening around baseball and the main guy mentioned is Mister No-No Mark Buherle. The Mets are just one of 10 teams eyeing him to help their rotation. Though Omar Minaya has yet to hit the panic button and Jorge Sosa is helping him do that the Mets are still in on Buherle.