This point may be moot, due to a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme (I’m still rooting for a, “Bernie Madoff Made off with My Team’s Payroll and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt” promotional day) but if there is a choice for the Mets between going for it or rebuilding, they should rebuild.
In fact, the Mets should have started the rebuilding process at least a season ago, when their roster was a combination of a few expensive top level talents, backup catchers and nothing else. Instead, then GM Omar Minaya decided the best way to keep his job was to double down, sign Jason Bay and hope for the best. It didn’t work. Now there’s a new regime in town left to deal with a bloated payroll and the juggernaut that will be the Phillies. Here are five moves the Mets should make as soon as possible.