incompitence of some sports analzist on sny

did the mets have a horrible year? yes they did, for the first time in the last 3 or 4 years the mets where a team that played below .500. but what else could be expected when half the team's major players get injured. it started out with the loss of oliver perez. but that is a totally acceptable loss, he is probally the worst starter that the mets currently have on their staff. he is overpaid, with major problems but he has gotten to this point because of his glimmers of excellence. but the problem is that he has issues that need to be worked out in the minors, but because of the high wages that are paid to major league players teams don't want to do that. the injuries that hurt them the most were the injuries to jose reyes, who sparked most of the teams offense from the leadoff position. when he inatially left he was gonna miss a day or 2 because of a pain behind his knee, then the next thing you know he was gone the entire year. carlos delgado's injury was also significant. without him the mets lacked their power bat and after he was gone the mets as a team hit less homeruns. but all of the injuries at that point did not eliminate the mets from the hunt to get to the playoffs. it was the injury to carlos beltron that finally put the nail in the coffin. with beltron gone the offense failed to score runs. when this happened the pitching staff got stressed and started giving up more runs. but despite this horrible season there were a few good things. somehow the mets lead the national league for batting average, and carlos beltron and luis castillo had amazing years, each hitting above .300. now that it is the off season all the sports people are talking out their ass on what the mets need to fix their problems to be able to win next year. they want to replace castillo. but what they don't realize becasue they are so imcompitant is that luis doen't need to be replaced. he was the most consistant player last year and still has years left on his contract. it really pisses me off when the mets have some many needs, (left fielder, catcher, firstbasemen, starting pitcher, and a power bat) an yet they are talking about trading prospects to obtain something that doesn't need to be replaced. i do agree with them on one point, that the mets need a starting pitcher. sure they still have santana, but maine just came back from surgery, pelfrey didn't have the best year and perez was just aweful. the mets currently have 4 out of 5 rotation pitchers and they want to aquire a pitch that could be a number 2 like john lackey, which i like. but the mets do not need to fill their 5th spot, i think that one of their 3 good rookie pitchers should take the spot in a compitition and they should either send perez to the minors or the bullpen. as for first base, the mets still have daniel murphey, they have criticized him for not being a good fielder, but come on. he was put at first base around halfway throught the season and it isn't his regular position. it will take time for him to develop his defense, as for his offense, i think he will do go. he has proven this year, especially at the end that he has the talent to be a .300 hitter and have a good onbase percentage. the main issue however is the fact that the sport people need to take their head out of their ass and only talk about things that are needed!