Omar, Willie stay upbeat about club
With his team sitting at 30-32 and 7-1/2 games behind the Phillies in the NL East, Mets GM Omar Minaya has not begun to question the way he assembled it. But better results need to come soon.
".500 is not acceptable. To me it's not acceptable because we're better than that," Minaya said Monday at a charity event in Greenwich, Conn., that was attended by a number of players as well as owner Fred Wilpon and COO Jeff Wilpon. "It's not so much about the ($137 million) investment, it's about what this team is about and what this team talent-wise is.
"As far as time frame when we should be better, I'd like to say we should be better right now but we're not."
Said Willie Randolph: "I've been saying it for weeks. ... It's not acceptable. We're a better team than that. The players have to pull together and try to get right.
"This team is not going to quit. It's not going to get down on itself. They believe in each other."
Randolph and Minaya both thought the Mets were going in the right direction when they completed a 5-2 home stand and went to the West Coast. But they went 2-5 on the trip and were swept in a four-game series in San Diego that ended Sunday.
"We go through these periods where you pitch good, but don't hit," Minaya said. "Or when you hit, you don't pitch good. That's the trademark of a .500 club. We know we're better, we think we're going to do better and I think we will."
Minaya said he is seeing the effort he wants from the players and from Randolph, who is no longer seen as being on the hot seat. But he's baffled as to why his creation isn't playing the way he expected. "The way this club is assembled, yeah, it's a playoff team. I believe that," he said.
HELPING HAND:
The Mets raised $580,000 yesterday at the Mets Foundation's "Teammates in the Community" charity fund-raiser at Richards clothing store in Greenwich, Conn.
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