This week, the Mets finally 100% officially said goodbye to Jorge Sosa . He’d been struggling for quite some time, we had more relievers than we realistically needed, someone had to go. That someone was him. After all, Matt Wise once healthy looked promising. Joe Smith was young with potential. Billy Wagner is almost unhittable lately. Aaron Heilman…umm..well, needless to say, Jorge Sosa was the man to go. The Brass hit a point where it was finally acceptable to say, ‘keep your $2 mill, don’t let the bullpen car hit you on the way out.’

It was a bold move, eating that much money. But then again, its NY, and the Wilpons probably bring in that much from the beer carts on a good weekend, probably more the way the team is playing. So the question now, when does it become time to think about this option for some of the other vets that aren’t carrying their weight?

Lets face it, while we’ve used the phrase, ‘how much worse can it get?” here a few dozen times this season, we do so while hoping never to find out. Getting swept in a four game series by the Braves: bad. But is it rock bottom? Nooooo. Now losing a four game series to the Nats or Pirates, now that would be bad. But as they team struggles and struggles, would it really be that surprising? Should we wait and find out if its even possible?

Fancy speeches about stepping up, players only meetings, Willie getting sassy with the media, all thats nice, but it doesn’t win ball games. Sooner or later, if things stay as they are, Omar has to go upstairs and put some interesting options on the table, such as eating Carlos Delgado’s contract. Sure, he hits for power, and one in every six hits he has are homeruns. The problem being though that he’s getting mighty close to that Mendoza line. Something like that is useful sometimes. Last season Ramon Castro had a stretch where he hit .200 but every other hit went out of the park. But he’s a backup catcher. Delgado is our starting first basemen, and .200 isn’t quite going to cut it, no matter how many of those hits are homeruns.

We must ask the same of our aging starting rotation. When do we just give El Duque his checks to stay home rather then pretend he’s rehabbing? The team needs to just admit Duq isn’t returning, and put effort into finding a full time fifth starter, rather than pretend he’ll be back in blue and orange and its ok to juggle journeyman starters and career minor leaguers in that spot, since they’re just keeping it warm. I’m a big fan of Figgy and all, but he’s a band aid not a real solution.

Firing Willie will not solve any of our problems, since a new manager will be looking at the same players. If we truly want to avoid finding out what rock bottom is, sooner or later the team is going to have to think about saying Goodbye to its non-producing vets.