Minaya stays with Mets

The Mets extended GM Omar Minaya through 2012. This has to be the worst decision of the day, but the New York National League ball club is using reverse logic to explain why Minaya gets to stay.

"We failed this year, and we want to get the redemption that we need and move forward," Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon said. "We obviously were not a very good team when Omar came aboard, and he's turned this thing around, and we think he deserves another chance to keep getting us to where we want to be."

Minaya understands some fans blame him for the Mets' collapses the past two seasons.

"It comes with the territory," he said during a conference call.

New York failed to make the playoffs after leading the NL East by seven games with 17 games left in 2007 and by 3½ games with 17 to go this year. Wilpon and Minaya have begun reviewing what went wrong.

"What is it that we lack? What is it that we need to get across that finish line?" Minaya said.

Wilpon said "there might be some addition by subtraction" on the roster.

"We're going to find out why we fell short the last two seasons," he said. "It's up to Omar and his staff to correct that, but we are asking those tough questions."

Deleting manager Willie Randolph this past season was subtraction by subtraction; the Mets didn't make the postseason anyway. The Mets needed to go in a new direction organizationally and missed the boat.