ROTISSERIE: Strategies to build roster depth
Apr 16 2019
When agent Brodie Van Wagenen took the reins of the New York Mets over the winter, countless baseball observers were eager to learn his approach and hear about his strategy. Van Wagenen repeated one word more than any other throughout the off-season: depth.
He shed the roster of little-known names like Matt den Dekker and Philip Evans, and back-filled with Jed Lowrie and Keon Broxton, and even gave a minor league deal to Carlos Gómez. The GM wanted the 2019 Mets to remind fans of the iconic 1986 team that had too many starting-caliber players for the everyday lineup. Wally Backman had Tim Teufel; Mookie Wilson had Lenny Dykstra; Howard Johnson had Ray Knight. Even Rafael Santana had Kevin Elster.
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