Top Mets Turkeys Of All Time (Part Two)

Yesterday, we covered part one of the all-time Mets Turkeys, those Mets who were supposed to do great things, but didn't.   Today we cover part two, once again in no particular order. Bobby Valentine Don't buy into this revisionist history that V is a great manager.  If you want your team to finish second, then hire him.   V makes the list because he never had the Mets prepared. Every season they would dig a big hole in April, be something like eight games back, and then have to scratch and claw the rest of the season just to hope to play a one game play-in with the Reds to then be the Wild Card. It's a drain on players when you can't rest anyone, because every game after May 1 is a must-win. The season goes a lot easier if you have a big lead unless you are our next turkey... Willie Randolph Go over to some Yankees blog if you want to wax poetic on this guy.  He managed the biggest choke job in history and then dug a hole for the 2008 Mets that ended ... (link)