The Mets "new front office" reportedly told the Wilpons that their job was to set the budget and be consulted if they need to extend that budget, but other than that they have to stay out of the baseball opperations and let them do their jobs.  If that doesn't happen, they'll leave.  No link to an article, this came from a reliable Mets source and I did not ask him to email me the link.

It's a somewhat all-star cast they've assembled and I find it hard to believe they'll put up with an owner medling in the baseball opperations for any reason other than over-all budget.  The Mets have a long ways to go, but have an organization like theirs run by good baseball people certainly creates more competition.

Cano (throwing up in my mouth), is a very good fielder, now.  Does he deserve the GG award?  Probably not because of guys like Mark Ellis, but he's in the discussion for sure.  Jeter is a joke and unfortunately for him it's actually starting to slightly tarnish his reputation as a fielder because everyone talks about how much he doesn't deserve it every time he wins one.

If anyone is shocked that Jeter or anyone else wins a GG then you don't know the first thing about the award.  It's a complete farse and an embarrassment to baseball that they support such a thing.  If baseball cared about awarding the best fielders they'd scrap the GG and adopt the Fielding Bible Awards.  None of it is perfect, but at least the voting is aimed at trying to award the best fielders each year...

I'm sure that Rawlings and their sponsorship of the awards (meaning $$$$) has everything to do with it.  If you were Rawlings would you rather have the Rawlings Gold Glove Award go to Derek Jeter or Elvis Andrus? 

Of course, if I were RAwlings, I guess I'd prefer my award not to be a complete joke.