The Mets just don’t get it. Period.

Steve Sommers came on WFAN this morning after Ed Randall’s Talking Baseball and he said something that summed up the Mets perfectly.

“They have two outfielders and three catchers.”

With Church, Alou, Nixon and Anderson out, they only have two outfielders on their roster. Fernando Tatis is a converted infielder, and showed it last night when he fell after making a catch and cost the Mets the game. A professional outfielder makes that catch 100 times out of 100 and doesn’t allow the runner to score from third. Never mind that Tatis’s subsequent throw landed somewhere in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metro area.

But, take this a step further to today’s game. Ty Wigginton got the Astros on the board with a solo shot off Perez early in the game. This is the kind of player the Mets cannot appreciate. Wigginton is a five-position player, the type of player that does, in fact, allow you to carry three catchers. But Wigs was under-appreciated, and, idiotically trade for Kris Benson, which was a whole other debacle in itself.

The Mets did nothing at this year’s trade deadline. Nothing. Why? The bullpen is absolutely awful. The Mets can’t even trust their closer to get the job done.

Now John Maine is out with a “mild rotator cuff strain” and they say he’ll miss a start.

Miss a start? This is a rotator cuff! There is no rotator cuff injury, no matter how small, that requires just one week of rest.

This is the most frustrating part for any Mets fan. Its an organization that is a mess in terms of its power structure. This team doesn’t win because there is no authority, there is no one in charge. They are trying to run a college-style organization where everyone is free to input their ideas. This doesn’t work in baseball. Baseball is a business.

Its a team that just doesn’t get it. And they likely won’t until their is a change in ownership. Good luck.