A lot of help from Repoz at the Baseball Think Factory today.

John Harper deems yesterday “Black Monday” for the Mets, details why the Mets were never really in on John Lackey or Roy Halladay, suggests that no players will come to the Mets because they suck so much, then, I think, alludes to the fact that the Mets should focus on improving their farm system. I’m with him on that last part.

Jonathan Mayo at MLB.com wrestles with the idea of allowing MLB teams to trade their draft picks. When it’s time for a new collective bargaining agreement in 2011, I have a feeling the whole draft system, and slotting system, and draft-pick compensation system is in for an overhaul.

Alex Belth pens a requiem for Hideki Matsui’s time in the Bronx, and alludes to Matsui’s massive porn collection. According to some reports, he has 55,000 adult videos, meaning he could give a way a porn tape to every single fan at a sold-out game at the new Yankee Stadium and still have enough left over to watch a different one every day for the next seven years. Simply put, Hideki Matsui rivals the Internet in porno ownership.