They don’t call it a New York minute for nothing. We’re all impatient and we want to get things done so we can move on to the next thing we’ve got to do. So, while Sandy Alderson takes his time and acts like the adult in the room, here’s my armchair GM and the 25-man roster to take north on Opening Day.

C – Travis d’Arnaud

1B – Lucas Duda

2B – Daniel Murphy

3B – David Wright

SS – Chris Owings or Nick Franklin or Stephen Drew

OF – Curtis Granderson, Juan Lagares, Chris Young

SP – Bartolo Colon, Dillon Gee, Jenrry Mejia, Jonathon Niese, Zack Wheeler

RP – Vic Black, Joel Carreno, Josh Edgin, Jeurys Familia, Bobby Parnell, Carlos Torres, Jose Valverde

Bench – Andrew Brown, Anthony Recker, Josh Satin, Ruben Tejada, Eric Young

It makes no difference if Ike Davis opens the year in Triple-A or on another team. While the possibility exists that he’ll go all Chris Davis in 2014, the better odds are that he’ll be, you know, the Mets’ Davis from April and May 2012 or 2013. It’s time to move on.

Tejada is a favorite of mine. But it seems crazy to spend the entire offseason trashing the player and then expect him to be the starter on Opening Day. He doesn’t have to go like Davis, but he can’t be the Opening Day shortstop. If the Mets can’t pull a trade or sign Drew, then have Anthony Seratelli as the starter at the beginning of the year. Then if he flops, Tejada can come in and save the day.

While there are serious questions whether Lagares can hit enough to be a starter, anyone who watched him play the outfield last year and didn’t think he earned a starter’s job on Opening Day is crazy. Now, that’s not to say he’s gifted a job for the entire season. Rather this is a nod to his strong 2013 and giving him a serious opportunity – not to be confused with a Collin Cowgill opportunity – to swing the bat every day. He should be the starter for a minimum of six weeks, no questions asked.

While John Lannan and Daisuke Matsuzaka are both credible options to be an MLB starting pitcher, it’s time to move past the dumpster diving model of the past three years and give a shot to a guy with the potential to be very good in 2014, not to the guy who was once good three-plus years ago. Some people worry about Mejia being in the rotation on Opening Day and then having to be replaced once his innings cap – whatever that may be – is reached. This is so not a problem for this team. All they have to do is slide Rafael Montero or Noah Syndergaard or even Jacob deGrom into that position when that happens.

No matter who makes the Opening Day roster in the bullpen, there is going to be turnover. Here’s hoping that the Mets take their seven-best relievers and not their five best and two who throw with their left arm. We need to move away from the LOOGY model and anyone who wants Scott Rice throwing to RHB on a consistent basis clearly wasn’t watching last year. Valverde may well be toast but my hope is that having him around makes Familia more comfortable and if we have to suffer through two months of the seventh pitcher in the pen blowing up to get Familia and his 97 mph fastball on track, that’s a tradeoff worth making.

It’s a coin flip for me between Recker and Centeno and if the younger guy wins out, there’s nothing wrong with that. Picking Recker was a nod for how he got the short end of the stick last year, never getting the chance to play, even when John Buck turned back into a pumpkin after the first two weeks of the season.

Hopefully, Matt den Dekker figures into things before all is said and done but I’d like to see him getting every day ABs in Las Vegas than getting 3 PA per week in Queens. Wilmer Flores needs to be a starter, too. Seratelli will be on the roster at some point, as well, but if the Mets make a move to acquire a SS it will be later rather than sooner.

Opening Day lineup

Young

Duda

Wright

Granderson

Murphy

d’Arnaud

Owings

Lagares

Colon

Everyone focuses on the leadoff spot and sure, it would be nice to have a .370 OBP guy in that slot. But unless we’re willing to bat Wright there, we don’t have that on Opening Day. As a show of faith in our new free agent acquisition, Young should be given a shot to begin the year there. We need to stop hoping that Duda hits 50 HR and instead look to maximize what he does do. Murphy needs to be in a power spot in the lineup so he thinks about pulling the ball more often. The batting order should be considered a work in progress.

It’s not yet time for a prediction but that team should surpass 74 wins.

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