Metstradamus makes the case that the Mets are using Paul Lo Duca as a scapegoat:

I have to say, in all of the dissecting and re-dissecting I've seen and made on September's collapse, well down on the list...if it's even on the list...is Paul Lo Duca's pitch calling. But that is the scapegoat that the Mets are selling us. I ask you, with all of the other deficiencies facing the Mets, is that fair? Because so far, that's what the Mets are telling us...they're telling us that everyone else on the Mets wants to win next season except Paul Lo Duca.

Lo Duca's seasonal age in 2008 will be 36, and he's coming off a poor offensive season. That's reason enough to dump him.