Kindly Stop Killing Us

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Delgado & Wright, who put the "dead" into post-deadline performance and the "dog" into Dog Days:

Delagdo since 7/31: 132/314/158
Wright: 255/.340 /.362

My message this morning was nuked, but the Met offense has been putrid since the Nady trade, led by our 4 & 5 hitters and despite quite excellent work by 1, 2 and 3.

Our runs per game have plummeted from more than 5 pre-break to less than 4 post break, and we've scored 3 runs or less in nearly half our games since then (6 of 13... tonight barring an awesome comeback makes it an even .500).

We suck!

[metirish]

12 runs in the last 5 games,as I said in the IGT I wish Willie would sit Delgado for a series, and as Zvon said sit Wright too.

[Guest cooby]

I think the Preston Wilson talk got zapped too, but I would love to have him back here.

[seawolf17]

Maybe we can trade Delgado and Wright for Ty Wigginton and Jeff Keppinger.

[Frayed Knot]

Preston Wilson has now been granted his unconditional release from the Astros.
So basically, that means he's pick-up-able by anyone for just the pro-rated portion of the ML minimum.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Get his agent on the phone!

And see if Preston's interested in becoming a starting pitcher.

[nymr83]

wright's ba/obp since the break are bad but not abnormal for a short term slump and certainly nothing to worry about. delgado's numbers have been putrid since early april, how bout a series off?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Nymr83 wrote: wright's ba/obp since the break are bad but not abnormal for a short term slump and certainly nothing to worry about. delgado's numbers have been putrid since early april, how bout a series off?

10 XBH (2 HRs, 8 2Bs) in his last ~month/100 PAs. We already have one Paul LoDuca.

[Elster88]

Nymr83 wrote: wright's ba/obp since the break are bad but not abnormal for a short term slump and certainly nothing to worry about. delgado's numbers have been putrid since early april, how bout a series off?

Short term slump = one month? That's one sixth of the season. It's significant.

Delgado and Wright are two seperate issues. Recognizing that Delgado is in a longer slump doesn't mean you ignore Wright's fairly long slump.

[smg58]

Delgado has been playing like he's not 100% physically, and I'd be more than a little concerned about that. Some rest for him might not be such a bad idea.

Wright went through a cold spell earlier in the season too, but got over it quickly enough. He can be streaky, but on the whole he's still having a great year. I don't see a real reason to worry there.

I'm much more worried about having four starting pitchers I can trust come October. These last two starts were UGLY.

[Guest Iubitul]

Didn't Delgado had an oblique problem earlier this year? I wonder if that is still lingering...

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I almost always worry less about the pitching. Eleven-run games, even two in a row, are pretty rare, and if the Mets don't blow guys away, they do have a variety of guys who can reasonably be expected to hold the bad guys under 5 most nights.

Whether we can hit with them though is a real question. We don't reach base enough and power is down almost everywhere.

[Guest cleonjones11]

Delgado has had a history of poor second half splits.
I think Wright and much of the team are gassed...
Milledge has turned from swagger to scared. He looks way in over his head in my opinion..
I also see the dogs days of summer getting to the thirtsomethings

And the Pedro MRI

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

cleonjones11 wrote: Delgado has had a history of poor second half splits.

No he doesn't.

[Elster88]

I don't agree with a single line of that post.

[Guest ABG]

I found this interesting, from some website that Metsblog linked to:

]Paul LoDuca on his WFAN spot, when asked about Delgado's struggles, said that his hand is bothering him but won't say anything about it. "Carlos is struggling a little bit, I think he's having a little issue with his elbow or hand but he won't tell anybody about it. He's a streaky hitter anyway and hopefully he'll get hot. He hasnt gotten into a groove. He's been hitting into some tough luck."

http://hotfoot.metsblog.com/blog/_archives/2006/8/16/2235907.html

Put him on the 15 day too?