Decision 07

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Reyes and Wright are not your children. No "I love you both the same" votes will be accepted.

It's a two-party system and you must cast your vote.

[Guest sharpie]

Jose is my man. Most fun player to watch in alla baseball.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: It's a two-party system and you must cast your vote.

Then my love for John Maine is stillborn.

I've got to go with Wright, his better mechanics and his better eye making him less slump-prone.

The good news is they're both locked up. Funny thing is that Reyes got better after getting locked up, while Wright got worse.

[metirish]

Reyes all the way for me,such an exciting player and a great smile and personality..

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

If the elections were a year ago I'd have voted differently.

I think this would be a cool thing to take to the larger Met Nation.

[soupcan]

Reyes.

I believe I've been waiting all my Met fan life for him.

[metsmarathon]

reyes reminds me of my brother... so it would be awkward to vote for the other guy.

[MFS62]

I can't vote for someone who has dined at the White House (no matter who is the President).*
I voted for Jose - the player for the common man.

* = But when the entire team is invited there for a photo shoot as World Series champions, that will be an entirely different story.

Later

[seawolf17]

Jose, without even thinking about it.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm the minority voter.

Again.

[metirish]

One thing I like about Reyes is that while there are several Wright type players in the NL there is no one quite like Reyes....perhaps Joey Gathright in the AL is but I can't say I have ever seen him play.

[TransMonk]

I went with Wright.

He's been a model of consistency through his short career. If Jose follows up his '06 campaign with an as good or better year in '07, I might be swayed.

Personality-wise, Jose has the better smile and looks like he's having fun. But I can't understand a thing he says. On the other hand, sometimes I wish I couldn't understand what Wright is saying. He goes to the extreme of answering every question by the book. It sometimes makes him look like a squeaky clean dork or a big fat liar.

[Guest cooby]

I truly do not understand the Wright mania.

Jose.

[Frayed Knot]

Up until the mid-point of the '06 season I would have answered Wright without a question.
I wasn't sold on Jose's improved OBA skills and saw his occasional bouts of power more as a source of worry than as an asset. But then the OBA gap between the two plummeted from 88 points in '05 down to 27 in '06, and the 'IsoP' gap tumbled from .103 to .043.

So, while Wright still has the edge in overall hitting, between the speed, glove, position, and my general sense of where both are with respect to their own ceilings ... my vote's with Reyes.


And maybe the biggest sign of Reyes's surge is Francesa admitting the other day that his (two years back) mocking of Met fans who didn't want to part with Reyes for Soriano might have been premature. Benigno on the same station took his same stance back a while ago but hearing his opinion change every time the wind changes direction is something I've come to expect from him. Francesa tends to admit mistakes once every thrid lunar eclipse.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Count me among those who would have voted Wright a year ago but voted Reyes this year.

Twelve months from now I might vote for Wright again. Call me a flip-flopper, if you must. I would have voted for Wright before I voted against him.

[Vic Sage]

David still has the wright stuff, as far as i'm concerned. He seems to me the kind of guy you build a franchise around, and he gives you solid defense with a .300ba/30hr/100r/100rbi/20sb.900+ops season, year after year, for 10-15 years, and retires as a Met.

Reyes, on the other hand, still makes me nervous. I'm always concerned about free swingers whose production is based primarily on their speed. Especially ones who've lost significant playing time in past seasons to leg/back injuries. Sure, he's more exciting than D-Wright, and if he maintains or builds on his .350+ OB% and 20hr+ power, and if he stays relatively healthy over the course of his career, he'll approach Ricky as one of the greatest leadoff hitters of all time. But the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and Jose Jose Jose Jose still makes me nervous.

D-Wright just makes me smile. We've never had a homegrown everyday player with this much Ripken in him.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Excitement ain't productivity.

Triples are more exciting than homers. Homers are more productive.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I'm shocked as to what a rout this is already. Mr. Schaefer himself had better shape up.

[G-Fafif]

Jose got to me first, back in the darkest of dark 2003 days, and I remain loyal. I love David a bushel and a peck but have always harbored the slightest resentment that he moved to the head of the class (5, 5, everywhere a 5) a year later.

[Guest KC]

I don't like white people, I voted for Reyes.

[Guest cooby]

If I could vote twice, I would vote for Reyes again for my dad, who just loves him

[Gwreck]

KC wrote: I don't like white people, I voted for Reyes.

Because, as we all know, if Omar had his way, we'd have 23 Hispanic Players plus Wright and Wagner.

[Guest KC]

Plus, singing Jose Josejosejose Jose Jose is funner than all hell.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Singing Jose is more fun when the PA doesn't ram it down our throats.

[Guest KC]

You're just sore because Wright is pullin' a McGovern in the polls.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I got no real horse here. We get both of them, don't we?

[Guest ABG]

Jose, as part of the inevitable backlash of overexposure.

[Guest iramets]

KC wrote: You're just sore because Wright is pullin' a McGovern in the polls.

Wait. Is this another "Buy one, get one for free" deal? I've gotten rooked on those deals before.

[nymr83]

Wright was the easy choice for me. Reyes was BAD before 2006, if Reyes and Wright both repeat their '06 numbers in '07 I'd be pretty close to changing my mind, but I'm not sure thats going to happen.

[nymr83]

Edgy DC wrote: Singing Jose is more fun when the PA doesn't ram it down our throats.

yeah. the organization really ruined what started out as a fun thing by the fans.