Green DL'd - Johnson up

[Frayed Knot]

Johnson may only hang around until Alou is ready..

Gomez is OK and is starting tonight

[Benjamin Grimm]

They had been thinking that Alou might be ready for tonight's game.

Guess not.

So the big question for now is, will Johnson be able to get into a game as the 813th Met before Alou returns?

[A Boy Named Seo]

Who the hell's Johnson?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Well, you doesn't has to call him Johnson...

[Guest attgig]

his name is ben.
ben johnson.
came from SD
in a trade
along with adkins
We gave up Heath and Ring
this past winter.
he's still young enough, but hasn't proven himself to be any better than a utility OF'er at this point.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Ben for anyone else stoopid like me.

[A Boy Named Seo]

attgig wrote: his name is ben. ben johnson. came from SD in a trade along with adkins We gave up Heath and Ring this past winter. he's still young enough, but hasn't proven himself to be any better than a utility OF'er at this point.

That structure is joelmon-esque. Thanks.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I read somewhere this weekend that though Alou was eligible to come off the DL, he didn't feel that he was ready. He said that the point was for him to be 100% again, then he would return. Otherwise the Mets would run the risk of him reinjuring himself and needing to go back on to the DL. He said that he felt he would be ready to return to action possibley this weekend.

Welcome to Ben Johnson.

[Willets Point]

Ben Johnson?


Ben Johnson?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Jen Bonson?

[Guest martin]

bon jensen?

[seawolf17]

Jon Benson?

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

fitness author, Jon Benson.

[seawolf17]

AAAAAAAAA!

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Great minds think alike, but Seawolf was too quick for me.

[Vic Sage]

Meanwhile, Bell and Ring have been great for SD, while Adkins is ... where? AAA? another team? pumping gas?

Johnson better show something or this will go down as one of Omar's bad deals.

[Frayed Knot]

Bell's been good, but Ring's pitched all of 2 innings and has spent most of the year in the minors.


Meanwhile (to no one's surprise) Mota up -- Burgos down.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Great. Ring has been great.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Johnson looks to have that swing I hate where one hand comes off the bat like a righthanded Jeromy Burnitz, though not quite as pronounced.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Lefties are more prone to that, which I guess makes it worse to see on righties. Winfield fell into that when he was going bad.

[Guest iramets]

Probably this is a whole thread in itself, but why should lefties (in theory) do that (or anything) differently from righties? McCarver likes to claim that lefties are better low-ball hitters than righties, but he's never begun to explain why that should be so. Lefties are just righties batting from the wrong side, aren't they? Other than the step closer to first base, should they have any substantial advantages or disadvantages? If so, why?

[Guest Edgy DC]

A million theories. Mine is that lefties always have to open up to run to first, and righties have to dive closed. So lefties are more vulnerable to the sins of opening up, one of which is the one-handed flail.

[Willets Point]

Ban Johnson?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Stan Bahnsen?

[Vic Sage]

Frayed Knot wrote: Bell's been good, but Ring's pitched all of 2 innings and has spent most of the year in the minors..

Yeah, but those were 2 great innings!

And Bell's been better than "good" (30 IP / 17 H / 6 BB / 34 K / 1.20 ERA)

[Guest iramets]

="Willets Point"]Ban Johnson?

That old guy took steroids? Bet on baseball? What?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Sneers kinda like Dick Cheney.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I think it's way too early to be looking to judge the trade. Johnson's here to be insurance, and that's a policy that looks like it's about to be cashed in, with perhaps our third starting outfielder disabled tonight, along with our top AAA outfielder.

We may need to call up Ricky Ledee now, and we might've had to earlier had they not put in as much redunancy as they did.

[Guest attgig]

ring's AAA numbers


22IP, 1-0, 0.82, 2ER, 14H, 8BB, 29K



I'd say he's ready for the majors....


This was a bad trade ultimately, but honestly, neither ring nor bell had any value. We all thought they would be pretty good MR, but for unproven commodities, nobody was going to give up an arm and a leg.
And with the depth we have in our pen, we really didn't need more MR arms. signing shoeeeeenweis negated a need for ring.

I'll put this out there, though.
Omar had no business giving SS a 3 year contract. I can understand that this was the year mets have to win it all. and you want a proven lefty in the pen. but.. sometimes, you just have to trust your guys. and if ring was there instead of SS, i think we all would've been pleasantly surprised. Then, the trade wouldn't have had to happen. and we'd all be happy with another MR rising to dependability out of nowhere (ie joe smith).

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ring may'nt have gotten the chance because he had a predecessor's fingerprints on him.

A middle reliever with gaudy numbers may look better than a reserve outfielder with modest numbers when all is said and done, but we'll see.