Continuing Careers of Ex-Mets, 2008 (2009 content too)

[Guest AG/DC]

Hideo Nomo, signing a minor league deal with the Royals, essentially the threshold of extinction.

[Guest cooby]

Is that Tommie Agee?

[Guest AG/DC]

It's Tommie AG.

[Guest cooby]

Yes, I see now.
You know, the trouble with me is, I ask dumb questions, figure out the answer for myself, then look really silly.


Very cool, AG/DC!

[Guest AG/DC]

Edgardo Alfonzo is one of the leading hitters in the Venezuelan Winter league this winter, batting .335 with five home runs and 33 RBIs in 54 games.

[Guest AG/DC]

Signing with the Astros is Victor Diaz and Mike DeJean.

[Farmer Ted]

Did I see Mike DeFelice just signed somehwere?

on edit: yup, Tampa Bay, minor league deal

[Farmer Ted]

Tim Bogar named coach with the Rays.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Jermaine Allensworth signs with the Schaumberg Flyers of the Northern League

[Guest AG/DC]

Mike Piazza gives dubious answers on drugs:

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/220/story_22083_1.html?source=GOOGLE&campaign=087&medium=PPC&nopop=1&WT.mc_id=GMPIA087&WT.srch=22&gclid=CPb9mqq57pACFTgrOAodozwG1g

[Guest themetfairy]

Mike Piazza gives dubious answers on drugs:

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/220/story_22083_1.html?source=GOOGLE&campaign=087&medium=PPC&nopop=1&WT.mc_id=GMPIA087&WT.srch=22&gclid=CPb9mqq57pACFTgrOAodozwG1g

[Benjamin Grimm]

There's just so much in that article that I prefer not to comment on.

Instead, I'll just ask: Does Mike have a job for next season? Is he still with Oakland?

[Guest AG/DC]

Well, I'm not asking you to deal with Mike's testifying. It's for an audience of people already seeking faith and all. I'm more concerned with the issues that are the concern of the general baseball audience. He's never acquitted himself particularly well on the subjuect.

Baseball's drug scandal is almost nothing like the Kennedy assasination. Maybe in that it draws out the opionions of louts and fools, but that can be said about a lot of things.

But that as an excuse to move past the issue without investigating? Should we have moved past the Kennedy assassination?

[smg58]

There's just so much in that article that I prefer not to comment on.

Instead, I'll just ask: Does Mike have a job for next season? Is he still with Oakland?[/quote:19kgnozi]

He's still a free agent.

[Guest AG/DC]

Mike Cameron, Milwaukee Brewer.

Fun fact (theological content, so Ben Grimm, look away.): Mike Cameron's name roughly translates in English to "Shrimp Who Is Like God."

[smg58]

Mike Cameron, Milwaukee Brewer.

Fun fact (theological content, so Ben Grimm, look away.): Mike Cameron's name roughly translates in English to "Shrimp Who Is Like God."[/quote:1170yti0]

You know, church attendance would be a lot higher if communion involved shrimp cocktail.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Signing with the Astros is Victor Diaz and Mike DeJean.[/quote:1w9aioy0]

I like it when Mike DeJean signs with other National League teams. It's good for our batters.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I dunno. Anyone remember that short period of time in 2004 when Mike DeJean ruled the universe?

Not only did he relieve us of Karim F. Garcia, he also relieved pretty darn well. Then it was revealed he was pitching with a broken leg. Then they fixed him up, he came back, and sucked.

[Guest AG/DC]

Mike DeJean was the original Guillermo Mota. He was picked up on a flyer, kicked ass for a partial season, got himself a ocntract based on that partial season, and then made monkeys of us all.

The thing about DeJean is that he did well again after we sold low on him. In Colorado!

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I'm probably just blinded by the fact hat I always liked Mike Cameron during his time with the Mets, but I think he could have been a nice addition to the Mets. Cameron could fill in for Beltran when Carlos he needed some time off or he could platoon with Church against lefties. Cameron could be a late inning defensive sub or a right handed power bat off the bench.

[Gwreck]

I liked Cameron a lot too. I suspect though that he would've been reticent to take a part-time job and probably would've needed a big increase to not take a starting job. Also, he's out for the whole month of April.

[Farmer Ted]

Ty Wigginton signs a one-year deal with Houston. Xavier Nady avoids arbitration and scores $3.35 million deal for 2008 with Pittsburgh.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Gwreck - "I liked Cameron a lot too. I suspect though that he would've been reticent to take a part-time job and probably would've needed a big increase to not take a starting job."

True. I'm sure he was looking for a fulltime role as a center fielder, but he could have been a great fit for the Mets.

[Farmer Ted]

Chicago Sun-Times: The White Sox are expected to announce today that they have reached agreement on a two-year, $11 million contract with free-agent reliever Octavio Dotel, several sources close to the situation said Monday. The Sox also had been looking at signing starting pitcher Bartolo Colon, but with Dotel on board and Colon wanting more than a one-year deal, those talks have gone all but silent.

[smg58]

The Sox have now overpaid for two relievers this offseason, one of whom is average at best and the other is about as likely as I am to give them two full seasons of quality relief work.

[Guest AG/DC]

The Sox are going for it on full throttle.

I think it'll blow up in their faces like a coyote contraption. But it may be just as fun to watch.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I loved the Coyote and Roadrunner as a kid. Hell, I still find them amusing.

[Guest AG/DC]

WASHINGTON -- Nationals catcher Paul Lo Duca suffered a left knee injury this week while working out in a New York gym.

Lo Duca saw Dr. Andrew Pearle, the Mets' associate team physician, on Friday and had an MRI in New York. Lo Duca will return to Washington on Monday to be looked at by Dr. Ben Shaffer, the Nationals' physician and orthopedist. According to a baseball source, the injury was described as a "tweak."

It has not been determined if Lo Duca will miss time in Spring Training. The Nationals will give an update on Lo Duca's condition next week.

[seawolf17]

WASHINGTON -- Nationals catcher Paul Lo Duca suffered a left knee injury this week while working out in a New York gym.

Lo Duca saw Dr. Andrew Pearle, the Mets' associate team physician, on Friday and had an MRI in New York. Lo Duca will return to Washington on Monday to be looked at by Dr. Ben Shaffer, the Nationals' physician and orthopedist. According to a baseball source, the injury was described as a "tweak."

It has not been determined if Lo Duca will miss time in Spring Training. The Nationals will give an update on Lo Duca's condition next week.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Wolfie's killing me today.