Castillo

[Elster88]

OBP: .376 (Career: .368)
SLG: .355 (Career: .357)
OPS: .731 (Career: .725)

If he keeps giving us his career numbers I'll have to apologize to him.

[TransMonk]

He sure looks ugly doing it...but I'll have to agree with you, the numbers don't lie.

[nymr83]

he also has suprising 9 steals in 10 tries so far this year, putting him on pace for his best total since 2002. his OPS+ is still only 90ish thanks to that disgusting SLG%, but thats always been what you get outr of him. i'll be very suprised and happy if his OBP is over .360 at the end of the year,

[Mex17]

I've even been wondering whether or not he might be a tick better next season when he (hopefully) will not be coming off surgery.

[Willets Point]

Wow, a positive Castillo thread. What a few wins can do to change the nattering nabobs of negativism in this forum.

[smg58]

My issue with Castillo is not what he'll do for us when he's healthy, but how often he'll be healthy enough over the next four years to do it. His output was, and is, pretty consistent.

[metirish]

I would cut him and cut Delgado , and Willets.

[Guest AG/DC]

Nymr83 wrote: he also has suprising 9 steals in 10 tries so far this year, putting him on pace for his best total since 2002. his OPS+ is still only 90ish thanks to that disgusting SLG%, but thats always been what you get outr of him. i'll be very suprised and happy if his OBP is over .360 at the end of the year,

Yeah, but the problem with OPS is that it falsely implies that OBP and slugging percentage are equally important. They're not quite, which most any of the original advocates for OPS will now concede.

He's fine if he stays on this pace. What he's got to change are the three-hoppers up the middle for double plays.

The early Mets had a goofy disagreement in the coaching staff, where Casey advcoated young players learning to hit the ball to the corners, on the theory that the lesser fielders played there, and Rogers Hornsby advocated hitting the ball gap-to-gap. Casey pretty much said that anybody who hit the ball as hard as Hornsby could hit the ball where Hornsby hit it. I think Castillo hits the ball like Casey did and needs to hit it where Casey did.

It's funny, but I'm guessing his double-play rate is worse from the left side. Though he's closer to first over there, his hitting style is so much different, and it produces those limp tappers up the middle.

[Frayed Knot]

I think that because so many are convinced that the total contract package is eventually going to bite us in the ass there's been a bit of a premature rush to declare that it already has. The off-season knee surgeries threw an extra scare into all that also.

The thing about Castillo is that he's been so absurdly consistent over his career that, until he stops doing what he's always done, he probably deserves the benefit of the doubt.
He'll always be a limited player on account of the almost total lack of power but, until further notice, he is what he is.

YEAR	BA	OBA
1999	.302	.384
2000	.334	.418
2001	.263	.344
2002	.305	.364
2003	.314	.381
2004	.291	.373
2005	.301	.391
2006	.296	.358
2007	.301	.362

Except for 2000 (higher) & 2001 (lower) his BA & OBA have fallen within a very narrow range every season.
And, while he's certainly not getting any younger (who is?), turning 33 at the tail end of the season hardly makes him ancient.

[Willets Point]

metirish wrote: I would cut him and cut Delgado , and Willets.

Have you seen the size of my contract? You better believe that AG and KC wouldn't want to eat that. You're stuck with me, bub. Mwahahaha!