Starting Pitcher for 2010

[metirish]

Ben Sheets' line today against Cincinnati: IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA Salary Appearance 0.0 8 10 9 1 0 1 31.15 $10,000,000 Overweight

WOW he's a fat fucker ....


fat fucker

[Valadius]

Broxton's got nothing on Sheets.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Valadius wrote: Broxton's got nothing on Sheets.

He's got height and health.

[Fman99]

metirish wrote: Coming for the all powerful AL East Wang should eat up the weak NL East , something like that anyway...

I think you've got it backwards, and the NL East will gulp down on some tasty fat Wang this year.

(OE: I was in Florida on vacation when this post came out last month, hence my tardiness.)

[Fman99]

Valadius wrote: Broxton's got nothing on Sheets.

Seriously, I am thinking of adding "Resemblance to Fred 'Rerun' Berry" as a category in our NL-only fantasy baseball league.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Fman99 wrote: Valadius wrote: Broxton's got nothing on Sheets. Seriously, I am thinking of adding "Resemblance to Fred 'Rerun' Berry" as a category in our NL-only fantasy baseball league.

Now there's a man who could've been the leader of the crew-- full of energy and spark-- if he hadn't spent all his time coming up with stupid celebration dances and hand-jive*. They should have traded him for Jimmie Walker or Kolchak the Night Stalker.

*And surreptitious taping of Doobie Brothers concerts.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Adam Rubin (of ESPN) is saying that the Mets will open the season with a rotation of Santana-Maine-Niese-Pelfrey-Perez.

It looks like Jerry decided to give Santana the Opening Day start, which only makes sense, and then he switches to alphabetical order.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I've been on the Ollie Express since the offseason, figuring that he's just got to be good again or the Mets will just cut his ass.

Now I'm thinking that they just might cut his ass. Short lease for certain.

[Frayed Knot]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Adam Rubin (of ESPN) is saying that the Mets will open the season with a rotation of Santana-Maine-Niese-Pelfrey-Perez. It looks like Jerry decided to give Santana the Opening Day start, which only makes sense, and then he switches to alphabetical order.

Johan then alpha order makes it easier to remember who's pitching the next day. I'm sure that's why Jerry did it that way.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

So, Ollie gets skipped the first few go-rounds, then?

[Frayed Knot]

So, Ollie gets skipped the first few go-rounds, then?

Doubt it. They haven't skipped the #5 'round these parts in years and Jerry indicated earlier in the spring that they weren't likely to do it this year either.

[Benjamin Grimm]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: So, Ollie gets skipped the first few go-rounds, then?

I doubt it. The four-man April rotation seems to be a thing of the past.

[ashie62]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: So, Ollie gets skipped the first few go-rounds, then?

Maybe? It seems plans in Queens can change with any 2 game losing streak anymore.

[TransMonk]

Niese named to SI's Ten MLB rookies to keep tabs on list

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/joe_lemire/03/31/instant.impact/index.html?xid=cnnbin&hpt=Sbin

Jon Niese, Mets SP
Pitching coach Dan Warthen has proclaimed Niese's curveball to be the best in Mets camp, and that wasn't even the 23-year-old southpaw's most effective pitch in last season's 25 2/3 inning major-league cameo. That honor belonged to Niese's cutter, which he throws 87 mph to great effect, inducing a high 1.4 groundball-to-flyball ratio. A high school teammate of Dodgers starter Chad Billingsley, Niese could pitch as high as third in the Mets' rotation this season. He's gotten results at every level of the minor leagues (a career strikeout rate of 8.2 per nine innings), including an eight-start stretch in Triple A last summer in which he went 5-1 with a 0.96 ERA. With some notable left-handed power bats like Ryan Howard of the Phillies and Adam Dunn of the Nationals in the lineups of NL East foes, Niese should fare well.

[Benjamin Grimm]

He still has his rookie status? (I wasn't sure about that.)

It would be nice to have a Rookie-of-the-Year candidate, although it seems as if that outfielder in Atlanta may suck all the oxygen out of the competition. (If he performs as expected, that is.)

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: He still has his rookie status? (I wasn't sure about that.) It would be nice to have a Rookie-of-the-Year candidate, although it seems as if that outfielder in Atlanta may suck all the oxygen out of the competition. (If he performs as expected, that is.)

Less than 50 innings pitched, so... yep.

Lot of supertalented rooks expected to come out this year, no? (And the AL seems even more packed-- Matusz, Feliz, TB's Wade Davis and Jeremy Hellickson, Austin Jackson, Desmond Jennings, Carlos Santana, the other Chris Carter, Kyle Drabek...)

[ashie62]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: He still has his rookie status? (I wasn't sure about that.) It would be nice to have a Rookie-of-the-Year candidate, although it seems as if that outfielder in Atlanta may suck all the oxygen out of the competition. (If he performs as expected, that is.)

Jon Niese, your 2010 NL ROY Candidate

[seawolf17]

Ashie62 wrote: Jon Niese, your 2010 NL ROY Candidate

"Dude? Please don't go there."

[metirish]

That reminds me, Omir has left the team too for family reasons.