SCHAEFER METS PLAYERS OF THE MONTH, APRIL 2010

[Benjamin Grimm]

SCHAEFER METS PLAYER AND PITCHERS OF THE MONTH, APRIL 2010

The Schaefer Mets Player of the Month for April 2010 is DAVID WRIGHT. This is the eighth time David has been named player of the month. Wright led the Mets in April with 16 runs batted in, 7 stolen bases, and 21 walks. His 4 home runs tied him for second, with Jeff Francoeur, behind Rod Barajas' 5 homers. He batted .273, slugged .506, and had an OBP of .424. Francoeur finished a close second in Schaefer balloting, trailing Wright by 0.40 Schaefer points. Francoeur led the Mets in runs (17), hits (23), and doubles (6) and hit .284, slugged .531, and his OBP was .348.

The Schaefer Mets Pitcher of the Month for April is MIKE PELFREY. Pelfrey was 4-0 with a save in four starts and one relief appearance. His ERA of 0.69, in 26 innings, led the team. This is the third time Mike has been pitcher of the month, with previous wins in July 2008 and May 2009. The runner-up for pitching honors in April was Johan Santana, who was 3-1 with a 2.08 ERA and a team-leading 28 strikeouts in 30.1 innings over 5 starts.

And the Schaefer Mets Relief Pitcher of the Month is a first-time winner, FERNANDO NIEVE. Nieve led the Mets in relief appearances in April with 14. He was 1-1 with a 3.46 ERA in 13 innings. Hisanori Takahashi finished a close second, only 0.14 points behind Nieve. Takahashi was 2-1 with a 3.77 ERA in 8 games and 14.1 innings.



Month-to-date totals for April 2010
Through game of April 30, 2010

Rank	Name	Points
1	David Wright	17.97
2	Jeff Francoeur	17.57
3	Mike Pelfrey	15.96
4	Johan Santana	13.83
5	Jason Bay	12.37
6	Angel Pagan	10.75
7	Jon Niese	10.48
8	Jos� Reyes	9.78
9	Rod Barajas	9.73
10	Luis Castillo	8.61
11	Ike Davis	7.01
12	Fernando Nieve	6.88
13	Hisanori Takahashi	6.74
14	Oliver Perez	6.05
15	Pedro Feliciano	5.70
16	Francisco Rodriguez	5.29
17	Jenrry Mejia	4.29
18	John Maine	4.20
19	Ryota Igarashi	3.87
20	Raul Valdes	3.83
21	Gary Matthews	2.78
22	Henry Blanco	2.49
23	Fernando Tatis	2.48
24	Alex Cora	2.09
25	Mike Jacobs	2.05
26	Frank Catalanotto	1.67
27	Manny Acosta	1.66
28	Tobi Stoner	1.09
29	Ruben Tejada	0.08

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'll be curious to see if Mike Jacobs is in the clubhouse with his 2.05 points. (I've got to imagine that's mostly from one game.) Brilliant composition all around. I selfishly cry, however, for blue hats.

[Centerfield]

I almost forgot Igarashi was on this team. It will be a big help once we get him back.

No surprises there for player of the month.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Byootiful graph-a-making, Mr. Grimm.

Between Manuel's bullpen proclivities and his performance so far, I'm getting the feeling that Takahashi's about to make a historically strong run at Reliever of the Year, and push for Pitcher of the Year*.

*But then, I'm gayer than Nathan Lane-in-a-rentboy for Tak2.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Loving the 1978 card!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Thanks! That's the first time I've ventured into 1978. I don't know if I'll go beyond that. Maybe to 1979, but no more. I like the idea of confining this stuff to the 1970's, the decade where I cared most about baseball cards.

[Willets Point]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Thanks! That's the first time I've ventured into 1978. I don't know if I'll go beyond that. Maybe to 1979, but no more. I like the idea of confining this stuff to the 1970's, the decade where I cared most about baseball cards.

My first baseball cards were a couple of hundred hand-me-downs from my uncle of the Topps 1978 set so I have a special fondness for that year.

[G-Fafif]

Great work on the '78, BG. I liked that design 32 years ago even though what I associate it with mostly is the first Tom Seaver card where his cap is all messed up.

As a fan of alternate reality Mets cards, I do hope you venture into 1979 just for completion's sake. But no complaints seeing the old faves and the new sensation here.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I like the idea of confining this stuff to the 1970's, the decade where I cared most about baseball cards.

Couldn't agree more, except by "cared most," I would mean "cared." I don't know if breaking up the Topps monopoly cut into my interest or I just growed up (in the bad sense).

But if you do go ahead with 1979 if you do, isn't 1980 culturally 1970s anyhow?



(You know, if I'm a police chief with Ed Glynn living in my jusidiction, I'd instruct my detectives to pick up Ed Glynn for questioning whenever they have no leads on a case, particularly any skeevy cases.) Goodness, can you imagine if your daughter brought that guy home?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Got a bunch of the '78ers from my 2nd-grade teacher, who was cleaning his apartment 'round the end of the school year.

Some of the cool ones I remember:

EDDIE MURRAY: He just looks so... coiled and cool.



FELIX MILLAN: Sweet action-- nice DP shots are still kinda rare.



REGGIE JACKSON: All the better since he appears to be whiffing.



DICK ALLEN: Twisted and full of ill intent. You can feel the power in that swing.



LEN RANDLE: Love of the game, encapsulated in 2 x 3 cardboard.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Edgy DC wrote: Couldn't agree more, except by "cared most," I would mean "cared."

Me too, pretty much. I didn't stop caring on January 1, 1980, but by then my enthusiasm was a lot lessened, and it continued to decline for years after.

[G-Fafif]

The last year when I was really and truly carded up was '77, when I was 14 and the Blue Jay and Mariner issues lent a degree of fascination that had begun to wane here in '76. Hung in there with 'em on a less engaged scale through '81, my final year of high school, which feels appropriate in that that's when the Fleer and Donruss sets arrived and the whole thing began to feel diluted. Plenty of post-'81 cards scattered in these precincts (the ceremonial Buying of Four Packs still takes place every March just so I can still feel tangibly younger than Jamie Moyer) but it was never really the same after '81. Or '77. Or, more accurately, '75.

All of this is to say, yeah.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Somehow these POTM threads always end up being about baseball cards!

[G-Fafif]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Somehow these POTM threads always end up being about baseball cards!

Value added.

Since David Wright wins most of the time anyway, somebody should ask him if he'd be kind enough to pose in period-correct uniforms against a green screen so he can be inserted into different years' cards. I bet he'd do it.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Have any of you 70s baseball card lovers got your hands on Cardboard Gods, the book yet? (Bonus Plug-o-Rama: Josh will be the featured speaker at Amazin' Tuesday co-hosted by gfafif & me, May 18 at a NEW venue, Two Boots Grand Central (the LES location, sadly, is closing this week!)

Anyway, I started it the other day and its more or less a chronological, more focused, retelling of the basic story you'd read at his website, as well written and meshed with the baseball cards as ever, I gotta give it 5 Pocorobas.

[G-Fafif]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Have any of you 70s baseball card lovers got your hands on Cardboard Gods, the book yet? (Bonus Plug-o-Rama: Josh will be the featured speaker at Amazin' Tuesday co-hosted by gfafif & me, May 18 at a NEW venue, Two Boots Grand Central (the LES location, sadly, is closing this week!) Anyway, I started it the other day and its more or less a chronological, more focused, retelling of the basic story you'd read at his website, as well written and meshed with the baseball cards as ever, I gotta give it 5 Pocorobas.

How many Boccabellas?

[Guest Edgy DC]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Have any of you 70s baseball card lovers got your hands on Cardboard Gods, the book yet? (Bonus Plug-o-Rama: Josh will be the featured speaker at Amazin' Tuesday co-hosted by gfafif & me, May 18 at a NEW venue, Two Boots Grand Central (the LES location, sadly, is closing this week!) Anyway, I started it the other day and its more or less a chronological, more focused, retelling of the basic story you'd read at his website, as well written and meshed with the baseball cards as ever, I gotta give it 5 Pocorobas.

Ordered it online last week.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

5 Bocabellas. 5 Wockenfusses.

[Guest themetfairy]

Is it official that we're going to be at Two Boots Grand Central?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

No I made that up.

Yes.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

themetfairy wrote: Is it official that we're going to be at Two Boots Grand Central?

If so, it's just off my 6 train, and a whole lot easier to make it to/from.

Kinda close quarters, though, IIRC.

[Guest themetfairy]

Excellent!