SCHAEFER METS PLAYERS OF THE YEAR 2010

[Benjamin Grimm]

THE SCHAEFER METS PLAYERS OF THE YEAR

PLAYER OF THE YEAR The Schaefer Mets Player of the Year for 2010 is DAVID WRIGHT. This is the fifth time David has won in the six years that the Crane Pool Forum has been maintaining the Schaefer tradition. Wright led the 2010 Mets in games (157), at bats (587), runs (87), doubles (36), home runs (29), runs batted in (103), caught stealing (11), slugging (.503), on base percentage (.354), total bases (295), sac flies (12), intentional walks (7), and his 161 strikeouts broke a record set by Dave Kingman back in 1982.

PITCHER OF THE YEAR The Schaefer Mets Pitcher of the Year, for the third year in a row, is JOHAN SANTANA. Johan led the Mets in only two categories: complete games (4) and shutouts (2). Santana, whose season ended on September 2, finished at 11-9 with a 2.98 ERA. He finished less than 9 points ahead of R.A. Dickey, who led the Mets in ERA (2.84) and Mike Pelfrey, the Mets 15-game winner. Dickey, of course, didn't debut with the Mets until May 19, and Pelfrey was virtually shut out of Schaefer points in July, when he went 0-3 with a 10.02 ERA over 5 starts.

RELIEF PITCHER OF THE YEAR The Mets reliever of the year is HISANORI TAKAHASHI. Takahashi totaled 52.48 points overall, but 23.67 of those points came as a starter. His 28.81 points from the bullpen were enough to outscore Pedro Feliciano (26.37) and Francisco Rodriguez, the team save leader, who scored 26.15. Takahashi saved 8 games for the Mets. In 41 games in relief, he was 6-2 in 57.1 innings,with an ERA of 2.04.

FUN FACTS
The highest point total earned by any one player in 2010 was the 5.99 and it was done twice: by Jon Niese on June 10 and by Johan Santana on July 6.

The lowest "winning score" was the 0.70 that Jason Bay was awarded on May 1, in a 10-0 loss to Philadelphia.

The most Schaefer Player of the Game awards went to Johan Santana, with 21. Strangely, players such as Ruben Tejada and Oliver Perez were Player of the Game more often than Jose Reyes.

NUMBER OF SCHAEFER POTG WINS IN 2010
Johan Santana 21
R. A. Dickey 19
Mike Pelfrey 18
Jon Niese 17
David Wright 15
Angel Pagan 12
Hisanori Takahashi 8
Carlos Beltran 5
Jeff Francoeur 5
Jason Bay 5
Dillon Gee 5
Raul Valdes 4
John Maine 3
Pat Misch 3
Rod Barajas 3
Ruben Tejada 3
Oliver Perez 2
Alex Cora 2
Josh Thole 2
Henry Blanco 2
Ike Davis 2
José Reyes 1
Mike Jacobs 1
Luis Castillo 1
Ryota Igarashi 1
Jesus Feliciano 1
Luis Hernandez 1
Lucas Duda 1

Results for the little-known and little-publicized Player of the Week awards.
David Wright won 6 times, and Jose Reyes was next with 4 wins. (He seems to do much better on a weekly basis than by day or by month.)
2010-04-10 Jeff Francoeur 6.47
2010-04-17 Mike Pelfrey 5.78
2010-04-24 José Reyes 5.86
2010-05-01 David Wright 5.92
2010-05-08 Rod Barajas 6.94
2010-05-15 Angel Pagan 5.49
2010-05-22 Mike Pelfrey 7.12
2010-05-29 Johan Santana 9.77
2010-06-05 David Wright 7.35
2010-06-12 Jon Niese 5.99
2010-06-19 José Reyes 9.20
2010-06-26 José Reyes 6.60
2010-07-03 David Wright 8.97
2010-07-10 Angel Pagan 8.10
2010-07-17 Jon Niese 4.88
2010-07-24 Johan Santana 8.51
2010-07-31 R. A. Dickey 9.15
2010-08-07 Johan Santana 6.41
2010-08-14 R. A. Dickey 5.96
2010-08-21 José Reyes 8.37
2010-08-28 David Wright 7.24
2010-09-04 David Wright 5.91
2010-09-11 Ike Davis 10.12
2010-09-18 Angel Pagan 6.80
2010-09-25 Lucas Duda 4.86
2010-10-02 David Wright 7.52
2010-10-09 Mike Pelfrey 3.83


Season-to-date totals for 2010
Through game of October 3, 2010

Rank	Name	Points
1	David Wright	117.56
2	Angel Pagan	92.15
3	Johan Santana	90.42
4	Ike Davis	86.55
5	José Reyes	83.25
6	R. A. Dickey	81.77
7	Mike Pelfrey	81.41
8	Jon Niese	66.78
9	Jeff Francoeur	57.99
10	Jason Bay	53.63
11	Hisanori Takahashi	52.48
12	Rod Barajas	34.72
13	Carlos Beltran	32.98
14	Josh Thole	30.51
15	Pedro Feliciano	26.37
16	Luis Castillo	26.19
17	Francisco Rodriguez	26.15
18	Raul Valdes	22.90
19	Chris Carter	22.35
20	Ruben Tejada	22.06
21	Elmer Dessens	20.15
22	Manny Acosta	19.21
23	Dillon Gee	16.94
24	Alex Cora	16.42
25	Bobby Parnell	15.09
26	Fernando Nieve	14.80
27	Lucas Duda	14.70
28	Pat Misch	14.42
29	Henry Blanco	12.60
30	Ryota Igarashi	12.25
31	Jenrry Mejia	10.91
32	John Maine	9.95
33	Oliver Perez	9.79
34	Jesus Feliciano	8.14
35	Mike Hessman	6.51
36	Luis Hernandez	6.41
37	Nick Evans	5.67
38	Gary Matthews	4.49
39	Fernando Tatis	3.82
40	Sean Green	2.73
41	Frank Catalanotto	2.12
41	Joaquin Arias	2.12
43	Mike Jacobs	2.05
44	Fernando Martinez	1.84
45	Tobi Stoner	1.09
46	Justin Turner	0.47
47	Mike Nickeas	0.30

And that's it! If I'm so motivated (and I probably will be), Schaefer voting will resume in April of 2011! See you then!

[TransMonk]

Great job Grimm!

I don't participate in this much, but I do enjoy the results.

[ashie62]

Absoultely great work! Vote early and often.

[Edgy MD]

Special congratulations to Takahashi. He earned it. Congratulations to all releivers for surviving Jerry and getting no respect for it.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

It feels like there should be some sort of postseason support group for the 'penners-- with Pedro as group leader-- doesn't it?

[Edgy MD]

"OK, guys, before we begin, let us bow our heads and pray for Nieve, wherever he is."

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah, thrilled that Takahashi pulled out that reliever award.

In the Non-Schaeffer World, I 'd say we got 2 of 3 correct. (I kinda like Dickey over Johan slightly)

[Edgy MD]

I kinda like Pagan over Wright. But we don't score the daily defensive contributions as aggressively, I gather.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

And that's partly due to after-the-fact/straight-from-the-box-score voting, I'd imagine.

[seawolf17]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: And that's partly due to after-the-fact/straight-from-the-box-score voting, I'd imagine.

That's the biggest reason why I don't vote as much as I do. If I haven't seen some chunk of the game -- even just a few innings -- I usually don't vote because I'm afraid I'm leaving off a big double play or sac bunt (HA!) or something.

[Edgy MD]

Even in such cases, I try to catch the video on mets.com, and award excellence accordingly.

But the day-to-day stuff --- where (to mine eyes) Pagan is a very-good-to-excellent centerfielder and Wright merely a fair third baseman --- hasn't been well represented in my voting, I'm afraid.

[bmfc1]

Beautiful presentation, BG.

[Willets Point]

Edgy DC wrote: But the day-to-day stuff --- where (to mine eyes) Pagan is a very-good-to-excellent centerfielder and Wright merely a fair third baseman --- hasn't been well represented in my voting, I'm afraid.

Pagan never called you "my man" and wished you a happy wedding day.

[metsmarathon]

i think the most difficult thing for schaeffer-voting to capture is rangeyness for defenders, particularly the lack of range. rangey outfielders may get rewarded for getting to na unlikely ball, but a ball that a rangey of could get to, but an unrangey of cannot is rarely counted against him. ditto for infielders, though that may be more readily determined.

like any ball which subsequently shall land within 3' of a dugout railing. we can surely say from now on that ike woulda got it, so those should be accounted for by those non-ikes who do not get it.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It is a shame, though, that Angel didn't win any monthly awards this year and thereby didn't get his card in the array-o-winners up above.

I'll give him an honorable shout-out here:


It also looks like the 1977 Topps series got skipped over, too.

[Frayed Knot]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Yeah, thrilled that Takahashi pulled out that reliever award.

He quickly rises to the best Takahashi the Mets ever had.

In the Non-Schaeffer World, I 'd say we got 2 of 3 correct. (I kinda like Dickey over Johan slightly)

Fortunately we'll also have a venue to discuss points like that this winter.

[Edgy MD]

Willets Point wrote: Edgy DC wrote: But the day-to-day stuff --- where (to mine eyes) Pagan is a very-good-to-excellent centerfielder and Wright merely a fair third baseman --- hasn't been well represented in my voting, I'm afraid. Pagan never called you "my man" and wished you a happy wedding day.

A more-than-excellent point.

[metsmarathon]

i'd like to stand up and preemptively come out in favor of the notion that schaeffer voting does not necessarily fall in line with conventional value assessments of players. the schaeffer player of the year need not be the most WARest, or WPAest, or wOBAest, or win sharest (are win shares relevent still, or have we moved past them?) player.

i like that it offers a relativistic look at the sum total of player of the game contributions.

it is a unique look at player performance. who cares if it doesn't account for a guy single handedly blowing a 9 run lead in the 9th. it doesn't need to. it measures, instead, how often and how much a player contributes to winning individual games.

i like it for that.

david wright contributed more and more often to winning games than did any other metly player. i can live with that.

do we not adequately capture defensive and relieving contributions? eh, maybe. but that's a different argument.

[Edgy MD]

Another excellent point. And as a means to the end of these tastey-assed cards? What a contest!

[Benjamin Grimm]

metsmarathon wrote: i'd like to stand up and preemptively come out in favor of the notion that schaeffer voting does not necessarily fall in line with conventional value assessments of players. the schaeffer player of the year need not be the most WARest, or WPAest, or wOBAest, or win sharest (are win shares relevent still, or have we moved past them?) player. i like that it offers a relativistic look at the sum total of player of the game contributions. it is a unique look at player performance. who cares if it doesn't account for a guy single handedly blowing a 9 run lead in the 9th. it doesn't need to. it measures, instead, how often and how much a player contributes to winning individual games. i like it for that. david wright contributed more and more often to winning games than did any other metly player. i can live with that. do we not adequately capture defensive and relieving contributions? eh, maybe. but that's a different argument.

Yes, Schaefer is definitely a throwback measurement, based on a promotional gimmick from the 1970's.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Pagan's total WAR for 2010 is 4.7. David Wright's offensive WAR is 4.7 -- but Wright's defensive WAR is -0.8, bringing his total WAR to 3.9.

[batmagadanleadoff]

bmfc1 wrote: Beautiful presentation, BG.

I agree. I would like to suggest a Topps Rookie trophy on Ike's card; the older version with the batter instead of the cup trophy.

[metirish]

seawolf17 wrote: That's the biggest reason why I don't vote as much as I do. .

QUE

[G-Fafif]

The PotG MVP is clearly Mr. Grimm. Thanks for doing this, from the spreadsheets to the cards. 6.0 to you.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The PotG MVP is clearly Mr. Grimm. Thanks for doing this, from the spreadsheets to the cards. 6.0 to you.

Thanks! And thanks to all the voters, regular and irregular! No matter the state of your bowels, all voters are appreciated!

I agree. I would like to suggest a Topps Rookie trophy on Ike's card; the older version with the batter instead of the cup trophy.

That's a good idea, but I'm afraid the 1976 card would have to have the cup:



If it was a 1972 card, however...

[G-Fafif]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: bmfc1 wrote: Beautiful presentation, BG. I agree. I would like to suggest a Topps Rookie trophy on Ike's card; the older version with the batter instead of the cup trophy.

Wonder how often Omir Santos stares at his cup.

[Edgy MD]

Could a man have more eyebrow and still play ball? I don't think so.

[seawolf17]

Edgy DC wrote: Could a man have more eyebrow and still play ball? I don't think so.

The answer is, of course, none... none more eyebrow.

[seawolf17]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: No matter the state of your bowels, all voters are appreciated!

Was that a shot at the fact that I just dropped a 102-point LAXATIVE bomb on you?

edit: No, wait, that was Willets.

[batmagadanleadoff]

The PotG MVP is clearly Mr. Grimm. Thanks for doing this, from the spreadsheets to the cards. 6.0 to you. Thanks! And thanks to all the voters, regular and irregular! No matter the state of your bowels, all voters are appreciated! I agree. I would like to suggest a Topps Rookie trophy on Ike's card; the older version with the batter instead of the cup trophy. That's a good idea, but I'm afraid the 1976 card would have to have the cup: If it was a 1972 card, however...

I was aware of that when I recommended the Topps trophy. But I was hoping you wouldn't be so historically accurate when considering my suggestion.