Edgy MD Site Manager Posted May 30, 2012 Posted May 30, 2012 Nyjer Morgan is the sort of player who makes the league what it is. Some skills here. A deficit there. You'll see him riding pine for good teams and starting for bad ones for a decade at a time. An interesting personality, a compelling backstory, and over his time, he'll be associated with a few marvelous plays and a few embarrassing ones. A good athetleic specimen, but he committed to baseball late and will, in likelihood, never really be well-rounded.Nyjer acquitted himself well with the Brews last year: .304 / .357 / .421 // .778 for a strong playoff-bound team. Certainly the kind of year that makes a team bring you back.This year:BA: .217OBP: .282SLG: .225 (Yi!)OPS: .507That comes in 43 games and 134 plate appearances. Pretty disconcerting, but you hope for a bounceback, right? Until you see this column:RBI: 0That's no RBI at all and a quarter of a season of pretty consistent action in the rearview. That's on one hand a good example of how losing a beast like Prince Fielder can have an impact all the way down the lineup, as he's only had 21 at-bats with runners in scoring position, but still, that's an 0-21. And the way he hits, if runners aren't in scoring position, he's not getting 'em home.
metirish Old-Timey Member Posted May 30, 2012 Posted May 30, 2012 WOW, no rbi at this stage would seem more difficult than not......only 1 double, some walks(7), SO 21 . makes for a miserable season......and they are paying him some nice coin this year too..2012 31 Milwaukee Brewers $2,350,000
TransMonk Old-Timey Member Posted May 30, 2012 Posted May 30, 2012 Remember, the Brewers had a higher opening day payroll than the Mets.Can't remember when/if that has happened in the past.
Benjamin Grimm Old-Timey Member Posted May 31, 2012 Posted May 31, 2012 Just a guess... but I bet they had a higher payroll in 1980.
TransMonk Old-Timey Member Posted May 31, 2012 Posted May 31, 2012 Baseball Reference's payroll numbers only go back to 1985, but there it was:1985: MIL = $11,284,107, NYM = $10,834,762That was the last time. The Mets spent nearly $70M more than Milwaukee in 2009.
Edgy MD Site Manager Posted June 4, 2012 Author Posted June 4, 2012 Nyjer Morgan on an obscenely hot streak, with RBI in each of his last two games --- giving him a grand total of ... two.
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