2013 IPP: Ruben Tejada

[Edgy MD]

These aren't large sample sizes.

He's played convincing (sometimes superlative) big league shortstop, and he's hit like one. That ain't for the shitpile. It'll take more than one shortstop to get the team forward.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Ceetar wrote: Hold his job? No, make him show you something. Make him earn it or Quintanilla lose it. It's a competitive world. But there's a compelling interest for the Mets to be rooting for him. Quintanilla has already lost it. If the Mets had ANYONE else to play there..

From June 26:

�He made three plays yesterday that might have saved the game for us,� Collins said. �He�s earned the right to be out there right now.�

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Ceetar wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Quintanilla has lost the job? I thought he had a nice series. As nice as you can do when you're oh for your last 13. He's basically doing what he did last year, hot start, and then mostly sinking back to the mean. Last year Tejada showed up before he hit it..this year? This is why I'd rather bring Tejada back BEFORE Q goes into a 11/50 slide. (He's 9/40 since David Wright's players-only meeting after the Cubs loss)

9/40 is still 16 points higher than Tejada was hitting for the season. In fact, 11/50 is 11 points higher than Tejada is hitting for the season. So, these hideous slumps with which you are damning Quintanilla are just about what yer man Ruben was hitting before he got hurt.

[Ceetar]

Swan Swan H wrote: 9/40 is still 16 points higher than Tejada was hitting for the season. In fact, 11/50 is 11 points higher than Tejada is hitting for the season. So, these hideous slumps with which you are damning Quintanilla are just about what yer man Ruben was hitting before he got hurt.

He's not my man. I don't even particularly like him as a player.

Maybe If Quintanilla was hitting better, the Mets wouldn't have to play such sparkling defense to save the game? It's good that he's did it, but on a team that still so desperately needs offense..

Quintanilla is at what, -.3 WAR? sure, not as bad as Tejada was, but that's the past, not the future.

This is moot anyway, as Tejada is NOT ready to come up. He's still what, a week away at best? Has he started the lateral movement stuff he wasn't doing yet? Given all that, Terry Collins comments are even less useful, since we all know the situation will likely change by then. After all, we still haven't decided whether Gee or Hefner goes away when Wheeler comes up.