Soothsaying for Sixteen: Travis d'Arnaud

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, I done it. I done it good and you know it's true. Yeah, folks bitch about my throwing, but the numbers don't exactly indict me. I'm a big league catcher and my rate stats put me at or near the top of the heap. Question is, can I do it for a full season. I know you're asking that. Well, you need to show some guts and answer it yourself. I'm kinda busy.

[ashie62]

110 Games 425-450 AB 17 HR 68 RBI .277

One DL trip.

[Guest d'Kong76]

We want d'love him and him d'well. I'm sayin' a lot d'l in 2016.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Travis gives a $50,000 quote in today's Kevin Kernan column, insisting he's done experimenting with his batting stance.

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks but the one who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

Can you believe the irony? I don't think I have ever seen a guy who looks so different from one turn at bat to the next in my life. The quote I think of with TdA is from Jim Carroll:

"One night she's dark and french/One night she's blonde and Dutch/Every time I'm near her, she has a differing touch. "

[smg58]

I blame the hitting instructor for that.

To d'Arnaud's credit, he hasn't been striking out a whole lot (29 K's in 166 AB isn't bad). The problem is that he's been getting absolutely nothing on his swings (9 xbh in 166 AB). I get the feeling (much like Conforto) that he's been too banged up for most of the season to get anything going. Perhaps last night was the beginning of a turnaround, but I'm more optimistic about next season than this one for him.

[Edgy MD]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Travis gives a $50,000 quote in today's Kevin Kernan column, insisting he's done experimenting with his batting stance. "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks but the one who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." Can you believe the irony? I don't think I have ever seen a guy who looks so different from one turn at bat to the next in my life. The quote I think of with TdA is from Jim Carroll: "One night she's dark and french/One night she's blonde and Dutch/Every time I'm near her, she has a differing touch. "

I think of a quote from Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil (by way of Paul Revere & the Raiders): "The kicks just keep getting harder to find."

[metirish]

As they say, if his hitting and throwing was as good as his quoting ......................

[Benjamin Grimm]

smg58 wrote: I blame the hitting instructor for that.

I expect Kevin Long's future with the Mets to be short.

[Edgy MD]

And notably, the Mets went without a catching instructor this season.