SCHAEFER METS PLAYERS OF THE YEAR 2017

[Guest d'Kong76]

I agree with Vic's post and hell I agree with batmag's assertions/analysis.

There is a buzzkill factor - saying in essence that Shaefer sucks and here's why -
hours after the year's results [crossout:16ecili6]for the year[/crossout:16ecili6] are presented is pretty piss-y to me. I
assure everyone I'll reel in my delicate sensibilities (and fondness for the tradition)
and not utter another word on the subject.

[Edgy MD]

That PotM timeline (BRUCE-CONFORTO-DEGROM-DEGROM-CESPEDES-REYES) is a pretty good summary of the season.

The best hitters the first two months were guys (Bruce and Conforto) who would be memories by the end of the season. The middle of the season was four days of futility, waiting for the day our number-one starter (deGrom) might give a glimpse of what a winning team looks like. Céspedes took until August to get untracked, before also disappearing for the rest of the year, and the last month was lineups stocked with fill-in players, best embodied by Reyes, playing wherever on the field, batting wherever in the lineup, playing out the string, trying to tack on to their year-end stats.

An array of what went right can sometimes be a map of what went wrong.

[Frayed Knot]

My only points were that, despite him being a virtual unknown when the year started, Sewald was probably, at worst, a top three NYM reliever this year; that I didn't think his season was particularly given
to extremes in performance; and that 'Schaefer' placing him in an essential dead heat with the other two probable top guys hardly makes that a flaw in the system.

And of course this argument will be taken up/extended later on when we get around to our year-end Top-30 ranking project, in which the Schaefer results will play only a minor role.
Y'see even in CPF-land, Schaefer results don't wind up being the final word.

[G-Fafif]

Based on cumulative voting totals reflecting positive contributions on a game-by-game basis, twenty-one non-relief pitching Mets were deemed better than any single Mets relief pitcher across an entire season. That might be the underlying story here.

I do like that Sewald card, though.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Sewald did win with, by a considerable margin, the lowest total ever for a leading reliever.

PREVIOUS WINNERS: 2006 - Billy Wagner, 40.39 points; 2007 - Aaron Heilman, 34.86; 2008 - Aaron Heilman, 34.50; 2009 - Francisco Rodriguez, 38.58; 2010 - Hisanori Takahashi 28.69; 2011 - Pedro Beato, 25.93; 2012 - Bobby Parnell, 29.01; 2013 - LaTroy Hawkins, 32.30; 2014 - Carlos Torres, 35.75; 2015 - Jeurys Familia, 35.85; 2016 - Jeurys Familia, 36.70.

But how about the fact that Jacob deGrom was the only pitcher who finished in the Top Eleven? If Jacob deGrom didn't exist, the winner would have been Robert Gsellman, with nearly 55 fewer points than deGrom had!

[G-Fafif]

Sewald did win with, by a considerable margin, the lowest total ever for a leading reliever. PREVIOUS WINNERS: 2006 - Billy Wagner, 40.39 points; 2007 - Aaron Heilman, 34.86; 2008 - Aaron Heilman, 34.50; 2009 - Francisco Rodriguez, 38.58; 2010 - Hisanori Takahashi 28.69; 2011 - Pedro Beato, 25.93; 2012 - Bobby Parnell, 29.01; 2013 - LaTroy Hawkins, 32.30; 2014 - Carlos Torres, 35.75; 2015 - Jeurys Familia, 35.85; 2016 - Jeurys Familia, 36.70. But how about the fact that Jacob deGrom was the only pitcher who finished in the Top Eleven? If Jacob deGrom didn't exist, the winner would have been Robert Gsellman, with nearly 55 fewer points than deGrom had!

Pedro Beato's self-esteem has suddenly shot skyward.

If Jacob deGrom hadn't existed, I might have preferred the 2017 Mets not doing so, either.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Oops, somehow I scanned past Beato's 25.93 points in 2011. Sewald's 22.41 is still the lowest, but not by as considerable a margin as I first thought.

Hisanori Takahashi in 2010? If I had a thousand guesses, I wouldn't have come up with that.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Oh, and here's where I thank all of our wonderful Schaefer spokesmodels who did such a great job throughout the year. We had 36 who carried over from last year, plus 18 new ones added for 2017. Currently, there are no plans to expand the list for 2018, but we'll see what happens.



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[G-Fafif]

Takahashi was a capable closer, pressed into a new role when K-Rod went out for the year (injured after his suspension). Eight saves for a mediocre club otherwise going through the late-season motions, Would probably be the No. 2 starter on the 2017 Mets, too.

Miss Rheingold got all the publicity, but Schaefer voting attracts some very attractive spokespeople.

[Edgy MD]

We should have a vote-off on who the best Schaefer spokesperson was.

I dig how b/w characters got b/w colorpath backgrounds.

[Guest d'Kong76]

It's a brilliant line-up, isn't it. I don't really remember the Canadian geese
but somehow I have some kind of deja vu thing that I've said that before.

[Guest 41Forever]

Edgy MD wrote: We should have a vote-off on who the best Schaefer spokesperson was. I dig how b/w characters got b/w colorpath backgrounds.

I love that Cleon Jones just appears among the ax murders, killer sea creatures, strangling snakes, flesh-ripping monkeys, backpack girl and the other colorful characters!

Is that Maga in there above the ax-wielding young lady?

[Benjamin Grimm]

It's Maja.

I don't do "maga".

[Guest 41Forever]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: It's Maja. I don't do "maga".

Lol! Just caught that.