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  1. Schaefer tallying resumes tomorrow, with the closing of all three games played against the Phillies this past weekend. Schaefer POTG 7/15/11 - Phillies 7, Mets 2 Schaefer POTG, 07/16/2011: Mets 11 Phillies 2 Schaefer POTG 07/17/11 Philadelphia 8, Mets 5
  2. Box Capuano 1.5 Harris 1
  3. It was when the Mets released Donn Clendenon after the 1971 season that I realized that the Mets roster wasn't fixed in place for eternity.
  4. Box Duda 1.5 Murphy 1.5 Harris 1.5 Paulino 1.5
  5. Hairston 4 Niese 4 Murphy 2
  6. Dickey 1.5 Beltran 1.5 Murphy 1
  7. G-Fafif wrote: On Real Time With Bill Maher, Bill Maher asked Mark Cuban to please buy the Mets because "I'm still a Mets fan." Wow! I had no idea!
  8. Is that Hofstra thing he was organizing still gonna happen?
  9. Chad Ochoseis wrote: Wait...you can't lift more by making monster noises???? I usually try meowing like a kitty.
  10. metirish wrote: I assume you are looking for a catcher to supplant Thole? Well, at least to offer him some competition.
  11. I'm hoping for a starting pitcher and a catcher.
  12. TransMonk wrote: I'm pretty confident both Wright and Reyes will return on their current announced schedules. I'm not hoping for anything from Ike and Johan other than that they'll be 100% for 2012. My hunch is that we'll see both Ike and Johan active in August, but you're right; Reyes and Wright seem much more promising at this point.
  13. batmagadanleadoff wrote: But OTOH maybe the Mets just in cased it to be safe. That's what I think happened.
  14. The Schaefer Mets Player of the Week for the week ending July 9, 2011 is Carlos Beltran with 8.33 points.
  15. Schaefer totals through the All-Star break. The first three players have a lot of space between them; the players don't start to cluster until the fourth spot. Season-to-date totals for 2011 Through game of July 10, 2011 RankNamePoints1Jos� Reyes76.292Carlos Beltran65.393Daniel Murphy46.214Mike Pelfrey37.195Jon Niese35.496Chris Capuano35.227Justin Turner34.748R. A. Dickey33.579Jason Bay32.9510Dillon Gee30.6811Angel Pagan30.5712Ike Davis27.5213David Wright22.9814Francisco Rodriguez22.9315Ruben Tejada22.5216Josh Thole22.0517Pedro Beato19.8018Ronny Paulino16.9019Jason Pridie15.8120Willie Harris15.3221Jason Isringhausen13.7822Lucas Duda12.0723Scott Hairston11.0924Chris Young10.9025Tim Byrdak9.8326Taylor Buchholz9.1127Bobby Parnell8.1528D. J. Carrasco7.6029Ryota Igarashi5.3130Michael O'Connor4.2631Mike Nickeas3.9132Manny Acosta3.1133Fernando Martinez2.8934Nick Evans1.8535Pat Misch1.5236Brad Emaus1.1837Dale Thayer0.8738Chin-lung Hu0.7739Blaine Boyer0.48
  16. According to the New York Times this morning, Rodriguez's original agent never got around to submitting the list of ten teams to which Frankie could reject a trade, which meant that the Mets could have traded him anywhere. However, they expected that Scott Boras would soon get that list submitted, and he'd have the advantage of selecting the teams based on the current landscape, which would have made trading Frankie very difficult. (Boras, of course, would want some compensation for waiving the trade veto.) So Sandy decided he needed to act quickly. Getting out from under that $17.5 million obligation was paramount. The Brewers gave the Mets a list of five prospects. The Mets will scout them aggressively over the next couple of weeks and then choose two of them.
  17. Wright to join the St. Lucie Mets on Friday. The goal is to have him return to the big leagues by July 22 when the Mets are in Miami.
  18. smg58 wrote: Show me a team that has two closers and I'll show you a team that has none. Roenicke needed to make a definitive decision so that the move helps the team more than it hurts, and it appears he's done the opposite of that. I don't think that's true. I know "times have changed" but having two closers worked out when they were named Orosco and McDowell, or McGraw and Frisella. And it would have worked for Franco and Benitez too.
  19. I hear that my neighbor won $17.5 million in the lottery. I say, "Sure, that's a lot of money, but only he knows exactly how much."
  20. Ceetar wrote: Yes, I'm not sure how the Brewers getting better is a anti-Phillies move? Certainly doesn't make the Mets or Braves more likely to beat them. Isn't it obvious? The implication is that it makes the Brewers more likely to beat the Phillies in a playoff series, thereby keeping them from the World Series.
  21. Time to wrap up the 91-game "first half" of the season. All three games played in San Francisco last weekend will close on Thursday morning. If you still have votes to cast, try to do so today. And be sure to wear some flowers in your hair! Schaefer POTG, 07/08/2011: Mets 5 Giants 2 Schaefer POTG 7/9/11 - Giants 3, Mets 1 Schaefer POTG 7/10/11 - Giants 4, Mets 2
  22. Also, regarding leverage, remember that Rodriguez said a few weeks ago that he'd be okay being traded to a contending team that already had a closer. Now, the other day, his new agent Boras said that that's no longer the case. Which means that the market for Frankie was reduced to teams that needed a closer, or teams that wanted him to set up and were not on his 10-team no-trade list. For all we know, the Brewers may have been the only viable team that fit that criteria.
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