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Maybe that's what it will take to hit rock bottom.
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To keep Reyes here even longer? I totally agree he's not helping us right now, but (a) we don't have better options and ( I don't think he's more likely to learn in Vegas than here.
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Oh I've done plenty of scapegoating and questioning my deity's team loyalties. And it's not like the Mets have had better luck in that regard this year (both catchers getting hurt the same day, they can't get Cespedes back on the field, every right-handed hitter out at the same time, they bring in Vargas and he gets hurt in the spring, they bring in Swarzak and he gets hurt the first week of the season, etc.) This can't go on indefinitely, right?
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Eh, we'd shrug our shoulders just like with every other injury. I don't envy the Angels' manager and GM, though. Even when fully healthy, handling Ohtani presents a unique set of challenges. And the challenges are that much greater now. I still think he has more long-term upside as a pitcher, but if you do what probably needs to be done with the UCL you'll lose him as a hitter for a year, too. You could restrict him to hitting for a while and hope that the UCL heals on it's own, but that's a gamble. And of course, you know who gets blamed if things don't go perfectly.
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Well in baseball's major league, pitchers swing the bat all the time. The UCL was a known red flag with Ohtani, so while the development is very unfortunate, it was not improbable or unforeseeable.
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Geez, I forgot about Nimmo. Sorry Brandon!
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Centerfield wrote: Mo Vaughn had an .805 OPS and hit 26 HR's in his first year. We'd be doing backflips if we added 2002 Mo to the 2018 Mets. I remember thinking that I'd be thrilled if we got 30 HR and .270 from Vaughn, and we got 26 HR and .260 from him. He certainly didn't kill us the way our corner outfielders did that year, and we had no reason to think that Roberto Alomar would show up and suddenly be mediocre. I was just going to nominate Alomar after seeing this post, but it looks like Edgy beat me to it.
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He's the only Met position player that has a chance of getting in, but DeGrom is a surer selection at this point.
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Ceetar wrote: I said it in the Gonzalez thread but here as well, I think there's a reasonable chance that the Mets specifically told Smith to work on his plate discipline. So while the overall offensive numbers aren't great, the BB% is. (11.3% in the minors, would be 43rd of 161 or so in the majors) And with the juiced ball in the majors the SLG difference between the PCL and the MLB isn't that stark. So come up, wait for your pitch, and mash it. I guess that's the next step in the development, but if he can pull of even a .350/.400 obp/slg it'll be a huge boost to the offense over Gonzalez, and will even compensate if we lose Cabrera. It's not a bad thing to work on, for sure, but I still think he's not 100%. Like I said in the other thread, it would be ideal if he, Bruce, and Conforto could rotate in two spots (or perhaps only one against lefties) until one or more of them heal enough and start feeling it at the plate. But the Cespedes setback makes that hard.
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Edgy MD wrote: Lolich, Cone, Randy Jones, Scott Erickson, James Baldwin, and Candeleria round out the rotation. Not Warren Spahn?
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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: If you could run parallel tenures I think Gonzalez would have outhomered Smith to this point in the year, but I guess their OPSes wouldn't be too dissimilar. Smith is similar to Bruce and Conforto in that their peripherals aren't all that different from what they've been when things are going well (Smith in fact has a significantly improved walk rate), except that they've all had their power sapped in ways that would make me think they're dealing with injuries. Ideally you'd rotate them, starting two against righties and one against lefties, and hope the extra rest starts bringing them around. This would naturally be a lot easier to do if Cespedes were coming back on Tuesday, but whatever. It's reached the point where I would call up Alonso, and I'm not normally for pulling guys from AA. I would not introduce him to anybody on our training staff, however.
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I think if Cabrera is OK, then Reyes goes when Flores is ready. Hell, if Cecchini weren't also the DL, Reyes would have been gone a while ago. Everybody else drops, and the guy with the .400 OPS who's no better with the glove stays healthy.
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As long as Conforto continues to have a higher OPS than Gonzalez and Bruce, he’s not the biggest problem. I’m all for doing something, but the key is figuring out the right thing to do.
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I'm a little concerned that Smith is still dealing with his injury. The power just doesn't seem to be there right now, and you don't expect a 22-year old playing in Las Vegas to lose the pop in his bat for no reason. I'd proceed with caution with him. But, I do agree that Gonzalez is showing us nothing, and I'm getting fed up with our defense giving runs to the other team.
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Because why would we want a fully healthy pen? Or anything else, for that matter?
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I'm pretty sure Jose Oquendo only hit right-handed when he was with us. I think I remember (it's been 35 years) that either Johnson or Bill Robinson had suggested it to him without success, but that somebody in St. Louis finally sold him on it.
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I'm curious to know the percentage of players from 2015 who are still on the same team. I'd wager it's consistent with what we see here. I'm also curious to know the percentage of players from 2015 who, between then and now, have spent time on the DL. I bet it's less than the 100% in the above sample.
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https://apnews.com/dce0b6d88c5d4bb385c5540ae6c726d2 I found this article from just last week after a quick Google search.
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Asdrubal Cabrera and Jose Reyes, off the top of my head. I'd be curious to see if somebody has done any sort of study on whether there's been any sort of trend in the number of switch-hitters.
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Smith's walk rate has gone up without a noticeable bump in his strikeouts; that he has a .357 OBP despite slumping is actually encouraging. The power has been absent, though. You wonder if he's nursing an injury, but then again a number of players (Herrera and Cecchini just off the top of my head) have struggled on a return trip to Vegas. It's worth wondering if that's a case of players getting discouraged, if it's a statistical fluke, or if there's something more to it than that. (Cecchini to his credit was swinging the bat well this year, but it seems to be the law for right-handed hitters in this organization to get hurt.)
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Unfortunately the D-Backs just traded for John Jay -- they had been winging it in right field all season and could have been a suitor for Bruce. Cabrera -- I think he's already had his best two months with the bat, and his glove is not helping. Sell high while you can, let Guillorme and Cecchini (when he's healthy) handle second. Familia -- today wasn't the first time that bad luck and bad defense conspired against him. He's fine. That being said, the free agent market will once again be full of relievers, so I wouldn't cling to him too tightly. It's not to early to see what his market is. Cespedes -- the combination of injuries and a huge salary make it very tough to get more than pennies on the dollar for him. You hope he gets well and stays well, and upgrade other positions in the meantime. DeGrom -- you're already punting next year if you offer him up. You could get Vlad Jr. in return and that would be a hard sell. Anything less than Vlad Jr. would cause a riot. I think an extension would serve the team better.
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Ashie62 wrote: Bad. I now think of Yoenis Cespedes in the same way as Bobby Bonilla. Yes, the are possibly as bad as the early ninties teams Cespedes, in his defense, has been hurt for most of this nosedive. But he's hurt too often to be counted on to carry the offense moving forward.
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seawolf17 wrote: Which is weird, because I've got sluggers; they're just not slugging. Reminds me of this other team I root for.
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I didn't save during the draft, and I'm finding ways to throw money around. The more you cut during the season, the less you need to cut during the offseason. But while my pitching has responded to my moves, my lineup hasn't; I had a complete game one-hitter last night and still lost three points.
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Line drives into a shift might not be all that helpful. And a .268 BABIP against a shift is not unlucky; Granderson and Duda were lower than that last year, and Bruce was at .274 last year and .266 the year before. He's run hot and cold before. I see no reason to think this time is different. The problem is that in the best case scenario -- Cespedes is healthy, he and Conforto are both playing well -- he's our fourth best outfielder. Maybe you can play him at first, but there's no guarantee he's better than what we have (either in Queens or in the pipeline), especially when defense is factored in. I think this year will be a seller's market instead of a buyer's one, and he seems the most obvious guy to sell. Of course, it would be nice if he got some hits in the meantime.
