Chad ochoseis

We are Adam and Dave and Andy Adam and Dave and Andy LaRoche We played a lot of baseball And we put up decent numbers (put up decent numbers) Well, Andy really sucked But the rest of us put up decent numbers Dave LaRoche hit .246 in more at bats than Pete Rose Jr. His oWAR is 1.0, although pitchers get compared only to other pitchers for oWAR calcs. But if you count Dave's 1.0 with Adam's 16.0, the LaRoches move into the neighborhood, right between the Swishers and the Duncans.

Damn Wilpons.

First Met starting pitcher to have a .500 season (along with Bob Shaw). I hear Jorge Fabregas was once a Met. What do we know about him?

I'm loving MLB.tv, which I just purchased. I don't have cable, but if I resist the urge to check scores and lurk in the IGT, I can watch night games in the morning when I'm getting ready for work and still be in suspense. I have absolutely no problem with pitching to Stanton in the sixth. Even Stanton makes outs sometimes, and why put runners on in a close game? In any event, Montero pitched carefully and well to him, and he only hit a single. The big Terry problem I had last night was walking the #8 hitter in the 5th with a runner on second to get to the pitcher. Why??? Hecheverria isn't that much of a threat. Get him out and you have Phelps leading off in the sixth rather than Gordon, and maybe the inning plays out differently. For the #6 healthy starting pitcher in the org, Montero is pretty damn good.

John Garrett Olerud, son of minor league catcher and major league dermatologist John Everett Olerud, who had a cameo appearance in Ball Four.

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Maybe the wrong spot for this, but I was wondering this morning about the plausibility of a Francisco Lindor/Noah Syndergaard trade. The Indians like this Jose Ramirez guy and their former (current #1) could maybe be had. Profar has the higher offensive ceiling of the two, I bet, but Lindor is great defensively and healthy. YOU MAKE THE CALL. Here's the view from the Indians side, courtesy of a college friend of mine who grew up in Cleveland: Nope. Jose Ramirez was a nice surprise, but Lindor is the second coming of Omar Vizquel. Ramirez will find a spot as a utility guy, or even at second base if Kipnis continues to decline. And while you can never have too much young pitching, we do have quite a bit of it right now.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Real shame about Dick Allen, too; his odds aren't exactly going up with time. And that prime, ma-RON. This. You can make a case that Gil was really good, but not quite good enough. You can't make it in a room full of Mets fans, but you can make it. There is no case against Dick Allen. 53rd best OPS in history and led his league four times in his career. 19th best OPS+ ever. Lousy fielder, but he wouldn't be the first good-hit, no-field corner infielder in the HOF. The only argument against him was that he was supposed to be an ass, though I don't doubt there was a good bit of racism behind that label. Put the man in already.

Kelvin Chapman

Career .212 hitter as a Met. To the best of my knowledge, the only Met pitcher to bat above .200 with at least 100 ABs. Mike Hampton hit .274, but in only 73 Metly ABs. He was listed in the Mesa, AZ phone book. I always thought it was odd that an ex-Major Leaguer - even one who isn't a household name outside of Met-obsessed fan forums - would have a listed phone number.

Casey could hit some, too. But no more than 9 in a season back in the dead ball era.

35. Improvement based on Wheeler becoming more consistent, d'Arnaud getting over most of his Early Career Sucks, and Wright returning to form. Not counting on anything Syndegaardy until 2015.

Is Wright going to be able to not play today, or is he still hurt?

metsmarathon wrote: i cast my lot with m.e.t.b.o.t. m.e.t.b.o.t. isn't human. He's a soulless wind-up toy who is incapable of having original thoughts - he simply does what he's told, and he's completely controlled by his owners. He talks a good game, but he clearly has no appreciation for the intrinsic beauty of the sport. There's no way someone like that can be Commiss... oh, wait...that's right nevermind.

Tonight's starting lineup exited the interstate somewhere between the Bronx and Flushing. Low man is Tejada at .200. I think this is a first for 2014.

The lineup includes four players with decent OBPs- Murph, Wright, Duda, and sometimes Lagares. Then there are five other lineup spots that are yielding abysmal production, clutch or not. So, the attack of the LOBsters isn't a surprise.

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Wonder how long it'll be before the next Hall of Fame player becomes a manager. Prior to Sandberg, who was the last? Must have been someone between Ted and Ryne, no? Frank Robinson was definitely between Ted and Ryne. Don't know if he was the last.

It's been a busy few months. New job. Travel. A foot injury. Family stuff. Life. The only baseball of any kind I've seen since 2013 was Thursday night, when I was in North Carolina for work and saw the Delmarva Shorebirds eat up the Greensboro Grasshoppers. Other than that, nuthin. Also, I've cut my cable cord. I may give in and rewire, but for now if it's not on PIX and I'm not at Citi Field, I'm not watching it. I've been looking at the box scores. I see that Lagares is our best hitter but he's on the DL. Wright is struggling a bit. Murphy is hitting .280, all singles. The free agent pickup is on the interstate. So's Tejada. So's d'Arnaud. Mejia is our best pitcher, but he's missing his next start. Niese and Gee are Niese and Gee, Wheeler is wild, Parnell is gone, and the rest of the bullpen sux. Ike was traded for another guy named Zack. And, I think, the more things change... So, you've been watching. Well, some of you have. Maybe you went to sleep halfway through the West Coast games, but you've seen more than me. What do these guys really look like? Are they improving? Shot at .500 for real? Is Duda cutting it at first? Are the hitters really that bad? Is this the year that Mejia emerges? What's going on behind the boxscores?

Sugarpants? OE - eww. Don't bother. +0.9. They really do position adjust that stat, don't they?

86-Dreamer wrote: Henry Winkler Fonzie's not a bad guess. Also, Moishe ben Felipe?

Foy was another low-BA, high-OBP guy. For all the criticism he took, that OBP of .373 in 1970 doesn't look bad at all.

IOU a Native American KTE. I'll try to get to it tonight.

Jim Hickman held the Met record for a while. 34, I think. OE - I was almost certain of this, but BBRef disagrees.

EYjr in August: 48 PA, .182/.234/.250, 1 SB. Actually, I think he's been pretty awful since the Tim Hudson game. Just a slump? Reversion to the lousy Eric Young of the past? Traumatized by the Hudson incident? It's been a busy August, so I haven't been watching much. Wondering if he should be considered a part of the Mets' future.

Tug rather than Stone as the fourth ace bugs me. An "ace" is a starting pitcher, and Stone certainly earned his ace in 1973. Lowest ERA of any pitcher not wearing uni number 41. McGraw was fair to middling most of the year and would be a perfectly fine king.