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G-Fafif wrote: Finally remembered, I think: Ricky Ledee. Naturally.

Edgy MD wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Strawberry and Vizcaino are right. Kingman and Carter aren't. One more to go. Of course not Carter. What was I thinking? You were thinking that Gary Carter was a Yankee.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Seave? This one's interesting. Seaver NYM WAR - 76.1 Seaver Cin WAR - 18.6 2*76.1*18.6/(76.1+18.6) = 29.89355 Keith = 29.89967

Keith Hernandez's Mets/Cards WAR is 29.9 according to Bill James's power/speed formula modified for two WAR's. Hernandez WAR - Cards = 34.3 Hernandez WAR - Mets = 26.5 formula = [2(34.3 x 26.5)] / (34.3 + 26.5) Which combo Met might've scored higher? A higher score requires two impressive WAR scores. Thus Willie Mays (154.6 JintWAR, 1.6 NYM WAR) would score a measly 3.2 - his COMBOMet score dragged down by his lowly Met output. You don't have to add up yearly columns of WAR to play along. BBRef breaks out the WAR by team/career on each player's main page. I'm guessing, without giving this too much thought, that Hernandez would have the highest score. Wait! I just thought of Mike Piazza as I typed out that last sentence. Let's see. (goes to BBRef) Piazza Met WAR - 24.5 Piazza Dodger WAR - 31.9 ComboMet WAR Score = 27.7 Close, but no cigar. Keith is still the greatest ComboMet. Who can top Keith?

Strawberry and Vizcaino are right. Kingman and Carter aren't. One more to go.

Mets � Willets Point wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Met-Diamondback-Red Sock, por favor. Carlos Baerga. Switch this up and gimme the best Mets-Cardinals battery! Carlos Beltran pitching to Keith Hernandez.

One per post. I'm looking for ML'ers who played for the Mets, Yankees, Dodgers and Giants.

Edgy MD wrote: OK, fine. The greatest Orix Buffalo/New York Met was Jae Weong Seo. Gimme the top Met-Brave-Royal. I only know this from all the cards I post here -- don't know if he's the best, though.

Oh c'mon. Can't we just blame Jeff Wilpon for everything?

G-Fafif wrote: That wasn't asking for a power shortage at all. That would've been one hell of a motherf^$)@ng outfield in 1978 and '79.

Edgy MD wrote: Apparently it's STS = { [ Abs ( MetsWAR + OtherTeamWAR ) ] / 2 } - [ Abs ( MetsWAR - OtherTeamWAR ) ] Or somesuch. Ouch. You're making my head hurt. Why don't you apply Bill James's power-speed formula, modified for 2 team WARS? Bill James invented the Power/Speed Number, a single figure to quantify the idea expressed in the "40-40 club" or the "30-30 club" and other combinations of stolen bases and home runs. The formula is 2(HR x SB)/(HR+SB)

Edgy MD wrote: Dave Kingman wants to challenge Youngblood, too. Dave Kingman's WAR as a Met: 3.0 Dave Kingman's WAR as a Giant: 4.3 Average. 3.65 Delta: 1.3 Average Minus Delta: 2.35 Better than Youngblood. Not as good as Hunt. Could we get a formula here?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: smg58 wrote: Is now a good time to point out that the other team has to hit in the same park that the Mets do when they come here? Yes, it's more than a little nutty to say that it's impossible for the home team to win in a particular ballpark when it's evidently possible for the visiting team to win in that same park. If the dimensions are extreme, the park could inflict a psychological toll on the players, where they alter their mechanics. Visitors just passing through aren't affected in this manner.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Duke Snider. White Sock-Cub-Met It's your favorite Met, in the ultimate Combo Mets/White Sox baseball card

Edgy MD wrote: seawolf17 wrote: Mr. Mays would like to challenge "Joel Youngblood, GiantMet." Well, then, perhaps he can un-retire and add to his 1.6 Metly WAR. We have to make cold, hard choices here at ComboMet Combat. Dave Kingman wants to challenge Youngblood, too.

smg58 wrote: FanGraphs (you know, the most number-crunchy of the number-cruncher sites) rates CitiField as 103 for favoring home runs since the fences were moved in ... How about that?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Duke Snider. White Sock-Cub-Met Darryl Strawberry.

Comparisons between Citi Field and any of the Yankee Stadium configurations are pointless. Citi Field was uniformly deep and cavernous. Today, it's merely less cavernous. It was a dumb, dumb, dumb idea, and the re-sizing project didn't go far enough. Babe Ruth hit more HR's than anybody for most of baseball's history. Ruth outhomered entire teams. So I'm not sure what the point is of stating that he never hit one out of straightaway center at YS, if that's even true. If the point is supposed to challenge the idea that Citi Field's design is bad, it's not a very strong one.

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Palladino: Mets Need New Attitude At Pitcher-Friendly Citi Field The statistical analysts are all over the Mets these days. More accurately, they�re all over Citi Field. The seamheads have noticed a trend. The Mets can�t seem to win for beans at home. Of course, they�re searching for answers for a home record of 200-227 since Citi Field opened in 2009. They want to know why the Mets� home winning percentage over the last three full seasons stands at a 28th-ranked .424, when the rest of baseball goes an average of .509 in their home bases. They want to know why the Mets are wallowing this year at 9-13 after posting three straight losing seasons in their relatively new park. To the numbers crunchers, the answer is simple. It�s the park, stupid. Citi Field just isn�t conducive to playing winning ball, they say. The fences, lowered and moved in from their original height and distance, are still too far away from the ends of David Wright�s, Curtis Granderson�s and Daniel Murphy�s bats. [emphasis added] Listening to them, one would think they were playing at the old, old Yankee Stadium, where a fly ball could take a 460-foot trip to left center and still be caught against the wall. Come to think of it, those old Yanks never had any trouble knocking down the walls. Not all those homers that Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig and all the other greats that graced that ancient and now-gone cathedral hit flew over the short porch in right. So all of this begs a question. If the Mets can�t hit in their ballpark � a quirky yard that still, by no means, represents a gargantuan expanse of real estate � is it the stadium or the players? The numbers people say it�s the ballpark that keeps all of Wright�s would-be homers inside the environs. But to simply blame it on the building is too simplistic. Perhaps there�s a problem with the personnel that fills the Mets� lineup. Perhaps Granderson, a player who hit half of his 41 and 43 homers in 2011 and �12 in the launch pad that is the new Yankee Stadium, just doesn�t have it anymore. He�s 13-for-83 (.157) with two homers at Citi Field this year. He�s hitting .265 with four homers away from home, but that�s still nothing to get excited about. Consider, too, that Wright has yet to hit his first homer on the road this year. The newer parks do tend to be more hitter-friendly, so the fact that he�s hit two at home could be seen as a slight anomaly of sorts. Not that the Mets are ready to get rid of either Wright or Granderson, but their struggles and that of the team in general do indicate an unwillingness to change their approach in Citi Field. That�s a big part of baseball, after all; playing to the home field. A smart team adapts its roster to it�s home surroundings since, well, you�re supposed to dominate in your own house. Get a bad mix of players and it could be disastrous. When you have short porches, you fill your lineup with pull hitters. When you have large expanses like Citi Field, you bring in line-drive hitters and settle for the occasional homer while working out runs through extra-base hits and smart baserunning. Instead of Wright watching his long fly balls die on the warning track, perhaps he should start thinking about hitting to spots. Perhaps Granderson should think more average than power when playing at home. Citi�s predecessor, Shea Stadium, was clearly a pitcher�s park. Yet the Mets put together some pretty fine offensive teams there, teams that actually won World Series championships. The Mets of Sandy Alderson are obviously not the Mets of Frank Cashen. Still, there�s no reason for this team to be floundering at home. An attitude adjustment, not shorter fences, is what this squad needs. Whether they can make it in time to save this season is the question. They haven�t done it over the last three years. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/05/21/palladino-mets-need-new-attitude-at-pitcher-friendly-citi-field/

G-Fafif wrote: Look out Ike, here comes Lucas! 1. Wright 42 2. Davis 30 3. Duda 25 4. Murphy 16 5. Pagan 15 6. Beltran 14 T7. Hairston 13 T7. Reyes 13 9. Bay 10 10. Francoeur 9 Power Usage? That's a Power Outage!

Centerfield wrote: You'd be hard-pressed to compile a team of ex-Mets on any other team that can rival the ex-Met Dodgers: 1. Rickey Henderson CF 2. Jeff Kent 2B 3. Mike Piazza C 4. Darryl Strawberry RF 5. Gary Sheffield LF 6. Gil Hodges 1B 7. Robin Ventura 3B 8. Jose Vizcaino SS 9. Pedro Martinez P Wow. I'm counting three Hall of Famers who didn't make your team: Dook, Kid, and Eddie Murray. Who's your reliever? Say it's Orosco and make my day.

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Ceetar wrote: sounds like a guy with an axe to grind and looking to make a couple of bucks on any info he thinks might have any value. Since it says it's a book proposal being pitched he's probably just got an interesting couple of nuggets that he wants to get paid for, otherwise why not just actually write the book? or start writing the book? or self-publish the book. I'm sure there are plenty of interesting things to say and spin into a 'behind the scenes' story if you want. But yeah, I'm sure he has dirt on a bunch of those guys, particularly the 90s guys, when people just did it out in the open because no one cared. I'm convinced half of them were doing amphetamines at the very least so no name would shock me. Or maybe it's just about the DVD/VHS movies he purchased for the porn room. Ceets is going to will this whole thing away into the cornfield.

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