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Edgy DC wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Valadius wrote: Something is really off here, and I'm wondering if the anticipation of such a lawsuit is the reason the Mets won't spend any more dough. It could be. The Wilpons had to have been advised about the likelihood -- I'd say certainty-- of these lawsuits. What surprises me is that it took until the eleventh hour for the Wilpons to be dragged in. They've been dragged in all along, and have been negotiating for quite some time with regards to their obligation towards restitution toward the other investors. The reason he's filing suit now is that the sunset on the eligibility of the suit is about to come, and with that, the hammer that he holds over the Wilpons' heads. I know that. That's why I wrote "eleventh hour". It appears that, so far, Sterling hasn't found the proper motivation to settle this matter --- at least not to the trustee's satisfaction.

Valadius wrote: Something is really off here, and I'm wondering if the anticipation of such a lawsuit is the reason the Mets won't spend any more dough. It could be. The Wilpons had to have been advised about the likelihood -- I'd say certainty-- of these lawsuits. What surprises me is that it took until the eleventh hour for the Wilpons to be dragged in. If I was the trustee, I'd be very curious about the circumstances that enabled Wilpon groups to profit from Madoff, considering that Madoff's holdings were fabricated and that there probably weren't any real profits to distribute. How is it that Sterling Equities profited from Madoff investments while 92% of the employee pension plan was wiped out? Did Sterling really profit or did Madoff favor Wilpon at the expense his other victims?

Nice uniforms. Great ballpark. As a kid, I feared and admired Willie Stargell.

[Walker's] .865 OPS on the road is pretty great. Not sure about hall-worthy, but pretty great, anyway. It's an awesome number. An .865 career OPS would put a player --especially an outfielder-- in the company of mostly stellar, though non- HOF'ers. Most HOF'ers with a career OPS close to. 865 have mitigating circumstances. Bill Dickey (.868) was a catcher; John McGraw (.876) played in the deadball era and was one of baseball's greatest managers; Jesse Burkett (.861) was also a deadballer. Kevin Mitchell's career OPS is .880; Jason Bay's is .882. David Wright is firmly in HOF territory OPS-wise (.899 career). The lowest OPS' for a modern (post WWII) HOF outfielder are: Lou Brock -- .753 (Brock's 39.1 lifetime WAR is even lamer for a HOF'er) Robin Yount -- .772 (also played shortstop) Richie Ashburn -- .779 Andre Dawson -- .806 The highest OPS' for a modern (post WWII) HOF outfielder (but < .865, Walker's career road OPS) are: Al Kaline -- .855 Jim Rice -- .854 Billy Williams -- .853 Tony Gwynn -- .847 Walker's career OPS of .965 places him in the company of the game's greatest, for the most part --it's 16th all-time. Also in the top 20 all-time OPS are: fellow Coors Crusher Todd Helton (.979 -- 11th place, anybody else see a pattern here, or are Walker and Helton two of the game's inner circle greatest?); Jim Thome (.963 -- 17th place); Lance Berkman (.954 -- 20th place). Here are two more modern road stat comps for Larry Walker: Jose Canseco Jack Clark Walker's career WAR, 67.3, is higher than HOFer's: Eddie Murray (66.7, 3,000+ hits) Gary Carter (66.3, greatest defensive catcher of his generation) Willie McCovey (65.1) Ozzie Smith (64.6) Ernie Banks (64.4) Harmon Killebrew (61.1)

Ceetar wrote: I just finished the book. I enjoyed it, but its hardly a how to guide on the best way to do things. One part I found the interesting was that the wait for the three run homer philosophy that's often applied to money ball was probably a result of an ignorant comment by joe morgan during the playoff broadcast. Put me down for some ignorance. Long live the three run homer!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Check out Werth's home road splits. Last year, Werth batted 50 points higher at home, and hit twice as many HR's at home than on the road. Playing half his games in D.C. nest season, there's a very good chance that Werth won't hit 20 HR's. Yes, but every one he hits will be that much more valuable. Why of course. All seven of them.

Check out Werth's home road splits. Last year, Werth batted 50 points higher at home, and hit twice as many HR's at home than on the road. Playing half his games in D.C. nest season, there's a very good chance that Werth won't hit 20 HR's.

Compare Larry Walker's road stats to the road stats of six modern players that are familiar to everyone on this forum: Road stats below, identified: Moises Alou Rusty Staub Shawn Green Joe Torre Frank Howard John Olerud To me, what stands out most about Walker's career is his run of batting averages from 1997-2001: .366/.363/.379/.309/.350 - an amazing run, evocative of what the back of Honus Wagner's baseball cards would've read, Wagner permitting and all, and also assuming that the tobacco companies deigned to put stats on the back of their cards. Of course, Walker played in a park that inflated offense to an absurd cartoonish extreme: over the course of a season, a player gained about one point of batting average for every game played in pre-humidor Coors, on average. On average includes all batters, even the pitchers.

Potential Free Agents for 2012 The following players have contracts expiring or should have the six years of service necessary to become free agents after the 2011 season. * - player whose current contract includes 2012 option [a few of the players listed below have signed extensions beyond 2011 since this article was posted] Player Club First Basemen Prince Fielder MIL Ross Gload PHI Adrian Gonzalez SD Todd Helton COL * Ryan Howard PHI Casey Kotchman SEA Albert Pujols STL Second Basemen Clint Barmes COL Robinson Cano NYY * Jamey Carroll LAD Luis Castillo NYM Aaron Hill TOR * Kelly Johnson ARZ Brandon Phillips CIN * Freddy Sanchez SF Dan Uggla FLA Rickie Weeks MIL Shortstops Jason Bartlett TB Yuniesky Betancourt KC * Rafael Furcal LAD J.J. Hardy MIN John McDonald TOR Augie Ojeda ARZ Ramon Santiago DET Marco Scutaro BOS * Jack Wilson SEA Third Basemen Casey Blake LAD * Mark DeRosa SF Greg Dobbs PHI Edwin Encarnacion TOR Aramis Ramirez CHC Catchers Jason Kendall KC Yadier Molina STL * Dionar Navarro TB Jorge Posada NYY Ivan Rodriguez WAS Brian Schneider PHI Kelly Shoppach TB * Chris Snyder PIT * Outfielders Bobby Abreu LAA * Jose Bautista TOR Carlos Beltran NYM Milton Bradley SEA Mike Cameron BOS Ronny Cedeno PIT Ryan Church PIT Jack Cust OAK David DeJesus KC Matt Diaz ATL J.D. Drew BOS Jeff Francoeur TEX Jonny Gomes CIN Gabe Gross OAK Carlos Guillen DET Corey Hart MIL Raul Ibanez PHI Conor Jackson ARZ Ryan Ludwick SD Nate McLouth ATL * Juan Pierre CWS Juan Rivera LAA Cody Ross SF Grady Sizemore CLE * Nick Swisher NYY * Josh Willingham WAS Starting Pitchers Mark Buehrle CWS Chris Carpenter STL * Aaron Cook COL * Kyle Davies KC Zach Duke PIT Edwin Jackson CWS Scott Kazmir LAA * Brandon McCarthy TEX John Maine NYM Paul Maholm PIT Jason Marquis WAS Gil Meche KC Scott Olsen WAS Roy Oswalt PHI * Oliver Perez NYM Joel Pineiro LAA Wandy Rodriguez HOU Brian Tallet TOR Tim Wakefield BOS Chien-Ming Wang WAS C.J. Wilson TEX Relief Pitchers Danys Baez PHI Matt Belisle COL Heath Bell SD Rafael Betancourt COL Jonathan Broxton LAD Brian Bruney WAS Tim Byrdak HOU Shawn Camp TOR Matt Capps MIN Todd Coffey MIL Clay Condrey MIN Francisco Cordero CIN * Lance Cormier TB Ryan Franklin STL Mike Gonzalez BAL John Grabow CHC LaTroy Hawkins MIL Bobby Jenks CWS Brad Lidge PHI * Scott Linebrink CWS Javier Lopez PIT Ryan Madson PHI Damaso Marte NYY * Sergio Mitre NYY Joe Nathan MIN * Jonathan Papelbon BOS Chris Ray TEX Francisco Rodriguez NYM * Takashi Saito ATL George Sherrill LAD Carlos Silva CHC * Jose Valverde DET Tyler Walker WAS Michael Wuertz OAK Joel Zumaya DET http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/2001/04/potential-free-agents-for-2012.html

Compare Larry Walker's road stats to the road stats of six modern players that are familiar to everyone on this forum: "su" "tu" "ae" "ee" "kd" "nd"

Larry Walker's lifetime batting average at home was 70 points higher than his career road average. Seventy points. Lifetime. His home HR total is almost 30% greater than his career road total. Here's Larry Walker's career home/road splits: If I was only permitted to look at Walker's road stats, without knowing that they were Walker's stats, I'd guess that this was a fine player ... a player who, at his peak, was an all-star for a few years and perhaps, even MVP caliber. There are dozens and dozens of players that fit this description but don't belong in the HOF. I think that Walker gets in. I'm not sure that I would vote for him, if I had a vote.

It's Ty!

Here's a hint: Mazzilli was the first Met to do it.

No. No. No. No.

Brooks and Jefferies are incorrect. But I'll post one of their cards, just the same.

dinosaur jesus wrote: Maz. Maz holds the Met record for most games played by a rookie.

HahnSolo wrote: Good question. Rey Ordonez? Good answer. Two to go.

smg58 wrote: Bench players can look better than they really are over a small sample size, too (Timo Perez, Mark Johnson, Eric Valent, Ruben Gotay, etc.) Mike Jacobs.

Who are the three players that, in their Major League rookie seasons, played for the Mets and appeared in 150 or more games?

Some details on Jeter's new contract, according to Jon Heyman -- Jeter signs for 3 years/$51M. -- $51M includes a $3M buy-out after the third season. -- Jeter has an option to extend the contract for a fourth season. The fourth season might be worth anywhere from $8M to $17M, depending on how many points Jeter will have earned during the life of this contract, as per performance/point system structured by Jeter and the Yankees. -- technically, the first three years are for $48M ($51M - the $3M buy out) or $16M per season, just $1M more per season than the team's initial offer. -- other sources have reported that some of the money is deferred. Unanswered is whether the $48M is present value (better for Jeter) or a future value (better for the team).

Check the apropos of nothing thread.

I would've liked for you to have typed the TSN article one word at a time, just like I typed the NYT blurb. I have a 1968 New York magazine that features an article on the Mets pitching staff. A good number of credible in-the-know sorts all believed that Dick Selma, not Ryan or Seaver, possessed the team's best arm.

Perhaps Carter hits better with more reps. But where's he gonna get his 350-400 PA's from, on the Mets? And if he's getting 350-400 PA's, that means he's playing an awful lot of outfield. He may hit better. But that's an if. I know he won't throw any better. He's a DH, if anything. Or an almost exclusive pinch-hitter, a luxury on an NL team. We'll have to wait for further roster shuffling to fully understand why he was non-tendered.

Reports that Jeter and MFY's agree to three year contract averaging $17M per year -- much closer to the team's initial offer than to Jeter's demand. Option for fourth year at < $17M. http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/40506560/ns/sports-player_news/ From the New York Times: The agreement, the person said, will include a �creative hybrid-type option� for a fourth year. The person said the option is �not vesting and is highly unusual.� http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/jeter-and-yankees-near-three-year-deal/?src=twrhp

Let's wait and see who the Mets add to the 40-man. Maybe they think they have an under the radar comer. After watching Carter for a full season, I now understand why he couldn't stick with a major league team despite his all-star AAA stats. He presented as a below average hitter for a corner outfielder who doesn't field the position very well and throws worse than World Series Rusty Staub. I honestly can't remember the last time I witnessed a worse outfielder's throwing arm. Anyone who thinks that a National League team can simultaneously carry both this guy and Oliver Perez v.2010 is building a charity ward instead of a pennant contender.