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Damn, if he enjoyed the culture in Milwaukee then New York is going to make his head explode.

Kevin McReynolds

John Olerud

Todd Hundley

Roberto Alomar

Cliff Floyd

Beltran

Jeromy Burnitz

Gary Carter

Robin Ventura

Mo Vaughn

Foster

Delgado

Sheffield

Eddie Murray

Edgy DC wrote: If all those guys are producing and we're still dealing Beltran at the deadline, I shudder to think how bad our pitching must look in your head. I'd like to be optimistic, but without Santana it just won't be enough.

His contract year will rival 2006 as his best in New York. He won't hit 40 HRs, but he'll bat better than .275. Reyes, Beltran, Bay and Wright in the same lineup will give other teams more nightmares than expected and keep us in more games than expected...even against the Phillies. I'll be sad to see him traded in July, but it will be a good thing for the Mets in the long run.

I like both signings. Cheap pickups, both have had moderate success in the past. very easyto swallow when you have zero expectations.

Great work, FK! I love these updates.

metirish wrote: Bay will lead the team in homers this season and runs batted in..... That could be good or bad.

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2010/11/28/1839014/terry-collins-managerial-tendencies Amazing Avenue wrote: In-Game Tactics Terry Collins loved himself some small ball. He was almost always considerably above average in both sacrifice hits and in attempted stolen bases. The difference between his tenure in Houston and the one in Anaheim was that in Houston, Collins had a relatively young team who cold run which he did not have in Anaheim. He realized this in his second season as the manager of the Angels and adapted, which culminated in his first below average year in attempted stolen bases as a manager. It wasn't a small margin either, the Angels ran 20% less than the league average in 1998. While in the National League, Collins was always above average in deploying the hit and run. I don't know if this had to do with him changing leagues or if he simply understood its stupidity, but in 1997-98 Collins stopped issuing intentional walks. All in all, Collins looks like a manager who adjusts to his environment. If the environment dictated to stop stealing bases, he stopped stealing bases. This is a very important factor when judging a manager. There are some managers, like Dusty Baker, who never seem to adjust to the situation at hand and use their strategies as if they were guidelines to success. So despite Collins fondness of small ball strategies, he'll hopefully adjust to the Mets and to Sandy Alderson's expectation of the contrary. (Bullpen usage was excluded because I could not control for context and it mostly has to do with the personnel at hand. If you had a good pitching staff, you didn't go to the bullpen as frequently. What I do know is that Collins was around average in bullpen usage and had an almost exactly average pitching staff. His starters averaged around 6.5 innings per start which would be a very high figure today but I do not know how that number was looked upon in the '90's.)

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'll say about 25 home runs, and 90 runs batted in. I'll second this with a .275 average thrown in.

This thread keeps faking me out.

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