Frayed Knot

The hell with the players, where's that spanish chick with the big bazoombahs?

Edgy MD wrote: All seven batters he's retired have been lefties. His lone righty has represented his lone walk. Which, IIRC, looked very much like a pitch-around even if not officially an IW.

Baseball America describes him as "the premier offensive player in Cuba". They go on to point out that, because he has played professionally in Cuba since the 2003-04 season, "he will be able to sign as a free agent [u:12dmmewl]exempt from the international signing bonus pools[/u:12dmmewl]", adding that "a massive major league contract [is] likely headed his way".

Vic Sage wrote: I don't know why you think the compensation would be equivalent. Not trying to suggest that the two are equivalent, only that it's a start as a basis for comparison. Career numbers are similar although Rios has a bit more power over time plus an extra 1,000+ ABs despite being 3-1/2 years younger. And yes he's signed for some not-so friendly numbers in the future but to Texas, coming off a year when they lost Josh Hamilton, now lose Nelson Cruz, and are facing OF David Murphy as a FA (as is Cruz) might look to the fact that Rios was under team control for the next two seasons as a positive thing whereas another team in a different mindset might not. That Texas placed a claim indicates that they had to be prepared to take on the entire contract without a deal if Chicago was willing to go that route. Maybe a deal for Byrd to the right situation would bring back more than what the White Sox got, but I'm not sure.

A bit premature for sure with the season still going on (and we�ll certainly revisit this once the season ends) but I happened to be pondering this NOW!!!! and I wanted to get a snapshot of where the general consensus sits at this time rather than just sit on this for the next two months. We know there's going to be a lot of interesting decisions made over the next eight months. So give us your prediction, not of the season itself but as to the status of our current players come Opening Day 2014. * Note: your [u:2vmp77j2]Prediction[/u:2vmp77j2], not your hope, or �if it was up to me�, but simply your best guess Your choice of status is to be expressed in one of the following three options 1 - Is on the NYM 25 roster (or ML DL) 2 - Is not on the 25-man roster but still is with the organization 3 - Is gone from the Mets� org I'm not looking for the Opening Day lineup and you don�t have to give specific explanations or positions for each or specify WHERE they�ll be playing if not in CitiField (although you�re certainly welcome to) but your mission (should you decide to accept it) is to place each of the following names into one of those three categories Ike Davis Ruben Tejada Lucas Duda Daniel Murphy Marlon Byrd Omar Quntanilla Juan Lagares Eric Young Jordany Valdespin Kirk Nieuwenhuis Josh Satin Justin Turner Anthony Recker John Buck Wilmer Flores Travis d�Arnaud David Wright Jenrry Mejia Jeurys Familia Bobby Parnell Jon Niese Dillon Gee Jeremy Hefner zack Wheeler Noah Syndergaard Matt Harvey

Niese - 1.5 Aardsma - 0.4 Hawkins - 0.4 Lagares - 0.8 Davis - 1.1 Baxter - 0.8 Flores - 2.0 Brown - 2.5 Recker - 0.5

Wheeler - 3.6 Feliciano - 0.8 Rice - 0.3 Hawkins - 0.4 Lagares - 1.5 Flores - 2.2 Davis - 1.2

MFS62 wrote: Heard on WFAN that to make roster room for Hawkman, they "deactivated" Heffner, to send him back to NY for some medical tests. No DL yet. "Deactivation" is this case meant demotion to the minors. If the tests reveal an actual injury he'll be DL'd and the demotion will be rescinded but the Mets needed to do it in this order so as to get Niese back on the roster for yesterday.

Mariano blew his third straight save and the second 2-run lead in three games vs the Tigers. But also for the second time in three games Brett Gardner knocked in the winning run in the bottom half of the 9th and erased the BS so the Yanx wind up taking two of three in the series from the previously hottest team in the AL including both games Rivera botched. Tigers didn't play poorly but they left a small army of guys on base in both games 1 & 3 (and then went and hit three solo HRs today) sandwiched around a beat-down in game 2. So the Yanx continue to keep their heads above .500 despite a [u:1f9089vg]Negative 24[/u:1f9089vg] RS/RA total. ARod HR'd and also had an RBI single today but I'm going to go out on a limb here and suspect that his HR in his 10th or so AB after missing more than half a year with a major injury and surgery is NOT going to be treated as the same - usually gotta go to Lourdes to see this kind of miracle - that Jeter's HR in his 5th AB after missing more than half a season with injuries and major surgery was.

On Saturday they jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the 2nd inning with Cliff Lee on the mound and the no-hitting Nationals across the diamond and still somehow managed to get steamrolled. But hey, they just extended Chase Utley for two more years (with options for like sixteen more) so there's that.

Zvon wrote: WILMA!!!!!!! Kid Kaboom, Kid Kaboom, don't ya just love it? and if you get that reference you officially qualify as old

And now we have the 4th guy thrown out on the basepaths in this series - but, unlike the others where in each case I was screaming NOOOO! as soon as the runner made the turn, I liked this chance. Already had the lead, pitcher due up, running on the pitch, etc.

Flores certainly seems to have a strong enough arm for 3rd base.

I have no idea what "deactivated" means. I've certainly never heard of it as an official roster move.

MFS62 wrote: Wilmer has more RBI than A-Rod and Jeter combined! Yeah, but none in October so what good is he?

Edgy MD wrote: EY in his no-triples defense. He's there in the 1st inning.

Three-run/one-inning saves have been converted in 233 of 239 opportunities this season. The Rays' Fernando Rodney blew the 6th one of the year last night against the Dodgers (giving up 4 to lose the game on his own error). IOW, Odds are in LaTroy's favor

Edgy MD wrote: I'll take the Turner double though. Sure. But without the double switch Turner would simply be PH-ing there and the result would be the same. So unless Terry is planning on using Pedro to start off the 9th inning (which he isn't) our manager was guilty of premature switch-ulation.

Zvon wrote: Loudest fart eveh. Yeah, that's what happens when your stadium tries to stuff in sound effects during every break of more than ten seconds. Sometimes you mess up.

Turner's been on fire lately. Or, you could say, Red hot.

Way to GO Ped-RO I'm not sure if that last pitch could have earned itself a speeding ticket.

Frayed Knot wrote: You don't have to throw Nieves a strike to get him out. And he winds up walking the guy who had walked 4 times in 125 PAs this year.

You don't have to throw Nieves a strike to get him out.

Edgy MD wrote: I'm sorry, but is Wilmer Flores really so questionable at third that he gets pulled for late inning defense and replaced by Turner? I think it's more a lineup thing than a defense thing - but I also think Terry over-plays this. Unless a double-switch is going to get you an extra inning out of your pitcher it's usually not worth doing. In this case the pitcher's slot is due up in top 9, but he's almost certain to be switching pitchers anyway so the switcheroo doesn't really buy you anything and it burns a player who may be needed later on.

Jewelry and big chains while playing sports ... I don't get it. I was hoping Prado's bat got caught up in his.