Edgy MD

Almost seemed reluctant to run there.

Fooled Yelich too, bay.

Fman99 wrote: I'm all done with Montero. He's not fooling anyone up there. Just fooled Ellis.

Edgy MD wrote: That's Mex Duda in action right there. Has Duda been working out with Hernandez?

Rush to judgment, guys.

Man, Stanton missed a spicy meatball.

I'd come and get him right here.

That's Mex Duda in action right there.

Edgy MD wrote: Look for some hot Wilmer action and for Céspedes to go exploring a far deeper ballpark. Ahem.

T.J.?!

A 1-2-3 second. Are we still looking to fire Gsellman? I'm just happy to know that he swung the bat.

Here's to the Mets bunting against the shift all season long.

Active ASG Leaders: Miguel Cabrera: 11 Albert Pujols: 10 Ichiro Suzuki: 10 Carlos Beltran: 9

Boone really had an emotional finish. [list:154ye6qv][*:154ye6qv]DFA'd by a going nowhere Mariners team halfway through the 2005 season.[/*:m:154ye6qv] [*:154ye6qv]Traded to Minnesota.[/*:m:154ye6qv] [*:154ye6qv]Released by the Twins (the Twins!) a few weeks later.[/*:m:154ye6qv] [*:154ye6qv]Stumbles into camp with the Mets in 2006, a team built to make a run, that a veteran like him would see as one last chance to make a grab at glory.[/*:m:154ye6qv] [*:154ye6qv]Quits after a week of camp, holding a weepy press conference, declaring that seeing José Reyes play underscored for him the passion for the game he can no longer muster.[/*:m:154ye6qv] [*:154ye6qv]Hopefully having found a new reserve of muster, he appears in camp with the Nats in 2008. Initially, he's assigned to minor league camp, but gets promoted to big league camp after five days, which almost never happens.[/*:m:154ye6qv] [*:154ye6qv]Gets cut by the Nats, reports to Columbus, and not getting off the the quick start he had hoped for (despite being out of the game for close to a year and a half) quits a few weeks later.[/*:m:154ye6qv] [*:154ye6qv]Jump ahead to 2010, he gets a managing job, with the Victoria Seals. Quits after four games to deal with "family matters".[/*:m:154ye6qv][/list:u:154ye6qv] Ends come with struggle and failure, but all that voluntary quitting sure makes it seem like the guy had a heavy heart. Was also fingered as a juicer by José Canseco.

It's there in a poorly covered link in the post Soupy links to, right before the lyrics.

He was the Rule V guy, so it made sense to look at him first if they had any hope at all. The second half of that statement certainly triggers an obvious next question, though. I'm pretty sure Boone came to camp the same year as Valentin: http://m.mlb.com/news/article/1329064

That was one of Willie's great decisions. Fans were clamoring for José Valentín to be released based on his pinch-hitting numbers, and lamenting (amazingly) the loss of Miguel Cairo, and Willie was all, "José, get ready." Other secondbaseman that Valentín had to outplay to crack the lineup included Victor Diaz and Bret Boone.

I associate Chapman with Anderson Hernandez and Brad Emaus. Opening day secondbasemen that in the light of spring in Florida, caused some important suit to think, "You know, why not? In fact, hell yeah! That guy has a certain something and if we put him at the keystone, and give him enough chances, there's every chance that he might stick!" And in each case before the second week of the season was out, coaches huddled and said, "We can't give this guy any more chances. Like, we totally can't."

Breaking camp in 1979 was some pretty weird stuff, with the Mets taking north guys who clearly weren't ready and wouldn't seriously contribute to a big league team for years (Orosco, Chapman, Scott), as well as a guy who would retire (but first appear as a Met on SNL) because he couldn't agree on a big league salary (Briles). Neil Allen was pretty much the only survivor of (I think) five out-of-their-depth rookie pitchers that made the opening day staff, before getting thrown back into the lake, and Allen had to switch to relief to hang in there.

Well, we can more-or-less eyeball who the recidivist Mets are there. [table:11coyvea][tr:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]1[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]Jesse Orosco[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]1982-06-18[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]1979-04-22[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]1153[/td:11coyvea][/tr:11coyvea][tr:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]2[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]Terry Leach[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]1985-07-21[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]1982-10-01[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]1024[/td:11coyvea][/tr:11coyvea][tr:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]3[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]John Franco[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]2004-06-22[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]2001-09-17[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]1009[/td:11coyvea][/tr:11coyvea][tr:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]3[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]Tug McGraw[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]1969-04-09[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]1966-08-21[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]962[/td:11coyvea][/tr:11coyvea][tr:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]4[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]Zack Wheeler[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]2017-04-12[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]2014-09-19[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]936[/td:11coyvea][/tr:11coyvea][tr:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]5[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]Josh Edgin[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]2016-09-17[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]2014-06-01[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]839[/td:11coyvea][/tr:11coyvea][tr:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]6[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]Willard Hunter[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]1964-07-22[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]1962-06-09[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]774[/td:11coyvea][/tr:11coyvea][tr:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]7[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]John Franco[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]1999-10-09[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]1997-09-13[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]756[/td:11coyvea][/tr:11coyvea][tr:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]8[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]Jeff Innis[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]1990-06-24[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]1988-06-04[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]750[/td:11coyvea][/tr:11coyvea][tr:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]9[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]Carl Willey[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]1965-09-25[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]1963-09-10[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]746[/td:11coyvea][/tr:11coyvea][tr:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]10[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]Bobby Parnell[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]2015-06-27[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]2013-06-16[/td:11coyvea][td:11coyvea]741[/td:11coyvea][/tr:11coyvea][/table:11coyvea] So, we're pretty much dealing with bullpenners who were gimmick pitchers or lefties (or both!) ... and Zack Wheeler! Also, an interesting collection of early Mets, who simply were around when wins were hard to come by.

Racist.

What has been the longest drought a Mets player has had between victories, without leaving the organization? Presumably, Wheeler has to have achieved top ten status, if not the big kahuna.

Chen came out of retirement and kicked some ass in the World Baseball Classic this spring.

The problem is that, as long as you have this rule that this guy, this guy, and this guy are used to protect leads and ties in this, this, and this inning, success becomes your enemy, as you are challenge to use those guys more and more often. But Reed should have been brought in with the bases loaded. He gets them out of that, then it's Sewald City to close out the game.

Still looking for some of those guys. Their profile said they were with Columbia, but the Columbian roster said no. Dimino just turned up with St. Lucie, but Duff, Moore, and Tharp are all MIA. Anybody got a lead, hit me up.