Edgy MD

I can live with that.

The nature of the system and the game is that power doesn't typically start to outwardly reveal itself until around AA. Certainly was true of Conforto. Duda too. I think folks would certainly describe Becerra as a power prospect.

Seems I can't visit a player's baseball-reference page now without peeping some graph representing his Draft Kings profile. Has the time past where it's weird to enjoy baseball without this?

It's true, but it's a little hard to draw conclusions from, as (1) the Mets system generally promotes players from hard-hitting-environment leagues at the bottom of the system into easier hitting leagues toward the top of the system, the player who has gotten promoted the furthest to date has the advantage for presenting a better career; and (2) the Mets are pushing Amed Rosario a little harder, placing him against competition that has been 3.4 years older than him, on average, while Cecchini has been up against players 2.5 years older than him (both of which are impressive).

Gavin Cecchini's full name: Gavin Glenn Christopher Joseph Cecchini. The full name of his older brother, Red Sox infielder Garin Cecchini: Garin Cecchini

"And, uh, this one is called "Land of the Lost." And this one is... "Semi-Pro" ... Keep in mind that these aren't my game bats."

Getting a lot of play in recent weeks has been Mets prospect Mickey Jannis. Picked up mid-season after several years in the independent leagues, he did only so-so with St. Lucie and Binghamton, but now that he's brought his knuckler to the Arizona Fall League, he's gotten some attention, baseball writers having little else to write about this time of year. He doesn't have the lofty strikeout/walk numbers that R.A. Dickey forced the Mets' hands with, but he sure keeps his hit count low and his ERA has been hanging down there too. He's mostly talked about as a relief option, but that may be a product of the Mets' packed rotation, as a knuckleballer in the pen is rarely something a manager pursues actively. Anyhow, they may have to make a decision on him soon, because I think he's eligible for the Rule 5 Draft if they don't add him to the roster.

No, we're conflating with old rules. Daniel Murphy is eligible to sign with the Mets right NOW!!!!

The Mets have officially announced that the entire coaching staff has been invited back. As the Dodgers have announced a list of finalists for their managerial opening that doesn't include Bob Geren, it's pretty safe to assume Terry Collins' full staff will be returning. Additionally, assistant GM John Ricco has unofficially announced his expectation that the entire minor league staff was expected to return. That's a pretty surprising announcement to make before contracts are signed, as there is usually some fluidity down on the farm. But maybe the Mets are linking pennant winner bonuses to folks re-upping for another year.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: They're using "Alderson" as a euphemism for "Ass". Very lame. See I read it as a very lame attempt to suggest Sandy is high and mighty, and holier than thou, and needs to be taken down a few pegs. "GET OFF YOUR ALTAR, SON." Awful, but it beats ALDERSON=ASS. I mean, how do you get there? They both have an A and an S, but Alderson has a bunch of other letters. Benjamin Grimm wrote: I wonder how the people who composed the "POW! BATMAN!" pages for the News and the Post felt in the morning when they each saw their rival's back page. They each probably thought they were being so original and clever. I was wondering what it says about newspaper readership that they (both!) thought they could find deeper meaning and relevance by referencing a TV farce that was canceled 48 years prior.

Well, shit, there goes the golden age.

It's worth noting that we are in the Golden Age of Ty. By my count, there have been 41 Tys in MLB history, and fully 68% of them have played in the last decade. All-Time Hits, Guys Named "Ty" Ty(rus) Cobb (1905-1928): 4,189 Ty Wigginton (2002-2013): 1,170 Ty(ler) Houston (1996-2003): 479 Ty Cline (1960-1971): 437 Ty(ler) Colvin (2009-2014): 290 Ty(ler) Flowers (2009-2015): 283 Ty Tyson (1926-1928): 197 Ty(ler) Greene (2009-2013): 151 Ty(ler) Moore (2012-2015): 137 Ty(ler) Pastornicky (2012-2014): 58 Ty(ler) Collins (2014-2015): 57 Ty(ler) Saladino (2015): 53 Ty LaForest (1945): 51 Ty(son) Ross (2010-2015): 30 Ty Waller (1980-1987): 26 Ty Helfrich (1915): 25 Ty Gainey (1985-1987): 24 Ty(ler) Holt (2014-2015): 22 Ty(ler) Green (1993-1998): 22 Ty(ler) Chatwood (2011-2014): 19 Ty(ler) Matzek (2014-2015): 10 Ty Van Burkleo (1993-1994): 5 Ty(ler) Ladendorf (2015): 4 Ty(ler) Clippard (2007-2015): 3 Ty(ler) Cloyd (2012-2013): 3 Ty(ler) Skaggs (2012-2014): 2 Ty Taubenheim (2006-2008): 2 Ty(ler) Thornburg (2012-2015): 1 Ty(ler) Yates (2004-2009): 1 Ty Pickup (1918): 1 All-Time Wins, Guys Named "Ty" Ty(ler) Clippard (2007-2015): 42 Ty(son) Ross (2010-2015): 32 Ty(ler) Walker (2002-2010): 23 Ty(ler) Chatwood (2011-2014): 20 Ty(ler) Green (1993-1998): 18 Ty(ler) Yates (2004-2009): 12 Ty(ler) Skaggs (2012-2014): 8 Ty(ler) Matzek (2014-2015): 8 Ty(ler) Thornburg (2012-2015): 6 Ty(ler) Duffy (2015-2015): 5 Ty(ler) Cloyd (2012-2013): 4 Ty(ler) Johnson (2005-2007): 3 Ty(ler) Robertson (2012-2013): 2 Ty(ler) Wilson (2015): 2 Ty(ler) Olson (2015): 1 Ty Taubenheim (2006-2008): 1 All-Time Saves, Guys Named "Ty" Ty(ler) Clippard (2007-2015): 53 Ty(ler) Walker (2002-2010): 34 Ty(ler) Yates (2004-2009): 4 Ty(rus) Cobb (1905-1928): 1 Ty(son) Ross (2010-2015): 1 Ty(ler) Chatwood (2011-2014): 1

I tend to think of the Red Sox as always willing to go big on closers, but they've been more stable than my impression suggests. Maybe it's more that they tend to go big in mid-season trades or something. Anyhow, they've gone big.

Centerfield wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Else we just get ourselves caught up in a Heyward-or-Cespedes-or-bust situation. But neither of them, while they may cost the moon, are ideal fits either. I don't understand this at all. At all? Neither of those two sentences? As to the first sentence, I don't believe that if the team can't replace each homer of each player lost in the free agent market, they shouldn't shop. As noted, there are many ways to build the best team. With regards to the second sentence, I think it speaks for itself. While both are excellent players, neither are perfect fits, and require some maneuverings in the lineup. I certainly don't mean to suggest this reality makes a deal definitively prohibitive. I only mean to provide some context to suggest that Span not being a power hitter (of the order of Cespedes) should neither be definitively prohibitive.

I'm kind of unable to escape the alternative, more literal meaning of the sentence "Go get Parra and you're done." Parra has had one goodish year, back in 2010. And there he was last year, seemingly in the midst of an excellent one, in his walk season, and he got traded to a contender and absolutely sank. And the Orioles best aspirations sank with him. We could be done, indeed. I can't speak to Span's healthy, but I have more faith in a gimpy Span than a healthy Parra. The best argument I can make for him is that he won't take the sort of commitment that would interfere with a transition to a burgeoning Nimmo or a redeeming Lagares. Buy Span's the better soldier, to me, if neither of those things come to pass. I may need to re-convene the Toaster Oven Society.

Theoretically, but if Moneyball taught us anything, it's to not try and fill in number stats like that. Work on rates, out rates and safety rates and stuff like that. Else we just get ourselves caught up in a Heyward-or-Cespedes-or-bust situation. But neither of them, while they may cost the moon, are ideal fits either.

Congratulations to the first and possibly the last acquisition of the John Ricco era. 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Plays right, left, and center, too. Suck on some of that, Ben Zobrist. You hear what that song is saying? It's saying that we don't NEED you.

Munster Koach for me. No Steinman. Jack Mashall's surf rock will do fine.

You mean I literally made fudge? Next what?

Well, this one bats left-handed and gets on base more prodigiously. So he has the potential to be a nice complementary figure whose redundancy would allow the team to link his playing time to his performance.

Well, nobody had to that point. I think by my use of the term "likely," I made it pretty clear that I wasn't expecting that state of affairs to continue into perpetuity.

Ceetar wrote: Simmons is tops, but hell, if you can't score any runs it doesn't matter how many you prevent. Well, sure it does, accepting for the moment that we're exaggerating on both sides of the equation. The guy is pretty consistently a 3-bWAR man on defense. In fact, in his four seasons, he's put up 2.4 (in 49 games), 5.4 (in 157), 3.9 (146), and 3.5 (147). Not only are those numbers not seen since Rey's heyday, Ord��ez was much more volatile from season to season. You'd need eight years of healthy Rey-O to get four seasons like that, and the Mets never had no eight years of healthy Rey-O. Depending on how much faith you have in baseball-reference's defensive numbers, that's exactly the guy you run out there even if he's given you a zero-win, replacement-level bat. And as wanting as his offense has been, he been giving them more than a zero.

Well, that's another reason folks trade. It's a rare bird that hits the free agent market on the bright side of 30.

Thing is, for the same reasons that the Mets can use Zobrist, 30 out of 30 teams can similarly use him. He'll come at a dear price (in $ and years) for a dude at the end of his career.