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His small line on the year, over six games, looked like a solid Ron Darling start. Kept the hits down, but too many walks making you live in fear of the big hit, needing a bailout from the pen. 6.2 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 4 BB, 6 SO Good stuff, kid, but the walks'll get you eventually. Thirty walks in 63.2 innings in LV.

I guess they're outwardly promoting the idea of a competition, as if the likelihood is 60% Flores, 30% Tejada, and 10% Reynolds, but I'm guessing the internal likelihood is drawn up more like 70-20-10, and one or two in the brain trust are leaning 90-8-2. So, yeah, I kind of agree that Tejada has a better chance of losing his backup job to Reynolds than reclaiming his starter's job from Flores. But I hope they all shatter land speed records.

I'm Eric Goeddel. You may know me from six more-or-less effective appearances at the end of 2014. The booth pronounced my name Guh-DELL, but my grandparents probably said GER-dil, like the undergarment. Anyhow, the Mets must've liked what they saw, because they protected me in the Rule V while exposing (and ultimately losing) Logan Verrett. [fimg=550]http://thumb.usatodaysportsimages.com/image/thumb/650-510nw/8107019.jpg[/fimg] What I found most remarkable was the alarming exclamation point in the right field corner. Everything is so !!! in New York. Me, I'm more chill. What do you see the Mets getting out of old #62 in 2015?

Centerfield wrote: Hi. I'm Matt Reynolds. Some of you guys may not know me yet (hell, I didn't even get my own "Forecasts for Fifteen" thread) ... Know your place, Rook. We're doing this shit alphabetically.

Parnell's opening the season on the DL, and pitching being what it is, somebody else may well be also. So while there may indeed be a roster pinch as April turns toward May, there's a strong possibility that it'll take care of itself.

Now we know why the first shots of Cuddyer working out show him wearing a first baseman's glove.

Yeah, well, now I'm blocked out. Anypits, pretty lightweight stuff. Could've been stronger if he got one or two other points of reference beyond Vic Black.

Try a different browser, man.

Jared Diamond and Vic black on how to stalk a Met. In short, don't be a jerk.

Joba to the Tigers for a year and a cool million.

Vic Sage wrote: Do we know if the Mets were actively in on the bidding? No we don't, though other teams were reported to be actively in pursuit and the Mets were reported to be "not interested" from the jump. Well, they were reported to have actively scouted him.

It's a picture that comes along now and then, like with Crouching Dragon or District 9 or something, where you go, "That wasn't perfect or anything, but it's got polish and sure proves that (insert country here) can do anything Hollywood can do." The filmmakers here have clearly studied Speilberg's bag of tricks. Aside from a damaged family and children put in harm's way, you'll recognize shots and cuts from the Indiana Jones movies, the Jurassic Park series, and the original Jaws. E.T. too. They borrow liberally from some of Peter Jackson's best Lord of the Rings shots and Howard Shore's and John Williams' musical cues as well. You'll even recognize some lines. ("It's a tomb!") And it's remarkable, because like Jaws, the tension and catharsis are achieved with minimal reliance on special effects and CGI. It's a film about a family running around in the woods, but it hits all it's marks, and so achieves it's action/adventure scale through execution, rather than investment. I couldn't conscientiously call it great or anything, because its liberal borrowing is so noticeable, but it's a solid modest-budget shot across the bow, and recalls the start of Jackson's and Roland Emmerich's careers, in announcing to the Lucas-Speilberg drenched world that, hey, there are new players in the game.

Like with rock, Citi Field's wrestling programming will skew toward old guys.

O'Day was the best I could come up with, but thought him disqualified, because the win wasn't on the Mets' ledger. Forgot about Beato. I don't think it's Cleveland Parnell III breathing down this guy's neck. I think it's Rocket Leathersich.

And... we're at the point where you're more interested in talking to yourself again. Good night.

So much reason has died this night.

I'd consider your points if the Mets were players, but they're not, so it's all moot. If you're not interested in considering my points, I'd ask you not solicit them. Whatever "players" means, the Mets certainly were not too long ago. And they made a horrible mess of it, and are still paying. I doubt that there was any meaningful cost-benefit study undertaken over Moncada. Or maybe they did and they just didn't come to the conclusion you wanted. Wake me up when the Mets are ready to join the big market teams in more than name only. You don't strike me as particularly asleep. Heck, it's after 1:00. The point isn't so much whether Moncada will pan out or not, but that the Mets play in fucking New York City and couldn't get this guy even if they wanted to. That may be your point. Mine is that it certainly should matter whether he pans out or not. And spending money with a foolish ill-regard to whether it would pan out is what got them in this mess. Think about it. And I beg you to think hard and not answer me sarcastically. On one hand, you are deriding the organization for not undertaking "any meaningful cost-benefit study undertaken over Moncada." On the other, you insist that any meaningful analysis shouldn't matter. They should just spend money and spend it on THIS guy but they won't or can't and this is New York. Which is it? The Red Sox aren't a dumb organization; they're one of the best run orgs in all of baseball. I prefer the Mets. I think we're darn lucky to have the front office our team has. And I'd hate to see it blown up in the next populist revolt.

Ben Baumer surfaces.

Baseball Prospectus wrote: Fantasy Future: Could develop into top-shelf bat at position, with .275-plus batting average and 17-25 HR power potential. Yeah, I certainly still have faith in that.

"Every player that costs money costs other players"? You've said is much with your regular insistence that the Mets should not have signed David Wright. Signing Jason Bay in the 2009�2010 offseason had direct consequences in compromising their ability to I dunno, sign Cliff Lee or trade for Adrian Gonzalez in the 2010�2011 offseason. How about Victor Martinez? Mmmmmartinez. Vic had once regularly derided the It's-only-money perspective as facile and shortsighted. Every dollar has a value in wins. If you're throwing too much after too little, you're mis-managing your team. And, far from defending the Mets at all cost, I'm perfectly willing to point out that the organization did that again and again, with a GM well out of his depth and hired for all the wrong reasons. It wasn't quite as reckless and stupid as getting in bed with Madoff, but it was reckless and stupid.

I didn't make any claim with regard to what the Mets did or did not do.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I thought is was the usual defend the Mets at all costs post. Well, it wasn't. Please try harder. I beg you and beg you.

I thought it was a thoughtful, if obvious, point. The Mets, of course, traded for Hernandez.

Which touting are you referring to?

Sheesh. Is he wearing Colon's trousers here? themetfairy wrote: