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Marcos SCOOTaro?

Sidd Finch.

Giancarlo Stanton, facial fractures and all, is the subject of much rumoring in the last 24 hours or so, with regard to a possible nine-year extension in the neighborhood of $300 million or more. I've got a Fox Sports report right here putting the package at $320 million over 12 years, which is a lot, you know, for a guy who wears a mass transit hat for a living. Twelve years!! Marlins GM Whathisface has denied that the two sides are close. Stanton has expressed public pissedoffedness in the past over his team's propensity to trade off his more highly paid teammates, sometimes all on the same day. Does he think things will be different this time?! I don't know! Two scary scenarios for a fan --- that your team has a player that good and won't lock him up, and that your team has a player that good and does lock him up, at the market rate.

Gar-Batting Stance Guy 9 mins � Twitter � Marlins nearing $300M deal with Stanton. 1 year with Miami and 8 with Toronto.

Curious if Stanton could have pulled it out hadn't he gotten his face mashed in. I'm really concerned he'll never be the same.

Thanks. I have no idea of the state of Gamboa. And as I stated earlier, I'm not sure he's still Mets property, and was on loan, or he's playing directly for his Mexican franchise. Nor am I sure if the Mexican league he was in was the MEXICAN LEAGUE. Because while the ML is typically classified as AAA, I find it hard to believe that Gamboa is flourishing at such a lofty level after scuffling in short season ball with Brookyn the last two seasons.

And the Rule Fivies, who live on a table I look forward to retiring shortly after December fifth, or whenever. 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Fortunately, I didn't crowd the post further with an "Arbitration Eligible" table. But what I am late to the game with is the list of minor league free agents, seeing as one has already been re-signed by the Mets and one has already been signed away. It'll be strange to see Dykstra just float off into the sunset after all he's done with the bat. I worry that it's going to be a long off-season for Dimas Ponce. 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Pitcher[fimg=90]http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/images/players/mugshot/ph_112526.jpg[/fimg][fimg=90]http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/images/players/mugshot/ph_594798.jpg[/fimg][fimg=90]http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/images/players/mugshot/ph_518774.jpg[/fimg][fimg=90]http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/images/players/mugshot/ph_477003.jpg[/fimg][fimg=90]http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/images/players/mugshot/ph_554430.jpg[/fimg]NameBartolo ColonJacob deGromMatt HarveyJonathon NieseZack WheelerDoB5/24/73 #406/19/88 #483/27/89 #3310/27/86 #495/30/90 #45MLB Stats15-13, 4.09 202.1 IP, 30/1519-6, 2.69 140.1 IP, 43/1449-11, 3.40 187.2 IP, 45/13811-11, 3.54 185.1 IP, 79/187AAA Stats4-0, 2.58 38.1 IP, 10/29Position=#FF8000]Relief Pitcher=#FF8000]Relief Pitcher=#FF8000]Relief Pitcher=#FF8000]Relief Pitcher=#FF8000]Relief 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"To my forehead, maybe. Some have said it to the top of my scalp. I'm pretty sure Jon Rauch said it once to the wall behind me, but never to my face."

Yeah, I'm far away from seeing a tactic.

As a hitter or a pitcher?

I hear you, Hahn, but it's "multiple sources," including "players and coaches." If this was really a whispering campaign from on high to grease the PR skids for a Niese trade, it would be more than silly. I mean, who is going to rend their garments over a Niese trade when everybody knows they have an overfull plate of starting pitching? This isn't R.A. Dickey coming off a Cy Young-winning season.

While the answer to Vic's who bats leadoff? question is currently Lagares, that just leads to more questions. Which leads to more questions throughout the lineup. The Mets have a solid answer at every spot in the lineup, and that's a cool thing for mid-November, but the only one without a cloud hanging over his head is the one on the trading block. 1. Lagares: Looks to produce solid (if not eye-popping) batting averages, but has excelled thus far with neither his walk rate nor his slugging rate, which makes his batting average a disconcertingly disproportionate percentage of his productivity. Just now trying to be more aggressive as a base-stealer. 2. Murphy: As good a bet as anybody on the team to produce right around where he did last year. Perhaps as good a bet as anybody in the league. Not an excellent player, perhaps, but no question marks here, except for who he'll be playing for next season. 3. Wright: Finished the season with an injury, supposedly one that had long hampered him. How much of his depressed numbers can be attributed to the injury, and how much to an overall decline? Will the injury return? I don't know! 4. Duda: Breakthrough season! Hits righties like an all star! So why does he hit lefties like a junior college player? And does his goofy personality effect his game negatively or positively? 5. Cuddyer: Will he stay healthy? How much of his productivity is Rocky Mountain productivity? Can he stay young? 6. Granderson: Will a shorter fence stop him from hitting under .230? Not bloody likely! When he's hitting badly, why does he look so... bad?! Will the new OLD batting coach help? MUST WE REMAKE THE WHOLE ORGANIZATION TO SATISFY ONE DUDE AND HIS YANKEE SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT?! 7. d'Arnaud: Half a good season, plus two months of disaster and one month in the minors is not a complete act! We hope he's put his early season doldrums behind him, but has he? I recall having similar hopes about a man named... IKE DAVIS! 8. Flores: Why worry about whether he can hack it as a shortstop, when he hasn't turned the corner as a big league hitter yet? Who was it who said he can shake a tree and get ten glove guys to fall out, but he has to search high and low to find a single guy to hit big league pitching? (Maybe that was my cousin.) Anyhow, he's out of options, but in 375 plate appearances has shown only hints of his minor league hitting ability. The questions run so deep for such simple man. This could all work out, but, well, it's unlikely to all work out. Thank Heaven we have a bunch of big hairy pitchers. Here's a question: We seem to have stumbled into a pitching-dominant era. Does this mean we shouldn't be so concerned about our lineup, because every team is having similar (or worse) problems fielding an effective offensive squad? Or does this mean we shouldn't be so enthused about our pitching, because every team is similarly (or more) stacked with talented, effective pitchers?

Yeah, I'm not sure what "Terry's 'play the right way'" is. (A reference to "Just play the game right" as reported in the News article, i guess.) Openly dismissing a marching order and going your own way is going to get you in trouble, no matter who your skipper is. I would imagine that's the right way in every dugout.

Thing is, heated tempers in the crucible of competition is one thing, but in your last start of the season, you'd figure to be working with some perspective.

"Go @$#% yourself, Terry."

Alderson agrees that sticking with Flores is an authentic option --- one they might choose if a better alternative doesn't open up. I think most of us would agree, but that's hardly a deep commitment. I don't agree that he demonstrated a particular facility at short. I have nothing to compare it to, but if that was improvement, I'm not impressed. Who is "Majia"?

Just saw a note that said Rollins blocked a trade to the Metskills. If true, that's a pretty exclusive club. The Larkin Bunch.

I'm not fascinated by anybody. I value him more highly than I value Starlin Castro.

I suspect nobody moves on the shortstop market until the Yoan Moncada sweepstakes is over.

The D-Backs spent all last year deciding whether to spit or swallow, and Stewart has them still chewing. I'm relatively certain that Montero is the only young pitcher the Mets are willing to talk about.

How much would you pay? Murphy? Gee? Kolarek?

His stock fell, but I don't think they've soured on the guy. What do you think the Mermen would want for Taylor?

Yeah, obviously the investment's a lot to lose if he staggers, but it's not the sort of price that is likely to keep them from going in another direction. And he plays four positions, so he allows them a lot of injury flexibility --- the sort they'll lose if and when they trade Murphy. Colon is a good analogy there.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Edgy MD wrote: STOP TRADING SYNDERGAARD! Young pitcher for young hitter, all day, every day. In my head, I'm doing it right now. I don't think you mean this regardless of which pitcher and which hitter. 'Cuz they ain't equal. Castro shmastro. Let's not get seduced by his name. His team is cashing in for a reason. He's embarrassed them couple of times. He picked up a sexual assault charge a few years ago, he was thrown under the bus by his manager for only having his head in the game "80-85% of the time," and has been benched a handful of times for not hustling. He also ended the season injured, and his durability had probably been his best asset. While he's coming off possibly his best offensive season, he's not really progressing. Defensively, he brings about 1/3 of what Alexi Ramirez offers. His running game has been on the shelf. The Cubs are terrible for a reason. Let's not help them trade their way out the basement.