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I like the thought of interviewing the Yankee coach, and then offering him a job in Bingo.

I think the price will be considerably higher.

Mets meeting today with former Yankee coachman Kevin Long to consider him for the vacant batting position.

I'm not sure baseball culture remembers what a good shortstop looks like. Folks may have unreasonable demands based on what can realistically be gotten.

Koufax's curveball is snapping off like a fucking firecracker. [youtube:2yclvbqd]XI_4HtIJYDM[/youtube:2yclvbqd]

I'd like you to outline the process by which you figure that happens. You may be right, but, to my way of thinking, shallow walls are the great equalizer. If you build walls 250 feet away, Rey Ord��ez is going to hit as many homers as Mark McGwire --- perhaps more, because of Rey-O's superior contact rates. McGwire won't get extra points and the Cardinals won't get extra runs because his homers go 480 feet while Rey's go only 280 feet. Once they clear the fence, all homers are equal. Now, if you truly are advantaged, and your roster is composed mostly of gods while the other teams are mostly strapped with mere mortals, than it would seemingly behoove you to build walls only gods can reach.

I'm guessing the Mets could get... three... of those trophies next year?

Certainly in the RotY results, but unfortunately for Jerry Coobysman, not in 1968.

Having trouble seeing Iglesias as superior to Tejada. Is he?

Jacob deGrom wins the once-and-perhaps-again highly prestigious Sporting News Rookie of the Year. Also earns himself a sexy rock star portrait illustration:

I would possibly dispute that Torre had decisively been mediocre as a manager. His record prior to joining the Yankees was a losing one to be sure. But if you are going to (very sensibly) call his appointment to the Yankees as being given "the keys to a Ferrari," then it would be good to include in any assessment his driving skills a good look at the make and model of the vehicles he had previously driven. I'm not sure what I would conclude. But I know there's a way to assess a manager while controlling for the quality of his team.

Thanks.

I'm not sure what you mean to say about Torre.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: That's fine and nuanced, but it seems to differ from your prior position. Park factors for the NL are here and for the AL are here. Why of course! It's under attendance and miscellaneous! Naturally. What was my prior position? I think the original dimensions were a disaster, and dumb. Cavernous dimension that favor the pitcher in every part of the field are the worst kind of dimensions, as I see it. Especially for a team that plays in a big market and is supposed to have a financial advantage over its competition in acquiring talent. Cavernous dimensions neutralize pitching and power advantages. If you're a perennially bad team playing in a small market and with no real hope of acquiring expensive free agents, then, maybe cavernous dimension might work. I'm not changing positions. I'm saying two different, reconcilable things. One - that there's value in tailoring the team to the park, or the park to the team. And two - that a big market team should never install cavernous dimensions that drastically reduce offense. Yabbut you're also saying that Anyways, park factors won't transform a 75 win team into a juggernaut. And an excellent team will be a force to reckon with no matter how their stadium plays. which doesn't to me reconcile with the notion that large dimensions diminish market advantages. Which I don't think holds.

Yeah, the tough thing is that we all understand that a manager can only do so much with what he has, that good managers are often saddled with a squad wanting for talent, and that bad managers often are blessed with managing a juggernaut, yet at the end of the day, they're mostly judged by winning percentage.

You don't have to be in the upper echelon, however that is measured. Pretty much anybubs who has ever won two World Series gets in eventually.

Everybody loves the Mets' batting philosophy. Dave Hudgens, hired by the Astros.

smg58 wrote: So I'm not sure what this is supposed to do. I think all signs point to what it's supposed to is bring the homer to right-center and center-right center back into play.

The #1 fan obviously doesn't have access to a #1 tattoo parlor. Getting inked by a drunken trucker is almost always a bad idea. Don't be like that guy. Hi, I'm a Mets fan. I like to imagine myself as being represented by rape-debicting body art. I identify with rapists, you see. Rapists and the Mets. Go me! Definitely don't be like that guy Manlove is so much sweeter when you give yourself willingly. Like thusly... But what? You run out of money before doing the feet? They may be screened in your source photo, but put on some cleats and model for the poor tatt artist. So, yeah, don't be like that guy. Listen if you gots to get a Mets taft, don't do something cheap or psychopathically violent, or cliched as all git. Be you. Be unique. Go off book a little bit. Me, I'm going to get a big fucking heroic TOM HAUSMAN across my abdomen. That's just so out there that nobody would thin... SHIT!!!

See, now that's getting in the spirit of things.

Hard to ignore how flat that pitch comes in from McGlinchy. I imagine the pitchers were barely able to keep deliverin'.

Fifteen years ago. [youtube:18hn3vnc]CpWyGSJMqlM[/youtube:18hn3vnc]

Or Bob A. O'Reilly I haven't gotten a ruling on my guess.

But someone who's capable of being a full-time starter isn't going to come to Queens with d'Arnaud seemingly entrenched and Plawecki on the verge, which means any import will simply be a different backup. Well, it could happen. The Mets would just have to be the only ones who correctly gauged his abilities. And Recker might not be brought back just based on his possible cost (or just be a tasty trade muffin). But they'll surely bring in somebody. Maybe two somebodies. And they'd better be ready with the Matz quotes.

Yeah, but that's hardly a safe assumption. Ike Davis turned an awful season around. Then came back the next spring and was awful again. That and the greater injury risk make backup catchers highly prone to becoming unexpected starting catchers. Catcher shopping is important. And I'm not as confident that Plawecki will necessarily be ready. I mean, a .766 OPS in the PCL isn't exactly dominating.