Edgy MD
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Yes, but arguing that he was deliberately moved in the minors to a position that the team's star player has blocked is something like the opposite of noting that he got to play the position in the majors after said star player got hurt and left the position unblocked. Know what else is telling? .300 / .349 / .479 // .827 between St. Lucie and Bingo in 2012. .321 / .357 / .531 // .887 in Buffalo in 2013.
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Sure it's telling. But he still wasn't primarily a thirdbaseman last year.
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They haven't moved Flores to third base, if that's what you're suggesting. He played first, second, and third last season, but mostly second.
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Do I have the timeline right? That this only came out because he attempted to apologize in front of a reporter?
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Maybe, but if the late inning relief isn't the bad team's issue, then all other things are pretty close to equal. Bad bullpens can actually increase the number of save opportunities. Bad bullpens can blow a save two or three times in a game.
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History suggests that bad teams get about the same number of save opportunities as good teams.
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Gotta get some time at second I hope I hope.
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The Liverpool to Crane Pool Song Parody Contest
Edgy MD replied to batmagadanleadoff's topic in New York Mets Talk
Ringo pitched like he drummed: southpaw. Paul, on the other hand, played guitar and bass lefty but batted righthanded. Who does he think he is? Cleon Jones? -
He can probably put up a Wrighteous rate stat line if he bats only against lefties. If that could be arranged, it would be worth his lack of defensive skills. But he'll have face righties at least enough to stay fresh and to act as a pinch-hitting option when a lefthanded bat isn't available. .278 / .336 / .449 // .785. ALWAYS hits against the Braves.
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A 45-save season would be a nu Met record, and probably indicate a relatively successful season for the team.
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The Liverpool to Crane Pool Song Parody Contest
Edgy MD replied to batmagadanleadoff's topic in New York Mets Talk
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The Liverpool to Crane Pool Song Parody Contest
Edgy MD replied to batmagadanleadoff's topic in New York Mets Talk
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Frayed Knot wrote: The Braves, after intense research into the demographics of the state of Georgia, reached the stunning conclusion that the current location is in a bad neighborhood, has sucky traffic, and that the area outside the city in Cobb County is whiter and richer than inner-city Atlanta. The Mets used the same firm, and eventually shuttered Shea and opened Citi Field after a six-year longitudinal study led them to conclude that, over the last 45 or so years, the epicenter of their fan base had shifted 40 feet to the East.
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Jimmy Key was a Key Blue Jay in 1987. Most every year, really.
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That's 30 pounds of words leading up to "In such situations, waiting for "actual value" that may not materialize can do more harm to the franchise than good." This is incorrect. This is bag-of-balls thinking.
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I disagree with virtually all of that. Jason Bay spent the majority of his last season --- what was to be his next-to-last season --- on the DL recovering from injuries including a concussion. Luis Castillo, in his scheduled-next-to-last/ultimately-last season got into 86 games and was buried down the stretch, garnering only 18 trips to the plate from September 1 onward. Oliver Perez was on the dark side of one of the deepest benchings in the modern era --- being active on the roster for the final two months but appearing in only four games. So the notion of running them out there, ruining the team while better players were just itching to get a break, it just doesn't jive with the facts at all.
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Vic Sage wrote: Marlon Byrd was having the best year of his career when Sandy traded him; he was not a "bag-o-balls" type of player at that point (even with less leverage after the trade deadline), so i don't see how that is relevant. And our rhetoric on the subject doesn't hurt the team... or help it, for that matter. It's utterly irrelevant to anyone but us. Because the popular rhetoric at the time was that by holding out for players that they assessed to have actual value --- instead of trading his short-timers for anything he could get --- that he would walk away with nothing as he did with regard to Scott Hairston the previous year.
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Perhaps an even better example is that the team got two guys with gen-u-ine futures for Buck and Byrdie after the waiver deadline. Sandy seems to have demonstrated that he knows when to hold 'em, and "bag o' balls" rhetoric only hurts your team.
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I got a nice workbench from Black den Dekker.
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I don't think it's true that the Mets refuse to swallow their mistakes and move on. Nor do I think that's the issue. Maybe the issue is not making the mistakes in the first place and creating a situation where the redemption of that mistake is too important to the teams success. But the team bought out Jason Bay with a year left on his deal, released �liver P�rez with a year and $12 million remaining on his contract, and cut Luis Castillo from spring camp with a year and $6 million remaining. The "Mets don't understand sunk cost" theme is old and lacking in evidence. They may understand nothing better.
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I'm not advocating this trade, but it wouldn't necessarily indicate a give-up, yeah. If you have two assets in a one department and zero in another, it may come to pass that you decide that the second asset in the first department is a luxury you can't afford to retain while the second department is bleeding the company dry.
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Oh, yeah, I mean to suggest just that. Same stage of his career, same questions about his health. A tantalizing ceiling. A terrifying floor. But generally good to punch in for 30 starts. He'd totally be holding a Bensonian contract if it weren't for the the effect on the marketplace of the new collective bargaining agreement.
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Benson Bunch-quality pitcher.
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Joseph Gr�nental sieht schrecklich!
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Nieuwenhuis's power really tends to show up in dramatic spots, doesn't it? Lutz, though... the world has passed him by even more than Nieuwie. Both of them certainly showed Vegas pop
