Edgy MD

And yet, we're going .274 / .341 / .368 // .710 at shortstop, which beats Jos� Reyes' .262 / .342 / .338 // .681. Yes, we're out-slugging him.

That's got to be a relief to Sugarpants. I was really curious about as to Wally's contributions as to the busting of Valdy below Qunitanilla on the callup chart.

[*:2tiu6blb]Torres, cf[/*:m:2tiu6blb] [*:2tiu6blb]Murphy, 2b[/*:m:2tiu6blb] [*:2tiu6blb]Wright, 3b[/*:m:2tiu6blb] [*:2tiu6blb]Hairston, lf[/*:m:2tiu6blb] [*:2tiu6blb]Rottino, 1b[/*:m:2tiu6blb] [*:2tiu6blb]Duda, rf[/*:m:2tiu6blb] [*:2tiu6blb]Johnson, c[/*:m:2tiu6blb] [*:2tiu6blb]Quintanilla, ss[/*:m:2tiu6blb] [*:2tiu6blb]Gee, sp[/*:m:2tiu6blb][/list:o:2tiu6blb]

Nyjer Morgan is the sort of player who makes the league what it is. Some skills here. A deficit there. You'll see him riding pine for good teams and starting for bad ones for a decade at a time. An interesting personality, a compelling backstory, and over his time, he'll be associated with a few marvelous plays and a few embarrassing ones. A good athetleic specimen, but he committed to baseball late and will, in likelihood, never really be well-rounded. Nyjer acquitted himself well with the Brews last year: .304 / .357 / .421 // .778 for a strong playoff-bound team. Certainly the kind of year that makes a team bring you back. This year: BA: .217 OBP: .282 SLG: .225 (Yi!) OPS: .507 That comes in 43 games and 134 plate appearances. Pretty disconcerting, but you hope for a bounceback, right? Until you see this column: RBI: 0 That's no RBI at all and a quarter of a season of pretty consistent action in the rearview. That's on one hand a good example of how losing a beast like Prince Fielder can have an impact all the way down the lineup, as he's only had 21 at-bats with runners in scoring position, but still, that's an 0-21. And the way he hits, if runners aren't in scoring position, he's not getting 'em home.

Just slip down a few rows. It's all good.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Edgy DC wrote: I'd invite Benitez anywhere. ANYWHERE! You'd invite Hitler anywhere if he were a Met fan. Yeah, I think you overestimate my tolerance for genocide.

I'd invite Benitez anywhere. ANYWHERE!

Folks you need present at a John Franco induction into the Mets Hall of Fame: [list:3q8tozgl][*:3q8tozgl]A representative of SJU. The coach or president.[/*:m:3q8tozgl] [*:3q8tozgl]A representative of the New York Department of Sanitation.[/*:m:3q8tozgl] [*:3q8tozgl]Joe Pignatano, establisher of the tomato patch that Franco took over.[/*:m:3q8tozgl] [*:3q8tozgl]Randy Myers, trade bounty.[/*:m:3q8tozgl] [*:3q8tozgl]Frank Viola, college and pro teammate and winning pitcher in the game that gave Franco his first Met save.[/*:m:3q8tozgl] [*:3q8tozgl]Tom Glavine, winning pitcher in the game that gave Franco his last Met save. (Yeah, maybe not.)[/*:m:3q8tozgl] [*:3q8tozgl]Mr. Met.[/*:m:3q8tozgl][/list:u:3q8tozgl]

seawolf17 wrote: I saw a story (Jayson Stark?) recently that said basically that there was no reason in the world for Wright to sign, so the Mets can try all they want, but he ain't signing. That's kind of silly, don't you think?

Good stuff there, getting contuances of Chris Carter and Bob Keppel as well.

Wins by a Met in a Season 1) Tom Seaver, 1969: 25 2) Dwight Gooden, 1985: 24 R.A. Dickey Projected to End of Season: 22.68 3) Tom Seaver, 1975: 22 T4) Jerry Koosman, 1976: 21 T4) Tom Seaver, 1972: 21 T6) Frank Viola, 1990: 20 T6) Tom Seaver, 1971: 20 T6) David Cone, 1988: 20 T9) Jerry Koosman, 1968: 19 T9) Dwight Gooden, 1990: 19 T9) Tom Seaver, 1973: 19 ... T194) Hank Webb, 1975: 7 T194) Nolan Ryan, 1970: 7 T194) Randy Jones, 1982: 7 T194) Randy Myers, 1988: 7 T194) Pat Zachry, 1977: 7 T194) Ron Darling, 1990: 7 T194) Randy Myers, 1989: 7 T194) Pat Zachry, 1981: 7 T194) Wally Whitehurst, 1991: 7 T194) Don Cardwell, 1968: 7 T194) Armando Reynoso, 1998: 7 T194) Victor Zambrano, 2005: 7 T194) Bob Ojeda, 1990: 7 T194) Aaron Heilman, 2007: 7 T194) Pete Falcone, 1980: 7 T194) Mike Pelfrey, 2011: 7 T194) Neil Allen, 1980: 7 T194) Ray Sadecki, 1971: 7 T194) Mike Scott, 1982: 7 T194) Jerry Dipoto, 1996: 7 T194) Neil Allen, 1981: 7 T194) R. A. Dickey, 2012: 7 T194) Livan Hernandez, 2009: 7 T194) Frank Tanana, 1993: 7 T194) Roger McDowell, 1987: 7 T194) Galen Cisco, 1963: 7 T194) Cory Lidle, 1997: 7 T194) Gary Gentry, 1972: 7 T194) Ray Burris, 1980: 7 T194) Terry Leach, 1988: 7 T194) Tom Seaver, 1977: 7 T194) Greg McMichael, 1997: 7 T194) John Maine, 2009: 7 T194) Pedro Feliciano, 2006: 7 T194) Jon Matlack, 1977: 7 T194) Bret Saberhagen, 1993: 7 T194) Skip Lockwood, 1978: 7

That's a pretty hammy article by Beson. Obviously, Milledge's line isn't as hopeless as all that 47 games into the season. I don't know what Ken-Ben is in Japan to cover, but how about talking to Milledge, his manager, or somebody. He doesn't like noodles? Says who? There's a paucity of Milledge merchandise? Big whoop.

Wright wron't wralk.

Mets 6, Phillies 3, behind Jeremy Hefner recovering from a rough first couple of innings and adding a homer before he departed, and Omar Quintanilla debuting for the Mets with three hits. Buffalo 3, Columbus 1, behind six strong innings from Matt Harvey and a clutch hit by Matt Tuiasosopo. Meet the Matts! Binghamton, Reading, rained out. St. Lucie 9, Palm Beach 1, with seven vicious innings from Cory Mazzoni, and an unrelenting punch through the middle of the lineup, with 3-4-5 hitters Darrell Ceciliani, Wilmer Flores, and Cory Vaughn combining for nine hits and 15 total bases. Savannah 12, Greenville 2, featuring homers from Charley Thurber, TJ Rivera, and Travis Taijeron (his tenth, ladies!). Combined score: 30-7.

Albert is perfectly welcome to hit all the homers he wants while facing Yankee pitching.

Andres Torres looking to separate himself from the scofflaw list. Torres: .202 Davis: .170 Nickeas: .148 Lutz: .125 Valdespin: .100

I imagine some time in the next few weeks, we'll see a five-way tie in the NL East. Pythagoras-inclined Baseball Prospectus still real pessimistic about our post-season chances.

metsguyinmichigan is our new leading soothsayer. PosterWLPctGames offFman9912339.75932Willets Point10260.63011Edgy DC9765.5996Current Met Pace9171.560--metsguyinmichigan8775.5374Ceetar8577.5256John Cougar Lunchbucket8478.5197metsmarathon8280.5069Ashie628280.5069themetfairy8181.50010Rockin' Doc (coming in late)8181.50010Transmonk7884.48113MFS627884.48113bfmc17785.47514Benjamin Grimm7686.46915LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr7686.46915HahnSolo7587.46316G-Fafif7488.45717metirish7488.45717Vic Sage7290.44419The Second Spitter7092.43221Nymr7092.43221Chad Ochoseis6993.42622Gwreck6399.38928

Post-game show said Gooden and Walker. The answer to the question above is that Gooden in 1993 was hardly a sure thing.

Hairston 2.31 Rottino 2.10 Niese 1.64 Ramirez 1.22 Torres 0.98 Rauch 0.54 Egbert 0.50 Nieuwenhuis 0.48 Turner 0.22

The fun thing is that was exactly what you were hoping for 30 years ago. If they put on an old highlight film during a rain delay, you would be living in hope. If they cut to a Dick Van Dyke rerun in progress, you knew things looked bleak, and there was a good chance that the Sara Lee Kessler would be opening the evening news by telling me I'm an idiot and I oughta go to bed or at least done my homework, because the game was called twenty minutes ago. And now it's too late and you're too tired to do your homework. Idiot.

Ken Holtzman, 1974: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/OAK/OAK197410160.shtml.

Atlanta up on the St. Louis Beltrans, 5-4 in the seventh. Miami beating the Nationals by the very Nationalistic score of 2-1 in the eighth inning. I believe a pitcher hit a WS homer in the first or second year of DH play. An AL pitcher, I think, for the A's.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Our starting shortstop is starting to look like quite the Pitbull at the plate, as well. It's awesome how many guys who started in the minors this year have made a contribution. Gonna be tough to cut us down to 30 ranked players at the end of the season.