Lefty Specialist

Nymr83 wrote: Hoping for May 1st - not targeting, not planning, hoping. Good thing Bruce is back Yeah, and they better not go trading Nimmo or Lagares so quick either. I'm betting Mikey will be on limited duty especially if they expect him to play center field.

Yeah, I'm looking at that lineup and thinking, "Boy, those guys USED to be good". Cutch, Pence, Posey, Longoria, all poised to fall off the table. In 2002 the Mets got Roger Cedeno, Jeromy Burnitz, Robbie Alomar and Shawn Estes in the offseason, and it looked like they were going somewhere. But of course, they didn't. Kind of reminds me of that team.

I'm on Team Feh.

Boy, I just know that if the Mets trade Smith he will be the second coming of Prince Fielder and we'll be kicking ourselves for years.

I wish the Mets would make affirmative deals to improve the ballclub instead of these 'well, it's low risk' deals. It might work, but I hate dumpster diving.

Duda belongs in the AL, not on this team. Nice guy but too one-dimensional.

Nymr83 wrote: Centerfield wrote: Still in on McCutch according to John Harper. that seems strange and i don't like the implications. Conforto injury worse than apparent? Either that or they're really down on /looking to trade Dom Smith.

dgwphotography wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Yeah I clicked "like" but wanted "like somewhat" Same here. I would like this a lot more if it was the first of many upcoming moves. Ditto. Right field wasn't the most pressing need. But it's a pretty team-friendly contract.

Gah! Six minutes late!

I like McCutchen, but he's a right fielder at this point, and we've already got one of those.

Harvey's got a lot to prove. Another year like the last one and he could be looking at Palookaville. I wouldn't offer anything until he proves there's a little more than fumes in that tank. Personally I don't think he'll ever be the pitcher he was in 2013 or even 2015. Sometimes the body betrays you.

Love the title.

Ceetar wrote: Remember that the Yankees are desperately shedding payroll to try to make moves. They have to get creative to make things happen because they have no wiggle room. If both teams end up at 85 wins and 3 games out of the playoffs this season, it's hard not to prefer the Mets future options if they're at $145 and the Yankees are at $195. I mean, the Mets payroll HAS gone up, and then they hit this window where a lot of stuff expired at once. Thanks to not having to pay minor leaguers and restrictive 6 year initial contract agreements it is in fact possible to transition (some) roster spots to cheap players and not actually lose anything production wise. Well, one of those moves was bringing the best power hitter in baseball aboard.As for 85 wins, the Yanks will probably fly past that in early September. The Mets, unless they make some major moves, won't see it at all. The Mets essentially brought back the 2016 team that won 87 games in 2017. That team won 70 games. So now they're essentially bringing THAT team back in 2018, less all the power hitters except Yo. So while the Yankees may have uncertainty, I'd prefer that to the certainty that the Mets will bite a corn dog in 2018.

Keith, Keith, Keith......you're really testing my limits here.

Awesome. Could barely quibble with the rankings. 2007 cracked me up.

Ashie62 wrote: A Geriatic Psychiatrist Mets fan to "Commit" Fred Wilpon. Yeah, but you'd still be left with Jeff.

G-Fafif wrote: If we're gonna relitigate the 2015 Mets, it's worth breaking them down into their streakiness. 2-3 (just like '86, it was noted ad infinitum) 11-0 (encompassing the 10-0 homestand that reset expectations) 23-27 (pitching carrying the hitting-AWOL day, featuring the coming of Thor) 0-7 (the obvious and absolute nadir) 16-13 (the arrivals of Johnson, Uribe and Conforto in response to the Zero Brigade lineup) 31-11 (the Cespedes-powered explosion) 6-6 (clinching period) 1-5 (division clinched, regulars rested) It's impossible to subtract any fraction of a season (I can think of a couple of Septembers when that option would have been awesome), but without the miserable June losing streak in which they scored nine runs in seven consecutive losses, the 2015 Mets are a 90-65 outfit, the point being those Mets hung in remarkably well versus a flawed Nationals outfit before the cavalry arrived, never fully collapsing under the weight of their own offensive ineptitude. Overall, a pretty good if incomplete and injury-riddled team that, once reinforced, played extraordinary ball, most notably against their primary rival. And that 11 game winning streak that re-set expectations is why Met fans were so grumpy going into the trading deadline. We saw what that team could be, given a little offense. Terry started a Campbell/Mayberry 3-4 in the order to get the Wilpons' attention as much as anything. They got that offense (and more) from Cespedes and Murphy in August, September and October. But Mets teams have been sniffing around the playoffs lots of times in June and July only to crash and burn. So the unease at that point was well earned. My guess is that this year the Mets will probably peak in spring training, and we'll have no angst at the trade deadline.

Really. Coming into July 31st, they were 52-50 and had just lost 8-7 to the Padres in the rain in excruciating fashion. Met fans were ready to revolt at that point. Only the next 60 games and the postseason were fun.

Mets are shopping in the bargain bin this winter. Watch them re-sign Reyes for second, pick up an outfielder off the scrap heap and call it a winter. I'd love to see Fred and Jeff prove me wrong, but I got a bad feeling.

Anna's desperate, so Fred can get her pretty cheap. That's the primary consideration these days.

Greg Luzinski?

The Wilpons were booed at the press conference.

I'd like to give Sandy an extension, but it probably wouldn't be as pleasant. Is this to buy his silence on all matters Wilpon for the next two years? Because I can't think of another reason; they have a bare farm system and a team that finished 22 games under .500. Those are not generally conditions that engender job security.

To steal Jim Bouton's description in Ball Four, 'he had a glove like a tuning fork'. The Dodgers will probably make less use of him than we did.

Ceetar wrote: if Ramos gets Kipnis, you do it. Without hesitation. Ramos did not impress me.