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Hey everybody, the Mets just traded for Keon Broxton
RealityChuck replied to A Boy Named Seo's topic in New York Mets Talk
Broxton is a gamble, but a reasonable one. He's a good fielder and with Lagares's injury history, you can't bank on him being around the entire season. They are similar, but Broxton has a little bit of power. It's a defensive move. If they can sign a better center fielder, Broxton platoons and you trade Lagares for a couple of fungo bats (you're not going to get much else for him) to clear up the lineup. But if you can't sign a better center fielder, you have an outfielder, and the team has a critical shortage of them. -
It's more likely read that "no one (including Cespedes) knows how long it will take for him to come back, so we should plan without him." It doesn't necessarily mean that Minyana has any more knowledge than we do, just that you can't assume he'll be back when projected when constructing the roster. It's actually a pretty innocuous (and obvious) statement that people are reading far too much into.
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I remember him as one of the many Mets third basemen of the 60s, a position they had a very hard time filling (why do you think they traded for Fregosi?).
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Brilliant bit of historical comedy. Who needs accuracy when something like this is made? One of the best movies of the year.
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My wife loves it. I think it's mediocre at best. Cloyingly sentimental and a plot that was just plain nonsense (a retired general is not going to go bankrupt; he could get a job just about anywhere in an eyeblink*). The score is most filler, too. Holiday Inn, despite the blackface, is a better film. The story is cliched, but the songs are better and it's funnier. Plus you have Fred Astaire, who, when he read the script for White Christmas not only turned it down, but asked to be released from his contract with Paramount. But it better than the stage musical version, which surgically removes everything in the movie that wasn't awful. *Maybe even Commissioner of Baseball.
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Mex17 wrote: My guess is that they bring d'Arnaud to Port St. Lucie so that he can showcase himself to the rest of the league. But they will DFA him before Opening Day if they cannot work out a trade. I'm seeing reports that the Mets intend to trade Plawecki and keep d'Arnaud. I can see some logic -- you're not going to get anything for d'Arnaud until he can prove he's healthy, and his injury history is worrisome. But at the same time, that's the very reason why the Mets shouldn't trade Plawecki away. If d'Arnaud isn't ready, it's back to Nido.
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Great pickup. Now the team has filled two of their major holes. Just need a center fielder. They'll probably not look for a first baseman and hope that Alonso is all he's cracked up to be.
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I have no problem bringing back Perez. Looking at his numbers, he's managed to be at least league average since becoming a reliever. Worth an offer.
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It merely means that they don't have any players who a team can carry on its active roster for the next season. This heavily favors relief pitchers (10 of 14 taken this year were pitchers) and few of the Mets' top prospects in that area were available for the draft.
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I asked this when Bruce was re-signed and someone mentioned Aroldis Chapman. This is a great signing. Familia and Diaz will lock down the 8th and 9th. They can now just stockpile relievers to fill out the bullpen. which will address one of the team's biggest problems.
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He was better when he was on the Supreme Court.
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An issue that needs to be addressed is the lack of outfielders now. There are currently only four on the roster (4 1/2 if you count Dom Smith), and one won't play before June. Maybe they're serious about signing Harper and have a all-lefty outfield.
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Edgy MD wrote: MFS62 wrote: If BVW wants to show us how smart he is and how creative he can be, sign Travis to a contract where they pay him by the games played. Such contracts, with games played incentive targets, have been done before. But with Travis' injury history, I'd set the first plateau at one game. And his agent would set his first response as "Get stuffed." Contracts come with risks. Non-tendering is always a tough call. You beat me to this. The only way d'Arnaud would accept something like this is if the contract was equal to or greater than what he'd get being tendered, which defeats the entire purpose of non-tendering.
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Definitive answer: Nationals land Mets trade target C Yan Gomes in deal with Indians: report
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Much as I love Wilmer, his knee problems make him a real risk.
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"You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls." Catchers aren't exactly thick on the ground these days. Can they get a better one? Maybe. Maybe not. Would you like to go into the season with just Plawecki and Nido? So you tender d'Arnaud just in case. If he doesn't make the team, then he can be cut for only a portion of his salary. But it's terrible planning to set him loose and discover you can't find anyone who's not appreciably worse.
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Note that Cano's suspension had nothing to do with actual steroids; he was found to have a diuretic that was banned because it can be used to hide steroid use, but that doesn't seem to be the case: it was on the banned list and Cano used it without realizing it. The best way is to think of this as two trades: Cano for Bruce and Swarzak is one. Not all that terrible; all the players involved are going into the down phase of their careers. The second is Diaz for Dunn, Kelenic, and Bautista. Diaz is a big plus, probably their best closer since Billy Wagner. Dunn and Kelenic have a lot of potential, but by the time they make it to the majors, the chance will have passed. Getting Diaz is a big plus for the team. Cano is probably equal or better than Bruce. It may not be a great trade, but it's far from terrible.
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I don't remember a lot, and many are from back in the 60s/70s when I watched more games. 0. Ordonez 1. Mookie 3. Bud Harrelson 4. Swoboda 5. Wright (I only just recently realized that Wright's number is the same as the box score number for a third baseman. ) 7. Kranepool 8. Yogi 10. Ordonez (mostly because he changed it from zero). 14. Hodges 15. Grote 16. Gooden 21. Cleon 24. Mays 30. Conforto 31. Piazza 33. Harvey 34. [crossout:3j6b4p6j]Cal Koonce[/crossout:3j6b4p6j] Thor 41. Some guy 42. Ron Hodges 45. Tug McGraw 50. Sid Fernandez 57. [crossout:3j6b4p6j]Heinz[/crossout:3j6b4p6j] Santana 99. Turk Wendell
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1. He's going to be far too expensive. 2. He's a left-handed power hitter. The team has plenty of those (maybe not as good). We need right-handed power hitters. 3. He's a dick. Punching out a teammate in the dugout? We don't need that.
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This seems more than a little overreaction. Did the Yankees reach out to Rollie Sheldon or Bud Daley or Jack Reed or Jim Coates lately? All were mainstays of their 1962 team. Landrith does have the distinction as being the first Met, but only appeared in 23 games. If he hadn't been their first choice, no one would have remembered him any more than then remember Rick Herrscher.
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Frayed Knot wrote: Wait, so we're supposed to say, and demand that others do as well, that the Mets did hit for deGrom?!? They didn't, that's a fact. It doesn't mean they didn't hit because it was him. But it was almost comical how, every fifth day, JdG is out there pitching a gem and the other eight guys have a collective total of one hit and one walk thru six innings. And that the pattern repeated itself Every. Freakin'. Time.I suspect that, once they saw they were hitting badly for him, the players started pressing and not playing their game.
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At this point, D'Arnaud doesn't have much value. His numbers are less of a factor as the point than his health. It's doubtful he'd be available by opening day, and probably not until midseason. Even if he comes back quickly, he has a history of injuries that would make most teams reluctant to take him on, and they certainly wouldn't give up much for him. It would make more sense to tender him and hope for the best.
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Who's gonna be the General Manager?
RealityChuck replied to Benjamin Grimm's topic in New York Mets Talk
He probably lights up the room. -
Who's gonna be the General Manager?
RealityChuck replied to Benjamin Grimm's topic in New York Mets Talk
The Players Association is not happy with the choice of Van Whathisname. It's an incredibly stupid choice, sort of like having your best slugger lay down a squeeze bunt with two strikes and none out. It might work, but you'd be a idiot to try it. -
The other issue was that HoJo was certainly good enough to start, since he started the next year and joined the 30-30 club and finished 10th in MVP voting. He also didn't seem to be a particularly good bunter. Also, Rick Aguilera probably put in the worst performance of any winning pitcher of a world series game. Two runs in two innings -- and those two runs came in the tenth, putting the team in a terrible hole.
