metsmarathon

why am i less of a believer in andruw than i am in carlos...? edit: overall, there's little reason to think that beltran is overall a better player than andruw. i'll hold out hope nevertheless.

trachsel 5 reyes 2 Delgado 1 wright 1 nady 1 i make it a point to give in increments of one point only. it simplifies my life, but forces me to make tough decisions. otehrwise, i'd just end up tring to come up with some overly complex forumation whereby i would mete out my votes.

Beltran 3 Martinez 2 Reyes 2 Delgado 1 Floyd 1 Nady 1

Bret Sabermetric wrote: ="Elster88"]I'll take whichever has the higher OBP second...I'm not sure who that is.. Through 2005: Woodward .305 OBP, Diaz .329 OBP. Of course Woodward does hold the huge advantage of playing 2b, a major consideration of WWSB's in making out the batting order. which really does explain why hernandez has been batting in the 8th spot thus far.

one could certainly argue that it is not the fault of any one player that ther wasno vocal leader on teh team, but, rather, a fault of management, perhaps, in failing to bring in such a player. mo vaughn was suposed to be that player, actually, but i think his ill-performance took away any chance at that.

. ignore me, please

"I can try. Give me some bricks! I can wear bricks!" friggin' brilliant! absolutely friggin brilliant!

bannister 3 delgado 2 nady 2 beltran 1 sanchez 1 reyes 1

big high wall, with integrated pesky pole? edit: what the little bitty scaled down ballpark in the extreme northeast corner? could that be a pool of some sort? perhaps for cranes...

Bret Sabermetric wrote: GEE WHIZ it was horrible, awful, Mike, that that that that that Wagner guy comes in with Mariano's tune playing and gives up that home run. I mean, come on, you can't do that. You simply can't do that. That is a thing that, I don;t know how to say this, you simply can't do. Gee Whiz if you're going to march in there with Enter Sandman, for crying out loud, you got to get a save. Got to. Not fair to Mariano if you don.t Must get a save. Have to. I don't understand how you walk in to that song and then you blow the save. You can't do that. You simply cannot do that. Can't do that, that's all there is to it. No way. Gee Whiz. you left out "That's a bad job outta Wagner"

i'm sorry. these things eat at my soul. it's "deke" not "deek" carry on with your lives uninterruptedly.

baby got back.

well, the thing is... i think wagner's been using the song at least as long... maybe longer even.

wow. six total points for a good win...

bah, like that crap shows up in a box score!

can you believe that some of the post-game sports talk radio blather is going on and on about how aful and shameful it is for billy wagner to enter teh game using the great mariano rivera's song? i mean, it shouldn't surprise me what idiocy they keep coming up with... but THIS?!? i mean, its OK that we allow mets such as miguel cairo and gus bell to wear the geat babe ruth's uniform number, but HEAVEN FORBID another closer use mariano's entry song! really. what is the world coming to...? they both came into the league at the same time, and both starrted saving games at the same time. and billy should change his song? mfy idiots act like rivera's the only guy to ever use it, had hte song recorded specifically for his baseball use, and had super-dibs on it. idiots.

glavine 4 nady 3 wright 2 wagner 1

i'm shocked that this was not the first image posted...

Batting categories Games - Wright Hits - Reyes Doubles - Beltran Triples - Reyes Home runs - Delgado RBI - Delgado Stolen Bases - Reyes Caught stealing - Hernandez Runs scored - Reyes Batting average (high) - Wright On base percentage (high) - Delgado Strikeouts (high) - Delgado Walks - Wright Pitching categories Wins - Martinez Losses - Zambrano Strikeouts - Martinez Walks - Trachsel ERA (low) - Heilman ERA (high) - Julio ERA (low by a starter) - Martinez ERA (high by a starter) - Trachsel Saves - Wagner BAA (low) - Heilman BAA (high) - Trachsel Games started - Glavine Games pitched - Sanchez 2) Give the number for the player and category specified Cliff Floyd - games - 125 Cliff Floyd - batting average - 0.285 David Wright - runs scored - 100 David Wright - RBI - 120 Carlos Beltran - home runs - 20 Carlos Beltran - stolen bases - 30 Jose Reyes - errors - 20 Jose Reyes - on base percentage - 0.355 Carlos Delgado - batting average - 0.310 Carlos Delgado - RBI - 125 Kaz Matsui - games - 70 Kaz Matsui - runs scored - 40 Anderson Hernandez - games - 100 Anderson Hernandez - batting average - 0.280 Anderson Hernandez - fielding percentage - 0.989 Paul Lo Duca - on base percentage - 0.330 Xavier Nady - RBI - 50 Victor Diaz - games - 100 Pedro Martinez - strikeouts - 188 Tom Glavine - wins - 16 Steve Trachsel - losses - 10 Steve Trachsel - walks - 80 Victor Zambrano - ERA - 3.85 Victor Zambrano - strikeouts - 150 Brian Bannister - games started - 20 Aaron Heilman - games started - 20 Billy Wagner - saves - 40 Billy Wagner - ERA - 1.50 Jorge Julio - ERA - 3.00 3)Team Categories Total runs scored - 760 Total runs against - 650 Team ERA - 3.70 Team batting average - 0.265 Record - 94-68 94 NL East Finish (1st, 2nd, etc.) - 1st Games behind NL East Winner - 0 Playoffs (Division winner, Wildcard winner, no playoffs) - Division winner Playoff finish - (Win WS, Lose WS, Lose NLCS, Lose NLDS, no playoffs) - Lose NLCS 4)Tie-breakers 1st tie breaker - Total number of rainouts - 7 2nd tie breaker - Time of longest game of the year - 5:20 ...ooo... wow... our average predicted jose reyes OBP is 0.329! i hope he beats that!

Elster88 wrote: The move that would have made the most sense was keeping Seo or Benson. Just one of them. Gawd-damn you Omar. well, true. but that hardly helps in evaluating this move...

bannister in the rotation gives the mets a guy with options that they can send down if he struggles, or ride if he doesn't, and also leaves a guy in the pen who can come on and give quality long relief if a certain sore-toed pitcher cannot go terribly deep into games yet. its the move that prolly makes the most sense, tho it'll be important to see how much use heilman actually gets out there. i'd prefer we not sign a graffanino, as i think we've got more than enough potential options with which to fill the 2b slot entirely from within.

they also compared him to a few of his contemporaries. i picked up on the conversation late, and might not have heard the entire list: Frank Thomas Raffy Palmiero Fred McGriff Mark McGwire the opinion presented was that if you keep the crime dog out, you prolly shouldn't let bags in. or something like that, on account of relatively similar numbers. they were looking at homers, hits, average and slugging, i think i thought, hey, wouldn't it be fun if we looked at it through the eye of baseball prospectus' WARP3! bagwell: 125.3 / 3 thomas: 114.7 / 5 palmiero: 137.7 / 3 mcgriff: 96 / 1 mcgwire: 101.8 / 1 and just for fun... piazza: 96.5 / 3 helton: 75.3 / 4 griffey: 130.1 / 6 giambi: 76.2 / 3 so.. based on this test... bagwell's candidacy looks pretty good. especially if you then tack on all the 9 WARP seasons he had mixed in with those 10's. i think the only way to really question bagwell's HOF worth is to look at career totals instead of a collection of superb single seasons, all in a row, and also to focus on simply the home run.

there's ten now, depending on who you ask...

yeah, it does kinda look like a public access cable show in the booth right now, doesn't it... i hope they've got all the good cameras ready in new york!

channel 60 for cablevision of morris. yippee.