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Minor league baseball has already been cheapened by the explosion of stupid nicknames in the last few years. That said, this is dumb.

According to Anthony DiComo, this came about because Brandon Nimmo caught a "huge sailfish" two miles off the Florida coast. Callaway got jealous and organized the shark hunt. Phil Evans says Trump happened to be fishing on the same beach.

Mets Go Shark Fishing With Donald Trump Jr.

Best we can hope for is Glendon Rusch.

Tabloids would have a field day. "Panik Attack", "Time to Panik", "Panik Button", etc.

Why?

The dadbod look isn't going to pull in the Russian models - especially if his performance on the field leads to puny paychecks.

Seen enough of this with the NY Giants offensive line. Let's see how you perform on the field.

Good stuff. Start prepping for David Wright Day at Citi this summer.

Giving up a bunch of assets for minor league relief pitchers as opposed to more useful talent sure didn't help.

Guerrero's decision seems to close the book on representation of the Expos in the Hall of Fame. Larry Walker, should be be elected, would naturally be a Rockie.

Jeter's not on the ballot next year. He's up in 2020. Rivera is on next year's ballot.

With the Hall of Fame announcement imminent, and the likely probability that he will fall off the ballot in his first year, I wanted to take a moment to appreciate the greatness of Johan Santana. He was truly an otherworldly pitcher for about a decade, and while I couldn't prove it, I choose to believe that he gave his career to give the Mets their first no-hitter in franchise history.

Nymr83 wrote: Vic Sage wrote: i don't think Hoffman or Edgar will make it. My feeling is that the more traditionalist voters will come in later (with the progressive voters having already put in their ballots so they could write about them and put forth their arguments), and they'll tend to overlook the value of relief pitchers and DHs, dragging down their percentage as we get down to the end. Just a hunch. Chipper, Vlad, and Thome this year, methinks. wouldn't it be the less traditional/more statistically oriented voters who put less value on relief pitchers and the bullshit Save stat? This seems to be correct. Hoffman received a greater share of votes last year from people who didn't make their ballots public prior to the vote (older, more traditional voters) than among those who did. His percentage went up 1.3%. Assuming a largely stable electorate, we can expect a similar trend.

Today's the day. Here's the tracker through 239 votes (56.4% of the expected total): Chipper Jones - 98.3% Vladimir Guerrero - 95.0% Jim Thome - 93.3% Trevor Hoffman - 78.7% Edgar Martinez -77.4% Mike Mussina - 70.7% Barry Bonds - 64.0% Roger Clemens - 64.0% Curt Schilling - 59.4% Larry Walker - 38.5% Omar Vizquel - 33.1% Manny Ramirez - 22.2% Fred McGriff - 19.2% Jeff Kent - 13.4% Scott Rolen - 12.6% Sammy Sosa - 10.9% Billy Wagner - 10.9% Gary Sheffield - 10.5% Andruw Jones - 5.4% Johnny Damon - 1.3% Johan Santana - 1.3% Jamie Moyer - 0.8% Hideki Matsui - 0.4% I'm projecting a class of Jones, Guerrero, Thome, and Hoffman. Edgar would have to add twice as many new voters from the pool of votes we haven't seen yet as has from the votes that have already been made public in order to get over the hump. Guerrero needed 15 new votes and has gotten 44 so far; Hoffman needed 5 and has picked up 11. Edgar needs 73 and has picked up 25 with less than half the vote outstanding. Next year's class could consist of Mariano Rivera, the late Roy Halladay, Edgar Martinez, and Mike Mussina. Other new names on the ballot include Todd Helton and Andy Pettitte.

I see no point in this. At all. Smith can't get his shot?

I like it. Contract terms are fine. I have no faith in Nimmo suddenly finding a power stroke. One might think that 35 HR, 100 RBI guys are a dime a dozen until you remember that the last time the Mets had one of those was David Wright in 2010.

I never wanted him to be traded to begin with. Welcome back!

Looking at the numbers and the historical trends, my gut tells me we get a class of 4 - Jones, Thome, Guerrero, and Hoffman. Martinez falls just short with one year left to go. I hope I'm pleasantly surprised and Martinez makes it.

Sell the team to someone who isn't strapped for cash.

TheOldMole wrote: Prayers with Eddie, and what’s wrong with the Mets?

Where we stand at the moment, via Ryan Thibodaux's ballot tracker: 73 public votes (estimated 17.5% of the total) Chipper Jones - 97.3% Jim Thome - 97.3% Vladimir Guerrero - 91.8% Edgar Martinez - 84.9% Trevor Hoffman - 75.3% Roger Clemens - 72.6% Barry Bonds - 71.2% Mike Mussina - 69.9% Curt Schilling - 69.9% Larry Walker - 41.1% Omar Vizquel - 34.2% Manny Ramirez - 31.5% Fred McGriff - 16.4% Scott Rolen - 13.7% Sammy Sosa - 11.0% Andruw Jones - 9.6% Gary Sheffield - 8.2% Billy Wagner - 8.2% Jeff Kent - 5.5% Biggest movers thus far: Walker (+16 votes), Guerrero (+11), Martinez (+11), Schilling (+7) I think we're looking at a class of at least Guerrero, Jones, and Thome. Hoffman missed election by 5 votes last year but hasn't gained any net votes so far. Martinez has gained 11 votes out of a needed 73 and seems to currently project at finishing just outside of election, with next year being his final year on the ballot. The story, as always, is that the steroid era has resulted in a logjam on the ballot, and absent lifting the 10-man restriction, we will continue to see voters focused more on who they have to leave off their ballots rather than voting for everyone they believe deserves it.

Oh my God the Wilpons are such cheap bastards.

Oh for fuck's sake. Are they waiting for Gary to get on Medicare?