seawolf17

Come on, Justin Turner was not the future of this team. I liked him, but let's get real. Tejada's three closest b-r comparisons through age 23 are Cesar Izturis, Bucky Dent, and Luis Aparicio. Let's give him at least one full year to see if can really be something.

Frayed Knot wrote: And finally, seawolf17 is our newest mod. We hope that all posters show him the same respect and courtesy that the other admins have received in the past. Uh ... And finally, seawolf17 is our newest mod. He may yet do some actual mod-ing at some point, but only if we can pry him away long enough from his collections of baseball cards and hair-metal records. I move a thread now and then.

Only switch-hitting catcher I know of is Todd Hundley.

Come on, Mets. Go for it.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Zvon wrote: If that is in place of our regular ol' Mets logo patch I PROTEST VEHEMENTLY! Well, you may want to start stocking up on paint and posterboard, because I think that's exactly what it means. Yeah, I'm gonna need one of these. Nice.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Had high hopes, then he became nothing but an annoyance. If he gets too much playing time he'll be exposed, just as he was with the Mets. This. Biggest memory for me will be the big pinch-hit home run in a game I was at in DC.

OH MY GAWD CHOO IS IN HAL'S BAWX

(Tanaka, not Tanakaka.) I hear the kid's got marbles.

Dumbledore I tells O'Toole Tales, 1998.

When you spin a Gamel, you get the whole pot, right? What else is there to do?

http://www.collectthemets.com/the-gifs-of-2013/

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=rosin-001set

... Mount Kilimanjaro is climbing HIM this offseason.

If you told me in April that this off-season, the Mets would sign the guy who goes 18-6, 2.65 in 30 starts and a 1.16 WHIP and finishes sixth in the AL Cy Young voting to a two-year, $20M deal for 2014 and 2015, I'd be pretty damn happy. Yet it all seems wrong somehow.

The backup shortstop can be a minimum-salary/waiver pickup guy, as can the backup catcher, I suppose.

Wow.

Doc Muthafuckin Gooden. Carter, wore 17 with the Yankees. Fuckin' hell.

Edgy MD wrote: Do you manage the team or just GM? I do a little of both. I'll put together the team in the offseason, simulate through spring training, then play each game up until the draft on June 15. Once I'm confident I've got the team where I want it, I'll simulate for a while, stopping for major injuries and things, then I play most of September and the playoffs. I'm about to start 2006 with this crew: CF Beltran (FA after 2006, contract offer pending) 3B Wright LF Floyd C Piazza 1B Carlos Pena (FA after 2006, contract offer pending) 2B Freddy Sanchez SS Reyes RF Rocco Baldelli (Grady Sizemore will miss 2006 with a torn MCL) Bench: Josh Bard C, Willie Harris, Aubrey Huff, Corey Patterson, Shinjo SP: Rick Ankiel (acquired in a 6-for-1 deal before the 2004 season, went 17-6 and 17-5 the last two years and has hit .333 with six home runs in those two seasons) Joe Nathan Tony Saunders RA Dickey Johan Santana (Yes, my #5. I called him up in 2003 and he went 5-3, 5.33 in 10 starts, then went 10-11, 5.01 in 29 starts in 2004, so I kept him in AAA for most of 2005. But Kerry Wood, who I signed to a big FA deal a few years back, hurt himself in Spring Training, so Johan gets another shot.) My bullpen was a bunch of superstars for me last season, and : Jose Valverde (3.23), Octavio Dotel (3.64), TJ Tucker (2.89), Pedro Feliciano (4.57), Randy Choate (2.76), Nelson Cruz (2.13), and closer BK Kim (1.82, 43 saves). Cruz is also hurt, so Grant Roberts takes his place to start 2006.

Frayed Knot wrote: So, yeah, bad result, and the powers at be were probably a bit too desperate to want it to work, but almost certainly somebody would have signed him based strictly on baseball potential and probably for similar money. And, because Mets, then he would have won six consecutive MVPs and eight World Series rings for that team.

Oh, those Opening Day home runs.

Now his "I'll tell the whole story when I sign with another team" quote from the other day (or whatever he said) is either more or less interesting depending on your perspective. Regardless, glad to have him back and I wish him the best.

Just scored a 100 out of 100 despite losing the seventh game of the 2005 World Series tonight to a juggernaut Twins team that repeated as Series champs. I loaded the bases down by a run in the ninth, but Freddy Sanchez struck out to end the Series. Tony Saunders, who won Game 7 of the NLCS behind seven shutout innings, took a 2-0 lead into the seventh but fell apart and gave up five runs. We chipped back with homers from Wright in the seventh and Piazza in the eighth, but couldn't come all the way back.

The Sox give up Santiago and get Adam Eaton? That's a pretty solid deal right there, even if Santiago is a live, young, lefthanded arm.

Mookie Warilson

David Waright.