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This one of those things that kinda irks me. two men on, one out, with a two run lead. That screams *bring in your best reliever* to me. Is that still bert?

Sal Said "If only Valadius had spoken up when Delgado was available, the Mets would be way in first place now!" Look this is just silly; The Mets made a very good go at signing Delgado, the fact of the matter is that it didn't quite happen; it wasn't due to Wilpon being tight with money, it wasn't due to the Mets being stupid. If you get involved in high level negotiations there's always moments where deals can be stand/fall. They got close but didn't get there.[edited extra] - You have a point where you have to make a decision, call someone's bluff, go one more round, accept a counter proposal - only those WITHIN the negotiations know how it ended up where it did. They did get the other three big deals done (Benson, Martinez & Beltran) - 3/4 it isn't bad. So I'll give them a mulligan on Delgado. ***** of course: Delgado hitting a two run jack shows that Minaya MAY have got the evaluation wrong and SHOULD have gone to the 60/64/100 million that may have got it done. *******

I just don't get why we keep dissing Diaz in the lineup. If you look at the team in terms of eqa it goes David Wright .313 Cliff Floyd .296 Victor Diaz .288 Mike Cameron .285 Ramon Castro .283 Chris Woodward .266 Carlos Beltran .265 Mike Piazza .265 Doug Mientkiewicz .264 Jose Reyes .252 Marlon Anderson .244 Miguel Cairo .229 Kaz Matsui .211 AND he's 4th in the team in OBP so it's not like they can say he's a low obp with pop guy that might be suited to 7 slot. Now Diaz is a GIDP machine (he's had 48 GIDP opportunities and 12 'successful' GIDP's - that's a rate of 25%) So we need to figure out what's the correct balance between protecting from the GIDP and maximise his value to the lineup. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/sortable/index.php?cid=24665 I'd be on for trying out batting him 2nd on the basis that Reyes is pretty hard to double up and that with Beltran 3rd it'd be another "hard to double guy behind him" Batting him 7th/8th in front of or behind Castro, Minky et al is a recipe for the GIDP bonanza that we've had AND minimising the impact of his excellent hitting. **** EqA Equivalent Average. A measure of total offensive value per out, with corrections for league offensive level, home park, and team pitching. EQA considers batting as well as baserunning, but not the value of a position player's defense. The EqA adjusted for all-time also has a correction for league difficulty. The scale is deliberately set to approximate that of batting average. League average EqA is always equal to .260. EqA is derived from Raw EqA, which is (H + TB + 1.5*(BB + HBP + SB) + SH + SF) divided by (AB + BB + HBP + SH + SF + CS + SB). REqA is then normalized to account for league difficulty and scale to create EqA.[/url]

how'd willis double happen (good hit/bad fielding) and same question with the runscoring single. "ground ball" to Carlos Beltran reeks of "Miguel Cairo has no range"

of course Zambrano responds to being left in by cruising thorugh the 5th. Unfortunately so does Willis getting the mets 1,2,3 in about 10 pitches.

I just hate having to continue to own up to the fact that I thought fonzie should get (and this is a direct quote) "Posada Money" I was WAY wrong about that one.

bah double play. ....

wright singles ...if this gets to Seo i'm Ph'ing for him - get Heillman warmed up says I

I could be wrong, but as far as I'm aware the presence of a second eye is vital for judgement of velocity.

hello, this is the team that blew an 8 run lead just a week ago and they're giving out to a young guy for trying to extend a lead?I mean for crying out loud this whole "not the done thing" just doesn't stand up. If a team wants to surrender, they can ask the umps to end the game otherwise I want to score more runs. Now I WOULD stop doing things that would lead to head first slides etc (just to protect from injury) but runs are there to be scored.

The key is the Astros. We play interdivisional stuff virtually all september (except what might be a rather painful trip to St. Louis and the hosting of the Rockies for the final series. The Astros are the only team we can't help ourselves against. Lots a big games coming up.

what's the delay for?

*whew* that was ridiculous.

Zvon wrote:Hey, maybe you can help me with my family genology.My dads been workin on it for years and hes in contact with some people over there who help.Happily help out - by the way the rain delay's over, and the O's are now trailing 3-1 in the bottom of the 1st.

not that interesting really - lived in NYC for 2 summers and KNEW I couldn't like the skankees

here's what i want, them to retain their patience so that the washington bullpen is exhausted by tomorrow; AND to get Jacobs the last inning or two (if the score stays similar)

just to explain Zvon, I live in Dublin, Ireland so that's why I'm asking you guys!

can anyone tell me how long the rain delay in cleveland's going to be?that's what's due to to be on NASN but right now i'm just seeing filler!

Seo 6Looper 1Diaz 1Castro 1Reyes 1

I flew 3000+ miles to see us getting beaten by Atlanta 10-1 once. It wasn't fun AT ALL.

when the rosters expand in September, does someone still have to get added to/be on the 40 for them to come up or can you pull up Johnny Pitching Prospect without putting him on the 40

pretty damn nicely really isn't he. Still not saying I'd have made the trade, but he's really developed into a quality starter over the year. It was great to see him bounce back after the bad start with a really good one. Interestingly, he's no Shea Stadium illusion either with a 4.87 era at home vs a 3.08 away [that's mostly due to the 3 shellings he's taken over the year all being at home]. Zambrano 5Floyd 2Wright 2Beltran 1

Seo 5Hernandez 2Koo 1Looper 1Wright 1

it's worth noting that Benson is by no means the highest paid of the bunch either.

y'know who'd be a neat enough fit?Placido Palonco, can play second, fill in at third or short in a pinch and has excellent on base skills that could be used really well in the first or second slot in the lineup. The Tigers got him for Uggy Urbina, you'd have to think that you could come up with a reasonable price for him.