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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Walker over cespedes? need to think about that one. Seems like Cespedes might be getting dinged a bit too much for the CF play when it was more of a desperation thing. There's just no fucking way Neil Walker was the best player on the Mets last year. I can't see him any higher than 3rd and even that's a stretch. It's mostly just fWAR. Cespedes actively hurt the team in center while Neil added much needed value at second defensively. The value the steadiness of Walker and Cabrera up the middle for most of the season provided especially compared to Murphy-Flores last year is often understated. I probably should swap Cespedes up, just because he was that much better a hitter (not that Walker was a slouch), but I don't think it's a slam dunk or anything.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Walker over cespedes? need to think about that one. Seems like Cespedes might be getting dinged a bit too much for the CF play when it was more of a desperation thing.

Reserve the right to tweak this later. 30 - Noah Syndergaard 29 - Neil Walker 28 - Yoenis Cespedes 27 - Jacob deGrom 26 - Asdrubal Cabrera 25 - Curtis Granderson 24 - Bartolo Colon 23 - Steven Matz 22 - Addison Reed 21 - Jeurys Familia 20 - Robert Gsellman 19 - Kelly Johnson 18 - Michael Conforto 17 - Jose Reyes 16 - Matt Harvey 15 - Seth Lugo 14 - Wilmer Flores 13 - Hansel Robles 12 - Juan Lagares 11 - David Wright 10 - Alejandro De Aza 09 - Travis d'Arnaud 08 - Jerry Blevins 07 - T.J. Rivera 06 - Lucas Duda 05 - Jay Bruce 04 - Rene Rivera 03 - Brandon Nimmo 02 - Fernando Salas 01 - Jim Henderson Lol. I almost put Matz twice because I combined the pitcher and hitter lists of players and sorted by fWAR and Matz as a batter comes in 29th. Syndergaard comes in at 17.

I intend to do this but I keep forgetting. today. it's not like I have literally anythign to do at work. maybe I'll get software today.

and Duda is the better hitter.

From 2014-2016 of all 235 qualified batters, Duda is 61st on value per 100 four-seam fastballs. He's 8th in cutters. (There is undoubtedly a line in his scouting report that reads: "DO NOT THROW CUTTER") 42nd on 2-seam fastballs. 52nd on Splitters. 9th on Sinkers. 218th on Curveballs (he's actually gotten better with sliders. middle of the pack)

Centerfield wrote: The link seems to go to Lucas Duda, in 2015, against lefties only. I can't seem to get it to switch to other years, and against all pitchers. Anyway, DJ is right. Lucas hits fly balls the other way, but all of his ground balls are hit to the right side. Which is why the shift is effective against him. If he learned to go the other way on the ground, consistently, there are a lot of holes on that side of the field to find base hits. And if you do that enough, they have to stop shifting. http://www.fangraphs.com/spraycharts.aspx?playerid=2502&position=1B/OF&type=battedball&pid2=2502&ss1=2012&se1=2015&ss2=2012&se2=2015&cht1=hittype&cht2=battedball&vs1=ALL&vs2=ALL In short, yes, but no. Lucas Duda is not trying to hit ground balls. he doesn't want to hit ground balls. All ground balls are essentially mistakes where he got on top of the ball, and as such, he's usually out in front and pulls them. This makes sense. Balls with more sink, movement, etc, that are slower than a fastball. These are the pitches you'd presumably want him to flick/bunt the other way, and these are sliders. You're not going to have a ton of success bunting a slider the other way. Lucas Duda DESTROYS fastballs. There is no sense wasting his power taking a pitch like that the other way. It's the curveballs and sliders that he loses value on, these are the ones he's missing for soft contact. And it's counter-intuitive to take a pitch that's slower than you're expecting and wait even longer and flick it the other way. You start waiting a tick longer for pitches and suddenly you're late on the fastballs and those are the ones we want him to destroy. What Duda needs to do to go from Very good to Great is lay off more of the curveballs and sliders, even strikes, so he doesn't make outs on them so he can see more pitches and find more fastballs.

Alan Robinson voted for Bonds, McGriff, Raines, and Pudge

the picture is better but the 11th heaven highlight is just so dumb, plus the whole 'theme' is gut-punched by the "Matz may be done" addendum. really looking forward to voting against either of these.

still no Bonds huh? then the Hall is still a poor representation of the best of baseball and I just don't care about it.

lol. Russo's an idiot [tweet:2hacaa89]https://twitter.com/MLBNetwork/status/821805661692497921[/tweet:2hacaa89]

Edgy MD wrote: Two prospects is exactly what they paid for him, and that was before his stock fell with a highly soggy finish. Desperation is a bad look. Markets change. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe in spring. Maybe in April. Sure, but there was a thought the Mets drastically overpaid for him. And then doubled down on that over-value by picking up the option. Edgy MD wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Phils signing Michael Saunders this week and the Jays re-signing Joey Bats just shrunk the market a bit more. That's one way to look at it. The other way to look at it is that the pool of outfielders to choose from just shrunk for the buyers. It would've been interesting to see the Mets sign Saunders themselves to sorta corner the market on outfielders.

Ashie62 wrote: I'm not one of the "all knows" but my hope is that he be healthy and perform somewhere in the middle of the pack of 1B's. well in 2014-2016 he's 13th of 36 qualifying 1B in fWAR. I think 'middle of the pack' is probably his floor.

Edgy MD wrote: Baseball allows for therapeutic exceptions on adderall, I think. Am I wrong? yes, sorry that's what I meant. It's an amphetamine, and more than twice the expected average applied and got exemption.

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Does adderall count as an amphetamine? I don't think too many people use amphetamines recreationally anymore like Johnny Cash or anymore, but kids today do love thier adderall. Regardless, these kids are professionals. Don't put illegal shit in your body, dummy. it does. and last I heard, the percentage of baseball players on it is twice that of the normal population.

would be nice. I guess we could explore an alternate site but I'm not seeing one that is obviously better either. Though I guess if someone wanted to keep track of it we could manually set up divisions. Scoring is the same anyway, I don't know how you'd resolve the champion that way though.

cooby wrote: I'll bet Grandma Ceetar would tell you it's a bad idea Maybe Grandma Ceetar wants to babysit!

Frayed Knot wrote: second thought: 2 week olds like baseball right? Sure, and March weather in the Hudson Valley is perfect for them! and we can stop at Industrial Arts brewery on the way home!

Frayed Knot wrote: With a gap between the end of the Grapefruit League season and Opening Day, the Mets plan to play an exhibition game at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point on March 31. first thought: That's real close! I should go. second thought: 2 week olds like baseball right?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I caved on the "no-fee" online offer this week and went in for the Tuesday Night Plan (no postseason benefits!). Seems like they have either a) sold a lot more tickets by now than they had when I acquired the 2016 Tuesdays last March; made shittier tickets available for this offer, or both, but we have generally been moved up a few rows from our customary and very modest 500-Promenade-behind-the-plate seats, in some cases, moving to Promenade-3rd-base-line. What's the deal? Are the Mets really selling more tickets this year? two consecutive years in the postseason? I'd be they're selling more tickets, yes. Also I'd bet they're breaking them up into smaller blocks of availability to different offers expecting to be able to sell the others in different random offers or just on the fly.

I assume it's just bookkeeping of various points. moving money around, and keeping 'control' of Mejia should he actually be reinstated.

Valencia appears to be the first Mets signee born after I graduated high school.

Vic Sage wrote: positively stoned stones in colon are not good.

oof. you guys are awfully high on Colon.

I just wish he'd stay off Barstool. cesspool.