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d'Kong76 wrote: Remove that power from last summer the Mets play golf in October. I was one of the original Metsapoligists, we can do this until Spring Training is in full swing. Nope, the Mets still make the playoffs without Cespedes. It's not like they squeaked in.

as far as power goes, the Mets are likely going into the season with only CF as a position where they don't have at least a 10 HR guy. (And it's not like Lagares and De Aza don't homer at all). Power is Cespedes' tool, and the Mets aren't completely lacking in that dept.

I'm not sure Cespedes is a good enough player to pay as a pure DH.

Mets will be just fine. David Wright would inevitably be the DH and there's a non-zero chance that the DH in 2017 could make or break his Hall of Fame chances.

postponed/cancelled. Snow wins.

Zvon wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: MLB will now offer MLB.tv’s full package at $109.99—a 35-percent discount—and single-team options for $84.99. Have they always had team packages? Oy! I've been using MLBtv for years, never heard of that. I imagine they would rather I didn't know. The full package is still worth it, the best deal in town. These days you can pump it to your TV if you want. no, the team packages is part of the settlement.

metsmarathon wrote: Nymr83 wrote: one possible explanation is that the DH does cause AL teams to allocate more of their payroll towards a 9th position player while paying the bench guys (who pinch-hit less with no pitcher in the lineup) less. Should the union care if this is the case? are they HURTING some of their lower-paid players to help out thew guys making the big bucks? this is my expectation. the only reason the DH would drive up payroll is if DH drives up revenue. (otherwise it's just reallocating the same amount of payroll, right?) using attendance as a surrogate value for revenue, the NL has better attendance last year, therefore the DH is bad for baseball. But payroll might be driven up by competition, if your division opponents have more hitters, it puts the pressure on you to pay for another big hitter.

Frayed Knot wrote: I'm not sure I understand why Comcast and DirecTV were involved in this suit. I assumed MLB.TV was something one purchased directly from MLB - as opposed to the 'Extra Innings' package which is something that goes through your local cable/content provider. Because certain Networks were named in the suit, like YES, which one of them (Comcast I guess?) owns part of. Which of course is the problem. The Cable companies owning the actual stations. Otherwise we could all happily say "screw you Verizon" and SNY could agree with MLB.TV to broadcast locally and just be done with it. We'd still get all the SNY tv ads locally, so they wouldn't care. It's only the middlemen that care.

Also minor league baseball players are criminally underpaid, do what you need to do to make it.

d'Kong76 wrote: Ceetar wrote: someone needs to tell them to take better drugs. Or to stop cheating. The suspensions don't seem to work. Maybe they should ban the fuckers. One strike, you're out. Go flip burgers or wash cars. Next. and just let the guys taking all the stuff that's technically legal or undetectable play? Until we're sure the game is 99+% clean (i.e. never) I would rather Mets players be doing whatever they can to get an edge.

Centerfield wrote: Seems like a lot of guys in the Mets farm-system are getting busted. I realize my exposure is skewed because I only pay attention to Mets-related news, but I would guess this is more than normal. someone needs to tell them to take better drugs.

figured that would happen, blackouts remain. bleh.

Edgy MD wrote: I then invite you to look it up. Not sure it's available anywhere.

screw team based, I want to see it on a player level.

themetfairy wrote: Are there any contingency plans in case Snowmageddon 2016 strikes on Saturday? I haven't heard of any yet. I imagine certain things (like Bobby Valentine's schedule) make it kind of tough.

I think the sample size and the volume is too small for it to show up in the data that clearly. in a way we're comparing 4% of one set of players to 4% of another set. But who knows, maybe the NL generally compensates by paying middle relievers a wee bit more to get those crunch time 7th inning outs. But there doesn't seem to be any particularly obvious gap in innings pitched or even starter value between the leagues of the last 3 years so maybe not.

Frayed Knot wrote: Opt out after the 2nd year for Upton Makes one kind of nostalgic for the days when offering $22 mil per year actually bought the team a commitment of sorts from a player. this 2-year opt out thing is starting to feel a little weird. That year is already supposed to be the epic offseason of the millenia, and more and more players are giving themselves the option to participate. I wonder if the choice of that year is the team's choice "well, if you're gonna opt out, at least opt out when we have other options" or is there some sort of big push to get the owners to open all the pocketbooks at once?

6/125 surprises me considering it took so long. Surprises me from the Tigers too. AL Central is going to be interesting.

the number in name meme is so played out and it's not like the '4' here is really particularly meaningful or that anything in the game swung on his 4th hit. It's not like he hit a grand slam to win it. And there is way too much text on the cover.

yes, but the result of that is otherwise crappy play in other situations. Sure, Colon drive in an RBI double that one time and it was really neat. But 9/10 times he flailed wildly, or didn't bother to swing, and the Mets would've been just as well off telling the opposition "We're just gonna let Colon pitch and you only need to get us out 24 times" Lucas Duda hitting dingers routinely is way more exciting than the aggregate of one Colon wild ride around the basepaths and 9 two minute breaks to get a snack.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: and a lot of them would just play poor defense otherwise. This is about the weakest, lamest reason for a DH. You know who else plays poor defense? My mother. no, it's a reason for a non-DH. my point was it's not like the Yankees would cut A-Rod if the DH vanished. or the Red Sox would cut Ortiz. Maybe they'd pay them a little less, but Ortiz would just statue it up at first and not much would change. The AL has higher salaries/offense because they pay an additional hitter, but not specifically because of full-time DHs. batmagadanleadoff wrote: The players are underpaid right now. Players are always underpaid, on average. The way to fix that is to pay them more money. The fix isn't to expand the DH. How would that help Jacob deGrom or Matt Harvey, who are grossly underpaid? It wouldn't, but it's so so so so easy to just say 'DH' here, players will get more money as a result than it is to negotiate the complicated system that is free agency and drafts and arb time and all that. if a higher portion of the pie is one of the union's arguments next winter, tossing them this bone is an easy concession.

eh, there aren't that many full-DH and a lot of them would just play poor defense otherwise. But sure, the salaries would increase somewhat. The players are underpaid right now, so it wouldn't be surprising something this easy and simple could be pushed for in the CBA. (though I still say the rules permit it whenever the commissioner feels like it) I suspect most pitchers would prefer not to have to spend time thinking about this other facet of the game that they aren't really expected to do well anyway.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Looks like QBC didn't get permission to use the Mets logos or wordmarks. I don't know if the QBC has official permission or not. I know SNY is basically the official sponsor, and various Mets officials will be there. So I doubt if they slapped a Mets logo on something it would matter. You're probably right. The QBC likely removed the logos from Bud and Teufel's caps because it looks a lot nicer that way. [fimg=333]http://35b.f7b.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Budcrop.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=273]http://35b.f7b.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Teufelcrop.jpg[/fimg] I can't decide what's nicer: these pictures or the Mets scoreboards. I suspect they're just being too cautious. anyway, the Mets scoreboard is pretty nice. It's got Mets stats on it.

Davis will be paid until 2038 with deferrals

McFadden's is pretty much a crap space. Sound quality is rough, even with the external stuff brought in last year. QBC outgrew the secondary room for events. It was just really poor there. I don't know the details about if it fell through or it was just too expensive and they wouldn't cut a deal, but I know they did talk with Metropolitan Hospitality about having it actually _inside_ Citi Field.