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Sandy: "We like Bartolo Colon and aren't looking to trade him." Sandy: "We'll certainly listen to offers on any of our three veteran pitchers, not just Gee and Niese."

Buster Olney too on the abstaining.

Edgy MD wrote: What is the proper response to trolls who see discussion of good players on the Mets and butt in with "Enjoy while you can because he's haha going to be a yankee lol "? What an awful way to root for a team. It's like the rich kid in an eighties film getting pulled over with a car full of coke and bragging that haha his dad will have him out in an hour and probably have the cop's badge too lol. "Yes, after he wins a championship or two with the Mets and gets old. The Yankees are obsessed with over the hill championship Mets and Red Sox"

30 deGrom 29 Duda 28 Lagares 27 d'Arnaud 26 Wheeler 25 Murphy 24 Niese 23 Colon 22 Granderson 21 Familia 20 Mejia 19 Wright 18 Gee 17 Nieuwenhuis 16 Black 15 Torres 14 Edgin 13 Tejada 12 Campbell 11 Recker 10 Flores 9 E. Young 8 den Dekker 7 Carlyle 6 Eveland 5 Matsuzaka 4 Montero 3 C. Young 2 Herrera 1 Davis

Niese. Lefty and Curveball is useful, plus he's the best of the bunch and has the best contract too. But I'd definitely be willing to leverage that contract in the right move of course.

Colon. If they don't go All-DH, losing him almost instantly improve the offense too.

Rockin' Doc wrote: Ashie62 wrote: Surprise us Sandy, we aren't expecting much. We aren't expecting much....we're Mets fans. I'm expecting much over here.

oh yes, that's certainly...clear.

when were all these guys hired? Terry feels like he's getting up there in terms of longest tenured managers.

I want to know why the cop thought a Porsche driving fast (and one who complied instantly with the sirens) necessitated taking out his gun.

sharpie wrote: Hard tickets are so much more pleasing aethetically. I like having them in my wallet and taking them out right before I enter an event. Print-at-home tickets are ugly, take more effort to actually print the things and use up printer ink. As far as phone tickets, at least for airlines they seem to be a hassle - the screen goes dark at the wrong moment or they sometimes just don't work, making the airline people have to go back to the desk and holidng up the line. What I really hate, however, is the way they make you scan your tickets at Citifield. I always seem to get stuck behind people who can't seem to figure out how to do it. Why can't they use hand-held scanners like everyone else? I think because unfolding the ticket and handing it to someone to fumble with is annoying. I hate when they take my ticket to scan it for me. By the time I hand it to them I'd already have been through if you let me do it myself. We're sorta still in flux, as I said. For one, the phone thing like you said. Most smartphones have NFC now that Apple caught up, so it's only a matter of time before the turnstile should be able to recognize you without you even having to do anything. This is very big brother of course, but you don't need turnstiles. just big gates and everyone walks in. Your phone will talk to various receivers in the building confirming your right to be there. If you don't, it'll be fairly easy to isolate who's not allowed, and the "must present your ticket' caveat means security can walk up to you and verify. On one hand that means they can kind of prescreen you and security check you and all that via databases (but they do this anyway with facial recognition in some places) and they'll be able to tell precisely where you are. But they'll also be able to track other useful things, the paths most people take around the park, and instantaneous appraisal of where lines are long.

I mean, I'd be surprised if he didn't put up the numbers Jeter did last year. He might not put up the numbers Tejada did though, which is why the Mets weren't really interested.

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: How come teams demand our young guns, then go and make a deal with another team for lesser players? Because Sandy does his due diligence and talks to every team about potential fits, and every team asks for Syndergaard. Some teams call Sandy once a day just to ask about him. I doubt Sandy's had a conversation with another team where they haven't asked about Syndergaard.

we're in the inbetween phase of needing hard tickets and streamlining the process of being able to easily request/save one as purely a souvenir.

Edgy MD wrote: d'Kong76 wrote: How secondary are these sources? HVAC Guy is talking again. It's amazing what you can find out hanging out in the heating vents at MLB HQ.

MFS62 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Twittererer says Gregorius has just become a Yankee. I wonder what Sterling's home run call will be. Gregorius is gorgeous? Later provided he hits one.

MFS62 wrote: If a team wants to rest a player, they can do that now by simply not playing him. Seems this would allow them to replace that player on the 25 man for that week, so that the manager wouldn't be tempted to use the player in a key game situation during that time. To me, if a player's injured, he's injured. DL him. If not, formalizing a rest period is just a way to wussify the game. Later nah, it's not about wussifying, it's about protecting guys that might otherwise be forced to play injured. Well, really it's not even that. It's about creating an official legitimate process for something teams already do. 'Weak arm' DL stints are common. It's not like teams are ever called to account for fake assignments. The Mets did it to Oliver Perez and the (Phillies I think) bitched and MLB investigated and decided it was fine. The idea being if you look at a pitcher's arm you'll find something messed up. it's unnatural. Guys with options have it happen all the time. Oh, we're demoting you for a reliever, you'll skip a start and we'll recall you. This just means they can rest a guy one start instead of the 2-3 that a 15day DL stint requires unless you fake a concussion.

metsmarathon wrote: i've probably over-invested in relievers in the past few years. though, it hasn't hurt me too much. yet... It's such a delicate balance. Technically you don't need them, can just stack SP and get your innings, but RP generally have higher K rates(and lower ERA) so really you need them to win those categories.

I feel like you can generally pick up the 'one-year wonder' type relievers for pennies in May if you're paying attention.

Frayed Knot wrote: What's Mr. Peabody's stance? more interesting, at least.

Want to see at least in part because I wandered past the set while they were filming a couple of times in NYC last summer. Although not actually _through_ the set like I did for TMNT or August Rush.

I mean, Fangraphs/DRS/etc has him near the bottom of 2Bmen but not horribly so. Near middle of the pack when you look at WAR (for qualifiers anyway). 7th in wRC+ looking at just offense. He seems to start pushing back towards average defensively when you take out the qualifying AB filter. Which basically implies he's not very good defensively but just good enough to be worth playing there. 7.1 fWAR over the last three years. That's "major league regular" territory. (rWAR rates him a little harsher) This team could use the certainty he brings, versus moving him to fill another hole and filling 2B either internally or with another acquisition. In my eye, at least if we're talking working near that 10million figure, that's adding two question marks. I'm not saying there's no way you do it, but it shouldn't be treated as the goal, it should be a backup plan if you can't acquire the upgrades in other ways.

Edgy MD wrote: I imagine you'd be hard-pressed to find an advocate of "just dump him to free up space." no, not really. Half the people proposing trading him are only doing so because they want to clear perceived payroll space.

These are the gimme's for my IBWAA Hall vote. (Biggio and Piazza are already in) Jeff Bagwell Barry Bonds Roger Clemens Edgar Martinez Curt Schilling Sammy Sosa John Smoltz Randy Johnson Pedro Martinez I have to look closer at Sheffield, Nomar, and Delgado.

I don't particularly care anymore. He's a Hall of Famer whether or not some hack "writers" vote for him. I was all set to go up to Cooperstown and have a really great weekend for his induction too, but not sure it's in the cards should it happen this year.