Ceetar

how about 25 minutes during lunch on a Monday, enough time to see it all? (Somehow all my tickets are for Monday-Tuesday. lame. )

G-Fafif wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Yeah it really sucked but way better than Friday. I am absolute poison at the ballyard going on 2 years now, I can't see a win for my life. The Mets have won seven home games since May 11. I have been to nine Mets home games since May 11. There has been zero intersection between those two subsets. I've been 3-2 (think that's 2 in April though) I'm 1-0 when I pay though, fwiw. I have tickets for tonight (Free ones) but I might have to cancel.

I hear Gio's allergic to latex.

Ceetar wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Or uncredit Buck for failing to put a ball into play. Boy does he look finished, I believe his BA may have dipped below 200 at some point. d'Arnaud would so be here.. How's our favorite German catcher doing? He's backing up. sorta maybe hitting okay. not really though. In fact, NONE of them are. Zack Wheeler was hitting better than all of them. fine.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Or uncredit Buck for failing to put a ball into play. Boy does he look finished, I believe his BA may have dipped below 200 at some point. d'Arnaud would so be here.. How's our favorite German catcher doing?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: btw, didn't understand Byrd not scorng on Satin's hit in the 2nd or 3rd. Right play to tag if he thought it would be caught but clear from my POV it wasn't going to be, Tuffle shoulda been able to see that too. shouldn'tve mattered but of course it did. yeah, I forgot about that. One of those where I follow the track of the ball and then look back and do a double take that Byrd was just getting to third. The possibility to score a run is worth the small risk that you don't get to tag up on a nice play. Of course, freaking get a freaking hit/sac fly? That's where they walked Lagares (first since April!) to pitch to Q and Harvey. I guess that's where you credit Davey's managing.

Also, coincidence that they started doing the wave just before the game-tying hit?

Worst type of game, A dominating SP performance and a fast-paced game that grinds to a frustrating multiple-pitching change halt in lead-blowing explosive fashion. bleh! At least I got to talk to (well, listen as the other bloggers talked to since I didn't have a question, Gooden and Nimmo) and got a free shirt with Mr. Met and a gecko on it. (I'm also on the less is more track. Always believe the more pitchers you go to the more likely you are to find the one that simply doesn't have it. At least when the pitcher on the mound isn't actively exploding that is)

metirish wrote: Forecast looks troubling? it must, the Mets are playing. I wonder if any of these new All-Star Food will be lurking during this home stand.

Swan Swan H wrote: 9/40 is still 16 points higher than Tejada was hitting for the season. In fact, 11/50 is 11 points higher than Tejada is hitting for the season. So, these hideous slumps with which you are damning Quintanilla are just about what yer man Ruben was hitting before he got hurt. He's not my man. I don't even particularly like him as a player. Maybe If Quintanilla was hitting better, the Mets wouldn't have to play such sparkling defense to save the game? It's good that he's did it, but on a team that still so desperately needs offense.. Quintanilla is at what, -.3 WAR? sure, not as bad as Tejada was, but that's the past, not the future. This is moot anyway, as Tejada is NOT ready to come up. He's still what, a week away at best? Has he started the lateral movement stuff he wasn't doing yet? Given all that, Terry Collins comments are even less useful, since we all know the situation will likely change by then. After all, we still haven't decided whether Gee or Hefner goes away when Wheeler comes up.

Byrd, much like Hairston, is a free agent. Maybe the Mets feel 2014 is a more worthwhile year to invest a little extra in a good 4th outfield masher. Sandy wasn't thrilled with the offerings for Scott at the trade deadline though, and while Byrd is probably a bit better (And defensively too) I'm not sure anything useful is going to available this year either. I'm fine with him not dumping him for the sake of dumping him, but I know others would rather have anything at all that might possibly be of any value at any time ever. This is one of those minor things that I'm good with whatever Sandy decides.

Edgy MD wrote: Quintanilla has lost the job? I thought he had a nice series. As nice as you can do when you're oh for your last 13. He's basically doing what he did last year, hot start, and then mostly sinking back to the mean. Last year Tejada showed up before he hit it..this year? This is why I'd rather bring Tejada back BEFORE Q goes into a 11/50 slide. (He's 9/40 since David Wright's players-only meeting after the Cubs loss)

Edgy MD wrote: Hold his job? No, make him show you something. Make him earn it or Quintanilla lose it. It's a competitive world. But there's a compelling interest for the Mets to be rooting for him. Quintanilla has already lost it. If the Mets had ANYONE else to play there..

Vic Sage wrote: from Mr. Flood: This is, of course, ignoring all other objective and subjective information about Ruben Tejada. So it�s kind of a silly exercise. correct. The main point is to emphasize the bits about how freaking young he is and why you don't give up on him.

Edgy MD wrote: Is there a fast way of telling, though the IMDB, what the earliest date is from which that the Mets have a .500+ record? you mean this season or overall? I've been wanting to track that overall, but I sorta destroyed my database accidentally and haven't found the time.

It's all positionally adjusted. There's definitely a baseline and it's definitely negative for first baseman. These things are very much a work in progress, although people ARE making progress. I think first basemen, and catchers, are two of the trickier ones. It's trickier to measure, statistically, the value of framing pitches and digging throws out of the dirt. Height plays in too. I suspect you could find a correlation between player high and dWAR at first base. (and long arms) A player with a long reach is actually shortening the distance of a throw and increasing the size of the target the thrower has to not make an error. dWAR is a fielding stat, but so much of what first baseman do is not fielding.

Vic Sage wrote: In the minors, his numbers were slightly better, as you'd expect, but not much. Over 1900 plate appearances, his line went all the way up to .337 / .351. Now he's still young of course, but all that indicates is that one day, if he works hard and stays in shape, he has the opportunity to be older. In his last full year in the minors, in 2009, in AA, he was the third youngest player in the entire league. The average age was 24.3. He was 19. he would _still_ be young for the league. Age has a whole lot to do with it. http://patrickfloodblog.com/2012/02/01/optimistically-projecting-ruben-tejada/ No one's making him out to be the savior, but the only thing Quintanilla has going for him is that Tejada played poorly all around most of this season before getting hurt. Ruben Tejada's career wOBA would still put him roughly middle of the pack in the majors for shortstops, and if this season was just a blip, what he did the last two seasons would be top 10. It's not that he can be Alex Rodriguez, it's that capable shortstops who won't embarrass you are hard to find. Tejada has done that in the past, in a much larger sample than what has happened so far this year. If Terry thinks penance is the minors is going to snap him out of some funk that an injury and rehab didn't, then that's fine, but the numbers and logic don't merit leaving him down there long.

Frayed Knot wrote: If Tejada wants a fresh start he should be made to show that he's earned a fresh start. That's what Terry (and, by extension, Sandy) is saying and I agree with him/them. If Tejada had played well enough over the first two months of the season this may not be an issue, but he didn't so it is. And all I'm saying is that I'm extremely confident that he's going to convince them of that by the time his normal rehab is over. They'll get there and they'll be all "Good job working hard to get back Ruben!" and promote him.

Frayed Knot wrote: Ceetar wrote: ... so why would you stick with the filler guy when you have the guy that's actually worth something and has potential. Because the fill-in is playing better NOW. . The fill in is playing now, certainly. Better than Tejada was when he got hurt? yes. Better than Tejada would if you called him up instead of sending him to the minors? Doubtful. Let's get a fresh start from Tejada, who knows, maybe the leg was bothering him a little prior to actually hurting it. Give him the time he needs to get his timing down, and then promote him unless there is something obvious. And btw, that .529 by Tejada would be better than what Q has done over the last two weeks. (.517)

Frayed Knot wrote: Ceetar wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Terry says that when Ruben gets healthy, he's going to Las Vegas or Binghamton, and that he's going to have to win his job back from Omar Q. that shouldn't be tough. He can probably do that in a handful of rehab games anyway. Given 200 ML ABs Tejada couldn't prove he can out-play what Quintanilla is currently giving the team, what makes you think he can so easily do so in a handful of Binghamton games? Not that either guy is going to the ASG, but Q's .242/.290/.363 over 91 ABs beats Ruben's .209/.267/.262 over 187 Because Ruben Tejada is a better baseball player, beyond these small samples, and all the data is in his favor. So does any future prospects for these players as well. Quintanilla is not playing particularly well, so why would you stick with the filler guy when you have the guy that's actually worth something and has potential.

Yankees 12-18 in that stretch.

I'm just impressed they've played over .500 for 29 games. Please, someone show up and hit a little and we might even get a 16-13 next 29!

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Terry says that when Ruben gets healthy, he's going to Las Vegas or Binghamton, and that he's going to have to win his job back from Omar Q. that shouldn't be tough. He can probably do that in a handful of rehab games anyway.

G-Fafif wrote: It's a way more fun legend when it's been rendered inactive. 185 games without a no-hitter.

it even has me!