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G-Fafif wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Baseball would be a far more interesting game with 16-man rosters. And incredibly fascinating with extreme cagefighting. Danny Herrera and Prince Fielder. go! I wish teams benchjockey'd more.
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25.7% Line drives, 7.2% infield hits.both up 3% or so from the year before. I don't know what league average is.(actually, i do, 19.6%) .295 BABIP. That seems high for a line drive percentage for Tejada. Reyes is a career 20% 21.1 last season. Guys like Pujols have more fly balls. I read someone that they are/did/are going to institute a LD/FB stat to distinguish hard hit home runs/doubles off wall versus soft fly outs. Tejada had a .333 BABIP. That's not particularly high, particularly for 25% line drives. Yet all of Fangraphs predictive stats for 2012 have Tejada having a lower batting average. (not that I trust those) Citi Field seemed to create higher BABIP, given that there was more ground to hit, but presumably that'll come down. edit: beat to the punch. But yeah. I'll take Slow Castillo (prime) or Almost Alfonzo from Tejada for sure.
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themetfairy wrote: Is there a Hummer involved in this decision? yes, but Jeter's not going to give him a giftbasket afterwards.
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bmfc1 wrote: Ceetar--I apologize but I can't participate this year. No big deal, maybe you can swipe a team next year if someone drops out. speaking of which, we have 11. 1 more fills the league..takers? I may post it to twitter and cherry pick a 12th if we don't find one, just for completeness sake.
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Why back to the silly DH? I guess it's Santana and kid gloves and all, but shoulder, fielding, hitting, it's pretty obvious he's not chien mieng wang.
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yeah, .350 SLG was optimistic, I'm hoping with a little more experience he slaps some more into gaps. I read somewhere that he's been working on the SB thing, and it feels like the team is planning to be aggressive this year. 15 probably only happens if he bats up in the order though. I'd put him 8th and he's more apt to be bunted over there.
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Resuming Baseball Activities: Injuries in 2012
Ceetar replied to Edgy MD's topic in New York Mets Talk
Rubes wrote: I'm told by some helpful eyewitnesses that Wright did throw the ball a little while outdoors. -
Just trying to think of it in terms of Good/Great baseball players that have had their career extended because of the DH. Because if the position gives the world 2-3 more years of Albert Pujols hitting, I could learn to tolerate it. But I think players like Pujols, if he remains that awesome, would be able to at least fake it in the field. Bonds wasn't exactly a good defender for the Giants. Edgy DC wrote: Edgy DC wrote: If the union position is that the DH means more $$ for players, it just doesn't hold up. generally not. Payrolls are payrolls, a high priced DH usually means they look for a bargain at another position.
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He needs to improve, but he's 21, so that's not unreasonable. His OBP seemed BABIP/luck benefited last year, and I'm worried he's going to be just another averagish SS, which isn't the end of the world but my brain still autocompletes "Now Batting for the New York Mets, the Shortstop, " with Jose Reyes and it's going to be a while before Tejada isn't a let down just because of that. I'm going to try real hard to judge Tejada for Tejada and not as a comparison, but I'm really hoping his OBP is above Reyes' AVG from last year. Defensively my thoughts are he's probably got range, and his arm is passable, but he doesn't seem all that smooth around the bag and with the DP. Of course, he's still young too. Reyes wasn't a great SS when he started, but I really dug the way he worked at it and got better. .260/.350/.350 15 SB. I'm not even going to bother with Runs/RBI because while I don't think he should bat at the top of the order, he still might so I don't know if he's going to be scoring runs, or driving them in.
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TransMonk wrote: Pujols and Fielder. Maybe not now, but 3-5 years from now for sure. Way play a bad first base if you don't have to? Yeah, but would the Tigers have signed Fielder if they didn't have a DH spot?
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How many real DHs are there? Ones that are specifically DHs, paid as DHs, and you really really really wouldn't want to put them out in the field? Ortiz? Guerrero maybe, but I'd contend that he could, and would, just play a bad OF to keep his bat in the lineup if there was no DH. He'd also work out there and practice out there. He's a DH because it's an option, not a DH because he had no other option. You might be able to say the same about Ortiz, that he'd play a bad 1B even still if he'd been playing a bad 1B there for a years.
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bmfc1 wrote: An argument the DH-ers keep making is "everybody else does it." So what? Just because it provides greater opportunities for someone to play in the minors, college or high school doesn't mean that Major League Baseball is better with it than without it. The Player's Union keeps pushing it because it's typically a highly paid position but if they really cared about their union members, they'd campaign for abandoning it in favor of a 26 man roster so that an additional player can be in the major leagues. well a 26th man wouldn't make as much as a bench player as the DH would. Everyone does _not_ do it, so I'm not really sure why they bring that up. Not all the minor leagues do it, not all the Japanese leagues do it.
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I didn't make it through the whole thing (it's late) I stopped when he seemed to claim the Red Sox got gipped. jipped? anyway, I see it as inevitable too, as much as I hate to see it and would accept any compromise to go to no DH. but with Interleague likely expanding, I don't see how NL teams aren't worn down to actually desire a DH by watching their teams trot out bench guys against the AL for ~15 games a year.
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"You may not replace his exuberance with one person," Dickey said. "There have been a couple of people that are high-energy guys. Daniel Murphy is in there full time now. He definitely helps pick up the slack. I'm not disappointed with the guys that we have presently from an energy standpoint. Dickey: "You�re still trying to replace Reyes." Bay: "We have to replace him." Dickey: "No we don�t. What we can try to do, though, is recreate him in the aggregate." please don't sign Jeremy Giambi.
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Jose called the press box to check on Jay Horowitz' ankle.
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Marlins secret weapon, reliever Brad Hand, coming to bat.
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that's a good .15 OPS beyond Ceetar.
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Edgy DC wrote: Bay 2-2 against the Joshiest Josh Johnson in the league. And then the rains came down, because the author of fate could not let the abomination of Jos� vs. the Mets continue. the rain rain rain came down down down, in rushing rising rivers.. Marlins just want Johnson through the game without getting hurt.
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metsguyinmichigan wrote: His sense if the Mets were relying only on the farm system. The financial mess can't go on forever. We're a big market team that signs big players. We don't need nine homegrown players. It's nice to have a bunch. But the team has always been able to sign a big player, or trade for one. One the finances are straightened out, or there is new management, we can go back to being a big-market club and sign some big players to fill the holes. I'm optimistic that we won't suck this year, and will be in the hunt as soon as next year. Last year's team was riddled with injuries, and they still were only a few bullpen meltdowns away from finishing above .500. even if they don't, the Mets will still spend what they make, and they'll make money. Particularly with that 'nice not quite a core' with no weighty contracts. so where's the other 40-50 million dollars getting spent?
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Resuming Baseball Activities: Injuries in 2012
Ceetar replied to Edgy MD's topic in New York Mets Talk
themetfairy wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Just my feelings, but you don't have to quote the entirety of a post, I think, when it immediately precedes your'n. Except for those times that your post winds up at the very top of the next page, and people forget what it is that you're discussing. Or you're discussing off-topic like trades in an injury thread. -
plus if he maintains a plus OBP, he's more than valuable. I think Tejada might..well, you'll see presumably he's next.
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duan wrote: would it be wrong to plunk him? yes, save it for Hanley.
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.275/.360/.350 31% CS, passable defense.
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TransMonk wrote: Also, I don't agree with Law's assessment that the "toughness" of the NL East is going to effect the timeline. color it with that he's a prospect guy. Thinks Familia will be a reliever. So Strasburg and Zimmermann and (I don't know their system.) and Harper. and the Braves have a billion high level pitching prospects right now, who I'm sure he's high on. I'm not sure why he, or anyone, thinks the Marlins and Phillies are going to sustain long term sucess.
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Resuming Baseball Activities: Injuries in 2012
Ceetar replied to Edgy MD's topic in New York Mets Talk
Edgy DC wrote: He's a candidate, I think, because even as those guys find their respective ways, Satin is pretty redundant with him as the for-the-time-being-guy who can fill in adequately at second, third and short. But having a year of staying above water behind him, Turner probably has more trade market value than Satin. whereas Satin might actually be better, so that could be win-win. Satin can 'play' short? I should probably know that.
