Ceetar

Edgy DC wrote: Billy Beane is not what's wrong with baseball. He's certainly not the reason that managers have to kowtow to getting saves for their designated saviors. More citing that as ammo to the firing. the DH is what's wrong with baseball.

Edgy DC wrote: So, essentially, his sin was bringing the closer into two tie games on the rroad without asking permission? What is wrong with baseball? If the way he's portrayed in Moneyball is even 10% true, Billy Beane is a raving lunatic.

There isn't enough data. also, you can't ignore the injuries to Wright and Davis and Bay sucking. These guys are just not hitting home runs. Johan Santana is out. Oliver Perez was pretty good at Shea, sucked in Citi. offense is down across the league the last two years. There's rumors that they changed the ball a bit going into 2010 They definitely changed the maximum diameter of the bat. Which means less margin for error in hitting the ball cleanly. There are way too many variables to deduce how much Citi Field hurts homers. What's more important is that we stop trumping it up like that and scaring the players away. (or inversely, making sure our players get it but the opponents are intimidated, maximizing home field advantage)

Edgy DC wrote: I tip my hat to Fielder there. What I would have Terry do is go to Rodriguez then and there, or if Rodriguez is unavailable, his best available reliever, which I guess he meant to do. Thayer in the ninth is what chokes me. I think the logic of Thayer is that it was the bottom of the order and if the Mets were going to win it was almost guarenteed that Braun and Fielder would be coming up in the bottom of the 10th and you'd rather Frankie there. Because you know he was expecting to bunt at one point in the 10th and play for 1 run, so it's not like Thayer would have a huge cushion.

metsmarathon wrote: i still come back to the notion that i want to look at the paths that batted balls took off of jason bay's bat in 2009 and compare them to the fences of citi field, to see just how many balls he should have expected to lose to the park. i'd like to also do the same to david wright's 2008. well, more correctly, i'd like for someone to do it for me. and then i'd like to tell them both to fuck off to hell for letting the goddamned fences un-make their careers over maybe four home runs each, at least half of which would probably still go for doubles. Well, supposedly the Mets did this, and determined that Bays swing/flies would translate well.

attgig wrote: Ashie62 wrote: Add Terry Collins to last night's list. No leftie to pitch to Fielder. Gary made that point too. Of course the reason they didn't have a lefty is they already used Byrdak to pitch to Fielder, and he didn't get him out. And the other lefty options were demoted for sucking. Couldn't use Niese because he's pitching today. Good offensive team I would've gone to the save tandem duel closer thing and started with Isringhausen. But gotta get some of these guys right. Beato hasn't pitched well since returning, Buchholz was doing well until he apparently got hurt. Parnell may look good again now, but it's a small sample. But he may be ahead of Beato after last night.

TransMonk wrote: Ceetar wrote: I need to get to Miller Park. Any time you want to go, let me know. It is a pretty great ballpark for beer and a decent one for food. I dislike the architecture and design (especially the roof and lighting), but the sightlines are all good and the Brewers do an awesome job of making it their own. What was with the roof randomly leaking btw last night? Gary seemed rather concerned. It seems wrong to plan a trip now when the Mets are done there. maybe next year. hmm.

Mets actually have a very positive record at Miller. So to satisfy all trends, we win the series, but the game they lose is walk-off devasting. Then a simple series win against the thieving scoundrels in western PA gets them to .500

G-Fafif wrote: Enjoyed a Leinenkugel Honey Weiss when last at Miller Park. But Sprecher makes a damn fine root beer, indeed. I need to get to Miller Park. In fact, given my interests, I really should visit every park named for beer. I got Busch, inbetween 2 and 3. Been to Coors. been to Landshark when it wasn't Landshark.. I just noticed Misplaced Enthusiasm Thread is M.E.T. nice.

I also question your choice of beer. Let's still to micro and go Sprecher. They make some yummy sodas too. Although a Leine Summer Shandy or Berry Weiss is a pretty good beverage for the casual drinker.

you're also three hours too late. see Ashie's thread down there | | V

Benjamin Grimm wrote: DOUBLES Jos� sneaking up on HoJo and Fonzie: 1. David Wright 266 2. Ed Kranepool 225 3. Howard Johnson 214 4. Edgardo Alfonzo 212 5. Jos� Reyes 210 Beltran's right behind him somewhat at 198.

wtf

Extend Wright now* too and then announce them both as co-captains. *when he returns.

Part two. Kuroda vs. Hamels. Lowe vs. Nolasco. A.J. Burnett vs. Wakefield. Noesi, the starter turned reliever who was hanging out in thebullpen for the Yankees sent down for someone I've never heard of after 6ip in relief of Freddy Garcia. Joba strains his flexor muscle, DL'd fora while. haven't seen a call up, think it must've just happened. Luis Ayala moves up one spot in the Yankees bullpen depth.

The Second Spitter wrote: Geezus, I didn't even realize that was played at Citi. I saw 3 minutes of highlights and assumed it was played in Ecuador given the proliferation of yellow. Now, they played soccer at Citi? Perhaps a road test for the proposed Citi-based MLS team. Suddenly those seats behind home-plate don't look so good. Actually the article above makes it sound like it's not Citi-based ,merely using Citi to profile the crowd interest and they want a soccer stadim specifically. Across the street in Willets Point? (not that I care)

Edgy DC wrote: metirish wrote: I'd not be surprised if the Wilpon's had given thought to Reyes having a crap season and getting him on the cheap. I think we'd be better slicing it business-wise a la Grimmy and staying away from that sort of speculative stuff. Let's not get ourselves too worked up. We're on a winning streak. 4-2 over the next 6 gets us back to .500 to play the Braves. Angel Pagan is your cleanup hitter. let's get this party started.

The biggest thing the Mets need is a starting pitcher. Because everyone needs more starting pitching. But it'll likely be Santana-Dickey-Niese-Pelfrey as mainstays, barring injury/lackofrecovery. So it's not like they're out shopping for a bucket load of them, and that's not even counting Gee. Or unknowns like Schwinden or Cohoon being ready. Gotta address RF, but there are internal options of various degrees of potential, and plenty of ways to go. 2B is really looking like between Murphy/Turner/Tejada one of those guys might actually be workable there, at least in the sense of "we don't have to deal with this right now"

smg58 wrote: He's on a pace for similar numbers to his 2009 season everywhere except batting average, and this was actually true when he was hitting below .250 as well. He's gotten a flurry of singles lately, but I figure he'll wind up about where he was in 2009. I was figuring a slight up-tick for him from 2009 in 2010. Dunno how a lost season plays into his overall growth.

Frayed Knot wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Well, he has to be wrong because Derek Jeter fans would disagree. Jeter, you see, wouldn't have to dive for that ball because he would have been standing right there. He's always in perfect position to get it don't you know ... nevermind about those pesky facts showing that he gets to fewer balls than any other SS each year, if you'd see him every game you'd know that he's always in the right place at the right time and therefore range stats are irrelevant. The "new" thing is "He makes the plays when the ball is hit to him."

Reyes 3.5 Capuano 3.5 Beato 0.5 Isringhausen 0.5 Rodriguez 0.5 Tejada 0.5

Frayed Knot wrote: It's like he's too tall to be a good diving (Ozzie, Vizquel) kind of SS but he seems more comfortable doing so lately (last night an example). Wayne Hagin insisted last night that no other SS in baseball makes that play.

That's freaking amazin' I like the part about BABIP. So, can a career .286 hitter suddenly hit .337 for a season? Surely he can; every year, we see some veterans exceed their career BA or BAbip by 50 points or more. And don't forget that Reyes is operating in a home park that seems very much to his liking: in 120 career games there, he has slashed .324/.378/.506, with 33% of his hits going for extra bases. Finally, his current high batting average is partly supported by a decline in strikeouts; he's is on pace for 58 strikeouts, after averaging 82 Ks per 162 games in the past. It's not as nutty as it may sound (I hope) ... and until the Mets give me a better possibility to believe in, I'm believing in this one! I figured his high number .366 to career .312 would mean he wouldn't hit like this all season. But all the other numbers support it being higher this year, he's certainly not getting bloop hits and soft grounders finding holes, he's ripping the cover off the ball. He's playing in Citi Field with his legs fully healthy. He's one of the hardest players in the game to strike out. You figure he will actually slump at some point and probably be a shade off those projections (although those projections are actually on the short side after last night) but you also figure he will hit more than 3 home runs. Last night's ball was pretty much home run caliber to the wrong spot, and he said he was just trying to put a good swing on it and get the sac-fly. (Also, you gotta assume one day on one of those triples someone's going to misjudge a carem and he's going all the way around)

I think it's probably a correlary to "When all you have is a hammer, all your problems are nails". When you run a small business, particularly one associated with something you love, you're always going to look for ways to profit. I mean, the guy runs a shirt shop. That's what he does, why not try to take advantage of it? Especially when he already was making the shirts a month prior. I've met him once or twice, seems like an alright guy. His desire for the Mets to keep Reyes is genuine

G-Fafif wrote: METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through 6/7/2011 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. JOSE REYES 1,203 3. Cleon Jones 1,188 4. DAVID WRIGHT 1,182 The game notes for Mets games still say David Wright needs 6 hits to tie Cleon for second all-time. they should fix that.