Comments on: The Best Laid Plans

By: PhD Brian

PhD Brian — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:47:46 +0000

actually he is on pace for 176 Ks. That is worse than Dunn and Howard. So his BA is due for a super fall if he keeps that up. Wright is very mediocre this season, but lucky. I know he is on my Fantasy Team!

By: PhD Brian

PhD Brian — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:41:53 +0000

Wright has 3 home runs and is on pace for 13. He is also on pace for 140 Ks. How is this great?

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:16:59 +0000

It’s certainly to the Mets’ credit that they have Tatis and Sheff to fall back on. They would really be in bad shape without them. (Although Sheff’s glove is brutal). That being said, with Philly’s pitching problems and Atlanta’s hitting problems, they are in a very winnable division. But, they don’t have a lot on the farm to trade away and if they have a choice between adding depth to enable them to fill in for injured starters and starting pitching, they have to go for starting pitching. Any team, outside of Tampa, would look bad without five starters on offense. Yeah, I have to agree with Eric, if they are without Reyes and Beltran long term, they won’t win, so why trade away the future for an unattainable goal? Beltran, Reyes, Wright, and Santana all (baring anyone having lied about their age) have a number of years left before they begin to decline markedly. It’s not like the Mets’ window for winning a championship is closing this year.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:11:41 +0000

Anthony – Cora isn’t a major league starter either. I don’t understand the Santos > Castro at all, though

I’m not really sure what they can do, though; the problem is that if Reyes and Beltran are gone for significant lengths of time, they might as well punt the season anyway, so there isn’t much point in giving up significant resources to get solid backups. A major-league-caliber-backup SS/2B would be nice, and I also wish they had signed Dunn, but a Murphy/Tatis platoon at 1B shouldn’t be atrocious

By: wobatus

wobatus — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:07:48 +0000

well, how good should their line- up look with 5 opening day starters hurt? And that is an easy dig at the nats and their staff, but pitching won those games, and last I looked guzman, Johnson, dunn, Zimmerman and willingham weren’t playing too badly, nor was dukes before he went down, albeit guzman is over his head (although he has been over it before, so where should he be) and willingham has a low average.

What team looks good losing 5 opening day starters? I suppose of the wilpons hadn’t lost a bundle to bernie madoff they could have signed Hudson and dunn, but they usually draw the line somewhere anyway.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:37:15 +0000

Cora will be back within the week, Beltran on Friday and if not for Jerry Manuel’s crush on Santos’ short stroke Ramon Castro would be in the lineup much more often. The pitching is doing well now that Perez is in AAA and I believe if they only gave Niese a few turns they would see he is a good pitcher.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:39:18 +0000

That “actual major league team” line was pretty funny.

By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:27:24 +0000

Does this mean they’ll be making a hard play for Ben Sheets come mid June?

No draft pick compensation. No prospects required. A contract based on 1/2 season’s worth with at most an option for 2010?

By: Mike Ketchen

Mike Ketchen — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:05:49 +0000

Lowe:3.48
Vazquez:2.65
Jurgiens:3.74
Kawakami:4.13

All pretty good FIP’s if you ask me

By: lookatthosetwins

lookatthosetwins — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:02:40 +0000

Ha, you should have seen the lineup that the Twins threw out there against Boston the other day. Mauer had the day off, Crede had a sore hand, and Span was sick. Besides being a horrible offensive lineup, they had Brian Buscher playing third and Delmon Young against a team that hits it to the left side a ton.