2. The Mets will sign SP Ben Sheets to a 3-yr (team option third year) contract.
3. The Mets will sign OF Johnny Damon to a 2-year contract.
3a.(forgot this one and slipped it in at the end) SP Mike Pelfrey will be traded to a small market team for a PTBNL.
4. The Mets will announce they are done with the free agent/trade market for the period before ST.
5. The Mets will go to TarpField with a rotation of Johan Santana, Ben Sheets, Oliver Perez, John Maine, and Nelson Figueroa.
6. SP Jon Niese will open Buffalo on the mound with C Josh Thole, 2B Ruben Tejada, 1B Ike Davis, and LF Fernando Martinez in the field.
7. The opening day Mets lineup will be Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran, David Wright, Johnny Damon, Jeff Fracoeur, Daniel Murphy, Luis Castillo, Benjie Molia, and Johan Santana.
8. Buffalo's starting lineup will be Ruben Tejada, Josh Thole, Ike Davis, Chris Carter, Fernando Martinez, Lucas Duda, Alejandro Machado, Mike Cervenak, and Jonathan Niese.
9. SP Jonathan Niese will replace Nelson Figueroa in the rotation May 1. Figgy will go to the Mets pen as an innings eater.
9. The Mets will be 8 games out at the all-star break.
10. Buffao will be 6 games out at the all-star break.
11. Josh Thole and Ike Davis will be promoted to Queens, replacing Benjie Molina and Daniel Murphy in the starting lineup.
12. Nick Evans and Henry Blanco will be reassigned to Bullalo.
13. Mets recent 2nd round raft pick, C Yasmani Grandal, will be fast tracked to Buffalo, replacing Thole.
14. Buffalo's OF Chris Carter, leading AAA in home runs, will switch to 1B, replacing Davis.
15. Mets 1st round pick, OF Bryce Brentz, will be fast tracked from Lucy, and will replace Carter in the Bisons' outfield.
16. The Mets will be 6 games out of a wild card on Sept. 1.
17. Buffalo will be 10 games out of the playoffs by Sept. 1.
18. September call-ups will include: SP Dillon Gee, RP Roy Merritt, RP Elmer Dessens, and LF Fernando Martinez.
19. Buffalo call ups will include: SP Brad Holt, SP Jenrry Mejia, SP Scott Moviel, RP Brant Rustich, RP Josh Stinson, 2B Reese Havens, 3B Zach Lutz, OF Kirk Nieuwenhaus, and OF Carlos Guzman.
20. The will finish the 2010 season three games out of the playoffs.
21. Buffalo will finish the 2010 seasonfour games out of the playoffs.
3 comments:
What ever happened to Shawn Bowman? Isn't he most complete third base prospect Mets have? I realize his back injuries have slowed his progress but should start in AAA and is only third base prospect that can field and has pretty good idea on how to hit. Only real question is whether he will hit for enough power. You didn't inlcude him on third base list for minors either. I can't believe you think he is big league ready so what gives? I thought he was a player that the Mets would stick in a trade and it would come back to haunt the Mets. So far they haven't done so. Before his back injuries wasn't he being hyped as a potential reason to move Wright to first base?
How about this instead. Sign Aroldis Chapman. He helps Buffalo at beginning of year and with the addition of Urbina and Matz the Mets all of a sudden, assuming health from Mejia and Holt, have one of the deepest farm systems in potential top of the rotation starters. There are too many question marks in Mets rotation so someone needs to be traded. Although he has a big upside, Mike Pelfrey is most logical player to go. I try a package centered on Pelfrey and the Astros choice of FMart or Neuwenhuis for Roy Oswalt. Xavier Nady would be a good sign as well. He can platoon at first while he is recovering from surgery at beginning of year and provides outfield depth second half of season. First base depth is necessary because Ike Davis is an injury risk. He didn't hit any homeruns his first year as a Mets farmhand because of an oblique injury and he tweaked the same injury right after the all-star break last year so I am a little concerned that this will be a lingering issue. Don't count out Daniel Murphy at first. He made adjustments to his swing mid season that David Wright was unable to do. His biggest problem is not knowing where to be in cutoff situations. It's too bad that the Mets don't pay Keith Hernandez a little extra to help Murph with the transition to first. No need to trade Castillo at second. Expect Reese Havens to make quick progress this year. His underlying stats show he is primed for break out year. Keep Luis for this year and then have Havens transition into job second half of 2011 season. Let's all pray that Jose Reyes is physically healthy and David Wright starts trusting himself over Howard Johnson and Jerry Manuel. I would've fired both Johnson and Manuel just for what they did to Wright alone last year. Outfield is tough. I protect Beltran's knees and put him in left. Having had three knee surgeries on my left knee I can empathize with Beltran but he is most likely never going to be the same again. Lastly sign both Bedard and Sheets. Lineup
1. Jose Reyes, ss
2. Angel Pagan, cf
3. Carlos Beltran, lf
4. David Wright, 3b
5. Daniel Murphy/ Xavier Nady, 1b
6. Jeff Francouer, RF
7. Benjie Molina, C
8. Luis Castillo, 2b
Starters
1. Johan Santana
2. Roy Oswalt
3. Ben Sheets
4. Oliver Perez
5. John Maine, Jonathan Niese, Erik Bedard or Nelson Figeurora until weather warms.
I would let Parnell start at AAA. With Aroldis Chapman and perhaps Niese or Bedard at beginning of year.
All of these moves would cost considerably less then signing Bay and keep emphasis on starting pitching which is where it should be. Mets minor league system is down in part because the injury bug hit the minors last year as well. Just give it time and Mets farm system has potential to be in top ten by end of the year.
Mark.
1. I simply forgot about Powman the first time. He simply wasn't in my mind's eye.
2. Regarding Bowman's chances to crack 3B for Queens, it's not going to happen. Wright will die a Met, will never play OF or 1B, and Bowman will either become a fixture at 3B in AAA, become an AAAA Met, or be traded somewhere. He's a very good player, but nobody wil replace David Wright until he's 35+. Nobody.
3. Your play is fine. It's your plan. Mine looks like it's already wrong if the Mets sign Piniero. Plans fail.
M
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