Don’t get excited here. They don’t include the starting lineup of the 1927 Yankees.
The Francesco Pena addition is interesting, but remember… you need lots of catchers in spring training to warm up the pitchers in the bullpen. Just ask Josh Thole. He had that job last year.
Travis Blackley is another of those once high draft picks that never made it. Seems Omar and Co. likes to keep doing this in hopes of striking gold. So far, they haven’t.
Don’t know anything about Cabrera, other than he’s the wrong Cabrera. Same Same for Hernandez and, “I presume (get it?)”, Livingston.
Love the fact that Tejada, Davis, Niesen, and Nieuwenhuis were added… these are the future Mets, folks.
I’m very interested to see how they use Mejia. Everybody says I’m nuts, but he only has 1 ½ pitches and, if he doesn’t progress, he is destined for the 8th inning position in 2012.
And, it’s nice to see Muniz is back. I’m not sure, but I think he got through the Rule V and he’s been a AAA asset for the team.
Now, all they have to do is sign another first baseman that has hit 20+ home runs at AAA, and Buffalo will have 17 of them.
Omar Minaya will probably be forced to sign one of those pitchers to no more than a two-year deal. If that's the case, I believe that the Mets should sign Noah Lowry and Chien-Ming Wang. John Smoltz also looks like he might make sense, but there are problems. He's not getting any younger, and injuries will mess with him in 2010. Wang and Lowry aren't necessarily All-Star talents, but they both have a lot of upside. Wang was one of the better pitchers in the league before 2009, but 2009 was a complete disaster for him. Injuries and bad pitching sidelined him for most of the season. The good thing about Wang is that he can be signed as a low risk, high reward guy. I'm sure that he is not looking for a big contract. I'm thinking either a one or two-year deal filled with incentives. Signing Wang should be on the top of the Mets' to do list. As for Noah Lowry, he just seems to not have as many problems as some of those other guys. He had some injury problems last year, but if he can put those past him then he should be a perfect fit for the Mets. He won't be too expensive, isn't too old, and has some talent. - link
Fuller has an average fastball from the left side, that when I saw him this summer was mostly 88-90 and touched 91. He’s competitive, and even on nights when he didn’t have his best stuff, or his best command, he found a way to succeed. Fuller’s second offering was a slurvy curveball with slightly above average velocity in the 75 mph range, that he can work up to 78. His changeup at 78 mph could not fool NYP League hitters - link
Steve Phillips, who was fired by ESPN last year as a baseball analyst after his affair with a network production assistant became public knowledge, will be interviewed Monday by Matt Lauer on NBC’s “Today” show. His agent, Steve Lefkowitz, said in an interview that Phillips spent 45 days in Hattiesburg, Miss., at the Gentle Path sex addiction clinic, the same one that Tiger Woods reportedly attended. Phillips, a former Mets’ general manager, is attending after-care therapy. His wife, Marni, is also in therapy in Arizona, Lefkowitz said. - link
The signing of Jason Bay elicited some comparisons to past Mets acquisitions. Tim Marchman simply put up a picture of Mo Vaughn on his blog upon hearing the news. The level-headed Marchman was likely being tongue-in-cheek, as the association was a bit over-the-top. Or he simply wanted to post a picture of Big Mo (and who could blame him?). In fairness, he followed up with a more substantive post. Jeff Pearlman wrote a column at Sports Illustrated comparing Bay to George Foster, whose considerable skills disappeared almost immediately after inking a then-sizeable five year, $10 million contract with the Mets before the 1982 season. It wasn't a great comparison but there was something there; Foster signed his deal at age 33, following a string of exemplary offensive seasons. Bay is 31 and one of the best hitters in baseball. Pearlman subsequently made another comparison at his blog -- Kevin McReynolds, who was 27 when acquired by the Mets. - link
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