According to Pete Abraham of the Boston Globe, right-hander Chien-Ming Wang has decided to sign with the Nationals. - Source: Pete Abraham on Twitter
-watch out in 2011... this could be one hell of a rotation
Life would have been better if no one said the phrase – ever — but it was too late now. By the time Tim Leary first heard someone say it in his presence all he could do was go out and try to provide evidence to support the claims, and for a short while anyway, he did. Leary, a UCLA graduate, overpowered hitters with a 96-mile per hour fastball, then buckled their knees with a biting curveball. In 1980,... link
Sherman, "The Mets obviously know they are best served with Santos and Josh Thole at Triple-A for depth." Now, really? They're better served with Omir Santos being in Triple-A rather than the team's everyday catcher... to offer the team depth? Now, certainly nobody has been waltzing around claiming that Met fans won't miss the days of Mike Piazza soon thanks to Henry Blanco and Chris Coste. Pretty much everyone knows that the Mets need catching help. They had their eyes set on Bengie Molina, presumably to improve upon Santos' .290 career OBP, but he presumably didn't want to give up his status as a middle-of-the-order hitter, so he returned to San Francisco. But frankly, Santos better serves the team by being in AAA simply because that means that he's presumably very far away from the big league team. At least with Thole there's a chance that he gives you a decent on-base percentage. I don't really agree with Sherman's assertion that they sign Rod Barajas to fix the catching situation, because for all of the solid defense and power that he brings to the table, there's a guy who's pretty much shown that he won't be an upgrade on the Santos/Blanco duo at the plate. - link
C (2009 – Power 35; First Base Rate 75; Discipline 78; Speed 59) -
In examining the Met organization, there appears to be predominantly two types of players: 1) High ceiling, aggressively pushed, Latin American players or low-ceiling American players. Thole is the first on the latter list. Thole has one of the best contact approaches in the system, and possesses excellent plate discipline skills. However, his contact-first approach generates little in the way of power, his speed is only adequate at best, and his catching defense is only adequate on good days. While there is a role for these type of players in the Majors, it is almost always in a reserve capacity. While he will be given a chance to earn the back-up spot in New York this Spring, expect Thole to open the season in AAA. He will have to make his way at Catcher, as he doesn’t have enough offense to profile at any other place that he can defensively play.
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Unless Jacobs is another one of those moving parts to make a trade with the Reds happen by including Daniel Murphy. Nah, makes too much sense. Jeff Wilpon wants the Bisons to be a triple-A force. And why would Keith Hernandez bother to spend time teaching Murphy how to play first base? Besides, we know that in addition to the fact that the Mets have now unofficially run out of money (Jacobs is the guy who breaks the bank?), Omar Minaya is only permitted to do one thing at a time: - link
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