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Mets designated RHP Jack Egbert for assignment. Egbert was cleared to make room for outfielder Jason Pridie on the 40-man roster. The 26-year-old right-hander was claimed off waivers from the White Sox in September. He allowed eight runs in 2 2/3 innings with Chicago last season, but spent most of the season with Triple-A Charlotte, posting a 5.05 ERA in 108 2/3 innings. - link
Mets claimed OF Jason Pridie off waivers from the Twins. The maneuver clears room on Minnesota's 40-man roster for Orlando Hudson. Pridie, a former second-round pick of the Rays in 2002, has a .276/.319/.425 batting line over eight minor league seasons. The 26-year-old speedster has had a couple brief stints with the Twins, but has yet to record his first major league hit. He'll function as insurance for the Mets' center field situation. - link
An email from William James to me:
ok, I admit on the surface this sounds grossly stupid, but realistically so much went wrong with the mets last year that you really had to discount the whole entire year. So this is how i look at the mets winning the NL east. With the addition of the players we lost last year and the addition of players this year, i would like to gauge everyone's thoughts on what I am about to write. This is games i think if the player is playing can help contribute to the team. Keep in mind we won only 70 games last year. 1. Reyes missed 126 games last year. We all know he is the type of defensive/offensive/charismatic player that can change a game. Now if he played those games lets say the mets win roughly 6 more games because of him in the lineup. Reyes: 3 2. Delgado missed 136 games last year. With the addition of Bay in our lineup in place of Delgado, he is a bat to be feared. Lets say bay nets us 3 wins. Bay replacing the injured Delgado: 3 wins. 3. Beltran missed 81 games last year. Again he is a game changing player on both sides of the field. Even when he was on the field he just was not himself. If he played the other 81 games lets be modest and say he nabs us 3 wins. Beltran: 3 wins 4. Franceour was a mid season addition and if he continues to be the bat he was last year, he can gets us a few wins. What I think people neglect to notice, is how Murphys bat took off once he was apart of the lineup. Murphy finished very strong towards the end of the year and I think he will have a fine offensive year because of Frenchy hitting behind him. Say these two will brings us 4 wins togehter. Frenchy and Murphy: 4 wins 5. Santana missed 6 starts due to elbow issues and on top of that the few starts toward the end of his season he was getting rocked. say things were different and he actually won say maybe 3 of those starts. Santana: 3 6. We all know the second half of the season we virtually had no 5th starter, Parnell was getting lit up and our makeshift 5th spot just wasnt doing work for us. Say in 12 starts, the next years starter will get us 4 wins. 5th starter: 4 wins Now in total that equals 20 more wins. Add that on to last years total of 70 and we will have a grand total of 90 wins. Now do you think in my estimations I was somewhat accurate for wins contributions? I felt I was very generous. What tweaking to the numbers would you do? Neise or Neive will no doubt be a solid 5th starter more so than how livan hernandez ended his career with the mets.
Mack: Well, I tend to be quite concervative in this area, so here’s what I think:
A Healthy Jose Reyes: + 3 games
A Healthy Carlos Beltran: +2 games
A Healthy F-Rod: +2 games
Jason Bay: +2 games
Kelvim Escobar: +1 game
New catching combo: -1 game
Another year with Castillo: -1 game
Lower centerfield wall: even - total: + 8 games = 78 wins
Other Mets Hitters:
3B (2009 – Power 45; First Base Rate 32; Discipline 47; Speed 38) - We are allowing Marte somewhat of a mulligan for 2009, as there is no way that the barely 18yo should have opened the season in the SAL, and he was coming off of the Top Offensive Performance in the GCL the previous year. The good news is that he posted a nearly 100 point OPS gain in the second half of the 2009 season, and finished the year with a Top 25 Performance score in the SAL. Marte has tremendous upside, as there is significant projectability left in him, projectable, at least, average Big League power, and, while still tremendously raw, a defensive skill set that could allow him to stay at thirdbase. While he did strike out in more than 22% of his plate appearances in 2009, we feel this was more from pressing than strike zone recognition, as this hadn’t been a problem in the GCL. One of his greatest strengths is an extremely advanced (maturity) approach to the game. The downside is that none of this translated into positive production in 2009. Look for the Mets to return Marte to the SAL to start the season, where he will play the first half as still an 18yo. We wouldn’t be surprised to see all the skills click this season, and see a big bounceback year. - link
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