5.Jesus Flores (WAS) $2 – He’ll be on the DL till May so you should be able to get him cheap and he can hit when healthy.
6.Omir Santos (NYM) $2 – Not much upside here but he can hit for average.
Are you one of these fantasy dudes? Do you realize this isn't really baseball? Do you know that baseball is when you turn the computer off, leave your bedroom at your mother's house, and walk down to the park where the real people hit a ball with a bat? Did you realize how close these fantasy people are when they say that guys like Flores and Santos are worth ony two bucks?
No matter how angry, disappointed or apathetic you might be about "Doc" right now, it is Dwight Gooden, an ordinary man with very real problems, whose life and whose family's future is at stake here. Try to remember that when your first instinct is to judge, condemn or joke. When I heard what happened on Tuesday morning, I thought about the man. Maybe you could too.
-with all due respect, Mark, I don't agree Doing dope for the 5000th time, this time with your kid in the car, is "just a man"? Mark, I'm an alcoholic... and did my share of partying back in the day... but I've been clean and sober since July 3, 1985... according to my daughter, that's a man. The least he could do is simply go away and never have anything to do with the Mets again.
Right-hander Bobby Jones, debuted in 1991. Jones was the Mets' first round pick in 1991 following an brilliant career with Fresno State. He won the 1991 National Pitcher of the Year award, finishing the season 16-2 with 18 complete games and 166 strikeouts in 20 starts. Jones was sent to Double-A for the 1992 season and quickly proved that his college numbers were no fluke. In 158 innings spanning 24 starts, he posted a 143/43 K/BB ratio while giving up only 5 home runs, good for an impressive 2.62 FIP. His 1.88 ERA got the attention of the guys at Baseball America, too, as he was ranked as the 28th best prospect in baseball before the 1993 season. Jones made it to New York by the end of 1993, and was a mainstay in their rotation for much of the remainder of the decade. But his ability to miss bats never translated to the major league level, preventing him from ever being much more than a solid back-of-the-rotation starter.
Joel Sherman scared the hell out of me this morning:
On March 20 the Mets released Hisanori Takahashi. No worries Mets’ fans, it was just a technicality. The Mets and Takahashi had a contract understanding that if he reached the majors that he would be paid $1 million with $2 million possible in performance bonuses. But MLB rules for first-time contracts to players not on the 40-man roster are very restrictive. For example, those players cannot receive bonuses based on performance. So what the Mets did with the blessing of the Commissioners Office and with a handshake agreement with Takahashi’s agent, Peter Greenberg, was to waive Takahashi and then instantly re-sign him to what now becomes his second contract, which strips away most restrictions. The Mets did the same thing last year with another Greenberg client from Japan, Ken Takahashi. -
Thanks to Mets Police:
Mack- Einstein's definition of insanity os doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. Expecting Doc to "be a man" at this point is insane! I agree he should be in the Mets HOF for his performance on the field. I will never forget being a kid on vacation in Maine and my father and I staying inside to watch Doc pitch. It was an occasion, much like when Pedro Martinez pitched in his Boston days. However, your right! It is time for the Mets to part ways with Doc after the HOF induction. He deserves a cheer for who he was as a pitcher, and he deserves a boo for not being a man and taking that career, fatherhood and husband to where all of them could of gone. In the end, he is his own worst enemy, we all have choices and he continues to choose wrong.
ReplyDeletetha nks for the comments - I'll talk more about this on my next Q&A posting
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