bleacherreport - But then everything about Davey’s baseball career is kind of bizarre. Look at his managing career. He managed one of the best teams in baseball history, the 1986 Mets, led them to 100 wins again in 1988, and he was shoved out just a little more than a year after that. He went to Cincinnati, where I covered him — he was very kind to me — and led the Reds to back-to-back first places (one of those was in the strike year of ’94) and the NL Championship Series. He was shoved out. He went to Baltimore and guided the Orioles to a 98-win season. He was shoved out — resigned the day he was named AL Manager of the Year. He went to Los Angeles, the Dodgers had a losing season (the first for Davey) and then he guided the Dodgers to a rebound year when they won 86 games. And he was shoved out again.
bleacherreport - “I always thought he did a good job over there,” said Josh Thole, who saw Murphy’s initial second-base experience in the Arizona Fall League in ’08, as well as his other dabbling at the position earlier this season with Buffalo. “He always would make the routine play. Most important, he did a good job turning double plays. The thing is that Murph is going to play hard for you. He’s going to try to make diving plays, try to make good plays. He’s smart out there. … I specifically remember him doing a very good job turning double plays. That’s the one thing that comes to my mind. He was very good around the base.”
tedquarters - Many Mets fans decried Jerry Manuel’s unwillingness to use the recently shut-down Bobby Parnell as closer. Parnell, after all, throws fastballs about a billion miles an hour. And to his credit, he did it much more effectively this season than last, posting a higher strikeout rate and a lower walk rate and yielding only one home run in his big-league stint. Just throwing really hard does not a great closer make, but Parnell’s marked improvement in 2010 bodes well for his future and he appears a viable candidate to close out games in 2011.
metstradamus - But before we get to 2011, I have a suggestion for 2010: If Jon Niese's innings are getting too high for everyone's liking and it's causing him to get rocked like he did on Wednesday, can we ... I don't know ... have Oliver F'ing Perez maybe earn a portion of his paycheck and take some innings away from Niese or Dillon Gee before their arms fall off and Niese loses all of his effectiveness for the next ... forever? It's established that the Mets don't give a good crap if Perez's arm falls off, right? He can pitch the rest of the season for all I care. Hey it's not like we're in a, what do you call those things, oh yeah ... a pennant race. I mean, he's going to be released anyway, right?
metsmerized - Luis Castillo probably won’t be a Met next year in all likelyhood and thus making Luis Hernandez or a free agent the heir apparent. With a signing of a guy like Orlando Hudson, keeping Luis Hernandez and letting Ruben Tejada get his AB’s in the minors is a much smarter idea.
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