Lucas Duda had
trouble coming in on balls and he had trouble going back on balls too. Duda had
four Defensive Misplays for failing to anticipate the fence, which rated his
biggest defensive issue. Pro-rated over a full season, Duda’s misplay rate
would come equate to nearly 60 Defensive Misplays & Errors for an everyday
player over a full season. That would be about as bad as could be. Last year’s
major league leaders, Justin Upton of the Diamondbacks and Mike Stanton of the
Marlins, had 49. Other advanced defensive metrics are not kind to Duda either.
Duda was charted as costing the Mets eight runs with his right field defense,
combining the value of his ability to get to balls with the deterrent ability
of his throwing arm. http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/37871/simonwhats-next-for-lucas-duda?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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- Second base: Reese Havens. Havens is a career .301/.379/.505 hitter in Double-A,
but he’s only gotten into a total of 93 games the past two seasons due to
injuries. Picked one pick ahead of Dykstra in the 2008 draft, he’s now 25 and
badly needs a healthy season, but still has the potential to be an
offense-oriented second baseman. Grade: B-
Jonathan
Niese might be the most underrated young pitcher in the game. If
you look at his record last year, you'll see an unimpressive 11-11 record with
an equally unimpressive ERA of 4.40. But that cover really doesn't judge the
book. He had an extremely high BABIP against last season at .333. Part of that
was due to a fairly high line drive rate at 20.6 percent. The Mets' infield
defense will be discussed in a moment, but suffice it to say that it didn't
help Niese, a ground ball pitcher. Plus, a fairly significant amount of balls
hit in the air ended up over the fence. Since opponents do not hit a lot of fly
balls against him, we can consider that home rate a bit of a fluke. Niese had a
FIP last season of 3.36 and an xFIP of 3.28. He was a much better pitcher than
he looked. http://passion4baseball.blogspot.com/2012/02/nl-east-fascinating-place-mets.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Bullpen: Instead of re-signing the
catalyst of this club, –Jose Reyes– Alderson decided to invest $7.5 million in
two relievers; and they were paid much more than what they’re worth. What
everyone seems to forget is Frank Francisco had a 5.92 ERA in the first half of
2011. He has never been a consistent reliever and now the Mets are committed to
him for 2 years. As for Rauch, they decided to give him $3.5 million when he
not only had a 4.85 ERA last year, but also is coming off of knee surgery!
Aren’t these bottom-of-the-barrel signings supposed to be cheap and at give at
least a decent return? The sole improvement to the ‘pen was Ramon Ramirez, and
the Mets had to take a major downgrade in centerfield to acquire him. http://metsmerizedonline.com/2012/02/two-schools-of-thought-on-the-2012-mets-part-one.html
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