Buster Olney - @Buster_ESPN
Mets: Amazing. Their two highest paid pitchers might not be available
opening day, and their 2 highest-paid outfielders are Bonilla and Bay.
This
is messed up and entirely unexplainable to the general baseball fan.
You simply
can’t come up with a better case example (good legal term, Rey?) that long term
contracts can bury a team in mediocrity.
Folks, you
lock these guys up for this kind of money
that include years that their game is in decline and you are not going
to get players that bust their ass. Oh, there are exceptions, and hopefully
David Wright is one of them, but always remember how much of this game is
mental.
Santana
and Francisco for Soriano… just get them out of camp.
Jose Reyes went 3-3, 2B, HR,
3RBI on Saturday. Hitting .643 this spring
(pick up the phone…) okay… Ruben Tejada, Daniel
Murphy, Juan Centeno, Cory Mazzoni, and Darin Gorski for Reyes… hello… hello?
Peter Gammons - @pgammo
Scout in Fla.-"I've seen three young catchers this spring who'll
have long careers--D'Arnaud(Mets), Vazquez(Bos.), Bethancourt(Atl)
Travis
d'Arnaud was 1 for 2, 2B, RBI. Hitting .455 so far in ST
It’s becoming increasingly more obvious that
this is the real deal. I wasn’t that thrilled with his first few throws down to
second base, but his bat speed is not only controlled, but extremely compact
and, well, fast as hell. It reminds me a lot of David Wright. We may have a
reversal of last year’s hot first half, cold second half. Stellar years by Ike Davis, Jon Niese, and Lucas Duda, a steady Ruben Tejada, Dillon Gee, and Wright, a rebirth
of Scott
Atchison, Latroy Hawkins, and Marlon Byrd, and emerging years second half seconds by Zack Wheeler ahd D’Arnaud could make
for an interesting race for second place
.
Matt Harvey's line against the Marlins 2.2IP, 1ER, 3H, 1BB, 4K
Simply
put, we’re not going to have to worry about this gu
y for 5+ years, barring any
major injury. He’s the obvious opening day pitcher in 2014 and, I can’t see him
losing that honor to even Zack Wheeler. I’ll start the few predictions I come
up with each spring (I hate predictions) with this one: 16-7, 3.15, 1.10, 190.1-IP, 212-K, 47-BB
3 comments:
Money wasted on Santana and Bay, should have been used on Reyes...but there is one decent outcome after the Marlins trade: I have an AL Mets team to route for in addition to the NL Mets (aka, Toronto Blue Jays)...
Yeah, I'm REALLY hoping Toronto makes the playoffs and wins at least one series. I know their GM really went out on a limb and I'm amazed by how many prospects they had available to trade.
I hope Dickey continues his recent history as a premium starting pitcher and hope Reyes continues to be a really good player. This team should do pretty well. I actually think their biggest threat is the Rays. The Yankees are old and I doubt they'll stay healthy. I hated all of Boston's signings. They gave a lot of mediocre players big money on short term contracts. The Orioles shockingly did nothing after their great season which really must sit horribly with their players.
Toronto should at the very least get a wild card birth.
vtmet: money for Santana and Bay was spent long before Jose was in play. (I'm sure you knew that.) That said, that imaginary (tongue in cheek?) trade for Reyes never gets proposed because I can't imagine Sandy buying in to that bad contract he was given by the Fish. If he did, come 2017 you would be saying "money wasted on Reyes should have been used on Ike"
Now I'm guessing that all Met fans are hoping that, come October, the Jays won't be blue.
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