Hi Mack, Look I don't really want to beat a dead horse here
but is it really possible to build this bad a bullpen seemingly every year?
Freddy came out of hiding in the spring just long enough to tell us there's $$$
to spend.....whoppee....o.k. when then does the F.O. get to spend it? We really
could be a better than .500 (I'm an optimistic guy by nature) team if we had
bullpen. The F.O. should be embarrassed putting the same crap out there every
year. The Nats, Braves and Phil's don't seem to have that problem and that's a
real good reason they'll finish way ahead of us. I know we have other flaws but
it's gut wrenching to lose game after game this way. Now until Marcum can pitch
and help comes from within it's Harvey and Niese and call the police (lol... thanks
Steve Sommers) because Hefner and Laffrey aren't
major league quality pitchers. How can you go into a season counting on two
pitchers for your starting staff that are often injured and not have quality
backups? Do we really have $$$ to spend? Anyway that's all for now and nice
talking to you the other day. Thanks, Gary Seagren
Mack – Het Gary. No one likes ‘throwing away’ an early round
pick on a reliever. Most of your successful relievers throughout the majors are
ex-fireball throwers that, at best, have two pitchers and next expand past
that. They become successful because they can learn to master those two
pitches, keep the velo, and pound the zone. Some, like Mariano
Rivera, have one pitch that has incredible movement in three different
directions.
Potentially, the Mets have some future relievers:
Adam Kolarek – 11th round pick in 2010 out
of Maryland. Pure reliever. 12-5, 3.05, 25-SV pro-career over 4-years. Promoted
to Las Vegas last week.
Jeff Walters – Pick out of Georgia. Ex-starter for
Brooklyn (2011 - 4-6, 3.32). 2013 in Binghamton – 0-0, 1.08, 7-G) – promoted to
Las Vegas.
Jack Leathersich – 5th round pick in 2011
out of Univ. of Mass-Lowell. Pure reliever. Pro career over 3-yrs: 2-6, 2.42,
93.0-IP, 151-K
Greg Peavey – 6th round pick in 2010 out of
Oregon State. Turned reliever this season in Las Vegas. So far: 7-G, 12.2-IP,
0.71.
I talked about this in this morning’s 8am report. The Mets
need to shuffle secondary starters in and out until Zack
Wheeler and Rafael Montero are ready (if
ever). This could be a very long road to travel.
Laffey is now gone and Robert Carson
has replaced him. The missing starter, I assume, will be filled with Shaun Marcum by the end of the week.
It’s just going to be one of those kind of years.
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