Mack Ade – AM Report – 7-11-13 – Brian Wilson, Cesar Puello, CitiField, American Indian Community House, Kris Benson

 

 

According to Buster Olney of ESPN, Brian Wilson will likely begin auditioning for teams next month

At this point, I would have to advise the Mets to stay away from damaged closers with demands for hug money. I said something sarcastically on the phone yesterday to someone. I said that the Mets won’t need a closer until they start winning games. Well, quietly, they have put together a motley crue of castoffs that are laying +.500 ball in the month of June. There’s actually a good chance that the Mets could go into the all-star break around 6-7 games back of a wild card slot and with only 2-4 teams ahead of them. That’s called ‘in the race’. Well, if you’re in the race, you need a closer.

I would stay away from people like Wilson and concentrate my internal efforts on getting people like Justin Murphy, Lucas Duda, and Jon Niese healthy.

I’d then send every coach that ever got through to Ruben Tejada since someone put a milk carton in his hands (that’s what they play with down there) and get this kid’s game (and head) straightened out.

I would then make the whole 2B thing play out a little easier. I love Daniel Murphy, but he can get you a AA/AAA outfield prospect right now. Trade him and call up Wilmer Flores. Play Flores along with Josh Satin for the remainder of the season. Sacrifice a little defense (God, please let it work out…) for the two quality bats this would bring to the team.

Leave Parnell in the pen and wait or Pedro Martinez, Tim Byrdak, and Scott Atchison to finish up their rehab. I think Pedro is toast, but Byrdak and Atchison can fill in the bullpen cracks now created with Carlos Torres becoming a starter again.

 

Baseball America names Cesar Puello to ‘all-surprise team’ – “Using raw tools to build power-speed breakout and challenge for EL triple crown” - http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/midseason-prospect-update-the-minor-league-all-surprise-team/  

The Eastern League all-start game is now over, so, by the time you read this, Puello could be on the way to Las Vegas. He also could be there only for a short period of time if his name is on the Biogenesis list. Either way, he seems to be a lock to serve out the 50 games for the remainder of the B-Mets season.

What I’m not sure about is, if the Mets ‘promote’ him on September 1^st to Queens, can the games in September that the Mets play also count against the 50-game suspension? I’d like to do everything the team can do legally to have him ready for the 2014 season.

 

Michael Geus –

              

                  2009, Overall Record 70-92, Home 41-40, Away 29-52

2010, Overall Record 79-83, Home 47-34, Away 32-49

2011, Overall Record 77-85, Home 34-47, Away 43-38

2012, Overall Record 74-88, Home 36-45, Away 38-43

2013, Overall Record 38-48, Home 17-27, Away 21-21

Here is the list of every General Manager in Mets history: George Weiss, Bing Devine, Johnny Murphy, Bob Scheffing, Joe McDonald, Frank Cashen, Al Harazin, Joe McIllvaine, Steve Phillips, Jim Duquette, Omar Minaya, Sandy Alderson 

Sandy Alderson is the first man on that list who has lost more games at home than on the road

This is an amazing statistic that I’m surprised no one else has ever broken out. You need to read the entire article (http://2guystalkingmetsbaseball.com/author/mgeus/ ) but, these numbers include some really bad teams and years that the Mets were in existence. The obvious solution to the Mets problem is to improve their home record at CitiField, or move to Newark.

The Curse of Shea Stadium…  I love it!

 

                                                                Tom Seaver will throw the ceremonial first pitch at the All-Star Games

 

The Mets can’t seem to catch a break, even public relations wise.

Someone in the organization came up with the idea of staging a Nation American Heritage Day at Citifield. You know, traditional dancing, singing, maybe kill a soldier or two.

The problem is the next Mets wahoo scheduled the event on the same day the opposing team would be… wait for it…. Yep, the Atlanta Braves.

The Mets tried damage control, cut back on the activities, but eventually just threw out the entire idea and probably moved on to Hindu Night or something like that.

I mean, they could have scheduled it against the Colorado Rockies, where the American froze to death Indians when they were forces to live on reservations, or the Nationals where every Indians that lived along the Potomac was wiped out.

Come on guys. Stay with Sign Day and then, just play baseball. 

 

 

 

Kris Benson ‏@KrisBenson34   - Sucks, but we'll all get thru it together and we'll come out stronger in the end with the help of your prayers... It's been a long process that all came to an unfortunate head, but hopefully this will be the start of better things to come... Friends and family, thank you for your well wishes and support during this hard time. The children are doing fine...