Collette-Chat –
Comment From Guest - If you’re the Mets over the next year do
you, trade some pitching for a bat or hold on to the excess pitching for 6/7th
starters and bullpen/injury depth ?
Jason Collette: It sounds cliche, but you can never
have too much pitching. See Toronto over the past few seasons. I’d hoard as
much pitching as I possibly could.
Mack – Okay, it does sound cliché, but
there’ only 11-12 pitching slots on a team and the Mets system looks like they
will be boiling over that come 2016. You have to move some of these out for
bats.
We spend most of our time talking about the
future starter studs in this system; however, we’re about to start seeing
around 5-6 quality relievers graduate from the AAA/AA portion of the Mets
system.
It's one thing to plan on converting the likes of Darin Gorski, Logan Verrett, Jake deGrom, and Cory Mazzoni to the pen... well, what heppanes when Adam Kolarek, Chad Bradford, Jack Leathersich, John Church, Jeff Walters, and Joel Carrero are ready?
It's one thing to plan on converting the likes of Darin Gorski, Logan Verrett, Jake deGrom, and Cory Mazzoni to the pen... well, what heppanes when Adam Kolarek, Chad Bradford, Jack Leathersich, John Church, Jeff Walters, and Joel Carrero are ready?
I’ll say this for what Collette said… the Mets
are still a year away from their best rotation (Harvey, Wheeler, Syndergaard,
Montero, and somebody). These are all young arms that will be around for at
least four years. You simply are not going to be able to bury guys like Steven Matz and Michael Fulmer on a future Las Vegas
roster.
Jared Diamond wrote a very interesting article for the Wall
Street Journal which won’t make for pleasant reading at Sandy Alderson’s
breakfast table (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303704304579383054271020812?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303704304579383054271020812.html).
It’s another one of those ‘the
Mets didn’t spend enough money this off-season’ spins, taking the road that the
Mets once again lied to the fan base about their goals in this off-season.
It’s an easy story to write… $54.5mil went off the books,
$56.5mil new money went on, creating a +$2.1mil net increase to the money spent
for this season.
The problem with this is that the story isn’t that simple.
$31mil of the old money was paid to Johan Santana. Jason Bay was paid $18.125mil in 2014. Neither one of these guys spent one day on the field so you must factor in that this $49.125mil represents dead money.
$31mil of the old money was paid to Johan Santana. Jason Bay was paid $18.125mil in 2014. Neither one of these guys spent one day on the field so you must factor in that this $49.125mil represents dead money.
I see all of this differently. I don’t see the Mets having a
$93,684,590 2013 payroll, as reported by Cot. My payroll deducts the dead money
from this, creating a 2013 ‘field payroll’ of $44,559,590. This figure
represents the team you watched last year.
Now, put this up against the team built for 2014 and what is
being spent here (estimates from $86-89mil), and, yes Dorothy, the Mets have
taken the steps to put a better team ‘on the field’ in 2014, vs. 2013.
Kyle Farnsworth on going from a 100-mph fastball to one that averages 92.6:
“I wish I could still do that. I don’t know. it’s just one of
those things that you’re blessed to do, and you hope to be able to harness
that. Over the years I’ve learned that you can get away with more mistakes
throwing that hard. But the older you get the more you learn how to pitch.
That’s where you have to mature and grow into things like that.”
Mack – I’ve never heard it said better. Bodies simply slow down
far quicker than minds do. I actually used to think that baseballs were being
hit harder to me at third base as I aged. Paul Altruda,
my shortstop, said to me “you used to get those…”, which was the beginning of
my realization that I had to play the game differently in the future if I
wanted to keep in the starting lineup (play deeper and closer to the line).
Bartolo Colon is a perfect example of a guy that has learned to maximize
what he has left at his age. One pitch, kept in the box, hitting the corners.
Hopefully, some of this can rub off on the ex-Yankees closer.
Adam Rubin’s Projected OD Roster –
Rotation - Jonathon Niese, lhp
- Bartolo Colon,
rhp - Dillon Gee,
rhp - Zack
Wheeler, rhp - Daisuke Matsuzaka, rhp
Lineup - Eric Young Jr., lf - Daniel Murphy, 2b - David
Wright, 3b - Curtis Granderson, rf - Chris Young, cf - Ike Davis,
1b - Travis d'Arnaud, c - Ruben Tejada, ss
Bench - Anthony Recker, c - Josh Satin, 1b/3b - Anthony
Seratelli, if/of – Juan Lagares, of – Lucas Duda, 1b/of
Bullpen - Bobby Parnell,
closer - Jose Valverde, rhp - Kyle Farnsworth, rhp - Vic
Black, rhp - Scott Rice, lhp - Jeurys Familia, rhp - Carlos
Torres, rhp -
4 comments:
Good Morning Mack
I think the best policy for young pitching is quality and quantity...they should hold on to all of them. As we all know, some will get hurt, and some just won't develop as expected...when its all said and done, we'll be left with just a handful of guys.
Craig -
Afternoon -
I fully understand what you are saying, but this cup will runneth over at some point.
Also, you can deal 'almost-prospects' a lot better BEFORE they tank out a la Colin McHugh
You're right about the cup running over...its going to be interesting to see who gets assigned where this spring.
Regarding bats, wedon't need a murderers row here....If they filled the lineup with students of the game--guys who know how to move runners over, sacrifice, take that extra base--you can sneak youre way into scoring 2-3 runs a game, sometimes more...and with good pitching and defense, that will be plenty most nights.
The biggest problem now, is that they've gone and signed TC to an extension--you need a great field general for a team like that--and he just isn't the guy...
I think Sandy does plan on trading prospects his abundance of extra arms, i think thats why we see the 1-yr CYoung type contracts and why he doesnt pull the trigger on Drew, I think he wants that mid-seaon flexability to make trades to fortify the team. I see mid-season trades as last frontier where good GMs can improve teams and if he just signs avail FAs to 3 years deals his flexability goes with it.
The 25-man roaster..??..1 lefty in the pen, i think Edgin makes it over Familia unless he has horrid spring, i think we see OmarQ over Anthony Seratelli(who i forgot we even had) but the rest looks about right to me. Collins will prob mix the OF picture too much for my liking, if he does i hope he keeps lineup same with the musical chairs(Lagaras leading off for EY and Duda in 5 spot for CYoung)..
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