9/16/18

Mack - From The Desk...




Good morning.


Jordan  - @metsfansince02 – Michael Conforto is on his way to finish the season with 28+ HR, 75+ RBI, and a .780+ OPS in a year where most people were ready to give up on him in the first half...


Here's What 17 Pieces Of Baseball Memorabilia Worth $37M Look Like –

Front and center in a glass case was the industry’s Moby Dick: Babe Ruth’s Yankees 1920 road jersey. The flannel uniform top sold for $4.4 million in 2012, the record price for a piece of sports memorabilia by far, and was on loan from its private owner (EMV 10m).

Three other jerseys in the back also took my breath away: a 1927 Lou Gehrig New York Yankees road jersey (EMV $10m), a MLB rookie-year 1948 Satchel Paige Cleveland Indians home jersey (EMV $1m), and a rookie-year 1954 Hank Aaron Milwaukee Braves road jersey (EMV $1m).


There Is Definitely Something Wrong with Citi Field -
      
  The other day, I was reading something written by Tom Verducci over at Sports Illustrated. Verducci was ultimately making an argument about Jacob deGrom and his Cy Young candidacy, but on the way there, he talked about what’s apparently been dubbed the Mystery of Flushing. The mystery concerns why the Mets can’t hit at home. More specifically, it’s about why the Mets’ team BABIP consistently suffers at home. Citi Field has been modified multiple times, but it was modified most dramatically before the 2012 regular season. Since 2012, the Mets rank last in the majors in runs scored at home. They rank seventh in runs scored on the road. And, since 2012, the Mets rank last in the majors in BABIP at home. They rank third in BABIP on the road. There’s an existing BABIP gap of 30 points. This is spanning the better part of a decade. That’s big, and that’s weird. It’s worthy of some kind of investigation.


We were discussing how the Mets, under Sandy Alderson, has not developed ‘bats’. I disagreed and applaud the work of Tom Tanous and Chris Becerra (Int’l) over the past three years. Examples are:

CF Ross Adolf (Brooklyn: 12th round, 2018) was 9th in the league in home runs 3rd in slugging, and 3rd in OPS.

2B Luis Santana (K-Port: signed 2016) was 5th in BA, 11th in slugging, and 7th in OPS

3B Mark Vientos (K-Port: 2nd round, 2017) was tied for 4th in home runs, 10th in slugging, and 9th in OPS.

SS Sheryven Newton (K-Port: signed July 2015) led the league in doubles, was 14th in slugging, and 11th in OPS

SS Ronny Mauricio (GCL: signed July 2017) was tied for 6th in doubles.

C Andres Gimenez (DSL: signed July 2015) was tied for 9th in doubles, tied for 5th in home runs, 3rd in slugging, and 4th in OPS.

4 comments:

Tom Brennan said...

Conforto is a major reason for being highly optimistic about 2019.

I believe McNeil's success hitting is helping the other hitters a lot. Contagious.

Now, with real hope for 2019, the other rookie ball kids listed will hopefully turn this into a multi-season positive wave for the Mets.

Those stars' Jerseys are worth more than all of New Jersey

Mack Ade said...

Tom -

McNeil, Conforto, Nimmo, Rosario, Drew Smith, Wheeler...

Hopefully, somebody wakes up in the Mets boardroom and says that maybe they don't initially have all the right answers.

Tom, you will get your wish on Alonso around April 17th.

Reese Kaplan said...

Ummm...Wheeler was a trade, Smith was a trade...

McNeil was an afterthought. His primary thoughts outside of Conforto and Nimmo have been lackluster.

Gary Seagren said...

I have a ticket stub from Jim Bunning's perfect game June 64' maybe it's worth what $10 bucks....oh wait I better hold on to it my Great, Great, Great G/kids might get twenty bucks for it and maybe by then the Mets will have new owners.