LAD have made progress in the talks for Marlins right-hander
Ricky Nolasco
I just
don’t understand how the Commissioner of Baseball can just continue to stand by
and let one man single handed dismantle an entire baseball team.
According
to ‘Cot Baseball’ the Marlins had a 2012 team salary of $101,628,000. It has
been reduced to $50,526,900, of which $12,500,000 was still being paid on
players long gone or trades long traded, and $11,500,000 is being paid to
Nolasco.
The math
is pretty simple here. $50,526,900 minus $24,000,000, totals to a current 2013
salary after this trade is eventually made of $26,526,900.
We’re
talking a major league baseball team in the 44th largest city in
America. This doesn’t count Ft. Lauderdale either.
The team
will be left with one, I repeat, one ballplayer with a contract past this
season (Jeff Mathis) and that’s only a 2014 $1.5mil commitment.
And, the
most important thing is the fact that the team is dead last with only 27 wins
in 77 games, has the lowest home attendance in baseball, and averages the least
amount of people attending a home game in baseball.
Any Board
of Directors would remove this guy, but the problem is we aren’t talking about
a publically traded company. No, we’re talking about one man who bullshitted
the city into a new stadium and bullshitted his players into singing one year
deals (which, by the way, will never happen again). We’ve already seen the first
round draft pick this year, high school LHP Matt Krook, say no-way Jose. Agents throughout the league are
steering their clients away from this team and you will never see a major free
agent sign a contract here without a long term guarantee.
No, Miami
is operating like a foreclosure and the Commissioner should be ashamed of
himself.
The Mets are getting healthier.
As of 3:32pm on 6-27, there are ‘technically’ six New York Mets in
various stages of rehab.
RP Pedro Feliciano – Feliciano is actually listed as part
of the Binghamton roster. The lefty has given up only one earned run in nine
outings for St. Lucie (1.93) and Binghamton (0.00). He seems pretty close to
being ready - eventual assignment: Queens
RP Tim Byrdak – Byrdak is just beginning his rehab
assignments, with two on June 24th and June 26th. His
combined stats at St. Lucie: 2.0-IP, 0-R, 3-K. I expect him to move on the
Binghamton by the end of the week - eventual
assignment Queens
RP Shawn Teufel – Teufel came off the DL and pitched for
Brooklyn on June 25th (2.0-IP, 0-R, 0.00). He’ll probably work his
way to St. Lucie and then the Mets will have to decide whether to send him to
Binghamton or Las Vegas - eventual assignment: Binghamton
or Las Vegas
SP Michael Fulmer – A nice rehab debut on June 2th for
the GCL Mets: 6.0-IP, 0-R, 6-K. Watch for him to remain with the GCL squad
until he is sent across the complex to the team he was scheduled to pitch for
on opening day this year - eventual assignment: St.
Lucie
SS Ruben Tejada – Tejada was supposed to start his rehab
with the GCL Mets on June 26th, but they have been rained out the
past two days. The Mets aren’t known for shipping rehab players around their
whole system. Look for Tejada to go from GCL to St. Lucie, then probably Las
Vegas. At that point, he’s keep his bags packed - eventual assignment: Queens
CF Matt den Dekker -
Is currently listed as a ‘non-roster invitee’ on the St. Lucie roster.
He will slowly work back wrist strength and may miss Binghamton and go to Las
Vegas for some good thin air to get healthy on. – eventual assignment - Las Vegas
So…
What happens if Tejada,
Byrdak, and Feliciano are all activated on the same day and put in the same
taxi?
Who goes down/DFA’d/cut?
My guess… Valdespin,
Edgin, Hawkins
Travis Taijeron – combined
A+/AA – 241-AB, .290/.376/.573/.949, 14-HR, 39-RBI, 73-K, 27-BB
My job is to keep bringing you back to players that you
need to keep an eye on.
Taijeron
is developing into prospect material as I type J There’s a lot of time
being spent with him in Binghamton, trying to get him to become more patient at
the plate. Let’s face it, the quality of pitching at the AA level is going to
be far better than it was at St. Lucie. Taijeron struck out 28% of the time in
A+ ball, but is currently striking out 27% at AA. No change. His immediate
problem is the fact that he’s not walking anymore, lowering his OBP from .379
to .298.
He’s not
going anywhere else this year and the hope is he finished the season in the
combined 20-HR/55-RBI, range.
Right now,
Taijeron is #2 behind Cesar Puello on the internal boards. I’ll keep you up to speed on his
progress this season.
Monaco Jr., Martin L -
Mack, Looks like either MDD has
either cut down on his swing, only 3KS in 41 at bats, or he has no power in
this wrist yet. Either way only 10 singles so far. Do you think this is by
design or the Mets are trying to turn him into a contact Punch and Judy
hitter.? I was more thrilled when I thought he was the second coming of Jim
Edmunds. Big swing and great defense.
Morning Martin.
The good news is den Dekker is off the
disabled list.
The bad
news is his current hitting has nothing to do with any learning process on not
striking out. He’s just getting his feet wet (or is it wrist wet?) and
‘throwing the bat out there’ which generates only singles. I’m told his game
currently isn’t very fluid so we’ll just have to give him some time.
One other
thing about this league and the hitters on this team. There aren’t than many
top pitchers going up against this team, meaning, if you are a big bat, you
should be feasting on what’s being thrown your way. Yes, the addition of Jayce Boyd and Kevin Plawecki has paid huge dividends,
but it doesn’t take a genius to look at the rest of the lineup, check their
batting average, and project their chances of going all the way some day.
St. Lucie
is a team with an excellent rotation, an average pen, two bats from Savannah,
and that’s about it.
Sorry
guys. Feel free to prove me wrong.
