link - Now I'd honestly be surprised if Cora said word one unless it had something to do with "they just released me because of the clause that would have kicked in", where 19 more games or so would have guaranteed a contract for 2011. Because Cora probably made more money than he had any right to make this season because the Mets wanted to pay for intangibles. So I'm more inclined to dismiss anything Cora says. Much the same, every time somebody complains, it's a small peek into how the Mets do things ... the culture, if you will. And we all know that the culture has to change. Maybe the disgruntled employees can give out the clues, but only if people are willing to listen to the truth.
link - It is the inability — or unwillingness — to express from the top the kind of anger that has been brewing on the other side of the moat for four years now. Nobody is asking Fred or Jeff Wilpon to begin channeling George Steinbrenner, circa 1977. But there comes a time when the people who pay money to watch their baseball team need reassurance that the men who bank that money are just as aggravated, just as agitated. And this is what we get from Jeff Wilpon: silence. And this is what we get from Fred Wilpon: silence, interrupted only by his hurried assurances on Friday that general manager Omar Minaya’s job is safe, and that Jeff is doing an “excellent” job as “everybody knows,” and I’ve been trying to figure out which dictionary defines “everybody” the way Fred does, if it’s Merriam-Webster or Oxford.
link - Jeff Francoeur is simply not a good enough hitter to play every day in the big leagues. Nobody is happy about this. Francoeur is by all accounts a terrific guy, he plays hard, he cares a lot, he has some defensive value. But, no matter how hard he tries, he cannot make the adjustments. His .295 on-base percentage this year is not good enough to be an every-day outfielder. Everybody who knows Frankie loves the guy, which is why he leads all of baseball in “Adjustment Could Pay Off This Time” stories. But after a rookie rush that landed him on the cover of Sports Illustrated, he has now had more than 4,000 plate appearances with a .307 on-base base percentage.
link - Brad Holt, RHP, Grade C+: Got annihilated in Double-A, and not much better after going back to St. Lucie. 7.71 ERA with 60/49 K/BB in 70 innings, 84 hits. Secondary pitches have regressed, command is fouled up too.
8-7 from: - link - Ceciliani has been perhaps the best all-around player in the NYPL this season, leading the league in average (.387), hits (74), runs (44), triples (10), and total bases (111). He ranks second in extra-base hits (25) and slugging percentage (.581) , and fourth in on-base percentage (.438), and stolen bases (16). Darrell -- a 20-year-old native of Madras, OR -- is the youngest player on the Cyclones, and was selected by the Mets in the fourth round of the 2009 June First-Year Player Draft, out of Columbia Basin CC (OR).
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