link - The Evil Player program selected Kevin Mulvey as Thursday’s evil player. Mulvey is having a career year in an evil major league career. He walked two and struck out one and allowed two home runs in three innings this season, good for a 6.00 ERA. That’s well below his career 7.90 mark
link - Tejada’s MLB equivalent line, based on his AAA time, is .238/.281/.290 .571 OPS. with a wOBA of about .255.-.260. Coming into this season, Chone projected a .273 wOBA, and ZIPS predicted a .285 wOBA. If Tejada posted a .275 wOBA, and saved 7.5 runs, that would come out to about replacement level. I think it goes without saying that is not acceptable. However, if he raised his wOBA to the .300-.305 range- think an OPS. in the .670-.690 range- Tejada would be worth about 1.5 wins. That might not sound like much, but its’ comparable to Luis Castillo’s 2009, which I would consider adequate, and Tejada would be making the league minimum. Whatever the case, it is hard to say if that is a reasonable expectation of progression from Tejada, or if we are overrating by him by 100 points worth of OPS.
link - - “It appears that he hit his father-in-law,” Chávez continued. “I don’t know, they were arguing, and they put him in jail for a few hours. I called him and said, ‘Kid, what happened to you?’ He said, ‘I’m here, President, heading to the stadium.’ He was entering the stadium.’ “We love you, Kid,” Chávez continued. “Control your impulses. The Kid Rodriguez. The pride of all of us. Young man of this nation. Of course, over there in a difficult world. Difficult.”
link - Perhaps his hands are tied. Perhaps he sleeps with his eyes open. Perhaps the Keebler Elves have kidnapped his brain. Whatever the case, within a two-year span the reputation of the Mets' general manager has morphed from young genius to Chuck LaMar II. He overpaid on Bay (four years, $66 million) and Oliver Perez (three years, $36 million), gave $37 million to the vastly overrated K-Rod and put his trust in players like Luis Castillo, Jeff Francoeur and John Maine.
link - The Mets manager since midway through the 2008 season is, unambiguously, one of the game's nicest people. He's funny, smart, candid -- and the wrong man for this job. The Mets need an ass-kicker; someone to come in on the first day of spring training, as Davey Johnson did in 1984, and say, "You're either with us, or you're out of here."
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