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| Michael G. Baron |
10-28-10 from: - http://www.metstoday.com/5203/2010-mets-evaluations/2010-analysis-dillon-gee - 2011 Projection - I like Gee’s competitiveness and guile. I also love the fact he wears an American-made Akadema glove. I didn’t like his walk rate in his 5 MLB games, and I’m not convinced his pedestrian stuff is enough to retire big-league hitters consistently. But if he can keep his walks down at this level – something he did at lower levels – he could, at best, evolve into a Scott Baker or Nick Blackburn type of pitcher (for Mets fans, Bobby Jones is a good example), which would be a more than welcome addition to the Mets’ staff in 2011. I’ll go on a limb and say that there’s a good chance he pitches as well as Brian Bannister would have in Flushing, had he not been sent to Kansas City. The truth is, the Mets don’t have much choice but to hope that he can – a quick look at the farm system is showing no one else ready to make the leap, and the free-agent pile isn’t likely to render anything better than a journeyman rotation filler.
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Alderson will work to bring in a few loyalists from his past to help implement his philosophy. According to several sources, he already has reached out to Paul DePodesta, whom he hired in San Diego, to help strengthen the Mets’ statistical department and J.P. Ricciardi, whom he worked with in Oakland, to assist on player personnel. DePodesta, the former Dodgers GM, has to decide if he wants to leave the Padres for whom he is executive VP. A few executives briefed on the subject said they think DePodesta will join the Mets. Ricciardi, the former Blue Jays GM, is an analyst for ESPN who is weighing several options.
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| Michael G. Baron |
While we use replacement level freely on the other side of FanGraphs, the idea of replacement level hasn’t exactly forced itself into fantasy baseball yet. I’m not sure why, because I’ve been using it successfully for a while. In fact, we all have, whether we realize it or not. If we didn’t use replacement levels, catchers, shortstops and second baseman would rarely be taken before the third round, yet we see them scattered amongst the top ranked players most years. To give you a better idea of the different strengths at each position, here are the players were valued at replacement level this year by my z-score rankings. First Base: Ike Davis: Davis didn’t even get the chance to play a full season, yet turned out to be a somewhat useful player. A .265 average and about twenty homers with run and RBI counts around 70 do a very good job of illustrating how powerful this position can be.
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Sorry about the lack of posts earlier today. I was working on some administrative stuff, and I also got bogged down with the Mets list, trying too hard to decide which group of marginal Grade C prospects to examine. I should get it finished tomorrow if all goes according to plan.
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Mets GM Sandy Alderson’s thinking is that the dugout job is more like a “middle-management” position that should merely implement the front-office strategy, and that points to candidates like Bob Melvin and Ken Macha rather than Joe Torre , who already took himself out of the running. Another potential choice for manager is Chip Hale , the popular infield and third-base coach from last season. Hale, along with pitching coach Dan Warthen and bullpen coach Randy Niemann , are the only members of Jerry Manuel ‘s staff that are likely to be retained for 2011. Other than Backman, if the Wilpons nudge Alderson toward former Mets, he could look to hire Texas hitting coach Clint Hurdle , who spent eight years as the Rockies’ manager and took Colorado to the World Series in 2007. — Newsday
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