20. Dillon Gee. There isn’t much to project with Dillon Gee. His Floor is as high as his ceiling, which is a 5th starter. This choice was the hardest choice to make. I went with the higher floor over the higher ceiling for this spot. His best case scenario is somewhere between the pitcher Brian Bannister was when he came up and the pitcher Brian Bannister is now. His worst case scenario is a lesser version of what Brian Bannister has become now. More than likely, he’ll start 2011 in Triple A, providing much needed depth for Terry Collins’ pitching staff. - metsgeek
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Howard Johnson took the fall yesterday for the Mets’ poor offensive showing in 2010. General manager Sandy Alderson will search for a new hitting coach, having informed Johnson that he won’t return to that role. Johnson, who will be reassigned within the organization, had been the team’s hitting coach since July 2007, when he replaced Rick Down. Johnson was on thin ice for much of last season, as the Mets struggled to score runs for a second straight year. Third-base coach Chip Hale and pitching coach Dan Warthen will be back, but the rest of manager Terry Collins’ staff is in flux. Collins said yesterday he had spoken with longtime friend Larry Bowa about possibly becoming bench coach. The team also needs a first-base coach and will inform bullpen coach Randy Niemann about his status within the next few days -
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Whether or not Derek Jeter heeds Brian Cashman’s suggestion and explores the open market, there is absolutely no way he will become a Met, according to a source with direct knowledge of the team’s thinking. The only possible reasons for the Mets to sign Jeter would be the presumed box-office draw as the shortstop pursues 3,000 hits, and the attention-grabbing statement of swiping a crosstown rival’s franchise icon. But the Mets already have $11 million committed for next season to an All-Star shortstop, 27-year-old Jose Reyes, who is nine years Jeter’s junior. Even if the Mets were to trade Reyes and create room for another shortstop, they would still lack the payroll flexibility to pursue a player who appears to want significantly more than $15 million per year - Ben Maller
Something is moving silently within Cuban baseball that, if it comes to pass, would end five decades of imposed tradition and push Cuban players into what was once derided as ``the slave game.'' The Cuban Federation of Baseball is considering a proposal that would permit Cuban players to join professional leagues in other countries, a source close to the federation told El Nuevo Herald. - miamiherald.
LHP - Dodgers • (1955-1966) - Age: 75 … Hall of Fame: 1972 - At age 30, when some pitchers are soaring through their peak, Koufax had the best year of his career and then — poof! — abruptly retired. The sum of Koufax's career doesn't measure well against the 300-win brutes or 3,000-strikeout sharpshooters, but no other pitcher dominated the game like Koufax did with a 129-47 record from 1961 to '66. Koufax led the NL in ERA in his final five seasons, three times at 1.88 or less. The "Left Hand of God," bedeviling hitters with an artist's palate of pitches, threw no-hitters in four successive seasons, including a perfect game in 1965. He had a 0.95 ERA in eight World Series games. When he retired, after winning more than 25 games for the third time in four years, Koufax had more strikeouts (2,396) than innings (2,234 1/3). Other legends may have won more, may have pitched longer, but because his brilliance was distilled into a handful of summers, it's impossible to say anyone ever pitched better. - stltoday.
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