Q - Klaw, do you see
TDA continuing at C long term, or do the Mets need to think of him in the
outfield or first base (and trading / mivng Ike Davis). If he can stay healthy
and at C, the Dickey trade was a no brainer for the Mets, but if not ...
A – Keith Law - d'Arnaud is a catcher. He's not Posey
where the bat might play elsewhere and still make him a star.
Q - Do you agree that
d'Arnaud is a "scouting" prospect, as some have recently suggested?
I've seen his numbers, from the hitters-friendly PCL, compared unfavourably to
Gomes and Jeff Mathis.
A – Keith Law - You
largely have to discard hitters' park numbers (it's not the PCL specifically,
but certain parks, like Vegas and Albuquerque) for top position players and
focus instead on performance at other levels and the scouting reports. The main
problem is that non-prospects can rake there but top prospects still face a
ceiling on their overall stats - a natural .250 hitter might hit .320 in
Albuquerque, but a natural .330 hitter won't hit .400. I've seen d'Arnaud, and
I believe he can hit and he's coming into some power. He needs to play more
than 88 games a year.
Q - I thought the
biggest issue in trading d'Arnaud was not necessarily losing him, but being
locked into Arencibia behind the plate. Does he still hold value because of his
power? Should there be a time share with him and Thole?
A – Klaw - Arencibia
shouldn't start for anyone, and I think the Jays are well aware of that.
Word Series Odds
- NYM
75-1
B-Mets – play 58
games in first 60 days of schedule.
SNY’s Kevin Burkhardt says the Mets are “very
interested” in OF Grady Sizemore.
I’m really not that stoked about somebody that won’t be ready to play
baseball until after the all-star break. I’m even less excited about someone
that hasn’t played since he sucked in 2010 (.224, 10-HR, 32-RBI). This is not
the 2005-2008 Sizemore. He’s long gone. Just one too many surgeries. It all
went to hell 33 games into the 2010 season and Sizemore had to have
microfracture surgery on his left knee. He returned in 2011 but went back on
the DL after sliding and hurting his right knee, closely followed by his second
hernia surgery. Then in 2012, Sizemore had surgery (have you noticed the key
word in this paragraph is ‘surgery’?) on his back and complications cost him
the entire season. This is not the solution to the Mets outfield problems.
Andrew
Hersh - @SNESmaster - @AmazinAvenue Upon hearing this, Sizemore jumped
for joy and tore his groin #injuredgradysizemore
I did watch Kevin Burkhardt on SNY and found his comments on Scott Hairston similar to my thoughts on the same
subject. This isn’t a guy looking for a ten year deal. He loves being a Met and
he’s let it known publically that all he wants is a two-year deal. Can’t the
Mets get this done? The high end of market value here is the recent 2013-2014
$10mil deal given to OF Jonny Gomes by Boston. The
low end would be the $1.1mil he was paid last year by the Mets. This was a part
time player last season that hit 20 home runs, with an .803 OPS. This has to be
worth 2-yrs, $5mil in this market and don’t you want to put this present under
your Christmas tree before you close the office down for the holidays? Come on Sandy, do it. No one is going to hold
this one against you.
Q
- Cody Ross to the Rangers for 2 yrs/15 million.
Good/bad deal for Texas?
A – Keith Law - Extra outfielder. That's about twice
the $ I think he's worth
Q - Nieuwenhuis, Valdespin,
Cowgill: can any of them post average defense in CF or league average bat?
A – Klaw
- None of the above.
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