Mack Stuff – The ‘Sandy Plan’, 45 FA Relief Pitchers, Juan
Urbina, Ruben Tejada
C Francisco Pena finished 15th in Dominican
Winter League with a .271 BA, and 10th with 21-RBIs.
Hi Mack, While I
agree with you about the fact we might as well play who we have, Kirk, Spin,
Duda and Den Decker to see who might be viable long term I am hoping Sandy will
be able to make a trade for a nice prospect from another team to compete for an
outfield spot. I mean Cody Ross at 3 yrs and 26 mil...geeeeez! You only have to
look as far as the Giants to see what great pitching can do for you. For the
first time since Cashen was the man I'm believing Sandy has a real plan in
place and I'll live with whatever goes down in 2013. The big question of course
will be how much $$ will he be able to spend next off season. Merry Christmas
to all and to all a good night, Gary Seagren
I don’t know if ‘nice prospect’ will be the
right word here… ‘nice fill-in’ maybe. The amount of money the Mets have left
is still questionable… my guess is somewhere between $5-7mil… I would rather
see the money spent on a quality relief pitcher than the few outfielders that
are left. But, as I have said earlier, the Toronto deal has made me a Sandy
believer and his patience has proven to me that he knows how to do his job.
There will be at least one new outfielder in the lineup come opening day. We
just have to wait this process out.
Pick One:
RHP Jeremy Accardo - 31-yrs
old -
.350 BABIP, 3.92 FIP, 18.4% K/PA, 10.5% BB/PA
RHP Scott Atchison - 36-yrs old
- .272 BABIP, 2.67 FIP, 18.0% K/PA, 4.5% BB/PA
RHP Miguel Batista – 42-yrs old
- .222 BABIP, 5.63 FIP, 8.3%
K/PA, 8.3% BB/PA, 1.16 WHIP
RHP Matt Capps – 29-yrs old
- .250 BABIP, 4.44 FIP, 15.0%
K/PA, 3.3% BB/PA, 1.09 WHIP
RHP Todd Coffey – 32-yrs old - .314 BABIP, 3.64 FIP, 21.7% K/PA, 10.8% BB/PA, 1.34
WHIP
RHP Jose Contreras – 40-yrs old - .343 BABIP, 2.76
FIP, 26.8% K/PA, 5.4% BB/PA, 1.17 WHIP
RHP Francisco Cordero – 37-yrs old - .579 BABIP, 9.33 FIP, 15.6% K/PA,
12.5% BB/PA, 1.80 WHIP
RHP Juan Cruz – 34-yrs old -
.364 BABIP, 4.22 FIP, 20.4% K/PA, 11.7% BB/PA, 1.62
RHP Chad Durbin – 35-yrs old - .262 BABIP, 4.82 FIP, 19.1% K/PA, 10.9%
BB/PA, 1.31 WHIP
RHP Kyle Farnsworth – 36-yrs old - .284 BABIP, 3.34 FIP, 20.8% K/PA,
11.7% BB/PA, 1.33 WHIP
LHP Pedro Feliciano - - did not
pitch MLB in 2011 and 2012
RHP Jason Frasor – 35-yrs old - .346 BABIP, 4.05 FIP, 27.7% K/PA, 11.5%
BB/PA, 1.46
LHP Mike Gonzalez – 34-yr old - .322 BABIP, 3.02 FIP, 25.8% K/PA, 10.6%
BB/PA, 1.31
RHP Kevin Gregg - 34-yrs old -
.339 BABIP, 4.99 FIP, 18.5% K/PA, 12.0% BB/PA, 1.67 WHIP
RHP LaTroy Hawkins – 39-yrs old - .301 BABIP,
4.42 FIP, 12.9% K/PA, 7.3% BB/PA, 1.38 WHIP
RHP Livan Hernandez – 37-yrs old - .324 BABIP, 5.85 FIP, 18.6% K/PA,
5.1% BB/PA, 1.43 WHIP
RHP J.P. Howell – 29-yrs old - .258 BABIP, 4.73 FIP, 20.7% K/PA, 10.8%
BB/PA, 1.21 WHIP
RHPP Jason Isringhausen – 39-yrs old - .276 BABIP, 4.93 FIP, 15.7%
K/PA, 9.6% BB/PA, 1.37 WHIP
RHP Matt Lindstrom – 32-yrs old - .312 BABIP,
2.10 FIP, 22.2% K/PA, 4.4% BB/PA, 1.12 WHIP
RHP Mark Lowe – 29-yrs old - .265 BABIP, 4.26 FIP, 17.3% K/PA, 8.0%
BB/PA, 1.22 WHIP
RHP Brandon Lyon – 33-yrs old - .337 BABIP, 3.35 FIP, 22.7% K/PA, 7.1%
BB/PA, 1.33 WHIP
RHP Kyle McClellan – 28-yrs old - .237 BABIP, 5.11 FIP, 13.3% K/PA,
10.8% BB/PA, 1.33 WHIP
RHP Guillermo Mota – 39-yrs old - .396 BABIP, 4.14 FIP, 26.4% K/PA,
8.8% BB/PA, 1.54 WHIP
RHP Peter Moylan – 34-yrs old - .133 BABIP, 6.13 FIP, 9.5% K/PA, 9.5%
BB/PA, 1.00 WHIP
RHP Brett Myers – 32-yrs old - .316 BABIP,, 4.30 FIP, 14.9% K/PA, 4.5%
BB/PA, 1.33 WHIP
LHP Will Ohman – 35-yrs old - .207 BABIP, 6.23 FIP, 11.6% K/PA, 4.5%
BB/PA, 1.04 WHIP
RHP Vicente Padilla - 35-yrs old - .372 BABIP, 3.90 FIP, 23.4%
K/PA, 6.9% BB/PA, 1.46 WHIP
LHP Manny Parra – 30-yrs old - .351 BABIP, 3.66 FIP, 22.3% K/PA, 12.8%
BB/PA, 1.65 WHIP
RHP Brad Penny – 34-yrs old - .358 BABIP, 5.34 FIP, 7.5% K/PA, 6.8%
BB/PA, 1.82 WHIP
LHP Rafael Perez – 30-yrs old - .190 BABIP, 5.26 FIP, 12.9% K/PA, 12.9%
BB/PA, 1.17 WHIP
RHP Chad Qualls – 34-yrs old - .292 BABIP, 2.69
FIP, 10.3% K/PA, 3.4% BB/PA, 1.17 WHIP
RHP Ramon Ramirez – 31-yrs old - .305 BABIP, 3.96 FIP, 18.8% K/PA, 12.6%
BB/PA, 1.46 WHIP
RHP Jon Rauch – 34-yrs old - .232 BABIP, 3.93 FIP, 18.0% K/PA, 5.2% BB/PA, 0.98 WHIP
RHP Francisco Rodriguez – 29-yrs old - .302 BABIP, 3.86 FIP, 23.6%
K/PA, 10.2% BB/PA, 1.33 WHIP
LHP J.C. Romero – 36-yrs old - .353 BABIP, 6.54 FIP, 4.8% K/PA, 4.8%
BB/PA, 2.00 WHIP
RHP Takashi Saito- 42-yrs old - .351 BABIP, 7.13 FIP, 18.3% K/PA, 8.3%
BB/PA, 1.83 WHIP
RHP Rafael Soriano – 33-yrs old - .282 BABIP, 3.27 FIP, 24.7% K/PA,
8.6$ BB/PA, 1.16 WHIP
RHP Hisanori Takahashi – 37-yrs old - .292 BABIP,
3.66 FIP, 23.7% K/PA, 5.8% BB/PA, 1.68 WHIP
RHP Jose Valverde – 33-yrs old - .276 BABIP, 3.57 FIP, 16.3% K/PA, 9.2%
BB/PA, 1.24 WHIP
RHP Kyle Waldrop – 27-yrs old - .333 BABIP, 4.87 FIP, 7.4% K/PA, 6.4%
BB/PA, 1.54 WHIP
RHP Brian Wilson – 30-yrs old – only 2 games in 2012 – TJS surgery
RHP Jamey Wright – 37-yrs old -
.340 BABIP, 3.42 FIP, 17.6% K/PA, 9.8% BB/PA, 1.50 WHIP
Juan
Urbina tweeted that his father, 39-year old Ugueth
Urbinna, has been released from prison after serving seven years for
attacking the people that worked for him with a machete and pouring gasoline on
them. Nic k Collias also reported: “Alexander
Mendoza at El Nacional reported this morning that Urbina’s fastball was
still touching 90 while he was playing in the pen in Venezuela. Juan Vicente
Zerpa, the general manager of the Leones de Escogido (Urbina’s old haunt in the
winter leagues) said after welcoming Urbina back to society, “I heard that he’s
going to come to the park and we’re going to have a conversation.” Kind of
ominous-sounding, no? If this were a Scorcese movie, I’d be wary.” What I do
hope for here is that the father can spend some time on the mound with the son
and get his game straightened out.
Tejada's 2012 season paints the portrait of a "traditional"
shortstop: a bat-control hitter with limited power. But there's some good news
here. This slash line — and all the associated offensive production that went
along with it — ended up giving Ruben a .304 wOBA (weighted on-base average)
and 92 wRC+ (weight runs created, adjusted for league and park effects,
expressed relative to a league average of 100). Ruben Tejada's offensive
production, after adjusting for league and park, was about 8% worse than league
average. That's actually not too bad! Especially for a shortstop! For the major
leagues in 2012, shortstops only averaged an 86 wRC+. So while Ruben may have
been 8% worse than league average, the average shortstop was considerably worse
than that. sbn.to/Vz4Pu1
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