I only have two things to say about last night’s Mets game.
1.
The sooner this team tanks below the Marlins in
the standings, the sooner ‘Plan 2014’ can begin to be executed.
2.
2014 will be the last year for Mack’s Mets. I’ve
targeted everything on next year and, if this doesn’t work out, I’m going to
turn this over to a younger man, or just go write for Joe over at Metsmerized.
I just can’t keep putting up a stronger effort every day than the team I write
about.
SP Alex Panteleodis returns
to pitch St. Lucie on Thursday.
The LA Dodgers signed SP Aaron Laffey to a minor league contract.
The LA Dodgers signed SP Aaron Laffey to a minor league contract.
Former Mets third baseman Brandon
Brown was suspended for 50 games on Tuesday after testing positive for
an anabolic steroid.
Chris @tpgMets
The #Mets are 7-1 when scoring at least 7 runs, and 3-13
when scoring 6 or fewer.
I’m sure Binghamton 1B Alan Dykstra didn’t
start off this season a happy man. First, he has to constantly be reminded that
the guy picked with the next pick in the draft (Ike Davis) has the real job in
this organization. This is followed with finding you you aren’t going to get
promoted to Las Vegas. Then, the Mets sign nobody Rhyne
Hughes and give him Dykstra’s job with the B-Mets. Well, Dykstra is back
in a big way, leading the team in hitting (43-AB, .326), producing a 1.009-OBP,
and hitting .353 over the last 10 games.
I liked this pick over Ike on draft day and I haven’t changed my opinion
a bit. Another wasted player like Josh Satin.
Jeez
Wow. Jack Leathersich gave up four earned runs.
Wow. Jack Leathersich gave up four earned runs.
We talk so much about how wins and losses don’t matter in
the minors. Everything you do at these levels is about learning how to play the
game better at the next level. Sometimes, your problems are physical. Other
times, it’s all in your head. Yesterday, Las Vegas SP Zack
Wheeler got his head strengthened out. There was no talk of rarified air
or other atmospheric bullshit. Nope, this was one on one pitching to the Reno
roster that included big time bats like Chris Owings,
Kila Ka’aihue, and Matt Davidson.
According to Michael Baron, this was simply
throw fastballs for strikes. It sure looks like he accomplished what the Mets
wanted him to do and, if he he does this for a couple more outings, there
really isn’t much more he can accomplish in that fucked up AAA league. Final
stat line: 6.2-IP, 1-ER, 8-K, 108-P, 65-strikes.
According to his sister, former Jays draftee(twice) Jake Eliopoulos has passed away at the age of 21.
Eliopoulos, a lefty, was reportedly offered around $500,000 as a signing bonus
back in 2009, when the Jays made him their second round pick. He was then
drafted by the Dodgers the following year in the 15th round, and did not sign
again. In 2011, Eliopoulos was again drafted by the Jays, this time in the 43rd
round of the draft. He did not sign. Cause of death has yet to be reported.
The Collins clock has begun to tick. I can’t see him
returning in 2014 under any circumstance, though I will go to my grave knowing
that it was Sandy Alderson who put the first
nail in the coffin of my 2014 plan when he didn’t pull the trigger on J-Up. This
was such a necessary step to fill in this team that has no viable outfielder
coming through the system until possibly 2016. The walls are crumbling in
around TC. Take last night. This team has the worse bullpen in baseball and
yet, only one pitcher was available for more than one inning (Robert Carson). Plus, there is absolutely no one in
Las Vegas to put on an airplane. No, it will be Collins that takes the bullet
here, but it’s Alderson that didn’t do his job. This has been a two-year
operation of no progress and, frankly, if it wasn’t for the players that Omar Minaya signed and drafted, there would be no
system at all. Some of my critics have probably turned to the Beltran and
Dickey deals to applaud Alderson and, I will give you that; the boy can make a
trade; however, it’s the ones (and free agents) he didn’t make (sign) that will
haunt this team for years. The last two drafts have not produced a single top
line prospect that looks like a sure bet and the International market seems to
have gone away. All of this falls on the shoulders of Collins who must come up
with a lineup every night of mildly talented bats backs by two starters and one
reliever. My softball team at P.S. 62 had more depth than this. It’s going to
get a lot worse starting last night folks. Tick tock.
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