How is it the Yankees can go out and sign success stories like Lyle Overbay and Vernon Wells,
and we get Matt Fox?
Wow. The Mets discounted Subway Series
tickets for the night Mike Harvey pitched
.
.
It’s interesting that MLBTR is already
using the word ‘non-tendor’ and Ike Davis in the same sentence. From http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2013/05/potential-non-tender-candidates.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter yesterday:
If Davis doesn't turn
things around this year, what will the Mets do in the offseason? One thing about a player having a terrible
year is that he doesn't get a big arbitration raise afterward. So if Davis' salary for next year is to
remain below $4MM, the Mets would at least be able to find a team willing to
see if a change of scenery helps.
Are they asking the right question here?
How do you ‘turnaround’ a career that has never produced a decent MLB season?
Could Davis just be another of those thousands of players that simply peak at
the AAA level. Yeah, I know, he hit a billion home runs in the second half of a
season that didn’t count. My vote here is still to cut bait and put Lucas Duda back at his
natural position, then, take the four million per year and add it to the free
agent pool you will use in the off-season.
I also think that the thing that is
upsetting most Mets fans is the lack of any action by the manager or front
office other than having the owner tell a Yankees pitcher that “we’re” not
going to see them in the World Series this year. Wilpon’s mouth is one issue,
but can’t Sandy Alderson DO SOMETHING? It really doesn’t matter what the fans
think at this point. Ruben Tejada and Davis should not be playing major league baseball
right now.
I’m sitting here watching Matt Harvey trying to keep
a team alive in a game he probably is going to get little or no support. I’m
far past caring if they win any more games this year (and it’s still only May)…
I just want to see some other people get a shot at doing this better. It was a fun ending, but it's always either Wright, Harvey, Murphy, or Parnell. You need more than four baseball players.
Baseball America http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/work-to-do-a-disappointing-prospect-from-each-organization/ wrote a piece on the most under-performing prospect for
each team (what a wonderful assignment…). Here’s the Mets entry:
Shifted to the bullpen
full-time this season, 23-year-old righthander Jeurys
Familia has struggled to find his footing in the big leagues, striking
out seven in 10 innings but also allowing 17 baserunners and two home runs.
Is Familia still considered a prospect?
And, isn’t ‘baserunners’ and ‘righthander’ separate words or hyphened? And I thought
I spelled bad.
I’m pleased to announce that Stephen Guilbert has
returned to Mack’s Mets as a staff writer. For now, he will be posting his end
of the mock season draft and will hopefully rejoin the site in other posts and
comments as well. Stephen was one of the finest writers we ever had on this
site and I’m extremely happy to sign another ‘free agent’. Mack’s Mets is
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Current weekly post times still available are Saturday 12noon and Sunday 12noon
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random posters like Jack Flynn.
Keeping my eyes on…
AAA – SS – Omar Quintanilla – ‘Quint’
seems to be doing everything he can to get back to Queens and, frankly, it
couldn’t be happening at a better time. He went 3-4 on Monday, raising his
seasonal BA to .331. That’s 17th in the league and ranked second in
the league for shortstops (Chris Owings). Couple this with the
under-performance by Ruben Tejada so far this season and I wouldn’t be surprised we don’t
see a move here soon.
AAA – 2B – Wilmer Flores – Just an
update here… Flores continues to play exclusively at second base and just
finished hitting .350/.381/.550/.931, 1-HR, 6-RBI in his past 10 games. Season
BA now up to .283 and the even better news is he only has five errors so far
this season.
AA – 1B – Alan Dykstra – I hate to keep beating
the same drum, but Dykstra went 3-5 on Monday, raising his stat line to .298/.440/.519/.960,
5-HR, 26-RBI. Dykstra has always been a home run hitter but seems to be
successfully converting his game to a gap hitter. The .298 represents his
highest pro BA in a 6-year career.
AAA – SP –
Zack Wheeler
- Nothing has changed regarding his
lackluster start this week. He is still on target to be promoted to Flushing
after one or two more starts (you would think the King was crossing the channel
after all this hoopla).
SUMMARY
- In the end this is a matter of taste, but I prefer Pederson's profile. I see
him as a future regular who contributes in many categories. While his highest
maximal ceiling may not be quite as good as Puello's, his floor is also higher
and it isn't like Pederson's tools are substandard. I do think Puello has made
progress, but ultimately I'm more confident that Pederson will actually fulfill
his potential. The fact that he is a full year younger than Puello also makes a
big difference.
“We have reported in the past
that the Mets are big-game hunting for top outfielders in the Giancarlo Stanton/Carlos Gonzalez category, depending
on who becomes available. In talking to
Mets people on Monday, it was clear that remained true, and that a midseason
trade would not preclude the team from pursuing a free agent like Shin-Soo Choo this winter.” - LINK
He goes on to emphasize that
these ‘mid-season’ trades for top talent are not going to come at the expense
of people like Zack Wheeler and Travis d’Arnaud. Martino is a trip. He seems to done
everything he can do to have replace Adam Rubin as
the most despised beat report in the clubhouse. The emphasis here has never
seem to be on the truth rather that the ‘hear it first here’ insider type
fodder that the Mets world is obsessed with.
Would someone try to explain to
me just who in the hell the Mets are successfully going to trade for a player…
in mid-season… like CarGo or Stanton, especially if the trade doesn’t include
the Mets top prospect talent?
David
Wright or Mike Harvey? The fans would
burn the stadium down.
Do you expect a team to accept a
package of Lucas Duda, Ruben Tejada, and Ike Davis, who combined batting average are little
less than Jessica Simpson’s ass?
Oh, I get it… they’ll let the
Mets package a minor leaguer trying to learn how to play second base (Wilmer Flores), and another who can’ t play anywhere (Aderlin Rodriguez), a catcher who can’t throw a ball (Cam Maron), and two or three pitchers that haven’t
passed the AA test.
So, what do we have left?
Mike
Baxter, Jordany Valdespin and Logan Verrett for Stanton?
Rick
Ankiel, Jay Horvitz, and
Metstradamus for Carlos Gonzales.
Pass that lid over here Andy.
You’re a funny guy.
"Well,
folks. That is a dead soldier right there, folks, laying on that infield
dirt
Hernandez refused to comment on
it after the broadcast and a spokesman for SNY said they had plans to sit down
with him before he goes back on the air.
Look, let’s not go overboard with
all this politically correct BS. Hernandez is one of the good guys and I’m sure
it was just a simply mistake with a bad choice of old words that were once used
for this kind of thing. The Mets are having enough problems this year without
turning Keith into Jody Arias.
Get an apology out of him and
let’s move on.
3 comments:
Mack - at some point do they consider grooming Flores for 1st base?
Are u kidding? Cut ties with Davis? No shot terrible idea
No, the Mets have decided to target Flores 100% at 2B with an occassional 1B game just for depth.
Your "future" 1B is already playing there in AA - Aderlin Rodriguez
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