Tom Brennan - Can We Please Move, Daddy?

 

Every single year it’s the same thing

I looked at the leaders in the AL Central and the AL West. Their combined average record, for two teams that are in first place, is a lousy 45–42.

This is not a long article. 

I simply want the Mets move the heck out of the NL East. 

I DO NOT CARE AT ALL ABOUT GEOGRAPHY.

I simply want the Mets moved to the AL Central for the AL West, where it is easy to win a division.

Right now, with players returning to the Mets, presumably healthy, if the Mets were in either of those divisions, they could easily take a run at the division title. 

There is zero chance of that happening in the NL East, this year, or quite frankly, in any other year. 

“ Can we please move, daddy? PLEASE!”

Please don’t treat this article as a joke.  If the Mets have been in either of those two AL divisions for the past 25 years, how many division titles would they have won? I think several. HOW HAPPY WOULD YOU HAVE BEEN IF THAT HAVE BEEN THE CASE?

I also want you to think about the team that the Mets had at the end of this year. 

If the Mets were in the AL Central or the AL West, would they have passed on signing Pete? Would they have traded Brandon? I think this is a very significant chance they would have signed Pete and not dealt away Brandon, because they would’ve felt that they had more than enough enough juice to win those divisions with those two players. 

So the ramifications of the division you are assigned to are extraordinarily significant. 

Again, I do not care about geography. I want the Mets move to an easier division. Period.

This also applies to teams that are in the Dodgers NL West division. If I were them, I’d be pleading, begging to be switched into another division.

And for those teams in the NL West, simply being switched into the AL West would be a dream come true. Simply put, baseball should adopt the concept of rotating teams between divisions based on some kind win loss record factor.

WEIRD DSL STATS OF THE DAY

SOOOO many walks in the DSL, although I am guessing that as the more competent pitchers there get stretched out, the wildest ones won’t be used much, or will be cut.

That said, I decided to look at the guy with the highest OBP in the entire DSL.

Before I provide a name and stats, I have no idea if he will really be any good. His name?

Eliomar Garces, a non-Met, has an insane .615 OBP. 

In 23 games, he is hitting .339. OK.

But he also walked an incredible 37 times, vs. just 6 Ks.

And he was HBP 6 times.

So, in just 23 games, he walked, or was HBP, 43 times.

There you go. Weird. In a good way, of course, for Senor Garces.

Apparently, he was signed with the Rays for $1.6 million, so he is most likely going to be superb, knowing the Rays.

Also, in Friday’s DSL Mets Blue game, they lost 13-12, but the two teams had 27 hits, 17 walks, and 4 HBPs. Nothing like getting on base 48 times.

For the Mets’ Blue team, a player named John Sanchez was on base 5 times, while his teammate, named Jonn Sanchez, was on base 4 times. 

So, I guess if you said it phonetically, Jon Sanchez got on base 9 times.

And that, phonetically speaking, is downright amazing.