Playoff Applesauce - Mets prefer Holliday, Phillie day game upsets many, Vazquez not likely to be traded

He has a WAR of 7.9, 6.2 and 5.6 the past three years. The decline is somewhat a bad trend but repeating his monster ‘07 was not probable and he has been realitvly stable. That being said, in order to come up with a rough projection for his value next year, I used a simple weighted average (5,3,1) to come up with WAR of 6.06. Let’s say the 30 year old Holliday will get a 5 year deal in this market and will decline by 10% each year. This would give him a total war of 24.8 over the life of the contract which would make fair market value for him roughly $112 million over 5 years or $22.4 per year.

Cerrone stated that “[he] bet[s] [Holliday] has to settle for five years, and more like $16 million per season.” If the latter were true it would be an absolute steal for the Mets esp. considering we would keep our first round draft pick.

its decent in that it’s realistic, i like the idea of adam everett instead of cora and he managed to sign lackey to a big deal while keeping the payroll roughly the same. but theres wayyy too much risk involved.

i mean 34 yr old russ branyan basically just had his first decent season, would anyone be surprised if he batted .230 w/ 11 hrs next season? you shouldn’t be because that’s what he’s done almost every other year of his career.

same goes for marlon byrd; he’s sort of revitalized his career these last 2 seasons in hitter-friendly texas but he isn’t far removed from his sub-700 OPS days with the nats. even this season he only hit 20hrs which would probably equate to far fewer at citi.

and then rich harden too? that could be a lot of bad money spent.

don’t know why but i read some comments on the jeter article. best one:

“We’re not allowed to glorify one of the few hall of famers from this era whose done it THE RIGHT WAY… its amazing how little some people appreciate doing things with integrity.

Goes a long way towards explaining why this country is in overall decline."

So many things can go wrong, or not happen. What if you can’t acquire your favorite free agent? What if your prime trade candidate requires a player that you were hoping to count on for an important roster spot? What if you can sign the player, but you now don’t have enough money to sign another top candidate for another position? I think a better way to go about this process is a priority list, or a ranking of the players at each position by probable cost, along with another list of trade candidates arranged by attractiveness of the acquisition.

stop being a whiny little bitch. Thanks.

Hamels and the Phillies, whiny again.

Flat out, they’re the least ‘buzzed’ series. Did they thing they were going to outdraw the Yankees? Minnesota, just on people watching game 163 probably draw better than the Rockies. Obviously the Dodgers aren’t going to play at 11am and that series probably draws better anyway.

If Hamels doesn’t step up, the Phillies lose. It’s as simple as that. It sounds like he’s already looking for his excuse.

Vic Torino making the last out of a playoff game with the tying run in scoring position.

I imagine those of you who grew up in the 80s do too, but I’m enjoying the schadenfreude of watching St. Louis choke away that game in EPIC fashion!