Alfonzo Applesauce - Mets upset season ticket holders, Alfonzo wants Met return, Backman to Brooklyn
by Joe Budd on Nov 14, 2009 8:47 AM EST
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So, yeah, that new format didn't work out so well. I was hoping it would be easier for me to put together, but would be much more work to get it to work properly. Oh well, you're stuck with the old-fashioned way.
Meet the Mets
The Mets promised an an AVERAGE across-the-board decrease in season ticket prices of 10%, but some fans are getting smaller price breaks. Outrage ensues. While the Citi Field prices do pretty much suck, I can't see how you can criticize the Mets as liars on this one.
The catching situation, like every other off-season situation to this point, is still in flux. Pittsburgh's Ryan Doumit is an enticing option. Bengie Molina still isn't.
Jenrry Mejia is still struggling, but Toby Hyde was impressed with his last start.
Benny Agbayani has retired from Japanese baseball. Metsradamus has an Agbayani Youtube sampling.
Mets Merized praises Carlos Beltran's charity work.
Speaking of charity work, Kevin Kernan advocates the Mets bring Edgardo Alfonzo in to Spring Training. It can't hurt, but to talk like he would teach this club fundamentals is pretty ridiculous.
Joe DeMayo has an interesting quick summary of what he's heard so far about the Met front office plans.
David Lennon twitters that the Mets have called Lackey's agent.
The Mets have hired Wally Backman to manage the Brooklyn Cyclones.
Around the NL East
The Marlins have gotten a bunch of phone calls about Dan Uggla. The Red Sox are thinking of bringing him in to play left.
FanGraphs argues that Jimmy Rollins isn't overrated at all.
Bobby V is kind of ticked that the Nats went with Riggleman.
Around MLB
Xavier Nady could be a good risk to take on for the right price in free agency.
JC Bradbury talks about some classic hot stove myths.
Is Bryce Harper the next Babe Ruth? Willie Mays? Ted Williams?
Eric Gagne wants to come back to MLB. Good luck with that.
The Mariners have brought back Jack Wilson for two years, $10 million.
Carl Crawford is ticked off at Tampa for exercising his option. Look for his name to be in a lot more trade rumors from here on out.
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Bring back Fonzie!
not as an instructor – let him play second. How much worse than Castillo can he be? I’m sure his back is good and rested, right? I love me some Fonz.
Also, I hate the Mets a little more each day that Jerry Manuel is their manager and Bobby V. is unemployed.
"[The Giants] beat us down. We were beat by a grown-man team, a team we want to be like one day. They came in here and took it to us. Out-manned us, out-gunned us. ... It wasn't even close." - Raheem Morris, 9/27/09
Crawford pissed?
I would love to see a pissed off Crawford in LF next season! A nice fat Mets contract will sooth his pissed-offishness.
by ScottfromPeekskill on Nov 14, 2009 9:27 AM EST reply actions
Reading that he was pissed made me chuckle.
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 14, 2009 12:32 PM EST up reply actions
My one beef with the Bradbury post...
is that he argues that supply and demand in free agency are pretty much one-to-one. That may happen sometimes, where 4 teams let 4 shortstops walk and are thus now all in the FA/trade market for new shortstops. What that doesn’t take into account is developing talent coming out of the minors, where for maybe 2 of those teams they let their veteran shortstop go precisely because they have a waiting replacement in the minors. As a consequence you might have a “glut” at a position, where supply outstrips demand thus (theoretically) driving down prices overall.
The fact that Bradbury forgets about minor league (rather than veteran) replacements is virtual proof that he must be a closet Mets fan.
"Those who fear disorder more than injustice inevitably produce more of both." -- Rev. William Coffin
I would be pissed off about $10 million dollars for one year too...
oh wait, no I wouldn’t!
mmmmm, Ohhhhh these COOKIEEEES!
Crawford would be an excellent fit in LF
However, given that this is a report from Silva, I’d guess he’s actually ecstatic and wants to sign a long term extension with Tampa
Silva fails again!
"We're investigating the investigative procedure of the investigation of Tony Bernazard"---Omar Minaya (he really didn't say it but he would"
by firejerrynow on Nov 14, 2009 3:30 PM EST up reply actions
Crawford to the Mets
Omar would probably lose the Mets’ rights to play in Citifield in that deal, and he’d probably get fleeced for half of the Mets money over the next twenty years. So basically, the Mets would get Crawford and the Rays would get Reyes, F!, Mejia, Davis, Pelfrey, Citi Field, SNY, and half of the Mets’ money from 2010-2030. Omar just isn’t very smart.
"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."
worst of all
Omar wouldn’t even offer Francoeur or Cora
"We're investigating the investigative procedure of the investigation of Tony Bernazard"---Omar Minaya (he really didn't say it but he would"
by firejerrynow on Nov 14, 2009 3:33 PM EST up reply actions
They're too valuable
"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."
your sarcasm detector is off
"We're investigating the investigative procedure of the investigation of Tony Bernazard"---Omar Minaya (he really didn't say it but he would"
by firejerrynow on Nov 14, 2009 7:18 PM EST up reply actions
The JC Bradbury link should be removed for its utter stupidity
Aside from the fact that this guy seems to have no real credentials in either baseball or economics, his first, second, and third points are all just straight up wrong. Most undergrad econ majors from Princeton have more sophisticated economic analysis skills than this guy.
I'm not sure what you mean by no real credentials
I don’t agree with him, but according to his bio, he does have a PhD in economics and he’s a professor at a department called Health, Physical Education, and Sports Science (which does sound lame, so maybe you’re right).
unless he's on the TeeVee show "Sports Science" shooting boxers up with epinephrine
then his credentials are crap
by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on Nov 14, 2009 8:50 PM EST up reply actions
Cred
Yeah, but acquiring degrees isn’t that hard. It’s where you get them from and where you teach that counts.
this statement
borders on inanity. it is chat board hubris like this that makes the armchair sportsfan look silly. personal attacks don’t make attacks on someone’s argument stronger, contrary to what the interwebs might teach you.
I.M. Forme
"When you get yourself into trouble is when you feel you have to do something, and then you get yourself in trouble." --Omar Minaya
by itsmetsforme on Nov 15, 2009 1:35 PM EST up reply actions
Yea agreed.
That Bradbury article was shockingly dumb. This man seems to be writing for a potential “perfect” baseball world where the pool of players is always the same and is not changed by retirement or farm system graduations, all GMs are equally aware of statistical analysis and the idea of randomness, and every trade is completely even for both sides.
I also like that he claims that a player’s peak is 29 or 30 with no relevant supporting evidence. I guess a player’s peak is whatever J.C. Bradbury says it is.
not arguing that his article is good
(full disclosure, I haven’t read it)
but isn’t it pretty much accepted that a players peak is between his age 28 and 30 seasons? I could be wrong, but I was under the assumption that this wasn’t even really a debated thing anymore. Some players peak a little earlier or later, obviously, but I thought the prevailing wisdom was the peak was between 28 and 30
"[The Giants] beat us down. We were beat by a grown-man team, a team we want to be like one day. They came in here and took it to us. Out-manned us, out-gunned us. ... It wasn't even close." - Raheem Morris, 9/27/09
Beltran's charity work?
Unless it can be directly correlated to WAR, I’m not interested.
Charities probably think RBI is a useful stat. Morons.
What, you don't appreciate that he's being praised FOR ONCE?
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw
Maybe if he spent less time on charity
And more time on getting healthy and becoming that singular flawless player…
Speaking of which, I’m guessing this article was probably passed around before, but I’m just reading it now, and it’s brilliant (and it shouts out our boy T-Berg to boot): http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/joe_posnanski/05/19/carlos.beltran/index.html
The last line is just amazing.
Lol
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 15, 2009 9:22 PM EST up reply actions
That Bradbury article is right on one point:
it’s a myth that GMs can buy low and sell high. We all know that GMs can only buy high and sell low. Ask Omar.
Random thought
how come Benny Agbayani didn’t make it in MLB? From ‘99-’01 for the Mets he had a .284/.374/.467/.842 line for a 116 OPS+ over 1,067 AB’s, which isn’t terrible for a starting corner outfielder, and would blow someone like Jeff Francouer out of the water. If I’m reading his fangraphs page correctly, they only have UZR info for his 2002 season, but he was a 30.9 UZR/150 leftfielder in 311 innings that year. I think that’s obviously a little high, I doubt he was nearly that good, but even if he was a negative fielder, his offense looks good enough to stick around. At the very least he should have hung around as a 4th outfielder, right? So what happened?
"[The Giants] beat us down. We were beat by a grown-man team, a team we want to be like one day. They came in here and took it to us. Out-manned us, out-gunned us. ... It wasn't even close." - Raheem Morris, 9/27/09
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