hustling, dedication, and intelligence are all really important things for a baseball player. But what people don’t realize is that David Wright, Jose Reyes, and Carlos Beltran – when they’re all playing healthy and up to their abilities – are amongst the most dedicated, intelligent, hustly (new word) guys in the league. Watch Jose Reyes stretch a double into a triple and tell me he’s not hustling. Watch Carlos Beltran position himself perfectly in the outfield so that he can make an incredible catch look easy and tell me he’s not intelligent. Watch David Wright struggle through the worst season of his career on an awful team and come out every day, even after a concussion and just keep hitting the ball and tell me he’s not dedicated.

Instead, people use these as a buzzword to suggest that the guys the Mets have are losers, and we need “winners,” when really what we need are more guys who are good at baseball to play around our 3 superstars. And the intelligent readers of this site are gonna take the bait and argue that intelligence, hustle, and dedication don’t mean squat, when they clearly do. It’s just that the non-intelligent people have no idea when they’re seeing it right in front of their faces.