Jason Bay Applesauce - Thole Flees Venezuela, Rule 5 Is A Bust, Halladay To The Phillies?

Wilt Chamberlain should be removed from the basketball hall of fame and have all of his records removed from the books.

I mean I’m a big fan of the Rule 5 draft but the amount of players that actually stick with the club is very low. Maybe the Mets scouts/analysis just didn’t think any player was worth it so they earned some goodwill from the Dodgers as well as made a couple of bucks rather than drafting no one. I mean I’m not really a fan of any of the players drafted after the Mets pick except that there is a good assortment of names in Robert Cassevah, Zechry Zinicola, Chuck Lofgren and Michael Parisi. Really the only pick I somewhat liked was Armando Zerpa (LHP) but he was dealing with injuries two year ago and really only has 45 someodd innings of AA where he has been impressive.

So, while I understand that logic of, “hey the Mets might of well have drafted someone because you never know,” I can also see the logic of “we don’t really like anyone, so let’s make a little cash.” Though I might be biased based on being an auditor.

Also, I don’t consider it being cheap, but just figuring the guaranteed money is worth more than the chance of success. For example, let’s say that the Mets believe that based on scouting and such that best case scenario a RP they can draft at their pick yields 1 WAR or roughly $4.5 million in value. After salary and the fee, this $4.5 turns into a roughly $4.1 surplus. Now say the Mets believe that this best case scenario has a 3% chance of coming to fruition, this would make the value $.123 thus the Mets concluded that they should just take the guaranteed $.15. Obviously, the latter is completely fabricated but it was more of a personal thought exercise to get me through till lunch, so apologies all around.

on top of that, its also flawed.

They put the home hit charts of both players, but bay plays with the green monster… if you look at the image, you can basically see the green monster on bays hits. There is a straight line the cuts right across left field.

but i would still rather have holiday.

when metsblog commenters have surpassed Omar.

we’re doomed.

wouldnt that mean that saying yes to Moliona would be the right thing to do?

My head is confused.

and that he was a decent prospect at one point for the Marlins. But what was the purpose of an already questionable the trade if we apparently didn’t have any intentions of ever giving him at least a shot.

Especially when Lindstrom was injured and somewhat ineffective last season. While not saying it out loud, he could have gotten a lot of “respect” or whatever back, silently saying, by playing an effective Bostick, “See! Look, I knew what I was doing when I traded Linstrom, you know. Here’s Bostick doing well for us here, with, um, Linstrom struggling there. I, you know, made, uh, the right move.”

back in ‘02. You could say this is another one of Omar’s guys, but might actually be good.