Make-The-Mets-O-Meter: Week 2 - Pitchers

by Eric Simon on Mar 3, 2009 12:00 PM EST

We're a week into spring training games and, even though there haven't been any official cuts, and even though it's nigh impossible to draw any meaningful conclusions from spring training performances, we nevertheless have some inkling of the likely fortunes of some of the players in camp.

The pitchers.

Player		Comment
Michael Antonini, LHP		Had a bad intra-squad game last week.
Tony Armas, RHP		Is he even in camp?
Adam Bostick, LHP		A run on a hit and three walks in one inning. Yea, it's just an inning, but he's not going to get too many more.
Rocky Cherry, RHP*		Three hits and a run in an inning of work, but he's a Rule 5 draftee so he's got some wind at his back.
Valerio De Los Santos, LHP		One inning. One run. Can these guys do anything else?
Matt DeSalvo, RHP		Gets a lot of groundballs but doesn't do anything else particularly well.
Elmer Dessens, RHP		38 years old. Has had exactly one good year as a starter and zero as a reliever.
Nelson Figueroa, RHP		Three innings! One run. One homerun. Two strikeouts!
Casey Fossum, LHP		Coupla innings, no runs, two hits, two whiffs.
Freddy Garcia, RHP		Roughed up in his first spring start, coughing up four runs on two hits and three walks in two-thirds of an inning.
Dillon Gee, RHP		One hit allowed in two innings of work. His odds are long, but he's been better than most.
Livan Hernandez, RHP		Was un-terrible in the same game in which Garcia got mauled. Still fat.
Brandon Knight, RHP*		Not good.
Eddie Kunz, RHP*		Hasn't pitched. Is that bad?
Tom Martin, LHP		Struck out the only batter he faced. Also, likes killing animals for sport. Manly.
Carlos Muniz, RHP*		Bupkis.
Jon Niese, LHP*		Not doing himself any favors just yet.
Darren O'Day, RHP*		Apparently not injured, the Rule 5 selection from the Angels has thrown two scoreless innings.
Bobby Parnell, RHP*		Good: two scoreless innings. Bad: three walks.
Connor Robertson, RHP*		Two scoreless innings for the Diamondbacks' answer to Omar Minaya's pleas of "I don't care. I'll take anybody." while shopping Scott Schoeneweis this winter.
Heriberto Ruelas, LHP		In camp. Pitched. Not good.
Kyle Snyder, RHP		One hit in one inning, a'singin', "Tri-ple-A, just a bus ride a-way".
Brian Stokes, RHP*		I like the dude. Two strikeouts and a homerun allowed in three innings.
Tobi Stoner, RHP		Soon to be joining Billy Bong Thornton and Wesley Pipes in Triple-A Buffalo.
John Switzer, LHP		He pitched an inning the other day, so there's that, I guess.

Key:
= Chance of making the Mets is unchanged.
= Chance of making the Mets is going down.
= Chance of making the Mets is going up.
* = player on 40-man roster

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tobi stoner

abra cadabra!

yo! abra cadabra, B!

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on Mar 3, 2009 12:06 PM EST reply actions

Day-to-Day DL

Doctor said he needs a backeotomy.

phliadelphoe ite domum!

by Doc Manhattan on Mar 3, 2009 1:15 PM EST up reply actions

Thanks for doing this, Eric.

If only because I enjoy both the Tobi Stoner jokes and the “Livan is fat” jokes. Granted, the latter is really just a fact, but it still makes me laugh.

'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Mar 3, 2009 12:07 PM EST reply actions

Can you put a double down arrow next to Garca's name?

He looks awful. Cant even touch 84 on the gun today.

by TBlz on Mar 3, 2009 1:22 PM EST reply actions

dammit. Garcia, that is.

by TBlz on Mar 3, 2009 1:23 PM EST up reply actions

I think we could do worse than Fossum as our second lefty in the pen.

Let’s say that these spots are filled:

K-Rod
Putz
Green
Sanchez
Feliciano

That leaves room for a long man and another good bullpen arm, preferably a lefty.
The competition for the long man, let’s say, would be:

Redding/Garcia/Hernandez (whichever two don’t make the 5th spot)
Figueroa
Stokes
Knight
Armas (I always had a soft spot for him, so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt for now)

And the other arm could be any one of these guys, let’s say:

O’Day
Cherry
Fossum
Parnell

So who would you want, out of these guys? I could honestly see Fossum making the team.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Mar 3, 2009 1:44 PM EST reply actions

I'm hoping Parnell can have a good spring

He throws 98 and has a couple of other good pitches. I’ll be rooting for him.

Also: why has Elmer Dessens been in the majors as long as he has? He’s pitched for eight different teams, and the only one he’s had any success with is the Reds. I’ve always wondered why some guys get so many chances (this guy also comes to mind: http://www.baseball-reference.com/l/limajo01.shtml) and some just disappear (this guy never got a chance: http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/morriwa02.shtml).

"One of the nice things about baseball is that there are no rules you can't break." - Jim Bouton

by Prince on Mar 3, 2009 2:22 PM EST up reply actions

Oh. Links aren't working

Well, it was Jose Lima and Warren Morris.

"One of the nice things about baseball is that there are no rules you can't break." - Jim Bouton

by Prince on Mar 3, 2009 2:23 PM EST up reply actions

by squid92 on Mar 3, 2009 7:53 PM EST up reply actions

That's a legit concern

The fact that he’s a Rule Five also gives him an edge in my book, but I could see having two ROOGYs being troublesome, at least the majority of the league bats RH.

by Sokojoe on Mar 3, 2009 8:01 PM EST up reply actions