Offday Applesauce

makes it 3 times as special. though I would have preferred “?!?!?!?!”

written by people who don’t know baseballreference.com exists. I’m not just talking about baseball websites, if I found out the writer of a political blog doesn’t know about BBR, I’m outta there.

Wright is silly, but Wright putting too much pressure on himself seems to be a bit of a problem – it’s not an abstract “clutch” or “unclutch” thing, it’s something that he probably is going to have to get a little better at dealing with.

Castro should be pretty pissed about what happened yesterday. Here’s a guy with two hits in the game, whose had a long career as a back-up and never complains about not starting (injuries aside), and has a handful of HUGE hits for us over the last couple years and Jerry hits a 28 year old rook for him. I’d be pissed.

Dub’s? Jerry’s? Santos’?

But are we seriously considering cutting him lose for a guy who never hit on any level in the minors based on like a week of at bats?

That’s almost worse than the Ollie contract.

.278/.372/.390 right now. So he’s actually better.

I can’t stand the Wright bashing. But I do want to say, I’m at least a little bit more troubled right now than I was in 2007. The K’s are a bit more concerning than 2007’s lack of power. Wright has a .407 BABIP right now, that’s the only reason his batting line looks better than it did in 2007. If it was closer to his career mark of .343, he’d probably be somewhere around .250 / .350 / .350. However, he is hitting a ridiculous number of liners despite the fact that he’s not making much contact (27.3% of the time he puts it in play according to fangraphs), so its not like the BABIP is completely out of context. He’s also hitting fewer balls in the air and more on the ground, which in any other season, would be a negative not a positive, but from what we’ve already seen of the new ballpark, this seems like the appropriate approach (see Beltran, Carlos, whose not really hitting more balls on the ground, but, compared to last year, he’s hitting about 5% more balls on a line and 5% fewer in the air).

Jerry has done some idiotic things so far. But I think that overall, Omar has done more harm than good in the past two years or so. Many of our biggest needs have been addressed by doing what should have been Plan B or C, when we have the resources to go for Plan A. Or by avoiding the issue altogether until they’re calling for your head (see: bullpen).

I’ve largely defended Minaya, but he has really done a terrible job building a team around a really solid core of players.

I don’t see how you can be pissed at the Wilpons. The Mets have one of the highest payrolls in all of baseball and they just opened a gorgeous new stadium. They may not be Mark Cuban, but they have given Minaya more resources than almost any GM in baseball. That should be enough to win.