Jason Bay Applesauce - Bay is happy to be with Mets, Mets bolster Buffalo roster, Melvin Mora a possibility

by Joe Budd on Jan 6, 2010 8:55 AM EST in Applesauce Comment 23 comments

Meet the Mets

Let's start the morning out with Jason Bay news. Bay was Jose Reyes guide of sorts through the rigors of Binghamton, despite the fact that they couldn't speak one word to each other. Fonzie Forever discusses Baseball Reference's Jason Bay player comparisons. And, in case you were wondering, Boston's last offer to Bay was significantly less than New York's.

In minor league news, the Mets added a lot of triple-A veterans to Buffalo's roster, among them are former Toronto first rounder Russ Adams and Lehigh Valley IronPig legend Mike Cervenak. Toby Hyde comments. Ted Berg says the Mets were trying to improve their relations with Buffalo.

Also in minor league news, Minor League Ball leads a discussion on the Met farm system.

Patrick Flood continues David Wright week, this time highlighting the differences between Citi and Shea.

MLBTradeRumors says that the Mets are interested in Melvin Mora.

Around the NL East

The soon-to-be Miami Marlins are already taking re-branding steps, dropping "Florida" from their uniforms. They're also hoping that Aroldis Chapman will someday wear these new jerseys.

Atlanta continues its strange offseason, adding Eric Hinske.

Around MLB

Randy Johnson announced his retirement yesterday. Reactions range from being the greatest left hander of all time to being a big fat jerk. Matthew Carruth is not sure why he retired now.

MLB Superstar Fred McGriff talks with Tyler Kepner about what is clearly his greatest impact on baseball.

Luis Ayala is alright after an attempted kidnapping.

Boston has decided that Mike Cameron will start in center field and Jacoby Ellsbury will move to left.

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I don't think i have ever read a bad Ted Berg article

The guy just writes “the way it is.”

Why Melvin Mora? The guy is such a cry baby and where is he going to play? Is there a problem with Wright and he is insurance? Or is he coming to play 1b? This is probably another article influenced by Mora’s agent to bump up his asking price by including the Mets or Wankees as potential suitors.

Asking a General Manager to slim down his budget is like asking an alcoholic to blow up a distillery.

by scott from peekskill on Jan 6, 2010 9:15 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

So, did Randy Johnson spit on Jeff Pearlman's mama?

That was seriously one of the lamest, most pathetic things I’ve ever read.

"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Jan 6, 2010 9:15 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Pearlman's an ass

The Mets lobby Omar for a plan, and his plan, he likes his plan. The problem is that he didn't write his plan down 'cause that makes it paperwork, and that’s false hustle... Know what I’m sayin’?

by Evan_S on Jan 6, 2010 9:44 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm mixed on Pearlman

Sometimes I like what he writes sometimes I don’t but he definitely writes with an agenda. Maybe vendetta is a better term.

by blains2000 on Jan 6, 2010 10:19 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

To his credit

At least he says he won’t hold it against him in HOF voting.

by Reg Dunlop on Jan 6, 2010 11:41 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Had to post this part of the Johnson article, pure venom, and deservedly so. Good opinion piece worth reading.

I have nothing but negative thoughts for Randy Johnson, a brilliant pitcher but a pathetic human being…But nobody—and I mean absolutely nobody—possessed the pure dismissive cruelty of Randy Johnson.

I’ve heard it a million times—no one cares how athletes treat the media. Well, I care. And Johnson was a punk. He bullied reporters, he snarled at reporters, he occasionally threatened reporters. He is one of the far-too-many professional athletes who believes the ability to throw a round piece of animal skin 100 mph grants you the right to treat other human beings as dog excrement. Just ask anyone who covered Johnson during his days in Montreal, Seattle, Houston, Arizona, New York and, lastly, San Francisco. He was a first-class pitcher and a first-class creep.

Asking a General Manager to slim down his budget is like asking an alcoholic to blow up a distillery.

by scott from peekskill on Jan 6, 2010 9:19 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Nope

Still don’t care.

by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on Jan 6, 2010 9:46 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

the rest of it

is even funnier.

“But when you think of Randy Johnson, I urge you not to remember the 6-foot-10 pitching giant, but the little man who inhabited his body.”

ahhahahah

by letsgocyclones on Jan 6, 2010 10:28 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

As my dear departed Dad used to say...

“OOO, he’s such a SCURVY-lookin’ thing!”

Oh, the butcher and the baker and the people on the street: wheredotheygo?!?!?

by CharlieH on Jan 6, 2010 10:33 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

rad

in Randy’s defense, my story ’bout how he treated one of us regulars.

by letsgocyclones on Jan 6, 2010 10:42 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Harper on NYDN

says Bay brings “much needed grit” to the clubhouse. So there’s that.

by blains2000 on Jan 6, 2010 10:21 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Well he's white, so there was a good chance he would be gritty.

Although I don’t know whether being Canadian adds to or subtracts from his grission.

by dtro on Jan 6, 2010 10:57 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

The term 'gritty' was used no less than four times during the Mets press conference, by Carlin and/or Ojeda.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 6, 2010 11:13 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Adds

because he also played hockey.

by blains2000 on Jan 6, 2010 11:20 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I want just one person who thinks Bay adds this mysterious component...

to tell me who on the Mets hasn’t been working hard.

Minaya: "Plays hard day-in and day-out and that will rub off on the rest of the team,"

Omar, tell me who doesn’t play hard. And if some guys didn’t play hard, why are you bringing every position player back except Schneider? Was he really dogging it? Was that the biggest problem last year?

Or idiots like Sean Casey who say the Mets have guys who are just about individual stats. Give me names Sean. Obviously he cant because he’s just making things up.

by Bieser's Balk on Jan 6, 2010 1:30 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Applesauce

Why kidnap Luis Ayala? You’d think there’d be better players to random…

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 6, 2010 11:14 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

random yes, ransom I guess not...

by 1969met on Jan 6, 2010 11:44 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Blah!

Yes, it was a random ransom!

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 6, 2010 12:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

yeah

Ayala has a mrv (monetary ransom value) ratio of only 5.4
The league average is like 10.83.
Poor statistical analysis by the kidnappers. They clearly dont have any sabermetrics people in their management. Old school guys mostly.

by gbaked on Jan 6, 2010 12:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

dayton moore was actually behind it

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

by squid92 on Jan 6, 2010 12:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

“Boston has decided that Mike Cameron will start in center field and Jacoby Ellsbury will move to left.”

Very smart move

by Coolpapabell on Jan 6, 2010 12:50 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Ellsbury has a pretty meager bat for left field

but their lineup is so solid that it probably won’t matter much.

by JoshNY on Jan 6, 2010 4:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Well I doubt it really matters

Since it was either going to be Cameron in left and Elsbury in center or Elsbury in left and Cameron in center so it’s not like it makes a difference in the line up. Plus Elsbury is pretty meh defensively in centerfield so maybe if he becomes otherwordly in left he’ll actually gain value.

"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'

it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.

by Gina on Jan 6, 2010 4:05 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs