Daniel Murphy's Future?

look it has been proven over the last few years that it is key to have a good batthat can play passable at many different positions. If he could learn 2B along with whathe already knows that would be great, but even if he doesn’t. To be able to play 1B,3B and 2 OF spots. I bet he would see 250 ABs a season. I lik ehim better than Tatis, even though Tatis had the big PH HR 2 days ago. Murphy will be more affordable, if he will stay

Murphy will in all likely hood hit a bit better than Tatis but Tatis has more versatility and better defensive skills as is due to his experience.

Hopefully he’ll get starting time at 2B, 1B, LF, and even 3B. Keep him in AAA for a few months to learn some 2B, though.

Is Danny Murphy really a fan favorite? I don’t really think so. Getting a pulse of the general fanbase (the same people who boo Wright, so…), it seems that most dislike Murphy, because he couldn’t keep up his .300+ hitting from August and September 2008, made a few bad plays in the outfield, and isn’t a proto-typical slugging firstbaseman.

He’s been your basic grissiony not-that-talented dude playing a position: 1B, that highlights his weakness as a hitter. His offensive stats translated to second base are about replacement-level, right? So, even with the spedz who “run things” with the Mets, you would think they would want to see how he fares there, right?

look say what you want but the mets need 100 daniel murphys he is not a quitter he is a gamer and has heart . not like some of these omar boys ? they know who they are .murphy will learn to play another position if they ask him thats just murph doing anything he can to be a good player. and unless i,m blind or living in a cave murphy was always a good hitter since he came up in 08. lets all hope as mets fans i meen real mets fans that murph will be a part of this young core of davis wright,meijada and martinez and do his part to be a good player and help the mets win ..

but I just don’t have faith in his defense. He was surprisingly good at 1st base last year but he still has little time there, 3rd base is his natural position and i remember hearing he was only average there and we know how the LF experiment went last season. I don’t know if he’ll be good enough defensively at 2B or the outfield to make his bat worth it. unfortunately, that is the only way that Murph sticks with the team beyond this year because Davis is here to stay. I doubt they send him back down, even if he eventually struggles (which he will at some point).

i honestly think he gets dealt somewhere else and becomes a slightly above average big league 1st baseman.

Replacing Catalanotto with Murphy would be a pretty big boost for our bench.

I know the Nationals lack controlled position player talent. Dunn’s been pretty good for us, but he could be traded at some point this year. If he is, we don’t have much worth playing at 1B for us. When I see a noncontrolled Adam Dunn at 1B, and Adam Kennedy/Christian Guzman at 2B for the Nats, Murphy would be somebody I’d have interest in while we’re waiting for Danny Espinosa to prove worthy of a full year at 2B in the majors by around ’12.