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Yunimania Applesauce: Brewers hit bombs, Theo hits the north side, Angels hit unemployment line

Meet the Mets

Greg Prince dances on the grave of the Phillies 2011 season. Needless to say, I approve.

ESPNNY continues to look back at the 1986 NLCS, which is one of the overlooked great series in Mets history. Those Astros unis? Not so great.

Uh, thanks for the kind words, K-Rod, but I wouldn't be waiting by the phone.

There's only one #frenchtober

The Brewers rode a big fifth inning to a Game 1 victory over the Cardinals. Zack Greinke did his best Jack Morris impression in a winning effort. And of course, the series is already getting contentious. You can make your own beast mode jokes.

Game 2 of the ALCS was rained out and will be made up this afternoon. Max Scherzer will toe the mound opposite Derek Holland as neither team is altering their rotation. The Tigers will be without Magglio Ordonez for the rest of the series due to a broken ankle. He'll be joining Delmon Young on the sidelines.

The Beyond the Box Score Playoff Machine still likes Texas to win it all. And I say, where were they when I was in Reno?

Somebody is missing the point about TV ratings again. Maybe if the major cable outlets actually promoted teams other than the big market franchises...

Baseball Nation takes a look back at every recent  annoying postseason baseball promo. This is also part of the ratings problem I am sure.

Star-divide

Around MLB

LoHud Yankees things they should look into a new rightfielder to blame. Of course, the Yankee fans will probably take the #blamebeltran thing and ruin it by doing it unironically.

Ryan Howard might miss the beginning of the 2012 season with a torn achilles. What he won't be missing is a paycheck on that 5 year, 125 million dollar extension that starts next year 

/end schadenfreude

This means Theo is totally going to Chicago. I wonder if they saw him at Hot Doug's, too.

The Angels also continue to shake up their front office. I can't imagine why. Seriously? A .248 OBP? Seriously? 

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K-Rod

Never again, never again

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by RudyTerrasasWarRoom on Oct 10, 2011 9:13 AM EDT reply actions  

i'll take krod

for 2 mil per year

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by Cory Braiterman on Oct 10, 2011 9:24 AM EDT up reply actions  

Nah

I’ll take an arrest free clubhouse with no serial abusers

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by RudyTerrasasWarRoom on Oct 10, 2011 9:29 AM EDT up reply actions  

as long as it doesn't actually affect on-field play and team chemistry

(like it actually did in 09), then outside issues generally shouldn’t be a reason to sign or not sign a player.

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by Cory Braiterman on Oct 10, 2011 9:30 AM EDT up reply actions  

No most def

I appreciate him knocking around everyone at his house

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by RudyTerrasasWarRoom on Oct 10, 2011 9:31 AM EDT up reply actions  

to me it depends on the circumstances

attacking your father in law on team property around other players family members cross the line IMO.

amest I bovvered forsooth?
ARE YOU DISRESPECTING THE HOUSE OF CITI
ARE YOU CALLING REYES A POX RIDDEN WENCH
ARE YOU CALLING DAVID WRIGHT A GOODLY ROTTEN APPLE
CAUSE HE AIN'T EVEN A GOODLY ROTTEN APPLE THOUGH

by Gina on Oct 10, 2011 9:38 AM EDT up reply actions  

You don't talk about a man's mami and expect not to get punched

Regardless of where you are.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Oct 10, 2011 11:48 AM EDT up reply actions  

While I largely agree with this

KRod should have exercised a little bit more control and a little less anger issues in that circumstance – i.e. outside the family room in the clubhouse.

Should have waited until they all got back to the house to tell him if he ever dissed his Mama again he’d pop him. Then maybe he should have just popped him anyway.
Seriously, it’s clear KRod had some anger issues. Mid heading to late twenties nitwit. It happens. He got help and hopefully those issues are behind him. I’ll be first on record to admit to some things I did in my 20s I’m not proud of.

That being said, if he’d take 2MIL to come back here, I’d sign him. Not gonna happen though.

by MetsFan4Decades on Oct 10, 2011 12:17 PM EDT up reply actions  

While it seems clear Krod has some anger issues

we really don’t know the circumstances. It could be that it was a recurring thing with this man that he brought up Krod’s mom and that was the straw the broke the back.

Save Jenrry Mejia!
Keep Reyes, Trade Wilpon.

by Ogre39666 on Oct 10, 2011 3:53 PM EDT up reply actions  

I wouldnt be so quick

To blame the father-in-law, nice job though

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by RudyTerrasasWarRoom on Oct 10, 2011 3:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

I only know about the txt messaging.

And yeah, there had been a restraining order but that they were still together or something. Like I said, it’s clear he did have some anger issues.

Save Jenrry Mejia!
Keep Reyes, Trade Wilpon.

by Ogre39666 on Oct 10, 2011 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions  

That was after he started sending her text messages after the fight

Some good stuff, too. I’m paraphrasing, but stuff like, “I love you and the kids, but you have to stop being a puppet and letting your father pull the strings”.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Oct 10, 2011 4:31 PM EDT up reply actions  

Character issues

Are for the LolMets Minaya days

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by RudyTerrasasWarRoom on Oct 10, 2011 9:43 AM EDT up reply actions  

I liked Jeff until he bashed the Astros unis.

In lobby for: Jaime Cevallos, Zack Lutz, orange unis and Rickroll as the 7th inning song.
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by Michkin on Oct 10, 2011 9:44 AM EDT reply actions  

Oddly

I really like the old Brewers and Phils unis and don’t mind the old Padres ones. The Astros ones just rub me the wrong way.

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by Jeffrey Paternostro on Oct 10, 2011 10:08 AM EDT up reply actions  

They always reminded me of a sunset.

I liked most of those ’70s uniforms. Camp can be cool.

by Curtis3331 on Oct 10, 2011 7:03 PM EDT up reply actions  

The old Astros unis never bothered me like the old Padres and Pirates unis

and the White Sox shorts unis were the worst.

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by Russ on Oct 10, 2011 7:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

I would agree re the shorts

but IIRC it was only worn once. For the long run, the worst were probably the Padres “taco” uniforms, followed by the Astros. Trivia (again , IIRC): the two teams that won a pennant wearing brown unis were the 1944 St. Louis Browns and the 1984 Padres.

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by StorkFan on Oct 10, 2011 9:32 PM EDT up reply actions  

An idea

@Let’s make baseball the longest reality series of the year. Before every game, instead of a traditional pregame show, let’s go into the house and see the players bicker and fight. Then after the game, the cameras can follow the players into the bars and watch them bicker and fight and smash a few cuties after hours. Ratings man, ratings man.

Of course, we’d get rid of David Wright. K and errors we can handle, but the vanilla personality just won’t cut it in reality TV land. Instead, we should sign Carlos Zambrano, Milton Bradley, K Rod too (only if his baby mama’s dad/father in law comes along), and let’s not forget about Jim Leyritz and Lenny Dykstrya (They probably can’t play much any more, but they are ratings fucking gold.

Bud Selig simply could not be commissioner in the RBL (Reality Baseball League). I lobby Howard Stern for commish, Bubba the Love Sponge for AL Pres, and Opie and Anthony as co-NL Presidents (by the way, they all hate each other, so we’d even get cool episodes featuring the not-so-boring administrators.)

Joe Buck, you’re done calling games. We’ll get Vince McMahan and Jesse the Body with Gorilla Monsoon sound bites sprinkled in. Too fake? Blogo – he’d be perfect in the post-literate America.@

Americans are such fucking hammer heads. They don’t read and they don’t think and you expect them to watch a moderately paced, thought provoking game like baseball? It’s not about the teams, it’s about the sport, but I like the sport and hope to hell they don’t change it just to get ratings.

by lstorie1971 on Oct 10, 2011 9:50 AM EDT reply actions  

Sweet joke dude

You da man

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by RudyTerrasasWarRoom on Oct 10, 2011 9:53 AM EDT up reply actions  

Beast Mode

Maybe it’s because the greatest team in Mets history were a bunch of cocky mofos, but I love Beast Mode and I think the Brewers are a wonderful contrast to the sullen, corporate attitude of St. Louis. C’mon, this is baseball, not a courtroom. If you can’t act a little goofy and cocky, you’re in the wrong profession.

Also, for all the blather from the sports media about how St. Louis has the best fans in the world, I can’t believe how loud Milwaukee’s fans are. Also, they seem to be standing at all moments of the game.

Mark Cuban for owner! Save us from the Wilpons!

by Greenpoint Ian on Oct 10, 2011 9:52 AM EDT reply actions  

I just don't like the Brewers

Seriously, screw them.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Oct 10, 2011 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions  

Plus, I happen to like Texas and Detroit

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Oct 10, 2011 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

Thoughts

Im open to a K-Rod return, offer him something low and see what he says.

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by BlueChill on Oct 10, 2011 10:25 AM EDT reply actions  

Dude, We should resign Beltran too

So full of win

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by RudyTerrasasWarRoom on Oct 10, 2011 11:24 AM EDT up reply actions  

We won a ton with him

Hitting up the DL is inspirational

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by RudyTerrasasWarRoom on Oct 10, 2011 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

When he was surrounded with talent they did

when he was surrounded by dreck Omar brought in not so much. We also shouldn’t forget the Mets medical staff not exactly doing right but him in their handling of his knee injuries.

by graves9 on Oct 10, 2011 4:06 PM EDT up reply actions  

Don't bother.

Save Jenrry Mejia!
Keep Reyes, Trade Wilpon.

by Ogre39666 on Oct 10, 2011 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions  

When?

One season?

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by RudyTerrasasWarRoom on Oct 10, 2011 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

That's poor, Evan. That's poor.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Oct 10, 2011 7:09 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

I am a troll

For not wanting to re-sign Beltran? I would just rather players who don’t ask out of a lot of games, that’s all. I would like to move on, not just re-sign old Minaya fails.

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by RudyTerrasasWarRoom on Oct 11, 2011 9:06 AM EDT up reply actions  

False

Get off me dog

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by RudyTerrasasWarRoom on Oct 11, 2011 9:41 AM EDT up reply actions  

It may not make you a troll

but viewing Beltran as a failure makes you fucking stupid.

Save Jenrry Mejia!
Keep Reyes, Trade Wilpon.

by Ogre39666 on Oct 11, 2011 10:01 AM EDT up reply actions  

I didn't say he was a failure

I just think he doesn’t like to play baseball that much

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by RudyTerrasasWarRoom on Oct 11, 2011 10:20 AM EDT up reply actions  

is this based on your in depth one-on-one conversations with Carlos?

Hey, wait! I'm having one of those things. You know? A headache with pictures?

by KeithsMoustache on Oct 11, 2011 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions  

.
not just re-sign old Minaya fails

Save Jenrry Mejia!
Keep Reyes, Trade Wilpon.

by Ogre39666 on Oct 11, 2011 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

Which is why he does it for a living, right?

Because given the option, anyone will chose to do something they don’t like professionally.

"And that's why anybody who invested with Lenny Dykstra should really call that number. Lawyers are standing by."

by BobbyV_Incognito on Oct 11, 2011 6:29 PM EDT up reply actions  

Except

after making a ton of money, if you don’t like the sport, you quit. Vince Young, Albert Haynesworth, and Gil Meche come to mind. Beltran is not that.

Kicking knowledge in the face.

by BlackOps on Oct 11, 2011 8:25 PM EDT up reply actions  

But none of those guys didn't like what they were doing.

Haynesworth and Young both had bitter feuds with management, and they didn’t actually retire. Meche did retire, but because he felt he could no longer pitch effectively, and didn’t want to be paid if he couldn’t perform at the level expected of him.

"And that's why anybody who invested with Lenny Dykstra should really call that number. Lawyers are standing by."

by BobbyV_Incognito on Oct 11, 2011 9:26 PM EDT up reply actions  

I'd like to sign K-Rod again, but no matter how you slice it, he'd cost too much money

Even if he was somehow signed at the ‘discount’ price of $10 million dollars a year, we don’t particularly have the financial flexibility to give him $10 million dollars.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Oct 10, 2011 11:51 AM EDT reply actions  

Even if they had finacal flexibility

I still would not pay a closer ten million dollars a year to pitch 70 innings a year. I’d rather sign a starting pitcher for that money or a couple of relievers and a bench player. There’s just better use of that money than KRod.

by graves9 on Oct 10, 2011 12:48 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

I have no problem paying a quality, reliable closer up to $10 million or so

Generally speaking, if he’s a quality closer, he’s going to be worth between 1.0 and 2.0 WAR, so his performance and contract link up, more or less. Having a guy that you know is going to get that save and not give up the lead more often than not is also something that I think we undervalue a little bit here at AA. I felt the same, but a quote by Sandy Alderson kind of changed my mind; it had to do with having a closer who the team knows they can rely on in those high leverage situations, and how not having a guy the team can trust to close it out and end the game can be frustrating and have a negative effect on team morale and such.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Oct 10, 2011 1:00 PM EDT up reply actions  

I agree

Whether or not the “closer’s mentality” is an actual thing or a load of BS, you need someone to close out games for you, and if someone isn’t labeled as a closer, they just won’t do it. I don’t know why, but if you need to pay someone too much money to throw one inning a day, so be it.

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by piazza62 on Oct 10, 2011 9:48 PM EDT up reply actions  

As I was saying in a FanPost I wrote about the closer situation a few weeks ago,

a lot of it is probably mental, and would be interesting thing to somehow study. A nurse spends her entire career as a nurse, and then someone suggests she become a doctor (because she’s experienced and knows a lot about the medical field), plenty will shrug the suggestion off citing that they don’t think they’re smart/skilled enough to be an actual doctor. Similarly, I bet that a lot of generic middle relievers (Bobby Parnell) don’t do as good as they should if given the closer’s role because they’re of a similar mentality, that they’re middle relievers, or set-up men, or whatever else, and that they might not necessarily have the “closer’s mentality”, or good enough skills, or whatever else. Generically, pitching in the 8th inning and earning a hold is the same exact thing as pitching in the 9th inning and earning a save, except that it’s the 8th inning, and not the 9th- as a pitcher, it’s imperative that you not allow a run, and preserve the team’s lead. There’s definitley a large degree of small sample sizes causing noise skewing the results, but time and time again you see guys who aren’t normally closers, such as set-up men, or generic middle relievers being called on to pitch in the 9th to save the game, and not getting it done. Bobby Parnell, who had a bunch of blown saves, and has noticeably worse numbers in High Leverage Situations. Jose Veras in Pittsburgh had 27 holds, but blew six saves when called on in the 9th. Chad Qualls, 22 holds, and 5 blown saves. Jesse Crain, 24 holds, and 6 blown saves. I don’t necessarily know what it is, other than small sample sizes of individuals that are being lumped together that really should be examined on a case-by-case basis, but it’s interesting and something I’ve noticed.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Oct 10, 2011 11:45 PM EDT up reply actions  

Something to note

is that a blown save can be earned without pitching the 9th. Those setup guys you mentioned could have earned those blown saves while in their normal, non-9th inning roles.

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by Ogre39666 on Oct 11, 2011 12:43 AM EDT up reply actions  

I don't really wanna see K-Rod again

But anything is better than we have now, especially if he’d be open to making less money which I doubt.

I don’t really get all the hype around Heath Bell, he isn’t striking out batters as much and he is having his worst season since he left the mets.

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by piazza62 on Oct 10, 2011 12:01 PM EDT reply actions  

Could be a "buy low" situation (not that low is going to actually translate into little money, in this situation)

Depends on whether or not it’s just a little hiccup, and his K/9 rate goes back to being between 8-10 next season and his FB/HR goes back down, or if those are red flags of bigger problems. It’s happened to him before 2008, where the K/9 went down and he gave up more homers, and then he recovered in 2009. Looking at his Pitch f/x info, his fastball velocity in 2011 averaged 93.9 MPH; in 2010, it averaged 93.9; in 2009, again around 94 MPH. The biggest difference I see is, if Pitch f/x is identifying the pitches correctly, he dropped a few pitches from his selection in 2011 that were there in 2010 and before. PETCO and Citi both suppress home runs to a degree, so he wouldn’t suffer from going from a pitching friendly park to a hitter friendly one.

He’s going to cost too much for us, odds are, but if we could get him for a reasonable price/time frame, I wouldn’t really bat an eye

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Oct 10, 2011 12:53 PM EDT up reply actions  

What about Capt. HorribleAtBaseball?

He will be a great closer

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by RudyTerrasasWarRoom on Oct 10, 2011 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions  

Who are you referring to?

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Oct 10, 2011 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions  

Captain Fastball

Bobby Parnell

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by RudyTerrasasWarRoom on Oct 10, 2011 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

Oh, oh

He’s far from horrible at baseball, but based on the fact that over the course of his career, he has performed at an inferior level in High Leverage Situations (smaller sample size, of course) than he has in Medium and Low Leverage Situations, I don’t think it’s in the best interests of the team to have him closing out close games.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Oct 10, 2011 2:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

Best interest of the team

To not have him playing baseball ever again, because he is….horrible.

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by RudyTerrasasWarRoom on Oct 10, 2011 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions  

Last season, when he faced mostly lower leverage situations

He put up a 2.25 FIP. Not horrible by any stretch of the imagination. He should be in the bullpen, but never as a closer.

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by piazza62 on Oct 10, 2011 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions  

Nice

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by RudyTerrasasWarRoom on Oct 10, 2011 3:32 PM EDT up reply actions  

He isn't though

That’s the thing.

And, even if he was, he’s still more or less the best relief pitcher the Mets have under control as of right now.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Oct 10, 2011 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

No he is bad

Real bad

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by RudyTerrasasWarRoom on Oct 10, 2011 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

Were you a Heath Bell hater too?

Not comparing Parnell to Bell because he’s clearly not as good, but just wondering.

by graves9 on Oct 10, 2011 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions  

No

Just Parnell, he is awful

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by RudyTerrasasWarRoom on Oct 10, 2011 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions  

No matter how often you say he is, it doesn't change the fact that he isn't

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Oct 10, 2011 4:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

If he was as horrible as you say,

he wouldn’t be in the majors, would he?

"And that's why anybody who invested with Lenny Dykstra should really call that number. Lawyers are standing by."

by BobbyV_Incognito on Oct 10, 2011 8:20 PM EDT up reply actions  

On the LOLMets

Anything is possible, I saw Luis Hernandez and Robinson Cancel play a whole bunch of games

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by RudyTerrasasWarRoom on Oct 11, 2011 9:01 AM EDT up reply actions  

Actually

TBS post season promos didn’t really get on my nerves until this year. If you watch all post season games I understand how annoying it all is by the time it’s over every year.

But this year? I was tired of hearing Written in the Stars by the end of the first night. Should have just stuck with Kid Rock or Bon Jovi.

by MetsFan4Decades on Oct 10, 2011 12:24 PM EDT reply actions  

Written in the staaaaarrrs!

AAARRRRRRRSSSSSHHHHHHHHAAAAAAVVVVVIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNN!
Dream goal!

by Aidan Gibson on Oct 10, 2011 12:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

"stuck with Kid Rock or Bon Jovi"

This is the first time those words have ever been written/said/thought.

by Evan_S on Oct 10, 2011 2:23 PM EDT up reply actions  

I'm fairly certain

the song has been on MLB network for at least a month. It’s been following me around for awhile now

Kicking knowledge in the face.

by BlackOps on Oct 10, 2011 7:05 PM EDT up reply actions  

I don't think that the Napoli for Wells trade hurt the Angels as much as some people think.

Napoli would have only gotten ~100 PAs for the Angels if he had stayed. Why?

Because Jeff Mathis is such a great player

by Shevshevy on Oct 10, 2011 3:32 PM EDT reply actions  

It boggles my mind

You can look at traditional stats, advanced stats, scouting reports, offensive stats, defensive stats, whatever- they’ll all say that Mike Napoli at his worst is about greater than or equal to Jeff Mathis at his best.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Oct 10, 2011 3:48 PM EDT up reply actions  

You can make the case

That Jeff Mathis, even as a Catcher with the positional adjustment that brings, has been the worst every day player of the last ten years or so. I guess maybe he was better than Tony Pena, jr.

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by Jeffrey Paternostro on Oct 10, 2011 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

Ugh

Click on WAR to sort worst to best, I don’t know why it didn’t do that in the link.

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by Jeffrey Paternostro on Oct 10, 2011 4:43 PM EDT up reply actions  

Wow...Peter Bergeron.

There’s a name I haven’t heard in years.

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by Steve Schreiber on Oct 10, 2011 8:38 PM EDT up reply actions  

Wow, I always knew Berkman was good

but I never really figured that he was seriously putting together a HoF type career. And Bat-on-Shoulder Beltran is higher than Kaptain Klutch? Oh no, what will we do with the rings?!?

Peter Bergeron really sucked, so I always made my brother play as the Expos.

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by piazza62 on Oct 11, 2011 2:57 AM EDT up reply actions  

But if they'd kept Napoli,

he wouldn’t have been playing for the Rangers, which would have doubly helped the Angels.

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by BobbyV_Incognito on Oct 10, 2011 8:21 PM EDT up reply actions  

I saw this guy that looked like Albert Pujols in a car yard in Flushing on the weekend. I asked him are you Albert Pujols?

Nah man, I is here cause I jacked a Camaro and wants some Benji’s for it. I get that a lot. Who is Albert Pujols?

Man, it was totally him.

It totally means we are going to sign him.

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Really good kid.A very good player.Not a superstar. #BlameWilponz. Never Forget

by ScottfromPeekskill on Oct 11, 2011 1:25 AM EDT reply actions   1 recs

Hahaha good call.

Chamption of the R.A. Dickey Face contest and "Cromulent Photoshopper Extraordinaire" of Amazin' Avenue!
You might know me as mistermet.

by Steve Schreiber on Oct 11, 2011 11:23 AM EDT up reply actions  

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