Goodnight, Tampa Bay Applesauce: Rangers Move On To ALCS, Mets Announce 2012 Season Ticket Information, Omir Santos Gets Into Playoff Game for Tigers

by Steve Schreiber on Oct 5, 2011 8:31 AM EDT in Applesauce

Mets Stuff

The big news in Metsland on Tuesday was the announcement of rescaled season ticket pricing for the 2012 season. 80 percent of season tickets will see a price reduction of five or more percent. The team also announced that they will introduce Dynamic Pricing for 2012 single game tickets, meaning the team will have the right to raise or lower prices in-season depending on demand, pitching matchups, quality of the team and other factors. If you want to read more about the season ticket information, check out our transcript of last night's chat with Mets' Executive VP of Business Operations Dave Howard. Over at his blog, Howard Megdal looks at the season ticket renewal deadline, which was moved up to November 7th this season.

In minor league news, the Arizona Fall League started today. Here's the list of Mets prospects who are taking part. For the box score of the first game, check out Adam Rubin's site.

If you have some disposable income and want to relive (or live) Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, you can try to buy the famous "Bill Buckner Ball", which is being put up for auction by its owner Seth Swirsky.

Did you realize Tuesday night's Yankees starter A.J. Burnett has a Mets connection? That's right: he was a Mets 8th round draft pick out of high school and then was dealt to the Marlins in the Al Leiter trade.

Around the Playoffs

The Tampa Bay Rays were the first team to be ousted from the 2011 playoffs, as they lost to the Rangers 4-3. Ian Kinsler led the game off against Jeremy Hellickson with a home run and Adrian Beltre followed with three solo home runs of his own.

Ben Francisco broke a scoreless tie in the seventh inning with a three run pinch hit home run and the Phillies held on the rest of the way to defeat the Cardinals 3-1 in St. Louis. With the victory, the Phillies are up 2 games to 1 in the series and will send Roy Oswalt to the mound against Edwin Jackson tonight at 6 PM.

In a surprising twist, A.J. Burnett was not awful (okay, he got pretty lucky with some nice Curtis Granderson defense and a bunch of at 'em balls) and the Yankees offense blew the game open with six runs in the eighth, as the Yankees defeated the Tigers 10-1 to force a game 5 on Thursday night. In awesome semi Mets related news, Omir Santos came into the game as a defensive replacement for the Tigers' Alex Avila. Why is this important? Well, it gives me the opportunity to link to Amazin' Avenue's favorite Omir Santos T-Shirt.

Finally, the Diamondbacks' Paul Goldschmidt hit a game breaking grand slam off of Shaun Marcum in the fifth inning as the Diamondbacks beat the Brewers 8-1, extending the series to game four tonight at 9:30. Joe Saunders will throw for Arizona, while Randy Wolf starts for the Brewers.

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As Jerry Dipoto once said in rationalizing the awful Haren for Saunders trade

Jon Saunders just knows how to win. Man what a awful day in playoff Baseball yesterday. I have a terrible feeling that the Yankees are gonna win this series tomorrow.

by graves9 on Oct 5, 2011 9:45 AM EDT reply actions

not sure how I feel about pitchers in AZ fall league

seems like guys wind up having arm problems the next season. I would rather guys rested their arms

Any task BIG or small, Do it well or not at all

by Rickfansince76 on Oct 5, 2011 10:15 AM EDT reply actions

Well, somebody has to pitch there

Or there would be no AFL. Teams usually don’t send premium pitching prospects there and Mets followed that tradition.

by Philip Larkin on Oct 5, 2011 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions

Come on Tigers, Brewers, and Cards

I like the idea of a Tigers/rangers ALCS. wouldn’t mind seeing either win the WS, and I also like the to see the Brewers make it. Small markets teams really coming up big

Any task BIG or small, Do it well or not at all

by Rickfansince76 on Oct 5, 2011 10:17 AM EDT reply actions

yesterday sucked

Was pulling for the Rays, Tigers, and Brewers. Well, the Brewers are still in command, and the Tigers have one more game.

The Rays are going to be deadly next year. They’re not losing anyone important (unlike last year) and will have a full season of Desmond Jennings and Matt Moore. Given the Red Sox pitching woes and the Yankees, um, unlikelihood of getting the same production out of Curtis Granderson, Freddy Garcia, and Bartolo Colon again, one has to think Tampa may be the favorites in the AL East next year.

Mark Cuban for owner! Save us from the Wilpons!

by Greenpoint Ian on Oct 5, 2011 10:42 AM EDT reply actions

The AL East might get even stronger next year

The Redsox
Crawford bounces back™, The Redsox pitching depth should be restored next year, and they should have a full year of Youklis. The Sox might go after Jose, or CJ Wilson. Both provide a major upgrade

The Yanks
Granderson might not be on fire, however you do have the addition of Jesus Monetero, and you may have a full year A-rod. The pitching depth can be bolstered vis a vi a CJ Wilson signing. The also have Banuelo and Betances waiting in the wings.

The Jays and the Orioles could be on the rise. I don’t know too much about these guys, but they do have a good amount of talent on their team. Could you see the Orioles going after Fielder? He woudl love Camden, and he could transition to DH if needed.

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by Coolpapabell on Oct 5, 2011 11:08 AM EDT up reply actions

Regarding the Yankees,

the flip side of that argument is that their core will be even older. They’ll still be trotting Jeter out at SS everyday, and every key player on their team is on the wrong side of 30, except for Cano (29 this month), and Gardner (turned 27 in August). And can you imagine them getting repeat performances out of Colon and Garcia next year?

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

by BobbyV_Incognito on Oct 5, 2011 1:32 PM EDT up reply actions

I think there's a very good chance jeter moves to 3rd and ARod moves to DH next year

And the yankees will pursue Reyes or another SS option. If not 2012, definitely 2013.

by Mike Clemente on Oct 5, 2011 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions

If Jeter wasn't moving for Rodriguez, he's not moving for Reyes.

And they’re kind of full on potential DHs right now. If/when Posada retires, it clears up that logjam a bit, but I don’t see either of those guys moving, especially Jeter.

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

by BobbyV_Incognito on Oct 5, 2011 3:53 PM EDT up reply actions