St. Patrick's Day Applesauce - There is no Daniel Murphy story here, Beltran likely to DL, Met SB battle

by Joe Budd on Mar 17, 2011 9:34 AM EDT in Applesauce

Meet the Mets

Just because it's Saint Patrick's Day, you shouldn't expect gratuitous random Irish links and what not. Well, let's go with one and call it a day with all that.

Expectations for Carlos Beltran to begin the season on the disabled list are growing.

Mike Pelfrey's velocity is down and he didn't have a great game yesterday, but we shouldn't worry too much because we're reaching a dead arm period of Spring Training.

While we're talking about Pelfrey, the big guy continues to play basketball.

Patrick Flood has nice words for the Amazin' Avenue Annual, available now at a variety of locations. Flood also points out Darryl Strawberry's propensity to get intentionally walked.

I hope that this stolen base competition between Angel Pagan and Jose Reyes heats up. That could be fun.

Matt Kaufman explains how Reese Havens may wind up manning second base at Citi Field sometime this year.

Ted Berg encourages us to tune out much of the mainstream media's noise.

Around MLB

Atlanta has named Derek Lowe their opening day starter. If you decide to tune in on MLB.tv to watch that game, you may get a bit heavier dose of Tom Glavine than you were otherwise expecting.

Braves coach Luis Salazar, the coach who was hit by a Brian McCann line drive, has lost his left eye during a surgery to repair the damage.

Ken Griffey Jr. has returned to Mariner camp but isn't saying too much about his sudden departure last year.

Tim Lincecum somehow is able to eat a disgusting amount at In N Out Burger

FanGraphs is out with their new Aggregate Defensive Ratings, a combination of UZR, DRS, TZL, and FSR.

In case you forgot, Kevin Millwood is still a free agent.

Can we stop with Charlie Sheen yet?

If we thought the Strasburg hype was unbearable, the Bryce Harper machine is set to blow it away.

And, new MLB historian John Thorn has a new series of posts up explaining that he's afraid statistics are taking away some of baseball's mystique. It's actually a pretty good read, but it's a little disconcerting when a historian is hyping the equivalent of Paul Bunyan tales.

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Jerry Grote would like to remind you that there are 15 days to Opening Day. Pay attention, or he will kick your ass, Nancy.

by CTRefJay on Mar 17, 2011 9:43 AM EDT reply actions 4 recs

Having one half of my ancestry originating from Longford Parish

thanks for the green! Sláinte!

by CTRefJay on Mar 17, 2011 11:44 PM EDT up reply actions

Coverage of the stolen base competition between Pagan and Reyes should factor in getting caught

Simply make it SP-2CS.

"He who gets the best players usually wins" - Bobby Bowden

by Russ on Mar 17, 2011 10:17 AM EDT reply actions

the battle is on

who can have more footnotes this season! Should be fun to watch the two of them throw pitchers out of their rythm

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

by KeithsMoustache on Mar 17, 2011 11:12 AM EDT up reply actions

ADR: Aggregate Defensive Ratings

This is a nice move forward for defensive stats.

"He who gets the best players usually wins" - Bobby Bowden

by Russ on Mar 17, 2011 10:19 AM EDT reply actions

I went to In N Out Burger

For the first time last week when I visited LA. I wish I had known about this “animal style” burger, because it’s right up my alley.

Any correlation between Lincecum’s food consumption and the munchies? How’d a hackfest like Yahoo miss such an easy punchline?

Amazin Avenue Offseason Plan Contest Winner - 2011 Mets

by MattT516 on Mar 17, 2011 10:29 AM EDT reply actions

oh my god it's really good

I’m ready to go to CA for my friend’s wedding in August just to get a couple of those burgers.

by JoshNY on Mar 17, 2011 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions

Ted Berg is right

And I’d like to thank this blog for staying relatively upbeat about everything. Baseball is supposed to be fun, and being a fan doesn’t mean emotionally identifying your own state of happiness with the success of your team. To do so is ludicrous, but it’s what people like Sherman and Puma prey on. So thanks for being my filter and for staying on an even keel. Much appreciated.

by JaySchu on Mar 17, 2011 10:45 AM EDT reply actions

I mostly agree.

I get pretty depressed after a Mets loss. Not for long, but when they win I’m in a good mood all day. Most people are emotionally invested, and on a game to game basis I very much am, throughout a season, baseball is just fun to watch, win or lose.

by Evan_S on Mar 17, 2011 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions