Chip Hale is expected to be named the Mets’ new third base coach after the World Series. Hale, 44, spent the past three seasons in that role with the Diamondbacks after six years in that organization as a minor-league manager.

There’s little sense blocking Davis by signing a first baseman to a multi-year deal. I’m told the Mets likely will trade for a righty-hitting first baseman with a short-term commitment to pair with Daniel Murphy in 2010.

my hunch is the team will return rookie C Josh Thole to Triple-A next season… he looked good, and i believe they see him having the potential to be a Paul Lo Duca type, but he needs time in Triple-A where he can catch former major-league pitchers, who have more substantial repertoire than he received in Double-A

The 65-year-old Manuel is a vanishing breed among managers, a gambler who confounds the sabermetricians by tossing their stat binders aside and going with his gut a lot of the time. Dodgers’ manager Joe Torre likes to think of himself that way, too. (Remember how one of Torre’s parting salvos at the Yankees was to tell GM Brian Cashman to be careful his growing affinity for numbers didn’t leave him tone deaf to the "soul" of people in the game?)

" At age 24, Bernie Williams hit .268 with a .333 OBP, .400 SLG, 12 HR, 63 RBI, 53 BB and 106 Ks in 567 at bats.

Daniel Murphy this year at age 24 hit .266, .313 OBP, .427 SLG, 12HR, 63 RBI, 38 BB and 69 Ks in 566 at bats. "

Someone should call Fatso at WFAN and see what he has to say about this. He'll probably want to know if Murphy can play the guitar.

Devin says:
October 11, 2009 at 7:18 pmWhy is it a terrible way? For over 100 years baseball measured defense with errors and range, why the big change all of a sudden? I dont see any of these metrics being used in the other big three sports. I heard Bob Costas say that most of these new stats are the creation of agents who attempt to made medicore players shine in arbitration and what they have succeeded in doing is escalate salaries.

" Funny Nick Johnson story. At the 2001 playoffs, he asked a writer about the dogs on the field, and when he was told they were bomb-sniffing dogs, Johnson responded, "What are they looking for?"

• By the way, Johnson probably won't be making a return to New York. While the Mets will look at free agent first baseman, and Omar Minaya had Johnson with the Expos, the Mets are shying away from injury-prone players.

you notice the team ahead of us all have have top catcher prospects? excluding washington and if we could pass the royals we could get bryce harper think about it. the pirates have tony sanchez the oriels have matt wieters the indians have Carlos Santana, c so is not imposible to get bryce

The Mets believe Francoeur will look sharp in their 2010 uni, so much so that they are inclined to approach him about signing him to a three-year contract that would allow him to become a big league Beau Brummel, if he so chose. They like what they have seen of him in and out of uniform -- from his spirited demeanor to his nuclear arm to the two doubles he produced Saturday afternoon in their victory against the Nationals.

"That I want to be a country music singer worse than you could ever imagine. I would actually give up my baseball talent to be a country music singer and most people don’t know that."