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."

NY Jets partner with JetBlue Airways... to celebrate the venture, JetBlue offers sale with travel starting at $12 to Jets division away-game cities for sale today only!!!

"#Rays put C.Pena on 60-day DL with 2 fractured fingers suffered in Gm1.
#Mets announced him as day-to-day"

Righthander Tobi Stoner is expected to join the Mets on Tuesday…

One competing GM said he could see the Cubs seeking to pay about half the $21 million remaining on Milton Bradley's contract in order to trade him. Another GM said he felt, considering Bradley's issues, they'd have to pay nearly all of the money to be rid of the temperamental slugger.

As for Manuel, forget it. He stays. Given the incredible run of injuries and other issues with the Mets this season, John McGraw would have lost with this bunch. There are far more significant issues than the manager's chair.