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January 7, 2009
As the hot stove league slows down, fantasy baseball talk starts to heat up. After a few months of writing pieces about MLB related topics, I find myself itching for a change in wanting to spend some time focusing on fantasy baseball. With that said, the Mets have four of the top twenty fantasy players around in Jose Reyes, David Wright, Johan Santana and Carlos Beltran. (Beltran and Reyes helped lead my N.L. only team to a title last season) Heading into 2009, the four aforementioned players should continue to be fantasy stalwarts, but how will other Mets fare? From a fantasy standpoint, the 2009 outlook is solid, but leaves little to the imagination in terms of sleepers and breakout performers. Luis Castillo: How soon we forget how long it has been since Castillo put together a 30+ steal campaign. When healthy, Castillo can be serviceable in a pinch, but probably should not be drafted in even the deepest of leagues. Counting on players with speed and on-base ability (Castillo’s M.O. in the early 2000’s) is a shaky proposition as a tweaked hamstring destroys any value the player has and overall fantasy decline stage is quick and painful. Ryan Church: In deep or National League only leagues, Church is a fine fourth or fifth outfielder. However, look for .275/.350/.450 line instead of the April/May production Mets fans have fallen in love with. He’s also a decent spot play against middle of the road right handers. Carlos Delgado: At 36, Delgado’s 38 home run, 115 RBI campaign surprised many who believed his 2007 was the start of his downward slide to mediocrity. I was even able to pick him up off of waivers in a 12 team by 30 player league in June. With 2007 being his lone sub-30 home run season since 1997, I’m skeptical of any publication which predicts a sudden steep decline in his game; Especially in a contract year. Sure he has some wear and tear and will likely have a few less HR and RBI, but one can do much worse than to land Delgado as a first baseman or utility player after the 10th round due to predictions of his demise. John Maine: After an injury shortened 2008, will fantasy managers forget about John Maine? When healthy, he is a solid fantasy SP3 and could approach 16-18 wins should he near 200 innings pitched during the entire 2009 season. With his value as low as it has been since arriving in New York, now might be a good time to pick Maine up in dynasty leagues with the hope of him returning to sub-four ERA form. If he ever cuts his walk rate, Maine could be even better. He’s one of the few current Mets with fantasy upside. Daniel Murphy: Murphy has gone from possible full time second base duty to a platoon corner outfield role heading into 2009 with the possibility of even less depending on whether or not the Mets add some outfield punch. In just a couple of months, Murphy has gone from a fast fantasy riser to waiver wire fodder with none of it due to his performance. At this point, it’s best to avoid Murphy for a number of other outfield options who stand the chance to play everyday. In deep dynasty leagues, I can see owning Murphy in the hope of him being dealt and playing second base somewhere else. Other than that, I just don’t see the value. Mike Pelfrey: With 13 wins and an ERA of 3.72, Pelfrey finally showed a little of what made him a first round pick in 2005. The question is can he build on his 2008 and become a second-tier fantasy pitcher entering 2009. With poor peripherals including a 1.36 WHIP, 4.93 K/9, and more hits than innings pitched, I’m not so sure. When I consider pitchers for possible breakout status, it’s often because of high strikeout rates and low hit rates in spite of a high ERA or WHIP. Due to this, Pelfrey is simply a quality fantasy SP4 at this point who may regress a touch. Avoid him as a “young starter with upside” play–it’s likely not in the cards this season. J.J. Putz: Putz provides me the opportunity to discuss an overlooked fantasy baseball strategy which doesn’t receive enough credit; Especially in dynasty leagues or leagues that use holds as a category. With premiere pitching often hard to come by, top set up men with impressive ERA, WHIP, and strikeout totals can be enough to keep a staff competitive. A healthy Putz can truly be a fantasy stud whether he has the opportunity to steal a few saves from K-Rod or not. However, 25-30 holds and 8-10 saves with solid peripherals would leave him one of the most valuable relievers in fantasy. Francisco Rodriguez: With nowhere to go but down after a 62 save season, K-Rod will likely be the first closer off of the board in many fantasy drafts. However, with the Mets potent, but streaky offense, will K-Rod have anywhere near the same amount of save opportunities as with Anaheim? As a K-Rod owner, I doubt it. While still a relative lock for 35-plus saves if healthy, Rodriguez will continue to be a premiere source for saves, but may wind up finishing just outside of the top five closers statistically. Remember, one of the first rules of thumb in fantasy baseball is to not pay big dollars for saves with the closer role being so volatile by nature. Overall, the real Mets are much similar to the fantasy baseball Mets as player roles and expections are pretty well defined. With Jon Niese and Daniel Murphy not expected to be fantasy baseball factors and no true talents coming off of major injury, the Mets regulars make up a solid, but unspectacular bunch unless you are an owner of Reyes, Wright, Santana, or Beltran. Just remember, “homers” don’t win fantasy leagues (and I don’t mean home runs!) If you play fantasy baseball, leave your Mets fandom at the door! Just three years ago, I had the second pick in my own dynasty keeper league and nabbed Albert Pujols after a Mets homer tabbed Pedro Martinez with the top overall pick. Don’t be THAT guy! January 6, 2009
2008 was a disappointing year for my favorite teams, the New York Mets and New York Jets. Both entered their respective seasons with high hopes and looked poised for a playoff spot heading into the stretch run. It was not meant to be, as both collapsed in the final month of the season. The Mets’ swoon was not as epic as the Jets’, but I see some parallels between the teams. Here’s a look at some of the key figures and events for the 2008 Mets and their Jets counterparts. Mets: Johan Santana Both of these superstars came to New York from midwestern teams with significant hype and expectations. Santana was brilliant from Opening Day through game 161. Despite a slight decline in his strikeout and walk rates, he was one of the top two best pitchers in the league along with Tim Lincecum. Favre was an MVP candidate through week 12, as he racked up 20 touchdown passes and 13 interceptions. From that point onward, he became the Jets equivalent of Aaron Heilman, Luis Ayala and Scott Schoeneweis rolled into one. Mets: The bullpen The Mets bullpen wasn’t the only culprit in late 2008, but it was the biggest. The same can arguably be said of Favre. Yes, the Jets coaching staff made some odd play-calls and the dominant offensive line may have lost a step late in the season, but it’s tough to stay competitive when the quarterback is throwing pick after pick (nine interceptions in the final five games). Omar Minaya has blown up the Mets bullpen this offseason, but it remains to be seen whether or not Brett Favre will be back in 2009. Hopefully he’ll make a quick and definite decision to retire to the quiet life in Mississippi. Mets: Willie Randolph Randolph was fired mid-season and Mangini was canned after the season so the comparison isn’t perfect. Plus a football coach has a far greater impact on the game than a baseball manager. Regardless, both absorbed the blame for each team’s failures and received criticism for their stoic demeanor. Randolph found employment soon after the season ended on the Milwaukee Brewers’ coaching staff, and Mangini is rumored to be a top candidate for the vacant Cleveland Browns head coach position. Mets: Jose Reyes Reyes and Jones are All-Star caliber players who had overall excellent seasons. Reyes is the second best shortstop in baseball behind Hanley Ramirez. He was paid $4.4 million this year but was worth $25.5 million according to the win value system. Jones was fifth in the NFL in rushing yards, and scored an impressive 15 touchdowns. Granted, he didn’t accomplish this alone – the Jets offensive line was excellent, sending two players to the Pro Bowl (Alan Faneca and Nick Mangold). One other similarity is both players’ production drop-off in the last month of the season: Reyes: Jones: While I don’t believe Reyes is “unclutch”, it cannot be denied that he has struggled in September the last two seasons. Hopefully he will snap out of it in September 2009. Mets: Sept. 7th, Mets 6 – Phillies 3 (Game 2 of doubleheader) At the time, each of these wins looked like the signature victory for a likely playoff team. Santana threw 7.1 brilliant innings and Carlos Delgado hit a pair of 400+ foot bombs off Phillies ace Cole Hamels on the Sunday night national stage. The Mets were two games up in the standings with a few weeks to go. The Jets beat the 10-0 Titans on the road in emphatic fashion. New York tabloids predicted a Jets-Giants Super Bowl, and it didn’t seem too far-fetched. However, each team went in a different direction as the Giants secured the top seed in the NFC playoffs. Mets: Sept. 28th, Marlins 4 – Mets 2 The tenants of Dolphin Stadium put an embarrassing end to the Mets and Jets seasons on the New York teams’ home turfs. Marlins closer Matt Lindstrom, who threw the final pitch in Shea Stadium history, has a Dolphins counterpart: quarterback Chad Pennington. Lindstrom was traded by the Mets to the Marlins in November 2006. Pennington was released by the Jets and signed by the Dolphins in the summer of 2008. I’m pretty sure that the Mets and Jets would love to undo these transactions. I tried to find a comparison for the Mets awful second base situation but the Jets’ pass rush, wide receivers and special teams were nowhere near as horrible as the Luis Castillo/Damion Easley/Argenis Reyes triumvirate. Let’s hope 2009 is kinder to my favorite teams. [03:37 AM] Newsday: Mets wont up ante for Lowe Most headlines aggregated by SportSpyder. January 5, 2009
Over the years, I have almost never supported the idea of the Mets acquiring Manny Ramirez. From those first rumblings after Carlos Beltran’s bad 2005 had three-way trade rumors sending him to Boston to the past trade deadline that saw him shifted to the Dodgers after his Boston media character assassination, I have been categorically against the idea of him in a Mets uniform. As of today, I have changed my mind, and here is the part where I explain why. 1) This is a very tentative free agent market, and the best time to buy is when you can buy low. Almost anywhere you look outside of the Bronx, players are being given much less than they expected to get. Francisco Rodriguez entered the offseason with dreams of a five-year, $75 million contract, and he managed to barely get three and $37 million. His agent was damn smart to jump on that too, because Brian Fuentes and Kerry Wood only managed two-year deals as the best remaining relievers on the market. Another Mets target, Derek Lowe, came into the offseason with aspirations of a “Zito contract,” and the Mets aren’t expected to have to go any higher than four years and $60 million and probably will seal the deal for substantially less than that. This is the time for teams with financial resources to pull away from the rest of the pack, because nobody else at this point even seems to be willing to get into a bidding war. Remember when the Mets let Vladimir Guerrero get away in a similarly bad market in 2004 because they “worried about his back” and quibbled over matching the five years the Angels gave him? How much would his signing have mattered the last four years? Manny Ramirez opted to chase free agency and decline his option years, thinking that he could get another huge deal in line, but his market has also slowly evaporated. The logical destinations are drying up. With the Angels uninterested, the Yankees already carrying enough DHs on the roster, the Red Sox unwilling to kiss and make up, and the Dodgers courting every other left fielder from Adam Dunn to Milton Bradley, the Mets are a logical fit in every way. Except for Fred Wilpon’s distaste for the media circus, that is. I think Scott Boras would jump to get something like three years, $66 million at this point, and the Mets could probably haggle their way down even lower than that. 2) Perhaps his defense isn’t that big a deal anyway. In one of his pieces in Decmeber, my colleague James Kannengeiser mentioned that Manny’s defensive work was his best since 1999. I think by all subjective measures, we can agree that Manny is not graceful in the outfield. His range is limited, and he’s not going to cut off many balls in the gap. That said, what jumped out at me about James’ piece is the number 1999: the same year before Manny fled to Boston in free agency. Defensive systems have generally had problems dealing with Fenway’s left field wall, which may mean that his defensive statistics should be taken with a grain of salt. Not that I’m saying that Manny is a good defensive outfielder; I’m just saying that perhaps not the historically bad one that som statistics have made him out to be. Moreover, defense is an issue with just about every other possible 2009 Mets outfielder of note anyway. Pat Burrell and Adam Dunn could be charitably described as “bad.” Bobby Abreu would be moving over from right-field, and his phobia of the outfield wall has become a well-established meme in any description of his play. Dan Murphy is a converted third-baseman, and Fernando Tatis has never been on the field for his glovework. Perhaps it’s time to just admit that the defense in left is going to be bad no matter what, and whoever plays will have to make up for the defecit with his bat. And I feel a lot more confident in Ramirez’s chances to do just that than those of Murphy and Tatis. The only appreciably better corner outfield target in the near future is Matt Holliday, and while the future is murky for free agent signings, I’m willing to bet he’ll still get his $100 million. 3) A logjam: why is this a problem for a big market team again? The Mets saw first-hand how much depth matters last year. Signing Ramirez has two ancillary benefits, both of which revolve around Ryan Church. Church, who was off to a blistering start last year before getting concussed multiple times, still has plenty of trade value and is still a couple seasons from free agency. The Mets could conceivably find a match for him that would fill a different hole on the team that still needs to be addressed (like say, second base), or they could mortgage him for high upside guys like Omar did with the Oliver Perez and John Maine trades. Whichever it is, this could be done either this offseason or the next, giving Omar even more flexibility. In the event that the team decides to stick with Church, why is having Dan Murphy as a super sub a bad thing? It worked out alright for Kevin Mitchell in 1986. Murphy could spell Carlos Delgado and David Wright a few times a month while also taking reps at second base when our fly-ball heavy pitchers are on the mound. Not to mention his ability to play the corner outfield slots, also; Church has yet to have 500 at-bats in a season, something which should not be lost on those looking to pencil in completely solid numbers out of right-field. Should Fernando Martinez break into the picture sooner rather than later, Church could be dealt at the trade deadline to fix whatever leaks have sprung up, provided he’s still healthy. At worst, signing Manny gives the team the potential to have an actual bench, and at best, it provides flexibility over the next two years. This concept of flexibility leads to things like “not being so desperate for an outfield bat that Trot Nixon starts to look good.” 4) We’re not losing an additional first round draft pick to do it. Having already donated their first rounder to the Angels, the Mets would only lose their second-round pick. Seeing as how they’ll probably end up with two picks anyway from the team that signs Oliver Perez—not to mention how the value of second-round picks pale in comparison to earlier picks—there is no real stab at the future. Moreover, this experience would enable the Mets to try something new and daring with their available draft funds: going over slot for players that slip in the draft instead of minding Bud Selig’s archaic and foolish draft recommendations. I think we can all agree that this would be a welcomed turn of events. 5) Exploit that new TV network and stadium for all they are worth. Matt Cerrone of Metsblog brought up the idea of spending like the Yankees. I think while his idea of “emotional op-eds” is kind of right, in that it would be very easy to rail against the Mets for not going after the Yankees spending methods because the means are now the same, it isn’t exactly the same scenario because the Yankees are setting the market. This was a very unique free agent class in that it’s very likely the Yankees will sign the three biggest contracts in it. That doesn’t mean that the Mets exploiting a down market where the rest of the teams are gunshy makes them anything like the Yankees at all. Let’s invent some reasonable compromise figures for his scenario. I’ll give Manny two years and $44 million with a vesting option, Lowe three years and $42 million, and Orlando Hudson something like four years, $35 million. The total value of those contracts comes to $121 million; add in K-Rod’s three-years, $37 million and you have $148 million committed to four key offseason acquisitions, or $13 million less than the Yankees individually guaranteed CC Sabathia and $59 million less than they guaranteed Mark Teixiera. This is not spending like the Yankees at all. This is exploiting a down market in a down economy for good players. Oh sure, the short-term payroll would balloon a bit, but the Mets figure to dump about $30 million in payroll during the next offseason (Delgado, Billy Wagner, Brian Schneider, and the declining of Putz’s option, not to mention the possibility of unloading Church). Of those, only Delgado, assuming he doesn’t decline this year, would be a huge blow to the Mets’ chances if lost. Putz is nice, but a luxury. Perhaps his option could be picked up and he could be dealt as well. Either way, the 2009 market could very well rekindle an orgy of spending as teams realize profits by sitting on their hands this offseason, which would lead market prices to go back to where they were in 2007. Taking the additional bill this offseason would not hurt the Mets too much due to the new financial boons, and they gain nothing by waiting. And for the record, I do not support signing Orlando Hudson at anything resembling $35 million. 6) Don’t allow complacency. Which we’ve been over. The Mets are a pretty good team now. They’d be better still with Lowe, and they’d probably be the preseason NL favorite with Manny. Addressing second base and exiling Castillo without having to pay big bucks for it would be gravy. This offseason is the perfect storm for the Mets. There are a lot of very capable supporting players on the market in positions that they need to field, the core is in place for the near future, and the market has broken in a way that they can uniquely exploit it at a still reasonable price while the rest of the teams are crying poor. This is no time to worry about the economy or to give in to peer payroll pressure. This is no time to worry about how Jose Reyes’ high five celebrations lead other teams to get mad at them and how adding another hot dog like Manny might make them even more motivated to beat the Mets, or other trivial nonsense and back-page fodder. This is the time to use your resources to get the best team on the field for next year that you possibly can. Adding Manny to the Mets would be the punctuation mark on the statement that the Mets are not willing to let last season happen again. [09:16 AM] Newsday: Mets talks with Lowe to heat up Most headlines aggregated by SportSpyder. January 4, 2009
[01:01 PM] ESPN: Jones career in jeopardy Most headlines aggregated by SportSpyder. January 3, 2009
As you’ve probably noticed we’ve undergone some changes here at Mets Geek. Eric’s been working around the clock to implement some fairly significant alterations. Some of these may take some getting used to, but we do feel they represent improvement, now and as we continue to develop in the future. First and foremost, we’ve shifted to a more traditional blog format. We’ll no longer merely link to articles and threads on the main page; instead, they’ll be posted there in their entirety. We originally modeled the format after The Hardball Times, but after some consideration we opted to use the more common layout. It is our hope that individual articles will catch more eyes and it’ll help keep the site more topical. Second, we’ve upgraded WordPress, the software that allows you (as well as us) to post journals and stories. For the majority of you this will be barely noticeable and shouldn’t much alter how you post journals, if at all. But it will also allow us to once again support some previously incompatible features, like polls. Next, we’ve included gravatar support. Gravatar is a globally recognized avatar that links your account with the picture of your choosing. This gravatar will appear alongside all your comments and journal entries. To get started, all you have to do is register at gravatar.com, using the same e-mail address that we have on file here. I encourage each of you to grab one; it really spruces up the site. We’ve also provided each of you with a personal profile, which you can edit via the link on the left sidebar. This profile will enable you to share the personal information of your choosing with the rest of the community. There’s room for biographical information, a personal website, and a few other things. We hope to include a profile picture (separate from your gravatar) in the near future. The profile will also provide a log of your recent comments and journal posts, and total tallies of both. You can access anyone’s profile from their comments, gravatar, or journal bylines. You’ll notice we’ve tweaked the fonts on the sidebars, greatly improving link visibility. We’ve scrapped our old journal rating system, instead implementing a new recommend feature. Instead of providing a star rating, you can recommend journals to other users by clicking the “rec” box in the upper right-hand corner of the journal. Once a piece has achieved a minimum number of recommendations, it’ll automatically be listed under “recommended journals” on the right sidebar. (Note: If you’re having trouble making these work, try clearing your browser cache and cookies; it should work after that.) As far as commenting goes, we’ve included the ability to add referral links to other people’s comments to your own text. Want everyone to know what comment you’re referring to? Just click on the word balloon icon on said comment and the code to link to that specific comment will be automatically generated in your text box. Eventually, we plan to include a mouseover display that will show the entire comment instead of just a link. Also, comment previews will now appear directly below the text box. The page no longer needs to reload for you to see what your comment will look like. It’s very handy for proofreading. Additionally, we would like to point out that we’ve expanded our old comment guidelines. As the community and features at Mets Geek have changed over time, we felt it was necessary to update them while also providing some basic information about our site features. I’d strongly recommend that you look them over when you get the chance; they affect everyone who comments, posts, and contributes here. Lots of thanks go to Eric Simon for working tirelessly to add these features—everything needs to be individually tailored to meet Mets Geek’s specific requirements—as well as to Sam Shin for his help resolving some CSS issues. Thanks, guys. And finally, as I mentioned above, we’ve made some layout adjustments to help make Mets Geek a little more topical in nature. One of the changes we plan on implementing in the near future is the inclusion of a news editor or two, and we’re taking applications. Over the past three years, we’ve veered away from incorporating news stories, but we’d like to bring them back. So if you have time during the day, a good head for terse analysis, a wolfish appetite for Mets-related news, and solid writing ability (grammar is very important), contact us, and we’ll get in touch. We sincerely pray you’ll enjoy the new features. If you have any comments, questions, suggestions, or grievances, please let us know in the comments below. We continue to strive to make Mets Geek a comfortable and fulfilling interactive experience for Mets fans everywhere, and we’d love your input. Thanks, Eric Simon and Alex Nelson [03:20 PM] NY Daily News: Where are they now? Former Met Anthony Young Most headlines aggregated by SportSpyder. January 2, 2009
There is no easy way to determine a “great” piece of writing. It is all rather subjective, as this list is. Quite simply, these were my favorite pieces of 2008. January 4th: Jeff Matthews started off the year with a very prescient observation about how Brian Schneider’s defensive skills may or may not actually have existed. Mostly not. January 10th: John Peterson went over the winners and losers in the National League offseason at that point. I guess we all figured out why JC Romero got that three year deal. It was one of my favorite pieces in January though. January 21st: Jeff figured out what we could expect from Carlos Delgado. He ended up with a .871 OPS, for reference. January 30th: Some guy named Johan got traded to the Mets. The staff reacted, but the majority of it ends up reading kind of funny when you look at how poor the prospects the Twins ended up with did. January 31st: I went over what the Mets still had to fix after the Johan trade. They never did get that backup outfielder or real third catcher. Food for thought this offseason, Omar. February 5th: Guest Sky Kalkman went over Mets fielders past and present, giving us our second DJ Dozier reference of the offseason. February 7th: I wrote a list of things that I was dead wrong about in retrospect. After this lookback, we’ll have more to add to that list! March 5th: Alex wrote his second piece over terrific Mets names. Personally, I was excited to learn more about Pumpsie Green. March 10th: MetsGeek alum and interviewer extraordinaire Aaron Dorman sat down with Bryan Hoch, who ran Mets Online back in the day. I lived at that message board for most of high school. March 24th: Jessica Bader looked at ten new additions to her previous top ten Mets plays in 2007 by WPA in Magic Moments, Part II. March 25th: Dan Scotto had a well-rationalized idea about bringing in Reed Johnson, who would go on to become a very good bench player in exactly the role Dan described. Just for the Cubs instead of the Mets. March 31st: The Geek staff came up with laughably funny preseason predictions. John McLaren, why hast thou forsaken me? April 4th: Willie Randolph a failure? That’s news to me! But not to John, who brought up more reasons than just his in-game managing. April 17th: BPro writer and Facebook friend Marc Normandin looked at Claudio Vargas and his impact on the Mets. April 30th: Jeff answered one of the great questions of our time: What in the ####, exactly, is a Nelson Figueroa? May 2nd: Aaron scored another big hit for the Geek with his interview with the New York Observer’s Howard Megdal. May 8th: Jeff worried about Mike Pelfrey during his rocky start. See, I wasn’t the only one that was laughably wrong about making him a reliever! June 4th-6th: Alex keyed the best Mets draft coverage on the net, with a stellar preview, an impressive liveblog, and a thorough recap. June 11th: Pat Andriola took a look at Jon Niese’s eventual impact on the Mets. June 17th: I defended Omar Minaya after he came under fire early in the season during the team’s rash of injuries and poor play. I still stand by that. June 18th: Willie Randolph finally got canned, Oh happy day! We held a roundtable about it. That part about Jerry Manuel maybe being more patient than Randolph with the bullpen was pretty funny. July 2nd: Pat checked in with another profile on a big name Mets prospect, this time it’s Wilmer Flores, who I’m willing to bet is still just another name to most people who follow the Mets, as he’s so young. July 7th: John reviewed The Soul Of Baseball and The Cheaters Guide To Baseball, both of which I would also recommend if you are looking for post-holiday reading material. July 29th-31st: The trading deadline went and passed without any big explosions. John was rightfully worried, I mistakenly advocated Raul Ibanez and completely forgot to even take into account for his terrible defense. August 4th, 11th, and 13th: The state of the bullpen began to get depressing, and several Geeks keyed in articles about it. Dan argued for more defensive substitutions, I railed on how the Mets needed to be less situational, and Pat made the case that Eddie Kunz could be the answer. September 23rd: Mike Newman looked at his Minor league All-Stars for the Mets over their entire field of affiliates. September 22nd-27th: Aaron culminated a full-scale retrospective of Shea Stadium by interviewing several prominent writers on their feelings about the move and the old dump. Matt Cerrone, Matt Silverman, Howard Megdal, Adam Rubin, and finally the Geeks themselves, in two parts, lended their perspectives on the whole thing. It’s not like anything else exciting was happening in September. October 7th: Omar saw things my way when I created my plan for the offseason changes to the bullpen. October 22nd: Guest columnist RJ Anderson helped RaysGeek jump on the wagon with a thorough introduction to the Rays November 11th: James Kannengeiser took an in-depth look at plate discipline and the effects it has on the Mets hitters. November 20th: Dan looked over the schedule for next year and popped up with his usual collection of random thoughts and blurbs on it. November 25th: Alex checked in with lessons the Mets could learn from the Phillies. No mention of building an offense of power hitters and playing in a bandbox December 11th: Mike scribbled a nice piece on why the Mets should consider dealing for Delmon Young. Of course it will never actually happen because of the Wilpons, but it was good reasoning. December 23rd: I came up with a new series and went over the failings of the 1970’s Mets. On behalf of everyone at the Geek, I hope everyone has a good holiday and a safe and happy new year. I know I can get somewhat busy and take my criticism and comments for granted, but I hope you all understand how much we appreciate your feedback and enjoy having you as our audience. Hopefully next year the Mets play up to the quality of these pieces as well so we can have happy things to talk about. [11:37 AM] Star Ledger: No way Derek Lowe takes the Mets offer, columnist writes Most headlines aggregated by SportSpyder. Next Page »» |
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