Comments on: Kirk Nieuwenhuis Can Now Pull A Baseball

By: Chip Armonaitis

Chip Armonaitis — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:33:48 +0000

Where does Teufel fit into the Mets plans, coaching wise.

I mean he seems to have done a good job at St. Lucie, has some success stories in Thole and Nieuwenheis, and has the “played in the big leagues” pedigree. Greer a former college coach has no shot at a big league job, but I would think Teufel would be appealing to the Mets as a coach.

By: NickM

NickM — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:26:43 +0000

make teufel the mets’ hitting coach now. stick hojo in st lucie.

By: Toby Hyde

Toby Hyde — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:53:59 +0000

I think Tim Teufel and hitting coach George Greer should get a lot of credit for Nieuwenhuis and some of the other nice offensive years in St. Lucie with Tuef getting bonus points for his work with Josh Thole last year.

By: Chip Armonaitis

Chip Armonaitis — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:47:30 +0000

Toby that is better work than anyone associated with Mets management has done in two years.

Can you now tell us who cleaned up his swing so we can petition for him to work with David Wright to get his swing cleaned up and back to where it was three years ago?

By: Crazy Eddie

Crazy Eddie — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:17:18 +0000

Imagine if Daniel Murphy can figure out how to do the same thing with the inside fastball.

By: theperfectgame

theperfectgame — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:58:54 +0000

If only…

By: NateW

NateW — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:54:14 +0000

He’ll probably just call him Kirk Gibson, just like he thinks Oliver and Odalis Perez are the same person.

By: NateW

NateW — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:52:26 +0000

I added the correct spelling of Nieuwenhuis to my browsers dictionary so when it is spelled correctly it doesn’t warn me… it is pretty brutal to try and remember.

I completely agree with your first comment, that is what I was getting at with my Buffalo OF comment. In fact when you start to think about it there should be some quality prospects all over the Buffalo roster next year. Binghamton will not have a very strong pitching staff to start next year though, imo.

You never know tho, at the start of this year Bostick, McNab and Nieve were in Binghamton… meaning Buffalo had a strong pitching staff filled with excess big league ready talent, right? Hmm…

It is really a breath of fresh air that we can look at Havens and Kirk and realistically think about replacing expiring veteran contracts with internal everyday players. (I’m not saying Kirk will produce like Beltran, but then what other CF does…)

By: theperfectgame

theperfectgame — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:28:00 +0000

In all seriousness, nicknames are overrated, way too common, and way too lazy. Can’t he just be Nieuwenhuis? If he makes it to the Majors it will be fun to listen to Joe Morgan try to pronounce that name!

Wow, I can’t believe I just used the words “it will be fun to listen to Joe Morgan” in sequence. Never thought that would happen…

By: theperfectgame

theperfectgame — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:24:42 +0000

How about “Captain Kirk”, ’cause his play has been out of this world?

Hoy-oh!!

If someone else can top this post on the embarrassing lameness scale, I will be thoroughly impressed.