Busy day today. Here’s the plan:
1. go to doctor’s office for a cast for my left arm for a broken radius.
2. watch Stanford beat Oklahoma in the Sun bowl on TiVo.
3. Attend a special NYE formal poker night (shirt and tie required, dresses for the ladies) at the home of my regular Thursday game. Win [...]
Ted Berg defends the Mets deal with Jason Bay, answering the attacks of Jeff Passan and Rob Neyer.
John Harper at the Daily News, in a typically meandering article likes the Bay signing, but complains that he can’t pitch. It’s a common criticism.
At Baseball Prospectus, Joe Sheehan, who had argued that the Mets should sign [...]
Yesterday, at fangraphs.com, Mark Hulet posted his Mets top 10 prospect list on the heels of his draft analysis.
Hewlett’s list goes: goes
1. Fernando Martinez
2. Ike Davis
3. Jenrry Mejia
4.Wilmer Flores
5. Jon Niese
6. Brad Holt
7. Ruben Tejada
8. Josh Thole
9. Kirk Nieuwenhuis
10. Jeurys Familia
Writing for Baseball America, Adam Rubin, had the same top four players. However, he put [...]
1. How did Mike Francesca break the Jason Bay to the Mets story on his Tuesday program after teasing it Monday? How did all of the writers both on the Mets beat and on the national beat miss it?
2. More importantly what does the signing do for the Mets?
An Upgrade
Immediately, the 31-year-old Bay will [...]
So the Mets signed 35-year-old knuckleballer RA Dickey this week and I’m thrilled. Why? Well, it has little to do with his 4.62 ERA in 64.1 IP with the Minnesota Twins in 2009 or his career 5.43 MLB ERA.
First, I like watching knuckleball pitchers. When the knuckler actually works, it’s super-fun to see hitters look [...]
The Dominican Winter League regular season ended this week, and in 14 games for the Leones del Escogido, Fernando Martinez hit .191/.264/.213 in 47 AB. It was the first game action for Martinez since he had surgery on torn cartilage in his right knee in July. It’s important not to make too big a deal [...]
I was looking over players’ performance in winter-ball, and noticed that Tobi Stoner has not thrown for his Leones del Escogido since November 29th. His final outing, in which he gave up seven runs, was his worst as a Lion, and it would appear that his DWL season ended early.
He ended the season with [...]
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Mike Newman, of scoutingthesally.com, has a very interesting post on Mets RHP prospects Kyle Allen and Jeurys Familia. Newman compares the two by age, physical projection, mound presence, and overall stuff. As Newman says, it is impressive “how close these two prospects really are.” Newman also believes that he would have both [...]
Understandably, most of the Mets fans’ attention this off-season has been on the team’s pursuit of major league free agents. However, has the team’s most important acquisition thus far been new field coordinator, Terry Collins? Collins has managed in the major leagues and in Japan, and run the Dodgers farm system for two years. And [...]
The Eastern League announced their realignment for 2010 on Friday. The move was prompted by the purchase and move of the old Connecticut Defenders franchise, located in Norwich, CT to Richmond Virginia, to become the Richmond Flying Squirrels. The Defenders played in the Northern Division in 2009, and Richmond is now the southernmost team in [...]
