Mets Daily Thoughts

I'm excited for what can maybe be a big year for Parnell. He's got the arm, he just didn't know how to pitch I read. Izzy taught him how to throw a curveball (praise the lord). And he doesn't throw his fastball as hard as he can anymore.

It felt damn good to watch Ike Davis hit a walk off vs. the Yankees just now...........

It felt damn good to watch Ike Davis hit a walk off vs. the Yankees just now...........

Looks like the kid is finally starting to hit again.  2 HRs in 2 games.  Stay healthy Ike!  16th round fantasy baseball pick for a util spot and Eric Hosmer backup.  Hoping potential steal? 

I see Ike Davis with 15-20 SB.  On the back end of a double steal and those are career numbers.  He is quick, but not fast.

Ike Davis is quick? common dude. I see 5-10 stolen bases max.

I see Davis and Duda combining for 1-3 steals.  They aren't going to provide any speed which is fine...but you have to do a lot of double steals to have either of those guys approach 20 SB.  All of the speed is coming from Wright and Torres (as long as he's in the lineup) with just a little from Tejada and Bay in the right situations.  Without Reyes and Pagan the complexion of the team definitely changes that way.

I see Ike Davis with 15-20 SB.  On the back end of a double steal and those are career numbers.  He is quick, but not fast.

haha - yea, not going to happen, but would love to see it if it did.  He may scrap together 5 on double steals, but he won't be getting many on his own.  I'm hoping he produces stats categories for 2B, HR and average.  Productive for a bottom of the fantasy order type of guy, but certainly not a 5 tool fantasy guy with SB :).

The Mets will have the least steals in the NL and maybe all of baseball....but I will tell you one thing...they will lead the Majors in Doubles...I can see 40 doubles each from Wright, Duda, and Murphy....30 each from Davis, Bay, Torres...and another 20+ each from Thole, Tejada, and the bench players...That, IMO, is where the major run production will come from.  Collins will have to be proactive with the hit and run, squeeze, and hope for timely pinch hitting.

In 2011, they were 6th in the NL in runs scored, 2nd in hits, 2nd in doubles, and 2nd in BA...the runs scored may decrease because of Reyes' departure but may increase due to the fences coming in.  A full season of Wright, Duda, Davis, Murphy, and a decent Bay should boost the doubles significantly so that is why I stated that their run production will depend on it.

Let's not complain when they move station to station as long as it comes two at a time...

I can see 40 doubles each from Wright, Duda, and Murphy

MrBMG - thats an insane thing to say.  Last year 13 players hit 40+ doubles in the whole MLB.  and you think 25% of that will come from one team?

Duda will hit around 40 doubles or 25+ homeruns. 1 or the other, probably depending on the fortunes of the way the wind is blowing on given nights.

The other 2 have a chance at hitting close to 25 homeruns each but I doubt either Wright or Murphy will hit 40 doubles.

To be more realistic...

Duda 28 HR's, 32 doubles  

Wright 24 HR's, 30 doubles

Murphy 22 HR's, 26 doubles
 

I see Ike Davis with 15-20 SB.  On the back end of a double steal and those are career numbers.  He is quick, but not fast.


Let's try this again and note that I have included a reading comprehension aide. 
The quick alludes to his footwork around the bag and has nothing to do with stealing bases.

Yogi you must be counting things like defensive indifferences as stolen bases because Ike Davis is not fast enough to steal 20 bases. 

I've got to say Yogi, I thought you meant "career numbers" as in having a career year on the basepaths.  Having a grand total of 15-20 SB over the course of his career (assuming he stays healthy) is a little more likely for sure.  Hey even David Ortiz and Prince Fielder steal bases here and there.

He does play a solid 1B though.  They'll need that this year. 

16th round fantasy baseball pick for a util spot and Eric Hosmer backup.  Hoping potential steal? 

I see Ike Davis with 15-20 SB.  On the back end of a double steal and those are career numbers. 

Ah, I think I see what happened here, confusion all around.

1)  Yogi, I meant fantasy steal, as in great player aquired late in the draft.  Not ACTUAL steals.
2) Carrer numbers.  I thought you meant having a career year, which in retrospect would be an odd statement for a guy in his 2nd full season.


So yes, we're all in agreement.  Ike will NOT contribute many steals to the Mets, but hopefully his bat and stellar play at first (and over the dug out fence) makes up for it. 

Sure we all had the New York Mets starting 6-2, pinky swear.  Alright no pinky swear, but broken or not, David Wright doesn’t seem to need his.  Wright, along with Lucas Duda, hammered homers in a 5-0 blanking of the Philadelphia Phillies.  New York has already swept the Atlanta Braves and could very well do the same to the Phillies at their yard.  Only the Washington Nationals (1.82) have a lower team ERA in the NL than the Mets (2.38).

Here's an alert for Mets fans!  Phil Humber has a perfect game through 8 innings against the Mariners today.

Wow, 20th perfect game in baseball history..  The ex-Met Omar Minaya traded for Johan Santana, Philip Humber pitches a perfect game!  Went down to a full count on the last batter..

The ex-Met Omar Minaya traded for Johan Santana, Philip Humber pitches a perfect game!  

Kind of a strange way to put it--are you saying that was a bad trade because Humber had a perfect game 4 years after the fact?  Humber has put together a fairly solid year and a month here, but there's really no way to say trading Guerra, Mulvey, Gomez and Humber wasn't worth it even with Santana's injuries.  

I mean come on, one decent middle-of-the order pitcher, one OF who can't stay in the majors, one pitcher who's out of baseball and one who has been terrible in the minors for an ace is a trade I'd still do in a second.

Humber has been very solid for Minnesota but he's no better overall than most #3/#4 types.  The perfect game is awesome and an amazing accomplishment, but if you reversed that trade you'd be making a mistake. 

No Thomas, the sentence or comment was just a simple fact. I approved of the Santana trade. Maybe part of Omar's failures just has a lot to do with bad luck. Either way I know how pathetic of a GM he was, but I also know how sensitive some people are to me pointing that out, so I probably shouldn't have even stated the simple fact or included "Omar" in the fact/comment. Was just making a simple comment though, Omar is the one who traded Humber.... was not implying anything beyond that or about his history of being an awful GM.

I dont think he is doing any favours to himself in that his production is justification to sit him on the bench. We could all do with a few great years from him if nothing more than increase his trade value.-Jokati

Wishful thinking, but that's all it is.  Chances are that we won't get any "good or great years" even if he's healthy, we've already seen over 2 years of nothing from him. What's more important now is that we avoid the qualifying plate appearances he needs for his 5th year option to kick in.  We avoid it and spend the $17 mil saved elsewhere on players that are actually worth it.

No Thomas, the sentence or comment was just a simple fact. I approved of the Santana trade. Maybe part of Omar's failures just has a lot to do with bad luck. Either way I know how pathetic of a GM he was, but I also know how sensitive some people are to me pointing that out, so I probably shouldn't have even stated the simple fact or included "Omar" in the fact/comment. Was just making a simple comment though, Omar is the one who traded Humber.... was not implying anything beyond that or about his history of being an awful GM.

Man with the passive-aggressive angle for everything you must be super-enjoyable to be around.  The Omar stuff is exhausted now, but yes you're correct I don't just go with the majority all the time, and I think he had more bad luck than anything and made about as many good and bad moves as most GMs.  Still though, there's almost no way you can say the Santana trade is a bad one.

It's just a bizarre thing to add to the sentence.  Most normal people would say something like "how bizarre is it that a pitcher we traded away once again had a no-hitter (and in this case perfect game).  Because really that's just luck also, and it's something this team hasn't been lucky with yet in 50 years...but the day it's no longer an issue will come at some point, and it'll be someone lucky on this side also.

It's just a strange thing, I don't find myself saying "That was a great homer by the Steve Phillips drafted David Wright!", or "The Omar-Minaya drafted Ike Davis sure is struggling to start the year".  Those are also facts but not really relevant in the observation.

lol, talk about sensitive. Listen, you already know my opinion on Minaya, I'm not getting into that again, I remember how sensitive you were when I talked about him and pointed out how lousy of a GM he was, all the horrible contracts he gave out, bad trades and everyhing.

But as far as recently. I just made the statement basically saying that "the ex-Met Minaya traded named Philip Humber pitche a perfect game."

Total fact. Why get sensitive about that? Its a simple sentence, a fact.

It was an ugly 18-9 loss for the New York Mets, at the hands of the Colorado Rockies.  Yet one silver lining was the theatrics of Scott Hairston.  An unlikely candidate, given he only had five hits on the season, coming into the contest.  With the cycle, which Hairston also completed in just six innings, he became the tenth Mets player in franchise history to attain the feat.

Very quick thoughts on tonights game,
Manny Acosta sucks, I can't stand him, he should pitch only in garbage time. He can't be trusted in tight ball games. Just because he had a 1-2-3 inning, Terry should've thought twice before going to the well again. I understand it's a long season, but I simply don't like or trust Manny Acosta, he always gets knocked around.
Oh, and, captain Kirk, is the real deal. Huge hit he came up with to tie it in the 7th.    

Mets get it right: Kudos to the Mets for honoring MCA aka Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys, who passed away on Friday from cancer at 47.  On Friday night, each Mets player walked up to the plate to a select Beastie Boys song.  Ruben Tejeda – Intergalactic, Daniel Murphy – No Sleep Till Brooklyn, David Wright – Brass Monkey, Lucas Duda – The New Style, Scott Hairston – Root Down, Ike Davis – Fight for Your Right, Andres Torres – So Watch’cha Want, Josh Thole – Make Some Noise, Dillon Gee – Body Movin’.  Pretty cool stuff.

Ex-Met-Minaya-Traded Phillip Humber sporting 3 solid starts since his perfect game:

5 IP 9 ER
6 IP 3 ER
2.1 IP 8 ER  

Mets looking good lately, nice comeback win tonight against the Phillies from down 4 runs. We've taken the 1st 2 series of the year from them.. Mets also have now won 4 games in a row, and are currently 4 games over .500.  And the Phillies? well... in the basement!!! for now at least..

I don't know how long this good baseball is gonna last for the Mets, but I know I like the mentality of the Mets this year. They get down to business, nothing shakes them from going after their goal, they just play serious to win. They keep coming back with a positive attitude game after game, whether they lost the night before or won, they come back with the same focus.  We didn't see this much confidence and focus from the Mets in previous years. Our young players are mentally tough and better than many are giving credit to as well.

And Terry Collins is doing a good job. I know a couple of you want to see him get his ass kicked out the door the second he arrived, but those folks should recognize that this is not a bad manager.
 

Hey check you out, the 17-13 New York Mets!  Make that two series the Mets have taken in Philadelphia this season and it’s only May!  In spite of an early two-run home run by Hunter Pence (his seventh), New York rallied for a 7-4 victory.  Kirk Nieuwenhuis, David Wright and Lucas Duda had the big knocks, driving in five of the Mets seven runs on the evening.  New York gets it done, even with Ruben Tejada and Josh Thole on the mend.  The Mets are now the hottest club in baseball with four straight wins.

That's 5 wins in a row Tartans, 5.