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="John Cougar Lunchbucket":2qx31x76]Well before we go patting Willie's back we should remember Valentin was Plan C that year, behind Matsui and Anderson F. Hernandez.[/quote:2qx31x76]
Yes. Willie likes second baseman who can lay down by laying down the sac bunt. Might as well give Valentin his props here. He was a good Met overall, in the final analysis.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket
Mar 31 2009 03:51 PM
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Keilty, Nieve and Dessens are cut. I think that makes 26 +/- Livan/Evans
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G-Fafif
Mar 31 2009 03:59 PM
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Toe
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My inner sixth-grader is laughing hysterically.
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Fman99
Mar 31 2009 04:16 PM
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="John Cougar Lunchbucket":28zctoou]Keilty, Nieve and Dessens are cut. I think that makes 26 +/- Livan/Evans[/quote:28zctoou]
Sending Kielty packing, and keeping Marlon Anderson, stinks.
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HahnSolo
Apr 01 2009 08:57 AM
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="Fman99":1oc6dpyg]="John Cougar Lunchbucket":1oc6dpyg]Keilty, Nieve and Dessens are cut. I think that makes 26 +/- Livan/Evans[/quote:1oc6dpyg]
Sending Kielty packing, and keeping Marlon Anderson, stinks.[/quote:1oc6dpyg]
I can understand keeping Castillo because you don't want to dump $18 mill (or whatever is owed to him) on a guy if he is not playing for you. And okay, maybe Luis is healthy this year and last year was an aberration. But Marlon? They can't eat his guarantee for one year? He resembled nothing close to a major league ballplayer at the end of '08 (heck, all of '08). Santana would have been a better lefty bat off the bench for most of last year. I can't believe he's still with the team.
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Edgy DC
Apr 01 2009 09:10 AM
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Kielty hasn't been sent packing.
If 2008 was an abberation for Castillo, why couldn't it have possibly been for Anderson?
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holychicken
Apr 01 2009 09:10 AM
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Thinking about the fact that Anderson is on the roster makes me mad. Not that I am all that baseball astute. . . .but I see absolutely NO reason for him to be on the roster. He had a terrible year last year and he had a terrible spring. Why is he still here? Why can't we just cut him loose?
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metirish
Apr 01 2009 09:14 AM
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I'm sure we will see Kielty before long.
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holychicken
Apr 01 2009 09:18 AM
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="Edgy DC":1edz66no]Kielty hasn't been sent packing.
If 2008 was an abberation for Castillo, why couldn't it have possibly been for Anderson?[/quote:1edz66no]
He had a 40 OPS+.
If that is an aberration, I would hope that it would require you earning a spot. . .which he just did not do this spring while getting a decent number of ABs (42).
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Edgy DC
Apr 01 2009 09:18 AM
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They can. They choose not to. Because there's more to it than last year. And when you have to choose between a few options, you often have to look at the veterans first, guys with larger contracts, big league contracts, because (1) the stakes are higher as you only get one decision with them and (2) because younger players tend to make more of time in the minors than older players.
Sometimes, you have to accept that you have to accept that it's in the team's interests to try Manny Aybar first and Heath Bell second.
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Edgy DC
Apr 01 2009 09:21 AM
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="holychicken":3bmztzkb]="Edgy DC":3bmztzkb]Kielty hasn't been sent packing.
If 2008 was an abberation for Castillo, why couldn't it have possibly been for Anderson?[/quote:3bmztzkb]
He had a 40 OPS+.[/quote:3bmztzkb]
I can read. I also know that players with playing time limited due to injury and narrow roles such as pinch-hitting often end up with stats on the extreme ends of the spectrum. That number is alarming but not conclusive. I certainly don't think the 133 OPS+ the season before was conclusive.
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holychicken
Apr 01 2009 09:26 AM
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I understand that, edgy. But he didn't just have a down year. . . he had a downright terrible year.
There are only 10 NL players who had a minimum of 100 ABs that had a worse OPS than the guy.
And it is not like he has impeccable defensive skills to make up for the fact that he was basically worse than our pitchers at the plate.
I just feel if you shit the bed like that you really need to EARN your way back to the majors, which he completely and utterly failed to do this spring. I would give him the benefit of the doubt if he had a halfway decent spring, but he showed me exactly what he gave us last year.
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metirish
Apr 01 2009 09:32 AM
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Make what you will of this....from the Snooze
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By keeping Anderson over Kielty, the Mets won't have a righty pinch-hitter on the bench from Game 5 on when Tatis starts - that is, other than Castro, who typically wouldn't be used in that role because he's the backup catcher.
So who pinch-hits against a lefty reliever?
"Livan," Manuel joked, referring to his fifth starter, who is a career .233 hitter. "I've got all that covered, man."
As for the decision to keep Anderson, Mets brass cited his improved shape this spring as well as his track record as a pinch-hitter.
"Marlon has been a guy that when he's right has been very, very good for us," Manuel said. |
Get in shape guys.
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MFS62
Apr 01 2009 09:37 AM
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Funny, on the day Livian was signed, I posted about his .233 career BA and joked that maybe they were signing him for his bat. (Can't find the link).
Sometimes, the things you say in jest....
Later
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cooby
Apr 01 2009 07:27 PM
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="G-Fafif":3n4m1msd]Toe
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My inner sixth-grader is laughing hysterically.[/quote:3n4m1msd]
moi aussi
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