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Memories of Juan Lagares 1.0/2.0

G-Fafif Feb 10 2020 06:17 PM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Feb 07 2021 07:22 AM

The old Gold Glove is a new Friar. Absolutely where extra base hits went to die. For a time, a Mex/Rey-Rey level defender. Feels like he missed the past three or four seasons but was fully healthy in 2019. High-priced pinch-runner toward the end. Really liked him. Good luck, Juanny Beisbol.

kcmets Feb 10 2020 06:36 PM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

Obi-Juan

41Forever Feb 10 2020 06:40 PM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

Seemingly covered all of Flushing during his Gold Glove years!

LWFS Feb 10 2020 07:04 PM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

Dang. If memory serves, I feel as if he saved more Gee and Niese bacon than any other Met pitchers'.

Edgy MD Feb 10 2020 09:04 PM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

Can't think of anything douchey he ever did, given plenty of time. Seemingly invented a new way of making outs, and Keith Hernandez may be the only other Met I can write that about.

batmagadanleadoff Feb 10 2020 10:22 PM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

Edgy MD wrote: Seemingly invented a new way of making outs.... With his glove, too.

LWFS Feb 11 2020 05:44 AM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

God, if that uppercut/see more pitches thing he was trying had worked, just a little. We would have had ourselves the Kiermaier we thought we did.

seawolf17 Feb 11 2020 06:33 AM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

I think we'll remember him more fondly than the numbers will say. Won a Gold Glove in his second season but never *quite* got that magic back. Basically Buddy Harrelson in the outfield, with a little more pop.

Johnny Lunchbucket Feb 11 2020 07:48 AM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

Best memory of Lagares was attending one of his very first starts with the Lunchpail. It was a shitty game, the Mets lost, the giveaway was a joke (Some Marvel movie cup with zero Met content), but Lagares made a catch on a ball off the bat I was so accustomed to seeing land as a hit it shocked me. It was one of those shallow dying quails that guys routinely pull up on and play on the hop, Lagares got there to make the catch and didn't even seem to be busting it. It reminded me of vintage Ordonez. He only got a chance after we cycled through a bunch of pretenders out there-- was cowgill one of them?-- and it I was convinced then and there they finally had the right guy out there. Unfortunately he didn't improve enough offensively

Edgy MD Feb 11 2020 08:03 AM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

Other Mets centerfielders during Lagares' rookie season: Kirk Nieuwenhuis: 25 g Rick Ankiel: 17 g Matt den Dekker: 16 g Collin Cowgill: 17 g Jordany Valdespin: 16 g Eric Young, Jr.: 8 g Marlon Byrd: 2 g

Johnny Lunchbucket Feb 11 2020 08:29 AM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

Here's that game, talking about Laggy then in what was his 2nd start and 5th MLB appearance: http://archives.thecranepool.net/19400/f14_t19465.shtml Phillies 5, Mets 1: http://www.ultimatemets.com/gamedetail.php?gameno=8227&tabno=D

ashie62 Feb 11 2020 09:18 AM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

He just couldn't hit or stay healthy

RealityChuck Feb 11 2020 09:51 AM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

What I remember most of him was that whenever I saw a "play of the week" roundup, it included at catch by Lagares.

batmagadanleadoff Feb 11 2020 10:58 AM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

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smg58 Feb 11 2020 01:23 PM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

I think he led the Mets in WAR in 2014. That glove with even a .700 OPS was a huge asset. But that season was the outlier offensively (and defensively too, but he was still elite for a while). And then there were the injuries that just didn't stop. I was super bullish on him for a long time.

Benjamin Grimm Feb 11 2020 01:31 PM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

Schaefer Mets Player of the Month in August 2014. Also won the "Bench" award twice. http://ultimatemets.com/cards/JuanLagares1971.jpg> http://ultimatemets.com/cards/JuanLagares1973.jpg>

Lefty Specialist Feb 11 2020 01:39 PM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

Kept waiting for the bat to catch up with the glove. It never did. Got injured and a little pudgy at times, which didn't help.

Edgy MD Feb 11 2020 03:05 PM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

This also elevates Jacob deGrom, I believe, to longest-tenured New York Met.

bmfc1 Jul 22 2020 11:39 AM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

Juan is back (as suggested during the Zoom call the other night).

Lefty Specialist Jul 22 2020 11:58 AM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

Marisnick tight hammy may be the reason.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 22 2020 11:58 AM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

So Brodie was listening in on the Zoom call, huh?

bmfc1 Jul 22 2020 12:02 PM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

Benjamin Grimm wrote: So Brodie was listening in on the Zoom call, huh? He was the one using his wife's phone and never pictured.

G-Fafif Jul 22 2020 12:06 PM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

Never should have been in another uniform to begin with — not to be confused with too good to have let leave in the first place.

MFS62 Jul 22 2020 12:21 PM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

Somehow, I feel the team is now complete with him here. Later

Edgy MD Jul 22 2020 12:26 PM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

Me and Brodie work on the same wavelength.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 22 2020 12:26 PM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares

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G-Fafif Feb 07 2021 07:19 AM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares 2.0

https://twitter.com/felixalcantar79/status/1358413655889637377?s=21 Hot numbers in the winter league yielded reheated interest for Juan's services in the Southern California market. https://twitter.com/rollingjr/status/1358243872137125890?s=21 Few new memories for Juan's semi-recidivist 2020 Mets return. Got doubled off as a pinch-runner. Caught three fly balls after staying/coming in for defense and of course wore one egregiously wrong number (87) before being assigned something closer to his 12 (15). Gosh, considering the man played three innings total, that's a lot of memories, or more of a concrete nature than the previous 15, Brian Dozier, generated. Baseball-Reference pegs Juan's eight-season career WAR at 12.4, indicating a bWAR love of defense. They gave him 0.1 for his three 2020 innings. By comparison, Ed Kranepool, in 18 seasons, posted a career bWAR of 4.3, as if 1,418 hits and forum-naming inspiration isn't analytically sound. Either way, good luck to Anaheim Juan, who approaches the American League two hits shy of 500. May it go better than it did for San Diego Juan.

Johnny Lunchbucket Feb 07 2021 07:25 AM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares 1.0/2.0

87 was just wrong

Edgy MD Feb 07 2021 07:32 AM Re: Memories of Juan Lagares 1.0/2.0

They're gonna need a centerfielder when they trade Troutski.