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Green DL'd - Johnson up

Frayed Knot May 29 2007 02:56 PM

Johnson may only hang around until Alou is ready.. Gomez is OK and is starting tonight

Benjamin Grimm May 29 2007 02:59 PM

They had been thinking that Alou might be ready for tonight's game. Guess not. So the big question for now is, will Johnson be able to get into a game as the 813th Met before Alou returns?

A Boy Named Seo May 29 2007 03:00 PM

Who the hell's Johnson?

Benjamin Grimm May 29 2007 03:01 PM

Well, you doesn't has to call him Johnson...

attgig May 29 2007 03:03 PM

his name is ben. ben johnson. came from SD in a trade along with adkins We gave up Heath and Ring this past winter. he's still young enough, but hasn't proven himself to be any better than a utility OF'er at this point.

A Boy Named Seo May 29 2007 03:05 PM

Ben for anyone else stoopid like me.

A Boy Named Seo May 29 2007 03:06 PM

attgig wrote: his name is ben. ben johnson. came from SD in a trade along with adkins We gave up Heath and Ring this past winter. he's still young enough, but hasn't proven himself to be any better than a utility OF'er at this point. That structure is joelmon-esque. Thanks.

Rockin' Doc May 29 2007 05:21 PM

I read somewhere this weekend that though Alou was eligible to come off the DL, he didn't feel that he was ready. He said that the point was for him to be 100% again, then he would return. Otherwise the Mets would run the risk of him reinjuring himself and needing to go back on to the DL. He said that he felt he would be ready to return to action possibley this weekend. Welcome to Ben Johnson.

Willets Point May 29 2007 05:24 PM

Ben Johnson? Ben Johnson?

Edgy DC May 29 2007 05:26 PM

Jen Bonson?

martin May 29 2007 07:16 PM

bon jensen?

seawolf17 May 29 2007 07:18 PM

Jon Benson?

Rockin' Doc May 29 2007 07:20 PM

fitness author, Jon Benson.

seawolf17 May 29 2007 07:21 PM

AAAAAAAAA!

Rockin' Doc May 29 2007 07:40 PM

Great minds think alike, but Seawolf was too quick for me.

Vic Sage May 30 2007 10:30 AM

Meanwhile, Bell and Ring have been great for SD, while Adkins is ... where? AAA? another team? pumping gas? Johnson better show something or this will go down as one of Omar's bad deals.

Frayed Knot May 30 2007 10:47 AM

Bell's been good, but Ring's pitched all of 2 innings and has spent most of the year in the minors. Meanwhile (to no one's surprise) Mota up -- Burgos down.

Edgy DC May 30 2007 10:51 AM

Great. Ring has been great.

Johnny Dickshot May 30 2007 10:57 AM

Johnson looks to have that swing I hate where one hand comes off the bat like a righthanded Jeromy Burnitz, though not quite as pronounced.

Edgy DC May 30 2007 10:58 AM

Lefties are more prone to that, which I guess makes it worse to see on righties. Winfield fell into that when he was going bad.

iramets May 30 2007 11:02 AM

Probably this is a whole thread in itself, but why should lefties (in theory) do that (or anything) differently from righties? McCarver likes to claim that lefties are better low-ball hitters than righties, but he's never begun to explain why that should be so. Lefties are just righties batting from the wrong side, aren't they? Other than the step closer to first base, should they have any substantial advantages or disadvantages? If so, why?

Edgy DC May 30 2007 11:06 AM

A million theories. Mine is that lefties always have to open up to run to first, and righties have to dive closed. So lefties are more vulnerable to the sins of opening up, one of which is the one-handed flail.

Willets Point May 30 2007 11:38 AM

Ban Johnson?

Johnny Dickshot May 30 2007 11:51 AM

Stan Bahnsen?

Vic Sage May 30 2007 12:44 PM

Frayed Knot wrote: Bell's been good, but Ring's pitched all of 2 innings and has spent most of the year in the minors.. Yeah, but those were 2 great innings! And Bell's been better than "good" (30 IP / 17 H / 6 BB / 34 K / 1.20 ERA)

iramets May 30 2007 12:55 PM

="Willets Point"]Ban Johnson? That old guy took steroids? Bet on baseball? What?

Benjamin Grimm May 30 2007 01:06 PM

Sneers kinda like Dick Cheney.

Edgy DC May 31 2007 08:59 PM

I think it's way too early to be looking to judge the trade. Johnson's here to be insurance, and that's a policy that looks like it's about to be cashed in, with perhaps our third starting outfielder disabled tonight, along with our top AAA outfielder. We may need to call up Ricky Ledee now, and we might've had to earlier had they not put in as much redunancy as they did.

attgig Jun 01 2007 08:19 AM

ring's AAA numbers 22IP, 1-0, 0.82, 2ER, 14H, 8BB, 29K I'd say he's ready for the majors.... This was a bad trade ultimately, but honestly, neither ring nor bell had any value. We all thought they would be pretty good MR, but for unproven commodities, nobody was going to give up an arm and a leg. And with the depth we have in our pen, we really didn't need more MR arms. signing shoeeeeenweis negated a need for ring. I'll put this out there, though. Omar had no business giving SS a 3 year contract. I can understand that this was the year mets have to win it all. and you want a proven lefty in the pen. but.. sometimes, you just have to trust your guys. and if ring was there instead of SS, i think we all would've been pleasantly surprised. Then, the trade wouldn't have had to happen. and we'd all be happy with another MR rising to dependability out of nowhere (ie joe smith).

Edgy DC Jun 01 2007 08:30 AM

Ring may'nt have gotten the chance because he had a predecessor's fingerprints on him. A middle reliever with gaudy numbers may look better than a reserve outfielder with modest numbers when all is said and done, but we'll see.