Tonight’s Mets line-up
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PHOTO: AP
It’s official: Brian Lawrence was optioned to make room for “Endy Chavez”:http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=6733, who’s starting in right.
Here’s who’s in the line-up with him:
SS Jose Reyes
2B Luis Castillo
3B David Wright
CF Carlos Beltran
LF Moises Alou
1B Carlos Delgado
C Paul Lo Duca
RF Endy Chavez
P Tom Glavine
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Endy starting in RF? What a wonderful idea!!! I guess Willie listens to me too. :-)
Welcome back Endy.
ENDY!!
JD: Was Humber named as the starter on Saturday?
I hope Endy has a good game, but I would rather have Lastings in RF tonight. This makes no sense to me at all.
It’s great having Endy back… dude brings Hella Large Bench-Depth with him… but, man, what in God’s name could Lastings have POSSIBLY done to deserve this?
Did he get caught having sex with Willie’s mother while simultaneously pouring sugar in his gastank?
SFP: Willie always gets the new guy for the most part right into the game that he comes back. Lastings has been struggling and with a righty on the mound who has good off speed stuff, it makes sense. I am also sensing an Endy/Milledge platoon in RF for the rest of the season.
Well I must apologize for thinking that Randolph would be blinded about not starting Chavez. I think that’s a good decision on his part and maybe it will give this team a bit of a lift the way it appeared Utley did by returning to the lineup for the Phillies.
Go Mets!
Jeff: No apologies necessary. ;-)
Steve: I tend to agree. It appears the Green is almost completely a bench player/pinch hitter. Though I agree with most who feel he’s past his good days, he still tends to come through in the clutch.
Conine and Green will spell some relief for Delgado—though I don’t see Randolph sitting Carlos D no matter how many times he strikes out on that inside curve ball that barely crosses the plate. LOL
Im setting the over/under at 3 on Delgado swinging and missing at that inside curveball that barely crosses the plate.
John –
You run a very complete and professional blog and so, these questions:
Is there a website which explains and details the procedures through which players make their way from one end of the baseball team spectrum to the other i.e. minors to majors?
Does the team provide travel and housing expenses along the way?
Is this the GMs purview alone or are others involved?
I’m just asking….......
Thank the Lords of Kobol that the Brian Lawrence era is officially over. Here’s a sad fact about that Mets’ fifth starter situation: So far this year, Jorge Sosa, Mike Pelfrey and Lawrence have gone a combined 8-15 as starters. I don’t even wanna know the combined ERA of those guys in those starts.
And of course, I’m ecstatic about Endy’s return. For all you L-Millz fans, take heart. I wouldn’t read anything more into his not starting lately than the fact that he’s struggling. He’s back to overswinging at pitches (10 Ks in his last 17 ABs) and has struggled in the field. He’ll be OK and I expect him to be on the post-season roster, if for no other reason to combine to form speedy corner bookends in the outfield to spell Moises Alou and Shawn Green.
I will say, though… on the spectrum of line-up choices?
Endy’s a lot closer to being worth starting over Milledge than Green. At least Endy’s superior defense, plate discipline and base-speed make the argument reasonable.
I still think it sends the wrong message to the young players on the team and I still think Lastings gives you the better odds of a multiple-hit game or an extra base hit but…
The argument can at least be made.
If this slots Marlon in as the best pinch-hitter on the team as opposed to fielding the ball ever and slots Green in as the back-up lefty-hitting firstbaseman and the garbage-time lefty pinch-hitter…
I’ll grudgingly take it, on further review.
I like Lastings and feel he can be a starting outfielder on the team next year. But this is not the time to stick with struggling young players. Maybe teams are learning to exploit his weaknesses better and it will take time for him to adjust. If Milledge continues to strike out at almost every at bat in what is still a pennant race, that will also send a wrong message to every member of the team—that Willie places the interests of a single player above the team’s collective goal of winning.
And there is still a place for Green. He owns Smoltz. I would hope Green is in the starting lineup Sunday when the Mets face him.
To Joan: I’m not aware of any website, but you could probably find anything on the web. The team pays housing expenses during the season and only on the road. These guys are supposed to pay their rent like everybody else, but there are always side deals. The team might get a special rate at area hotels and apartment complexes during the season on the minor league level.-JD
When my hometown had the Mets NY-Penn League team, they actually had sponsor families that would volunteer to put up players in their spare rooms for the summer and they’d get a reasonable stipend in return.
Also, their daughters would get to have sex with dudes who have a slight chance of ending up famous. It worked for everybody.
This was short-season A ball in rural Northern New York in the early Eighties, though, it probably doesn’t work that way now and probably only worked that way in a few places ever.
I have to say Mike C that you an obnoxious little thing, and you should be banned from the site.
Mr Delcos: You discredit yourself and your newspaper by not commenting or removing the kind of trash written above by Mike C.
JMP,
MIke C has a right to his opinion. I may not agree with him much, but he has a right like everyone here to write what he feels.
We have recently had issues with ppl here attacking others’ personally and it has made this site quite ugly.
It seems you have chosen to take this approach.
If you want to disagree with someone fine. Do so. But please stop attacking them personally.
We are all here to discuss or argue over what the Mets do right or wrong. Comments like those you have made recently do not need to be made. You disagree with them fine. Say so. Calling people names is not.
dave An opinion he has a right to:
This trash on young women he doesn’t have a right to Show this to your wie and daughter and ask them:
This is from that Mike C: “Also, their daughters would get to have sex with dudes who have a slight chance of ending up famous. It worked for everybody.”
What’s the difference between Don Imus and Mike C? Imus wasn’t hiding when he opened his mouth. Go to work tomorrow and shout it out and see how long it takes before you find the unemployment line.
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