Greetings from Philly
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- April
- 18
Just checked into the hotel. First thing I saw when I got off the train was a cop with an automatic rifle. Brotherly love in the air.
Weather is warm. Beautiful. The balls will fly. How does four sound for the over-under on homers tonight?
In case you were wondering, that’s not just for Burrell.
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Sounds about right. Santana’s been allowing lots of HR’s (going back to last year too). I think I’d take the over.
If Johan can’t keep the ball in Shea, how will he do it at the Bank? He’s just gonna need better stuff and less square contact b/c that park will do him no favors against a lineup of guys who like to swing outta their shoes.
Deffinitly OVER
Johan didn’t have good stuff last game, are pitchers no longer allowed that? I assume he’ll be better tonight, I think his track record will allow that. As for Pat Burrell, that comment just proves how much you love to mess with Met fans Delcos, you love it don’t you?
metsfan: Got you … knew you’d bite on that.-JD
Over.
on an a slightly unrelated topic…
does anyone have any thoughts about the potentially good “too much pitching” problem that is developing.
when wise is ready to come back (though still a bit off) what will the mets do?
i don’t see anyway they can remove joe smith from the pen. and one of the options being discussed (at least on the boards) prior to last night’s game was to send figgy down, move sosa to the rotation, and put wise back in the pen.
but now that nelson has thrown 2 great starts in a row, and clearly he knows what he’s doing on the mound, not to mention i still think sosa is better when used for shorter periods of time, i don’t see this happening.
would they leave wise in AAA?
will they look to move someone, even though it’s so early?
thoughts?
If Joe Smith is taken out of that pen, so help me.
If Duaner proves durable, then they’d be in a position to deal someone. My guess would be Schoeneweis. And I bet they’d deal him for a needed spare part, like a righty bat off the bench.
there is no room for a righty bat off the bench.
once alou comes back, pagan will be back on the bench and clark will be gone. which means easley and the switch hitting pagan become righty options off the bench. those two along with endy, marlon and the backup catcher seem to me to be a bench that barring injury (or a serious drop off in production by pagan) isn’t going to change this year.
even if you don’t think alou will stay healthy for the rest of the season (a good assumption) i still don’t see how you can trade a reliever now (or soon, when wise is ready and this move needs to happen) for a spot that is already filled.
i suppose if they found someone who could be an upgrade over pagan and would be a righty 1B option then maybe that is a possibility (and you could send pagan down until/if alou got hurt again). but i’m not sure that’s gonna happen.
Why does this team need both Pagan and Chavez?