A week ago tonight Ryan Church sustained a concussion. The Mets have only gotten a handful of at-bats from his since, and consequently lost the ability to retroactive him a week.
I know they were hoping he’d only be a few days, but by definition “hope’’ means uncertainty. When the DL was a topic discussed before the team left Atlanta, there is no mistaking they blew this decision.
Carlos Delgado is benched tonight. That’s a good decision. However, the guy they should bench for a game or two is Jose Reyes.
The argument not to doing so is because of a fear “of losing him.’’ Huh? Benching him might be the only thing that gets Reyes’ attention. If they are afraid of “losing’’ him, then maybe he’s not worth keeping.
Drastic times take drastic measures.
I also have a new poll: Who is more responsible, Omar Minaya or Willie Randolph?
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Santana is the least of the Mets problem. If the Mets are going to depend on Castro and Tatis to drive in runs especially with two outs than the Mets are even in worse shape than I thought a few weeks ago.
To chime in on why it appears met fans don’t like Beltran is because he never comes through in the big spot. If you watched last nights game he comes up with bases loaded and nobody out
and what does he do, pops out and nobody scored. If it wasn’t for castro and tatis the mets would have only scored 1 run. That is Beltran. Yes, he may drive in 30 HR 100+rbi’s but they are usually add on runs, never in the clutch. I still have that vision of him taking a ball down the middle for strike three and the final out of games 7 in 2006.
Thats just perception because he failed in Game 7 of last year.
Beltran has a career OPS of .920 with RISP. Thats not too bad :)
couple of things…A. I know it was a lot of ice, but good grief I have never seen an arm wrapped like that.
As for Beltran, I am not going to consider a first inning pop up the big spot, especially when he has hit into some of the hardest outs I have seen, all year long.
A shortstop gets picked off second, costing his team a chance at a run.
Later, he got thrown out at third making the third out in an inning.
The player is Captain Intangibles himself, Derek Jeter.
Strangely, nobody in Yankeeland is saying he lacks focus or needs to be benched.
Seem like the whole team has.
You see that line drive by Wright in the 8th?
They say typically line drives are hits 75% of the time. With the mets id imagine that number is alot lower lol. Bad luck.
To Mike C.: I did not run Lastings Milledge out of town. He ran himself out of town. However, if you’re pinning that on me, you should be thanking me.-JD
I can’t understand why people would place the blame on Omar Minaya for the team’s dismal play. Omar Minaya’s job is to bring in the best available players and Willy’s job is to place those players in the best position to succeed.
Admit it, Delcos—You were the author of the infamous “Know Your Place, Rook” sign in Lastings’ locker last year.
Tiffany – I think that John was on the grassy knoll also, truth be told. That guy sure gets around. = )
Camilo – Omar gets blame because Omar failed to bring in:
1. Backup for Delgado
2. Depth in the outfield. Alou is injury prone. Angel Pagan and Endy Chavez are not legitimate 4th outfielders. Endy is defense. Angel is a decent bat, but not great with the glove.
3. A legitimate back-up 2nd baseman. Damion Easley is not the answer. Valentin was coming off a major injury. Cutting Gotay (who I grant is not a savior) was a mistake.
He simply did not give Willie all the pieces he needed.
Oh, john did like to post little snarky comments about Milledge. Just like most writers in NY.
If anyone doesn’t think the media coverage of every last little “wrong” move by Lastings didn’t play a part in the trade, they haven’t been following the Wilpon’s.
I’m not saying Lastings was perfect. But to ignore the media’s role in the decision is to ignore common sense.
And if Lastings does meet his potential, many of those same writers (and fans) who supported the trade, will forget that part and bash the trade.
Delcos stuck around St. Petersburg when he saw it was time for a change…
There most definitely is a big difference between 92 and 94. Yes, Pedro is still a good pitcher when he is only throwing 89. But he is not as good as he was when he used to throw 95. The same is true of Johan. They have other attributes that will allow them to continue to be effective and well above average even with reduced velocity. That is not the same as saying that it doesn’t matter. Johan has been good so far but if he had been throwing 94-95 instead of 91-92 he would have been even more effective. Some of those HR’s likely would have been high fly balls or pop-ups. It matters. Johan and Pedro are still very good with reduced velocity but not as good as they would be with the old velocity. And that matters to the Mets. That difference could easily be an extra 2 or 3 wins between the 2 of them over the course of the year. And as we know 2 or 3 wins could be the differnce between making the playoffs and not making the playoffs. I can’t find the study right now (I just looked all over the internet for it but I can’t find it) but it showed pretty convincingly that losing 2mph on your fastball makes you a less effective pitcher by a significant margin.
Tiffany: ``Killed the czar and his ministers … Anastasia screamed in vain.’’-JD