Just announced by the Mets. More to come as I get it. UPDATE 1: Here are the quotes released by the Mets. “Jason is a great teammate, hard worker, stand-up guy, and true gentleman,” said Mets Chief Operating Officer Jeff Wilpon. “Like Jason, we had planned for the kind of… Read More →
Mike Puma over at the New York Post reports that Jason Bay will have a job on Opening Day 2013, despite his absolutely horrific 2012. Let’s have a little perspective on this, even though if you’ve been watching Bay all year, hearing that probably depresses you. First: this is not… Read More →
So Sandy Alderson, speaking with reporters following Tuesday night’s loss to the Marlins, was quite definitive about Jason Bay. The Mets are mercifully planning to sit him against right-handed pitchers. But against lefties, he’ll get his shot. From a 2012 perspective, this makes some sense. They have Mike Baxter and… Read More →
Look, I get it. You don’t want Jason Bay to play for the Mets anymore. It makes sense. Jason Bay, since returning from the disabled list on June 8, has posted a slash line, in 69 plate appearances of .095/.174/.190. To put that in perspective, Ike Davis didn’t have a… Read More →
Look, I know you are tired of watching him. You’re tired of the groundouts, the poor range in left field. Every failure is magnified by that four-year, $66 million contract. But let me give you a list of players who play the outfield for the New York Mets, and their… Read More →
So Terry Collins said something interesting yesterday afternoon. With the Mets scheduled to face three righthanders this weekend against Cincinnati, he said that both Kirk Nieuwenhuis and Lucas Duda would play all three games, leaving one outfield spot to be shared between Andres Torres, Scott Hairston and Jason Bay. Now,... Read More →
It is worth pointing out the following about Kirk Nieuwenhuis: Following his game-winning hit to sweep the Miami Marlins on April 26 to cap a three-hit day, Nieuwenhuis had a season line of .333/.403/.517 in 67 plate appearances. He’d walked just five times and struck out 19 times, meaning that… Read More →
Public perception of Jason Bay hadn’t changed yet, but he had been putting up a fairly decent year, with a 118 OPS+ so far. A few clutch hits, and people might have started to take his renaissance seriously. But that won’t happen anytime soon. Bay was placed on the Disabled… Read More →
I’m certainly looking forward to seeing Lucas Duda hit this year. But to say that the Mets have an outfield that’s competitive within their own division- well, it is going to require a lot of things to go right. They’ll need Duda to adequately field. They’ll need Andres Torres to… Read More →
Just as Americans largely learn world geography based upon countries we invade, a useful byproduct of the terrible Jason Bay contract has been to educate Mets fans about the bad contracts around the league. Instead of coveting free agents like Albert Pujols or Prince Fielder-who, after all, would come without… Read More →
Well, it’s been a quiet week for the Mets- something you ought to assume will be the case moving forward. Jose Reyes met with the Marlins, and a radio station in Miami is reporting he’s nearly signed, though consider me skeptical until it actually happens. Not that I think he’s… Read More →
Some fairly interesting things are going on around Metsland this morning. Let’s start with Nick Evans, whose season OPS+ of 151 puts Jose Reyes’s 143 to shame. MVP? Not even on his own team! In all seriousness, while it is silly to assume this is Evans’ level of production- after… Read More →
Increasingly, it has become fashionable to ask the question, in columns and on Twitter, “How long can the Mets go on playing Jason Bay on a regular basis?” The answer, of course, is: for the rest of the 2011 season, at least. As usual, the question is usually framed in… Read More →
That’s right, with an addition to the Jason Bay clan imminent, the Mets have placed Bay on paternity leave and summoned Lucas Duda from Triple-A. Duda has been hitting well of late in Buffalo, incidentally. Also, there’s apparently some anti-Bay sentiment over on Twitter about missing baseball game for the… Read More →
NEW YORK (AP) – The Mets have put outfielder Jason Bay on the 15-day disabled list with a concussion. Today’s move was made retroactive to July 26, the day after the end of a series at Dodger Stadium in which Bay was injured. Bay got hurt Friday night when he… Read More →