Daily Archives: June 13, 2005
Steve at Simply Amazins posts a great recap of the Mets season so far in a 140–word parody of the infamous call made by the announcer at a horse race…
…well done, steve…
Brett, known as ‘darkdinner’ in the MetsBlog comments section, asks…
“I noticed something today that I didn’t suspect, and really surprised me… But look at cliff floyd’s home/away splits this year…Has he solved Shea Stadium?”…
…interesting…
This season, Floyd is batting .310 at home and .261 on the road. Last season, Floyd hit .295 at Shea, .227 away, and in 2003 Floyd hit .330 at home, while hitting .253 away…
In the two seasons prior to joining the Mets, however, Floyd hit just .226 while playing at Shea and hit .301 on his home turf, be it in Miami, Montreal or Boston…
…sounds like floyd is just more comfortable hitting at his team’s home park, regardless of what that team may be…
Ken Rosenthal is back with a double-barrel shot of his Inside Dish column at the Sporting News…
In his first column,
Rosenthal notes that the Pirates are backing off trading RHP Kip Wells
and RHP Mike Gonzalez, and while A’s GM Billy Beane plans to LHP Joe
Kennedy, it’s sounding more and more like he will hang on to LHP Barry
Zito, at least through the end of the season…
In his second column,
Rosenthal writes that the Tigers could look to move RHP Jason Johnson,
and that the Brewers may make RHP Ricky Bottalico available for teams
looking for bullpen help, but will not be trading 1B Lyle Overbay,
regardless of how much Dayn Perry at FoxSports wants to play General Manager…
…i love the idea of overbay, but there is no sensible reason that the brewers would move him before the off-season…
…if you want to run a rumor mill for the mets and first base, do it with sean casey…
…interesting quote, willie…
“We
don’t expect [Jose Reyes] to be Rickey Henderson.
That’s a very tough job for a young player to do. I understand
that. Jose is what he is. I know that and accept it.” –
Willie Randolp, following yesterday’s loss to the Angels…
…well, for starters, reyes doesn’t refer to himself in the third person…so he’ll never be rickey…
…that being said…
…i
find this quote by willie intriguing because it stinks of
frustration…i still contend that reyes’s on base issues can be
tolerated as he grows…and can especially be tolerated as long as the
rest of team is struggling, such as the bullpen and the lineup’s
inability to hit with runners on base…i mean, who cares if reyes is on
or not if nobody plans to knock him in…
…once the ship
truly rights itself, though, legitimately, and removes all
the kinks, something that will not likely happen with this exact group
of players, reyes better have this leadoff thing figured out…because
than he will be vital to the program…
…i can’t help but
think of randolph, the yankees and afonso soriano, though…if you
recall, soriano suffered from much of the same offensive problems as
reyes…at the time, the yankees were known for being a solid,
fundamentally sound offense, and soriano threw a kink in that
program…randolph wants that kind of offense, and this quote, to me,
sounds eerily similar to the kinds of early remarks that proceeded the
yankees lack of confidence in soriano…
…i’m not saying
the mets are going to trade reyes in a year or two like the yankees did
with soriano…i’m just saying this feels awfully familiar to me, that’s
all…
Jordan Zakarin talks with Baseball America’s infamous Kevin Goldstein about the Mets recent draft picks at FlushingsFuture.com…
Most notably from the discussion, Goldstein refers to the Mets selection of Mike Pelfrey as a, “big steal.”…
…great job, guys…and i’m pumped about pelfrey…
Addressing the media from City Hall yesterday, Mets owner Fred Wilpon said he expects his team to have a 45,000 seat replacement for Shea Stadium built on the current stadium’s parking lot by 2009…
The new stadium would be expandable to house 80,000, allowing it to act as the main venue for 2012 Olympic – should the International Olympic Committee award the 2012 games to New York City on July 6…
According to Wilpon, his partnership would pay the estimated $600 million tab for the new stadium privately. However, the city state will provide $180 million in infrastructure and $100 million to convert the stadium for the Olympics…
“The stadium will be built independent of whether we’re awarded the Olympics or not,” State assembly speaker Sheldon Silver added…
For more on the stadium deal, check out Richard Sandomir’s article in the New York Times…
…new television network, new stadium and young players…finally these guys are getting it…
…i’ll believe this when they break ground, though…i’m excited, but it’s a reserved optimism at best…
The Mets went 6–6 on their longest homestand of the season…
…which was not good enough…
The New York Times posts a great graphic comparing the Mets to their opponents during the 12–game stretch…
Be it games won, batting average or runs scored, the Mets were no better or worse than the teams they competed against…
…in other words, the homestand was the definition of a .500 team in every way possible…
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