Comments on: Recap: Delgado on WFAN

By: Mexworshipper

Mexworshipper — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:43:34 +0000

I totally agree. We need to remember how frustrating this team was last year. They never once got on a roll. Every time they won two or three games in a row, you thought “they’re finally getting it together” then they’d lose three in a row. They were very mediocre, and (I hate to say it) if the Braves played like they played for the 14 years they were division champs, they would have blown us away. The division was weak and that’s the only reason we were even in a position to “collapse.”

By: genius

genius — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:36:53 +0000

“I’m personally hungry ”

for mofongo

By: CityMets

CityMets — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:19:01 +0000

Trumpzilla, that is what I’m talking about.

Why does anyone believe the Mets will be better? And why shouldn’t we expect Jimmy Rollins to be as good as last year?
Not expecting Rollin’s to have another MVP calibur year is just the thing that will make the Mets underestimate them again.

IT IS BETTER TO PREPARE WITH THE IDEA THAT ROLLINS, AND THE ENTIRE NL EAST WILL BE JUST AS GOOD, IF NOT BETTER THAN LAST YEAR. BEING OVERPREPARED IS BETTER THAN BEING THE OPPOSITE.

And to the person that said the Braves “got another aging pitcher,” that aging pitcher that they acquired was the staff ace of the Mets last year. Oh, how we forget so easily huh? And have he replaced Glavine yet? Nope, we haven’t.

There is no reason for optimism. The Mets were terrible in September last year, I mean completely awful.

And all of those conservatives that want to keep Pelfrey, Humber, Heilman, Mulvey, or anyone else from the farm, realize this, JOHAN SANTANA WILL ONLY BE 36 YEARS OLD ONCE HIS 7 YEAR CONTRACT IS DONE. That is how old Pedro Martinez will be this year. Think about it. Having Santana for that long has both short term and long term benefits. Meanwhile, the prospects only have long term benefits.

If you want to think like the Twins and Athletics, who always strive for the future, go ahead. But those that really want to win do it now, right now.

By: metsftw

metsftw — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:06:13 +0000

injury + all his numbers dropped so much from the season before…he’ll be better this season

By: tinathemetsgrl

tinathemetsgrl — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:48:40 +0000

We love you Delgado! Come back and hit 30 some homeruns and we’ll totally forget about last year.

By: Trumpzilla

Trumpzilla — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:59:50 +0000

How easy everyone forgets that it took two things for the Mets to lose the division by ONE game. A huge surge by Philly and a HISTORIC collapse by this team, which is basically the same as was running away with the division before the swoon

The Mets played under .500 for 4 straight months.

The fact is that had the Phils (or Braves) gotten their act together sooner, it wouldn’t be a Mets “collapse’, it would have been a Philly domination.

Again.

You ignore 4 months of subpar baseball.

THAT is the lesson here, not some illusion of a “collapse”.

If you act like the problem as a “20-1 shot collapse” you have learned the wrong lesson from last year.

THIS TEAM WAS MEDIOCRE FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD. Not just a 2-week period everyone wants to focus on.

By: squad

squad — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:08:03 +0000

Everyone mentions the wrist injury and his kid being born, but they forget he also had elbow surgery on the same arm (if memory serves) last offseason (tennis elbow).

So he was trying to come back from two surgeries. Throw in the birth of his kid during spring training and he didn’t really have a chance to get in shape for the season. You would think he would be able to come into this season in better shape.

By: squad

squad — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:01:56 +0000

During that AWFUL season he was still had 24 homers and 87 RBI.

His biggest problem was that his OBP dropped, which makes me think he was less selective this year. If he gets back into his old habits of being more selective then he should have a bounce back year.

By: TilMetsDoUsPart

TilMetsDoUsPart — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:36:22 +0000

And that’s definitely enough to make up for 2 losses, no?

The Phillies lost Aaron Rowand, and have a bottom of the order consisting of the all-star team that is Wes Helms, Jayson Werth and Carlos Ruiz. They added a failing closer turned setup guy. Whoopee.

If you expect Jimmy Rollins to do half of what he did last year than you are obviously a bonehead.

The Braves have lost Renteria and Jones, but it’s OK! Josh Anderson — THE JOSH ANDERSON — is the centerfielder, they have a young shortstop who has proved to be an above average hitter, and they have added yet another aging hurler. Their bullpen is a joke and so is their pitching staff beyond Hudson.

By: sylvan

sylvan — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:36:14 +0000

The real difference between 2006 and 2007 for the Mets was the bullpen. Everything else was roughly the same. Wagner, Feliciano, Heilman, Bradford, Sanchez, Oliver, and, yes, Mota, all pitched extremely well in 06.

In 07, we had a merely average bullpen to go with our average staff (total ERA+: exactly 100, league-average.)

If Sanchez can return healthy, and Joe Smith can step up and be what Bradford was for us…and Feliciano and Wagner can bounce back from their second-half woes…and Willie learns to use Show only against lefties…and we don’t trade Heilman away……..then we should be in good shape. Heh.