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The Brooklyn Met Fan asks, “Have we officially entered the Jeff Wilpon Era?”
In a post to Amazin’ Avenue, Eric Simon reveals his site’s community projection for Johan Santana, who they believe will go 19–6 with a 2.71 ERA with 240 strike outs.
Speaking of Santana, at Mets Geek, Dan Scotto looks back at the off-season Market Shifts for Santana, such as on December 4, when Will Carroll wrote the following in Baseball Prospectus…
“Santana to the Red Sox is all but done. Jon Lester, a center fielder, Justin Masterson and Ryan Kalish are the package.”
…for what it’s worth, to will’s credit, people connected to santana were all but certain that johan was heading to Boston that day as well…i mean, they were essentially packing his bags…the same thing happened a few weeks later, as well…but that was it…in hindsight, to me, both events were strictly designed to smoke out Phil Hughes, which never ended up happening…thankfully…
In a post to his blog for the New York Times, Ben Shpigel lists Reason No. 4,782 as to why it is good to be David Wright.
Speaking of Wright, check out Rob Neyer’s blog for ESPN.com.
…wright clearly understands that all politics is local…
I’ll take those numbers out of Santana. But what the heck, if he has a 2.71 ERA, might as well give him the 20 wins. 19 makes it sound like the offense was struggling, or th eBP was blowing games!
FIrst let me say I’m not going to boo him if it doesn’t happen, but as a high end possibility I think something closer to Dwight Gooden circa 1985 is, while not likely, possible, if he’s healthy and everything breaks right:
24-4, 268 K, 1.53 ERA
Clearly the predictions in the original post are more realistic, but a guy can dream can’t he?
rob neyer is educated
I’m not an Insider - what did Neyer post?