Comments on: pmLinks: Team Alomar, Confidence and Fonzi

By: dave27

dave27 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:30:57 +0000

Mets.com lists HoJo’s uniform number as 20, so all is right on that front.

As for Fonzie, I’m not saying I disagree that his trajectory is highly suspicious, but it’s really a shame that you can’t have improved as a player between 1995 and 2002 at any point and not raise a few eyebrows. The legacy of steroids I guess.

The Mets have proven to be nothing if not completely resistant to nostalgic impulses….they did have Fonzie in Norfolk in AAA in 2006 but did not add him to the 40 in September while they were adding the likes of Kelly Stinnett (and they will always have to answer to adding Mike Glavine in 2003 to appease Tommy Boy). Meanwhile they’ve unceremoniously canned coaches like Mookie and Stearns and alienated guys like Ojeda who were in their system, and there were of course the 40 letters Doc Gooden wrote to Steve Phillips hoping to come back to the Mets (making Doc’s triumph over the Mets in 2000 the only Mets loss in history I didn’t universally hate).

Anyway, the Mets don’t do alot out of sentimentality, unless it’s Brooklyn Dodgers sentimentality.

By: VCarver

VCarver — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:20:39 +0000

AFAIK, he had back issues. And he had had them since the mid-90s. Nothing unusual about that.

By: mackey_sassers_arm

mackey_sassers_arm — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:17:20 +0000

if we are gonna bring someone back just for the sake of nostalgia, give HoJo a bat and let him play 3rd. He at least looks to be in good shape.

And can we get him back in #20? It was a shame to make him wear 52 because the great Shawn Green was wearing his number.

By: adam20ss

adam20ss — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:14:48 +0000

Even his injuries seemed steroid-induced. Those weird, soft-tissue stuff.

By: mackey_sassers_arm

mackey_sassers_arm — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:10:48 +0000

i wonder how old he really is. he had to have lied about his age when he first came up at 20 (is that what he said?)

By: VCarver

VCarver — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:03:09 +0000

Then why wouldn’t he have continued to take them after 2000? They didn’t test until 2004.

I think it was simply age/injury.

By: tfc3rid

tfc3rid — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:58:27 +0000

no question about it…

By: Bench5urvivor

Bench5urvivor — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:53:50 +0000

the one thing I would say in favor of bringing back the most likely lead-off hitter ever, aside from the love-fest: back-up to our good friend David Wright at the ol’ hot corner

day off here or there wouldn’t be bad

By: adam20ss

adam20ss — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:53:30 +0000

I think Fonzie was on steroids. His career took that type of trajectory.

By: shea_guevara

shea_guevara — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:47:12 +0000

Fonzie did take a minor league with the Mets in 2006. Obviously it didn’t amount to much.

I love Fonzie, but I too think his energies are better served getting a coaching job, which I’m sure he’d be great at.