Comments on: Zakarin: B-Mets in the News

By: Nate W.

Nate W. — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:48:08 +0000

5 2/3 IP is never enough regardless of shutout.

6+ IP is minimum for a decent start. Then you can look at the rest of the stat line.

By: Mingo

Mingo — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:20:51 +0000

Truth is, I watch very few AL games. Pretty much NL games only until the playoffs.

By: Danny1986

Danny1986 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:17:19 +0000

I’ll take Chris Berman with Gilbert Godfrey as a color analyst over Chip Carey.

By: beltran the warrior

beltran the warrior — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:56:28 +0000

that’s the game with the minors though. it happens all over mlb. some guys you keep and others are chips. you keep the studs or the immediately useful and you ship out the others for need or if possible, the immediately impactful.

By: metfaninla

metfaninla — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:55:32 +0000

agreed.

but that’s also what we just did. traded a bunch of prospects for Santana. the best pitcher in baseball who is in the prime of his career. presumably you have no qualms with this move.

and of the Carp, Evans, Murphy trio to which my original post was in reference to. there’s no room for all of them on the roster because they are also blocked.

Carp and Evans are projected 1B and Murphy is a 3B/1B with poor defense. they are also getting some play in OF.

well, we’re pretty set at 3B, unless you’re in the move DWright to 1B camp (which i am not). but even then the only one who can really fill it is Murphy and his defense is far worse than Wright’s.

our OF is seemingly pretty set with FMart, Beltran, and Church as a logical starting 3 for next year.

so maybe there is room for one of those guys. either as the starting 1B (which Carp and possibly Evans has the best chance to be — considering we’ll need to balance the lineup with a RH bat) if we don’t sign/trade for someone proven like Tex. Or perhaps as a platoon to Delgado if they pick up his 8mil option — which would mean Evans as he’s the only RH.

which led to my claim. unless they’re gonna be great players w/ potential to be all stars you trade them for players who can improve the team.

If at some point this season we have a need for improving the team or could bring back a guy like Nady by trading Murphy, or Carp or Evans or 2 of them to Pittsburgh…I’d do it.

By: beltran the warrior

beltran the warrior — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:55:02 +0000

agreed, the haren trade isn’t a good example

By: beltran the warrior

beltran the warrior — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:54:14 +0000

it wasn’t poor but it wasn’t good.

he still gave up five walks in 5 2/3. for a guy in his walk year, he is not helping his case right now. granted, at least he’s nott cc but still.

By: darkstar73

darkstar73 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:42:59 +0000

well he’s not going to have a 1.50 era all season, and yes, he’ll have some bad starts, like a lot of pitchers do. What sucks is Schneider isn’t playing tonight and I thought he was really helping Pelfrey be aggressive. But for what it’s worth, winning the series is the most important thing, so if we lose tonight, its certainly not a total loss.

By: Gina

Gina — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:39:40 +0000

I think we’re on pretty much the same page I just misunderstood you originally. It just seems to me that we’re too eager to ship out young players for high priced before even giving them a chance to be average.

By: Gina

Gina — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:37:31 +0000

Trading for a young pitcher, which is what Haren is, is a different situation. And the Diamonbacks could afford to do it because most of those players were going to be blocked anyway and they have a deep farm system.