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Through 104 at-bats this season, Jose Reyes is on pace to hit just .250 with 12 HR and 62 RBI while stealing just 35 bases.
Reyes is batting .251 in his last 427 at-bats, dating back to last season’s All-Star break, during which he has a .311 on base percentage.
In addition, Reyes has made five errors through just 24 games – he made 12 all of last year.
During eight games in the middle of April, however, Reyes hit .333 with nine runs scored, during which the Mets were 8–0.
Otherwise, he is hitting .205, during which the Mets are 6–12.
In the New York Post, Bart Hubbuch quotes Reyes as saying, “Everything is going to be good…The season is still young.”
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He’ll be fine. But it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world if he spent some time watching tape of April/May 2007 with HoJo. Also, he needs to slide feet first at least 5% of the time. If it’s in the back of the SS or 2B mind that he just might be coming in with the spikes in the front, then it’s far less likely that he’ll get kneed in the head. Not all the time, ’cause I know he loves to slide headfirst. Just every once in awhile.
As a fast dude that used to steal bases, it’s so much easier to slide headfirst.
And I don’t care what anybody says, you get there faster head first than you do feet first. And even if technically you don’t, it feels that way.
The desire to steal bases and the instinct to take every inch you can while doing so supercedes protecting yourself physically.
It has to be extremely difficult to re-program yourself.
You definitely get their faster. And as a slow dude who tried to sneak a stolen base or two against D1 catchers, I needed every edge I could get.
That said, I agree with theperfectgame. Middle infielders have crossed the line on Reyes. They are deliberately dropping their knees in the baseline hoping to block his path to the base and make him skittish of contact. He needs to go in feet first once or twice & slice the crap out of someone’s thigh. It’ll never happen again.
Good point and I am in agreement.
Hey Cerrone, your NL East standings are wrong. The Mets are in 3rd place the last time i did the math. I’m all for supporting my team, but this is just ridiculous.
As for Reyes, I think he is what he has shown over his last 427 at bats. He is a good player without any protection in this lineup except for Wright.
He explains this on a regular basis. The standings on this site are generated by games lost, with the theory being that you can always win more games, but can’t undo losses.
The last time you did your math, you did it wrong. By winnind percentage, the Mets are in second place. By # of losses they are in third place. I guess if you counted # of wins they’d be in third, but I’ve never seen anyone rank the division that way…
Haha, winnind percentage. The d and g aren’t event next to each other. Maybe I should stop typing with my feet…
Protection for Reyes should be over rated. He is our lead off guy, he needs to get on base. Besides you can’t blame that on Castillo, he has done much better since coming back from his early injury.
Reyes has been swinging at the 1st pitch too much and is stepping into the bucket especially LH and gets too many popups.
His popup rate is significantly lower than it ever has been in his career. This is where the mind is playing tricks on you. He’s just into a bunch of hard outs. It’s pretty simple when you look at his GB/FB/LD rates.
Good stat, do you know what it is when he is hitting LH?
If you do, I’m gonna be a little frightened…
Unfortunately, I don’t think that fangraphs breaks it down per side of the plate for switch-hitters.
I’ll look into it though and let you know.
Yeah, I can’t find where they break it down for each side of the plate. But I’ll put it this way, last year, Reyes’ IF/F% was 13.4%, which is way too high. This year, it’s 3.2%.
IF/F = infield flyball per flyout
Reyes is hitting .239 as a lefty (vs. RHPs), with a .292 OBP, and 6 extra base hits over 67 AB
as a Righty (vs. LHPs), he’s at .270 with a .333 OBP, and 4 extra-base hits over 37 AB.
That just tells you that his popups are now reaching the outfield. Great success…
Except for that his flyball rate is down as well.
So try again.
Reyes had a better April than Wright did in 2007, and we know how his season turned out. So I’m not too worried yet, but 3-4 more weeks of this and the Mets will be in serious trouble.
He is also killing my fantasy team. Thanks Jose.
That’s why I pick Wright over Reyes. Even when Reyes hits a rope, he looks bad… his lefty swing is deplorable, someone needs to teach him that lefties don’t need to swing and run at the same time when they hit a fly ball.
Why do you have to pick one over the other? Why not just appreciate both?
I think he means for fantasy.
Ah, I missed that. Thanks and my apologies.
Ichiro swings and runs with plenty of success– that’s the advantage of hitting lefthanded.
Reyes has had some terrible luck at the plate this year. I know, I know, people don’t want to acknowledge that luck is a factor in this game, but it is. These things tend to almost always even out over the depth of the season.
He’s hitting more line drives, less infield flies, more groundballs, and less fly balls yet his average is way down right now. The only criticism I will accept is that his walk rate is below league average again. And he has really stepped up his walk production recently.
Sometimes the line drives and groundballs find gloves. It’s baseball. I’m not worried at all.
The thing that sucks is that once Reyes got into a good “little” rhythm in April, he got hurt and then came back and pressed a little bit. But he seems past that now.
I think he’s going to have a great May. Hopefully the fans will be patient with him.
I see what you’re saying Danny, but just because Jose isn’t hitting the ball in the air doesn’t mean he’s hitting it hard. I’ve seen 80-90% of his AB’s this year, and I can only think of a handful where I thought he really stung the ball.
Obviously, it’s grreat that he’s hitting more GB’s and can take addvantage of his speed. Making that adjustment may be why he’s struglling at the plate, but that doesn’t explain his struggles in the field. He’s made 5 errors already, and that doesn’t include bone-headed plays like not covering 2nd in a rundown.
I hope you’re righht about him having a big May, but I’m more than a little concerned.
But he’s hitting more line drives. I have watched most of his at-bats and think he has hit into hard outs more than just a handful of times.
How many groundballs have found an empty space for Reyes? I can remember one. He’s just not getting anything to fall.
More line drives
More groundballs
Higher HR%
less flyballs
less popouts
And yet his BABIP is 35 points lower than last year. It won’t continue. We all just overreact every time Reyes hits a ball in the air unless it’s for extra bases.
I’m sorry but that rundown play was not his fault and dont understand anyone thinking that it was. The ball was down the leftfield line, anyone who knows anything, knows that the sortstop goes into the outfield along the line to line himself up for a cutoff. Pagan turned around and threw the ball to second. Reyes did what everyone would do and thats turn to see the play at second. Even if he took off for second as soon as Castillo caught the ball, Castillo ran at the runner and threw the ball to Delgado before Reyes could even get halfway to the bag. The blame is squarely on Castillo who should have known nobody was there to cover the base. He should have “walked” the runner back toward Delgado until Carlos was close enough to catch the ball and make the tag in one motion. At least walking would have given someone a chance to get to second if the rundown were to continue.
If the wine is good the year before and this year it’s vinegar, do you blame the grapes?
If Reyes is underperforming, you could either look at the player or the coaching staff. It is easy to replace a player if he is the problem. If the team underperforms, then possible it’s not the grapes…
I have confidence in the grapes. The winemaker doesn’t know what to do.
I get it…
But Jose’s struggles are definitely cause for concern. When I watch them play, he is pretty much a non-factor. He sulks too much. If he doesn’t get on base in his first at-bat, his head is out of the game. That’s the only explanation I have for a ton of 0-for 5’s and a 5-5