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Twins OF Carlos Gomez, who was traded from the Mets for Johan Santana, hit for the cycle last night.
He is the first member of the Twins to hit for the cycle in 22 years.
To watch a clip of Gomez’s cycle, go to ESPN.com.
…i love that he sprints around the bases on the home run…it cracks me up when players do this…good for him…
In 117 at-bats this season, Gomez is hitting .282 with two HR, seven doubles, three triples, 11 RBI and 13 stolen bases while striking out roughly once every four plate appearances.
As much as we needed and love Johan, Gomez is the guy we will all regret trading above all the others.
I will never forget the spectacular catch he made last year againgst the Yankees last May. He caught a potential two run hr. It was great for me because I saw the play at Yankee Stadium. Great night for him. Thanks for that memory Gomez.
then he doubled up a baserunner…it was magical and i watched it on my dvr dozens of times….
sometimes i feel like fernando martinez shouldve been traded instead of gomez but who knows maybe f-mart will come through with his own surprise.
but can you imagine a speed poisoned line up with reyes,gomez, castillo, beltran, and wright.
I don’t agree. I think Gomez has a ton of skills but I didn’t like his baseball sense at all. He has a terrible OBP too, and I bet that’s true throughout his career.
He’s 23. Twenty friggin’ three.
I know how old he is.
Well if you knew how old he was why did you make a ridiculous statement about the kind of player he’ll be for the rest of his career?
Last week there were rumors Gomez was headed back to the minors. Now he’s a baseball god. The point is, he’s young and talented, and has yet to develop a baseball identity. To assume anything so early in his career is flat out ignorant, whether for good or bad.
because ability to get on base tends not to develop in the same way other skills do.
I was expressing an opinion, not making some grand statement.
The nice thing is, if I’m wrong, nobody dies.
from the good omens file, the last Twin to hit for the cycle was Kirby Puckett… in 1986.
I refuse to believe Kirby Puckett ever hit a triple.
In ‘85 Puckett, was known as the tiny fast guy. He hit 13 triples, stole 21 bases, most of his batting average came from hustling out infield grounders. He also hit all four homers in his first two seasons. Combined. While starting all of both years.
Big Fat Kirby kind of took everyone by surprise.
Gomez has just about the same stats as Reyes this year, Jose really needs to get it together on a consistent basis.
true.
Honestly, it would have been a better trade if we traded Reyes instead of Gomez, but we got Santana, so it’s hard to really complain.
That’s nuts.
Yeah, I’m sorry, but that is an absolutely ridiculous statement. Gomez doesn’t even have a full season under his belt, Reyes is only a few years older (but still extremely young), and we all know how incredibly capable and talented Reyes can be at the major league level. Come on, man.
And, he’s a shortstop.
This is great, I love that Gomez is doing well. I hope he keeps it up.
I agree. I wish Gomez all the best in Minny. I hope the fans there will love his desire and play for the game. Sadly, I had him riding the bench on my fantasy team last night. I am kicking myself… DAMN! LOL
lol me tooo lol i could have used those points….
i didnt! I had Moises Alou riding the bench, oh yeah, im a fantasy genius
I hope he becomes a Hall of Famer.
I love these fans who say I regret this and that.
We got Johan Santana.
The Mets as an organization hope Gomez lights it up. SHow the rest of the league that maybe you shouldn’t underestimate are farm system. Making our prospects more desirable, in doing so making offers more desirable.
I don’t think anybody was saying they regret the trade. I think what they are saying is that of all the players traded, Gomez will be the one that makes us all go “wow.”
I’m happy for Gomez. I would have loved to see this guy as a Met, but you’ve got to give something to get; you hope this brings the Mets some good will in the trade department.
On the flip side, did anyone see Lastings Milledge on the last play in the Astros-Nats game last night? Maybe the camera angle hid something, but it looked liked he gave up on a ball he might have caught.
yup totally dogged it. He figured he had no shot to throw out the man tagging up at third, so he decided to not even try and catch the ball. That would drive me insane as a manager
defenitly looked that way. I was wondering if we would see him get called out on that by his manager.
I thought the same thing when I first saw it, it was like he gave up on it and didn’t really try hard.
Let it go.
Sorry Officer, didnt realize you were on duty today. I’ll be on my way.
Let what go? The collapse?
The Milledge thing. It’s a complete non-story but people love to bash him. They get their rocks off of it. Who cares? He’s not a Met.
Believe it or not, just because you are not tracking his success, some other people just might be. I never once knocked Milledge for things people knock him for such as his attitude and his raps and all that nonsense. What I can knock him for are actual baseball related flaws. Maybe Omar knew what he was doing when he made that Milledge trade. I don’t know about you, but I’m glad he did.
He didn’t even dog it, though. People are just looking for crap. He tried to take a straight across angle at the ball because if he went back at all for it then he really had no chance to throw out Matsui.
I am not looking for crap. I’m pointing out that a knock on him was his attitude toward the game wasn’t the most positive, and last night seemed to bear that out.
He did tried to take a straight across angle, and he probably wouldn’t have had a chance at Matsui. But that doesn’t mean you don’t make the play. It seemed that even the Astros announcer was surprised the play wasn’t made. Maybe Matsui falls; who knows?
It’s not a non-story. Taken by itself, it doesn’t mean much, but as these things build up, it provides a body of evidence upon which to evaluate the trade.
I have no problem whatsoever coming down hard on Millage for his rapping. You simply can’t last in New York City if you can’t spit straight game on the mic. It’s a universal law, I didn’t make it up.
Got no flow? Then out you go.
Good for Carlos….I like that kid.
Im glad for CG. They got what they wanted and we got what we wanted. I just hope Fmart is as good as people say he is…..
We had to give up talent to get talent. It’s probably good for the Mets that Gomez is doing well as it may pump up the value of our prospects. No one wants to trade with a team for prospects if their track record is poor
yea i was thinking the same thing. This could definatly open good trade relations with the twins
I wish him well and I look forward to the Mets playing the Twins some October or other.
Why would he mention the strikeouts, I wonder.
He mentioned the SOs because his whole future depends on his ability to learn plate discipline and his high number of SO throughout his career has been a warning flag for an otherwise outstanding player.
so many times last year, he simply looked overmatched and barely resembled a MLB hitter, swinging out of his shoes at pitches in the dirt.
you can steal first base and unless he can learn how to hit MLB pitching, which includes drawing a sufficient number of walks, his ceiling comes way down.
very raw at this point and could either be a star or a fade, not likely to be an “average” player in any way
CAN’T steal first. I think his inability to get on base enough will plague him his whole career. I did not like what i saw in him last year in that regard.
I could be wrong, though.
Most likely you are.
Why do you say “most likely?”
that single was BS, heck so was the double…just awful defense…but, congrats Carlos…I’d still rather have Johan
Was the Home Run OK? Hoe about the triple? I think some Mets fans, and I mean SOME Mets fans, would love to have all four players sent to the Twins to amount to nothing. So do I detect sour grapes??
Congrats Carlos! You will be one very exciting player.
We miss you every 4 out of 5 games ;)
I absolutely adore CarGo, the “Poet of Minneapolis”:
My dad was fast
When I was a kid
and I worked out with my older friends,
they all worked out so hard for their running
I do nothing
They say,
why are you so fast
when you don’t do nothing?
I tell them
my dad was fast
lol is that an actual poem written by him?
it is an actual quote by him, broken into “stanzas” by a humorous yankee blogger. here’s another:
Morneau,
probably this year has better year
because the pitcher thinks more
Gomez, Gomez
He has to be quicker
and he throw more fastballs to the catcher.
You know,
he scared for breaking ball.
I steal second easy.
Now I’m at second
whatever base hit,
I score.
lol thats pretty funny, even though its from a yankee blog
Even if Bannister has a poor season, it will still look like a bad trade for the Mets so far because Burgos has basically done nothing while 1) Bannister could have helped the Mets last year when they were throwing out the likes of Park and Williams and 2) Bannister is the type of pitcher who can adjust his game to the league if they are adjusting to him. So I wouldn’t count him out based on just 3 bad starts.
Currently, Bannister has a better WHIP and ERA than Ollie.
I love CarGo, so I’m happy for him.
Just in case anyone was checking, the great Brian Bannister has lost 4 starts in a row. Just saying, we didn’t exactly give up Cy Young
But that’s because he plays for the Royals. Funny how that excuse can go both ways. I am so over Bannister, he is a nonfactor to me.
It’s not like the losses were due to a lack of run support. He’s been getting destroyed.
Thats why i didnt jump all over omar for this deal. Yea Burgos has not pitched well for us yet but scouts do see promise in the future. Brian has a really great early season run but just like everything in baseball it comes to an end. I hope brian does good out there cause he showed alot of heart when he was here but i think we should judge the trade when burgos can make a case for himself
Nor did we get Mariano Rivera.
Even if Bannister has a poor season, it will still look like a bad trade for the Mets so far because Burgos has basically done nothing while 1) Bannister could have helped the Mets last year when they were throwing out the likes of Park and Williams and 2) Bannister is the type of pitcher who can adjust his game to the league if they are adjusting to him. So I would not count him out based on just 3 bad starts.
Currently, Bannister has a better WHIP and ERA than Ollie.
The other thing is, if you look at the trades in that off season as a whole, it makes little sense. We traded a young unproven starter (Bannister) for a young unproven power bullpen arm (Bourgos). We also traded two young power bullpen arms (Owens and Lindstrom) for a young unproven starter (Vargas).
I don’t see how the odds of these trades as a whole working out for us were particularly good.
I said all of this at the time too, it is not Monday morning quarterbacking.
Good for Carlos. I always loved his hustle. .282 is a nice turnaround for him on the batting side. Most of his BA as a met seemed to come from beating out bunts.
I love Gomez and wanted him to start in LF or have them go after Fukudome instead of picking up Alou’s option.
But I’d do the Stantana trade a million times over. it was the right move to do at the time. The Mets right now need Santana more than they needed Gomez. He’s somewhat redundant because we have Reyes.
But I wish him the best of luck and think he’ll turn into a star player.
They really like him over there in minny. In various Twins blogs they call him the heart of the team. Like Reyes, Gomez is what gets their offense going.
Oh, and they gave him a nickname, Go-Go
I think the nickname came from Gardenhire. He really likes Gomez who is very easy to like!
I always thought Carlos Gomez would become a big time player. I remember that at-bat he had against Mariano Rivera at Yankee stadium last year, when he fouled off a ton of pitches, eventually hitting one up the middle for a base hit. I said to myself “damn this kid is good.” I honestly believe when all is set and done, he’ll have a similar if not better career than Jose Reyes.
I’m also happy he’s playing for a team like the Twins. Where the fans and front office have tons of patience for young developing players.
A week or two ago, Gomez’ BA had plummeted to .230 and some Twins beat writers and fans were calling for him to be demoted to the minor leagues. They are not immune to impatience. But they do have a lot more than the fans and media in NY. I also think Bill Smith is very patient, as we saw during the Santana sweepstakes, so he would tend to wait out a Gomez slump instead of over-reacting.
I heard this news first thing when I got up this morning and it made me smile. I’m glad we have Johan, but I also want to see Gomez, Humber, Guerra, and Mulvey do well.
Great quote from spring training.
“I am going to create a lot of RBIs for Morneau, the catcher and the other guy.”
I think he knows who Mauer and Cuddyer are now – at least I hope he does.
After slamming into the wall and about knocking himself out trying to catch a fly ball, Gardy ran out to see how his new center fielder was. Gardy pulled him and was asked why after the game. Gardy said “I asked him if he was OK and couldn’t understand a word he said”. So I told him “You come with me” What a classic.
Young and mistake prone, but somehow he ignites the whole team.
So much for the Yankees having so much more depth and quality than the Mets minor leaguers who could have been traded for Santana. I know it’s early but I think the Twins got somewhat a better deal than the Yankees would have given them at this point.
Oh, so 1/4 of the “bag of balls” (as Mike Lupica called Gomez, Guerra, Humber and Mulvey on the Sports Reporters last Sunday) just hit for the cycle for the Twins. And where is Phil Hughes right now exactly?
I think it is safe to say thatt we are all rooting for this kid to be the best he could be.