In his latest Rumblings & Grumblings column for ESPN.com, Jayson Stark writes: “We continue to hear talk that Arizona will look to move Chad Tracy once he comes off the disabled list and gets back in the big league flow. But one NL executive says he can’t see why the Diamondbacks would trade a guy who helps fill one of their few needs.”
The 27–year-old Tracy has spent time playing first base, third base and left field during his four-year career, while hitting .288 with 62 HR and 240 RBI in 518 games played.
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How many pieces of junk will it take to get this guy? Heilman, Sosa, Pagan, Figgy? Take them all. Please.
I could see Heilman as part of a package.
I could see Heilman winning 20 games next year with the Dbacks
Really? 20 games of clubhouse darts maybe.
I’d rather see him win 20 in arizona than blow 20 in NY.
Actually, he’d probably win 20 consecutive frowning contests. Seriously, who slapped his puppy?
Who slapped his puppy? The guy throws ball 1 and gets booed. That’s fun.
The home fans basically don’t give him a chance to succeed. Every time I watch him walk off the mound and get booed off the field, I want him to flip the fans off so bad. I really don’t blame him. The fans would deserve it. At least he is trying.
You are right, its all our fault he suxs…
Cause and Effect, think about it
CAUSE = he is a waste
EFFECT = abused by fans
If we trade Heilman, he will come back to hurt us.
Two reasons I am absolutely convinced he is tipping his pitches:
1. He throws as hard as ever, his ball has, if anything, too much movement, and yet there are days when he can’t fool anyone… I mean, the guy made his living for three years getting people to flail at changeups and freeze on fastballs… but yesterday, no one on the Nats was ahead or behind a single pitch. No matter what he threw, they were sitting on it. That’s not normal.
2 Look at his game log. Lights out against Milwaukee’s tough lineup. Lights out against the Dodgers. Pretty solid against almost everyone else. And yet two teams – Braves & Phils – have his number every single time? And after dominating the Nats the first 3 times he faced them, he suddenly gets beaten senseless the last two times – unable to go more than 1/3 of an inning either time??? Somebody knows something and the Nats must have figured it out.
I posted this elsewhere – but if Peterson can’t figure this out soon, we need to trade for a Nat – even if it’s a 5th outfielder – just so we can find out what they picked up on him.
Yes, because other teams definitely want our garbage.
Sorry, I thought the sarcasm was obvious.
Maybe we can get them to give us Petit back too… Is he still supposed to be the next Sid Fernandez?
My bad, considering most of our fans and the difficulty of getting sarcasm through text I thought you were serious.
Haha, I remember all the people saying Petit was going to be awesome. The sad part is, he was our top prospect. Milledge and Petit have been our two recent top prospects….man I hope FMart doesn’t follow them.
I say we hang on Heilman and try to make him a starter next year because someone else is going to give him that shot. He came here as a starter and maybe he would be happier in that role. With the age of Pedro and El Duque, the ups and downs of Figgy and Vargas. I see some open spots in the rotation next year
hmmnn……….
Some of you guys dont understand the way the trade market works. Tracy may not come for free, but he wont cost too much. He is an injury prone player who has lost his spot on the roster to younger and cheaper and at this point more productive players. Probably a few low level guys. The Mets are not trading Heilman. All of you stop it.
Unless his injury last year was different then his current, he’s only been injured once.
“The Mets are not trading Heilman. All of you stop it.”
Thanks for putting that bed to rest, Omar.
oo wow,guys we have a real expert on th trade markt here.
“all of you stop it”
You sound like my grandmother. That was awesome.
THE METS DO NOT NEED TO MAKE SIGNIFICANT MOVES TO BE A BETTER BASEBALL TEAM.
The ingredients are all there. The execution is not. We have no trade pieces and the discussion of who to add to made this team better is irrelevant right now. Delgado may be the most underperforming player on the roster right now, but let me assure you that even if we had Mark Teixeira (I throw that name out there because he has one of the best all around reputations of first basemen in the game), the Mets wouldn’t be in any different position right now.
Why do I say that? Because with the addition of Johan and Church, plus an upgrade at catcher in Schneider, this team is still no better than last year. Its not the talent on the field people thats the problem.
It seems to me that it is. The “talent” is leaving guys on base. The “talent” is getting 8th hitters to a 0-2 count and letting them drive in two runs.
As is true in any baseball season, players get hot and cold. In the bullpen, this happens all the time. Starting the season, Sosa and Heilman just didn’t have their stuff while the rest of the bullpen has done reasonably well. Do you put your struggling players in the most important spots? No. And when you do show faith in a struggling pitcher, do you not have the brains to at least have an insurance policy in case their struggles continue. Where Heilman and Sosa have let teams explode for runs, damage control could have been done by yanking them from the game.
I give these bullpen guys for going out there 2 or 3 games in a row and giving it their best. It’s the manager, pitching coach, and bullpen coach’s job to play the right pitchers in the right spot.
lets get him, we need more no-names (at least i don’t know him that well). People that will actually play hard to prove themselves, not old creaky players that just want a paycheck b’c they already have made aname for themselves even if it was in the 90s
I don’t think we have enough pieces to get him. It’s not worth breaking the bank for him.
I agree, only if we could get him for little to nothing.
Is a trade being implied here?
Chad Tracy is both LH and injury prone… two things we have in abundance.
Pass.
He’s also a capable backup at 1B and 3B, something the Mets dont have.
He’s going to cost too much to bring in here as a backup.
Oh no, I think he should be the starter, but it gives the Mets flexibility if Wright needs a day off or something, they have a viable option.
So you want a guy who hit 27 homers and drove in 72 RBIs with a .308/.359/.553 split in his best pro season (which happened 3 years ago I might add) and is injury prone, to replace Delgado, who had 24 HR, 87 RBIs, and a .258/.333/.448 split in his worst season?
I think they would be better off sticking with Delgado.
Well, lets see, on the one hand we have a 36 year old who is downward trending, and on the other hand a 28 year old who should be able to put up solid numbers. Think about this: Delgado’s OPS+ last year was 22% below the league norm. Tracy’s was the league norm. Wouldn’t you rather have the 28 year old who can at least give the Mets average production, or do you want the guy who’s barely hitting his weight?
Better 1B then Delgado. Replace his declining LH bat. Fills a current need that way we can spend elsewhere at the end of the year. Sabbathia?
This comment might be the worst in Metblog history.
There is no freaking way we are getting Sabathia at the deadline.
Free agent at the end of the year. Read the post next time.
I dont think the Mets should be going after Sabathia personally. He strikes me as the new Bartolo Colon. Better to go after Teixiera, and try to resign Oliver to a reasonable deal.
:o there’s so much more tension being a met fan now than there was when Art Howe was here and they were a losing team…i wonder why that is?
Hmmm, maybe we can trade Randolph for him straight up. I hear the D’Backs need a new towel boy.
yea a lefthanded injury prone player—-he would fit right in with us heh heh
Well I think most 1B are LH hitters anyway as you want a LH throwing 1B. No real other choices at the position that are this available to replace Delgado.
Wow, odd, this guy is a LH batter but RH thrower. I’d still give him a chance if he came cheap. Could be a stopgap for one of the AA guys to develop or Duda.
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