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Jose Reyes has hit safely in 17 straight 
games, during which he is batting .338 with five home runs, 11 RBI and a .383 OBP in 82 plate appearances while raising his overall average from .258 to .284 on the year.
He is now on pace to finish the season batting roughly .285 with 20 or so home runs, around 80 RBI and 55 stolen bases.
…like the rest of the team, it looks like reyes is relaxed, believing in himself and having fun…
In an article for the New York Post, Mike Vaccaro talks with Willie Randolph about Reyes’s turn around.
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I just want to reiterate that last week, Buster Olney agreed with some NL scout’s assessment that Jose Reyes is the 4th best SS in his own division. What a horrific statement.
Yeah.
So Reyes out of the mets and the braves, phillies and marlins, is 4th in AVG, 2nd in Runs, 2nd in 2B, 1st in 3B, 2nd in HR, 1st in RBI, 1st in SB, 3rd in OBP.
Not to mention that Reyes has a better glove and a better arm than all of the above.
As if being compared to Hanley Ramirez, Jimmy Rollins and Yunel Escobar is a bad thing….That’s great company to be a part of no matter how you slice it.
3 of those guys could possibly end up in the hall. The shortstop position is stacked in the Eastern Division. Stacked, I say!
The problem I have with Olney’s sentiment is even suggesting that Yunel Escobar is anywhere close to Reyes, let alone the other two. Rollins is a great player, although he’s only been great for about 2 years, and Hanley is a great hitter, but he is a butcher in the field.
Olney can have Escobar who is as good as he will get, Rollins who is pretty damn good - but peaking, and Ramirez who will be an Outfielder with the next year or two.
It’s amazing how everybody forgets that Reyes is only 25.
Who cares? I believe what he said was “right now” and at that moment Reyes was struggling. The truth is any one of those great NL shortstops could be the best or the worst at any given time. You can do a lot worse than any of them.
I would agree with that assessment from Olney, but add that Reyes is probably the 4th best in the division but also the 4th best in the NL.
Rollins won MVP last year, peaking or not
Hanley we have all seen is a better hitter than Reyes
Escobar is very young and only getting better
So I would put Rollins and Hanley def in front of reyes/escobar
please do some research kandiman, Escobar Born Nov 2, 1982 (25, 26 in November)
Reyes - June 11, 1983 (24 … will be 25 in 9 days)
UGH
point here is you can’t say “very young and only getting better”
In fact, Escobar is the 2nd oldest of the group!!!
In Age its :
Rollins
Escobar
Reyes
Ramirez
well played
Yea I would say they are all very young. I wasn’t saying Escobar is very young compared to Reyes, I was saying he was very young himself. I wouldn’t consider a half year older than Reyes to be old.
I also am not saying hes old, but if Escobar is very young and just getting better, you pretty much could and should say the same about Reyes and Ramirez. Escobar is showing nothing different than Reyes or Ramirez in that….heck , might even be showing LESS!
exactly why i put Rollins and Ramirez in 1st and second and then said reyes/escobar would be 3rd.
Back to more important things (than Buster). I would really like the Mets to look into Carlos Gullien. The Tigers are mentioned to be nearing a turning point of selling off some players, especially in turn for some pitching help.
Gullien is an extra player for them but would be a tremendous pick up for us. A switch hitter who plays 1B, SS, 3B and NOW LF. He hits LH pitching very well and could slot in LF until Alou and then take over 1B if Delgado keeps struggling. If by some reason Delgado atcually starts hitting then Gullien can be used as a guy that can give almost any position player on the team a break. Next year he can take over LF or 1B depending on who else we sign.
I would not think it would cost too much to get him as the Tigers want to shed his contract, 33 million for the next 3 years.
How about Heilman and a AA relief pitcher?
Heilman and Muñiz and a lower A ball prospect for Guillen?
I don’t know if I’d do that if I were the Tigers but who knows?
Tigers are getting back two of their relievers this week.
Good point. Zumaya would pitch the 8th when he gets back.
Actually, the two Tigers relievers (Fernando Rodney and Joel Zumaya) start their rehab assignments this week and are expected back late this month or early next month.
I still think they will be in the market for other relievers. Also as I said, to dump excess payrole for players cheap and under control.
payrole?
That’s definitely a big contract for a guy that they don’t need that badly. I doubt it would cost us much to get him.
we’ve definitely got to do something to get some production out of left, esp with delgado doing his thing.
Im still miffed by the fact that Ramirez is considered a shortstop…the guy is an absolute butcher with the glove. As for Escobar, lets let the guy play a full season. Shane Spencer looked like Babe Ruth his first half year
He’ll be in the OF within the next 2-3 years.
In Hanley’s defense, he has gotten better with his fielding, though still nowhere near reyes
And yes, Escobar hasn’t done jack squat yet
And Rollins has had about 1.5 really great years thus far, not much more than Reyes
i miss the shane spencer/karim garcia platoon.
They were a great tandem…especially when it came to public urination, and assaulting pizza delivery boys.
and fighting with guys in the other team’s bullpen
Those were the days… :-)
Me too. Mostly to hear the Schmooze refer to him as Karim “of the crop” Garcia.
(In Pedro Voice) - Who is Karim Garcia? Who is he?
Just another reason to love pedro..
What did you try to hit them with?
but “who is Karim Garcia”?
Damn…sorry Woz…you are faster submitter than I
Ramirez isn’t a terrible shortstop. He has athleticism and makes some plenty of good plays. It seems to be mental mistakes that hurt his defense more than anything. Though I think he’s too tall to play SS. Maybe he’d do a decent job at CF with enough reps.
For now, I’d leave him there, just because there are relatively few SS that can hit, and he at least impersonates a SS.
Then again, I’m only basing my opinion based on Mets-Marlins games, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
He’d probably be a better third baseman, or first basemen (but I think you don’t get to use his athleticism as much). I think it’s just a matter of time until they move him.
Remember Keith reads this blog and I don’t think he’d appreciate your jab at 1B not using their athleticism
My understanding is that the Fish eventually plan to move him into the OF, preferably CF.
WIth the acquisition of Cameron Maybin, I dont see Hanley moving to center field. Hanley has looked alot better in the field this year, in fact he has fewer errors than Reyes so far.
I was laughing when not only the media but radio stations were claiming that Reyes wasn’t even close to the other SSs in the NL East. I know he had a poor end to the season in 2007 but we were only a month or so into this season and everyone was saying Reyes was overrated and was past his peak. You should know that the baseball season is too long to jump to conlcusions. I think Reyes will be fine and he should have a very good season.
I especially love the people who were saying we should have put Reyes in the Santana trade because he was ashed up and /or overrated and just an average shortstop.
In fact, I think M&MD called him “just another shortstop” last week. F***ing shocker.
They said he was playing like just another shortstop, despite his immense talent. And until he got hot, that wasn’t a terrible assesment. .260/.330/.400 with a bunch of errors and baserunning mistakes.
Yeah, his defense has been “off” too.
He got hot over a month ago. What I don’t understand it’s taken so long for people to notice.
it was because of how cold he had been from September thru the beginning of his hot streak
I love the people who were saying less than 2 weeks ago that we should trade him because he was overrated.
who was saying that? I don’t remember any comments like that.
a couple of fans in here. I think it was during the rockies series when we had lost 4 or 5 in a row and people were discussing who on the team could possibly be used as trade bait at the deadline if we were sti