Comments on: Read: Managing Reyes

By: c.1970

c.1970 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:50:21 +0000

I hate WFAN’s morning chatter, but someone (Essiason?) made a great point. Jose was drafted at age 15 and has lived in a protected MLB-prospect bubble the past 10 years. He never graduated high school, never went to college, never really had any opportunity to ‘exist’ outside of the MLB system. So: Was he ever given the opportunity to ‘grow up’?
BTW, anyone who wants to trade a 25-year-old who has 800 MLB base hits and a ton of triples and stolen bases just knows zilch about baseball…

By: Free Aaron Heilman

Free Aaron Heilman — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:49:45 +0000

I think it was clear by the nature of the comments that there were many fans who disliked Willie intensely.

Regardless, there is no need to make up things just to try to make your case.

By: Free Aaron Heilman

Free Aaron Heilman — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:48:13 +0000

Oh yeah? Which high paid older vets did Leyland and LaRussa ever pull from a game because of lack of hustle? If you can’t come up with names, I can only assume there are none.

I can’t think of a single player who goes all out on every single play. They all let up at times. Given this, I’m sure there have been many times were high-priced vets didn’t hustle for Leyland, LaRussa and Pinella and were not pulled from the game.

By: toomanyuniforms

toomanyuniforms — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:45:05 +0000

Hey, he won a title. . . Bring back Davey Johnson!

You know, I think people have written that. . . .

By: toomanyuniforms

toomanyuniforms — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:43:11 +0000

I think Reyes has a heck of a lot going on in his swing. Also, he’s a very emotional player, and was not responding well to the pressure last September. It carried over into this year.

By: metsfan119

metsfan119 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:13:29 +0000

The fact that you’re listening and getting so upset from Mike and the Mad Dog proves that they’re good at what they do. Neither of them are Mets fans and they both watch about 10 Mets games a season between them, so either stop listening or take what they say with a grain of salt.

By: metsfan119

metsfan119 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:10:40 +0000

How dare you downgrade Loud Mouths. Adam Schein is making major inroads for hermaphrodites everywhere, the least you can do is support his progress.

By: patrick

patrick — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:28:14 +0000

Sound of with Sinkoff.

I know nothing about baseball, blah blah

By: garykeithron

garykeithron — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:43:41 +0000

maybe someone benched him for not hustling out a blog….or he stopped partying too much….or he was in a writing slump before :)

By: el_giacomo

el_giacomo — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:30:54 +0000

The over-aggressiveness early in the count was a problem under Down as well. “Watching” most Mets games on Gameday really drives home poor at-bats. Pitch 1: Out(s) recorded, Pitch 2: Out(s) recorded, etc, etc…

I always blamed Down for the poor at-bats our hitters were having, but when it didn’t really change under HoJo, I started to wonder if this aggressiveness at the plate may have been influenced by Willie. We’ll see if the hitters start taking better at-bats and making opposing pitchers work more under Manuel’s tenure.