Comments on: News: Welcome to the Mets, Argenis Reyes

By: ebfnyc

ebfnyc — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:48:36 +0000

sounds like you guys are all thinking Mets in 08.

just like the all-star vote.

no starters.

everybody is clearly thinking mets in 08.

rays in 08.

By: GregB

GregB — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:15:26 +0000

maybe you’re right…in which case, we’re in BIG trouble!

By: Dafatone80

Dafatone80 — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:13:40 +0000

I’ve been defending him a good deal so far. One thing to remember is that despite looking like an old man, he runs fast when he has to. He’s run out a bunch of infield hits, and beaten out a lot of double plays. His OBP makes up for most of his offensive shortcomings, and his defense had been good.

That being said, his range at 2B has been bad lately, and he has a tendency to make big errors. That one ground ball that went over his glove and through his legs a couple days ago just looked like a terribly unlucky hop, but his D still has been weak.

Still, it comes down to one thing. They win when he’s not in the lineup.

That’s really all that matters.

By: X-Man

X-Man — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:41:54 +0000

I hate to say this but I’m kinda glad Castillo is finally on the 15 day DL. I know some people on here think castillo is not that bad and that he doesn’t hurt the team but to me, this opffense seems more productive when he doesn’t play. Granted, Castillo has basically been playing on two bumb knees (surgically repaired) which has caused him all sorts of other physical problems. But the point is, if he’s not 100% then he shouldn’t playing. Speed and his ability to beat out infield hits is a HUGE part of his game (probably the MAIN part of his game) because god forbid he ever hits a ball past the infield! So, if speed and infield hits are what he’s all about and obviously he can no longer do that (at so far this year)
then he’s not helping the team.

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:33:48 +0000

And then there’s guys like Dunn and Howard who swing at everything in the zone, hence the high k rate, and either hit it out of the park or hit fly balls.

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:32:26 +0000

It’s really useful for pitchers if you’re playing fantasy baseball since they’re more likely to stay around a league average.

But basically for hitters you hate to look at their line drive and fly ball percentages too. If they have a really high BABIP and a high fly ball percentages then more than likely they’re getting lucky and they’re going to come back down to earth. If they have a really high BABIP and a high line drive percentage, then they’re just really good. If they have a high line drive percentage and a low BABIP then they’re probably getting unlucky. If they have a low BABIP and a high fly ball percentage they probably just suck. And so on and so forth.

By: Dafatone80

Dafatone80 — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:22:06 +0000

Okay, so Dunn’s advantages are OBP, slugging, power, hitting in bigger spots, and not hitting in to DPs (as pretty much every at bad he doesn’t get a hit or a walk, he’s striking out.)

I bet his BABIP is huge…

.250. Guess not. Well, all his hits are homers, which don’t count. Man, do I not get that stat.

By: Ceetar

Ceetar — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:15:59 +0000

Just google mlb press pass and it’ll be the first option. It’s on mlb.com somewhere. they release them every day for every team. Get all sorts of matchup information and all sorts of news. fun stuff.

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:05:51 +0000

There was a post yesterday that his hip injury was a result of him overcompensating because of the pain in his knees. Kind of like how when Pedro injured his hip in 06 the overcompensating eventually led to the season ending shoulder injury.

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:04:36 +0000

Because there’s no one to find?