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In last night’s game, both Carlos Delgado and Carlos Beltran homered off of Rockies pitching.
During the Mets’ nine-game winning streak, Carlos Beltran is batting .316 with three home runs, four stolen bases and 10 RBI. Beltran has also struck out only three times.
In that stretch, Carlos Delgado has a .361 batting average and a .439 on-base percentage. He has slugged two homers and his batting average has climbed 12 points in the month of July to .248.
…this streak has certainly been a team effort, but seeing delgado’s bat come alive has been a welcome surprise…
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A surprise that i hope can stay for a while
Not for nothing, but I would think that .248 17hr 52rbi at the break is an improvement from last year, and not that bad a line at all.
Anyone can pull up Delgado’s 2006 and 2007 1st half numbers? I’d bet they’ll be pretty comparable…
At the break last year he had .242, 14 hr, and 48 rbi’s and a .740 ops
at the break in 06 he had .252, 22 hr, 56 rbi’s and .857 ops
Thanks, G.
So his 2008 so far is right in between 2007 and 2006. Honestly, I think we’re all comfortable with those numbers. We were planning on him improving from 2007 while not really expecting a repeat of 2006. That’s exactly what we’re getting, isn’t it?
Eh, his slugging is a lot closer to 07 than 06’s, which is a problem in a line-up pretty devoid of power. If we had another power bat, and could bat Delgado lower in the line-up regularly it would be no problem, but the way the line-up is set up it sort of sticks out like a sore thumb.
He is staying back on the ball now and laying off the high fastballs, which was his big problem. Now he is starting to turn on the inside fastballs more, which is a welcoming surprise.
I’m not a huge delgado fan, but if he can hit .250 w/ around 30 HRs from the 6 or 7 spot in the lineup it would be huge for this team.
Exactly. If he keeps at this pace, it will always be in the back of the pitchers mind, ‘he can hurt me here with one swing of the bat’. He just won’t be that automatic out anymore no one feared back in April/May……
Which is what hes more or less on pace for..Avg 1st baseman numbers….
Now tell me can Carp,Murphy,Val or Evans put up those numbers??
Probably not. But back when everyone was yelling for Delgado to be cut, he was striking out on balls bouncing in front of his shoes and barely hitting over .200. Now that he has improved, I haven’t been seeing anyone yelling for Carp anymore.
neither have I
Maybe Delgado isn’t done, after all.
Careful. Such heresy will get you flamed by some on this board. To hell with statistics, they must be right at all costs.
Hey man … I’m one of the people that said to stick a fork in him. Looks like I MIGHT have been wrong and honestly I hope I was. I hope Delgado keeps it up for the rest of this season.
His second half batting avg. in each of the last 3 years is 30 to 40 pts higher
If he hit .280 the rest of the way, that would be good enough.
I’d love to see a Metsblog poll asking whether or not people would like to see the Mets resign Delgado for one year (or two?) if he finishes the year with his projected stats. (30HR/90RBI)
That would be Great lolll!!!
Whoa, let’s not get crazy here. It’s great that Delgado has seemed to find his swing again, but let’s not forget that he’s always been a streaky hitter. Even back in 2006 he would have a great month followed by a mediocre month, followed by a good month, followed by a bad month.
As good as Delgado has been of late, I’d be surprised if a majority of Metsbloggers would want to see the Mets pick up his $16M option for 2009.
If he hits .260 with 30 homeruns and 90 RBI’s, you really can’t complain.
You can for 16m. No way that option is picked up. The more stats he amasses, the better – I’d love to lose him to the AL as an A-type FA…
I wouldn’t pay 16mm for a ceiling of 30 hr, 90 rbi. you can pay less for those numbers. I wonder if they could buy out his final year for 4mm, and then sign him to a one year deal worthy 8mm or so. that way he’s getting 12mm total and we save ourselves 4mm.
Signing Delgado for next year is almost as bad an idea as picking up Alou’s option was this year. It’s time to let him go DH in the AL. Offer him arbitration and let him walk. With the way this year has gone offensively in the MLB, he’ll be a type-A for sure.
You know, it might not be such a terrible idea. Teixeira is not an option. With Boras as his agent and him being the only real offensive player available, there is no way the Wilpons are going to shell out another record contract. Not after the one they gave Santana. Believe it or not, Delgado might still be the best option out there for 2009. Unless they feel Carp or Evans are ready, which I’m not so sure of.
Ive sort of rethought my stance on tex. The yanks are playing posada alot at 1b…other than us who might contend to get Tex services as i think the yanks might not be as the seem to be slowly transitioning posada to 1b.
the orioles are the team mentioned most, and the sox also, but the orioles are the most likely scenario. he’s from that area, angelos is an idiot, and will throw whatever blank check he wants at him and borass
At the contract he supposedly wants I’m not sure I want Tex’s services.
It depends on the other options, the only first basemen from our system I’d be comfortable trying out is Evans, Murphy isn’t a first basemen by position, and Carp doesn’t have the defense or the power numbers. I definitely don’t expect to go after Tex with the contract he wants, I wouldn’t mind them going after Dunn instead but it depends how much he wants and whether the reds offer him arbitration.
But if they do resign I think they need to either have a back-up plan and/or they need to sign someone like Sexson to platoon against lefties.
It would also depend on how spending that 16 million would affect their other free agency/trade choices. We still need to bring in a true power bat if we want a more consistent offense next year. And Delgado slugging .450 something isn’t going to get it done.
Delgado looks great right now, and the most encouraging thing is that he seems to be laying off all the inside stuff and feasting on fastballs over the plate and on the outer half. His eye is good. He’s even catching up to serious heat.
The question is how long will this last? I think this is a perfect time to seek an extra OF bat that could help stabilize the lineup and ensure that this team doesn’t have to rely upon Delgado too much.
Guys like Ibanez, Blake, Dejesus and Huff could all help fit that bill.
I agree about how long it will last, I remember having a similar conversation early in June about how since May something he had hit this and slugged this and been much better and how he had turned it around, and then he ended June with pretty much the same stats he had coming in.
Didn’t Delgado HR come off the RH Pitcher? I don’t recall it being off of Redmen. Either way the man is swinging a hot bat and hopefully he is sitting on a huge 2nd half…
It definitely was not Redman, that is certain.
he hit it off ryan speier
It’s great that Delgado is playing well, but I wouldn’t bring him back next year. There has to be a young player that we can get to get comparable numbers without killing the budget, someone like Kendry Morales.
What impressed me most about Delgado’s truly majestic HR was how quick his wrists were. I haven’t seen him snapping his wrists that quickly in quite a while.
BTW, what’s the deal with Wright and all of these first pitch swings? He seemed much too impatient last night.
Not sure, but I’d really like to see him start hitting the ball the other way again. Feels like he hasn’t done that in forever.
Remember… the last couple of years Delgado has been coming off injuries. In the beginning of the 2007 season, he had surgery on his elbow. Last year in the last game of the season he broke his wrist. Maybe for the first time in a couple of years, he’s finally getting healthy.
Just to follow up: Is it possible that Delgado is now fully healed from his hand issues of last season, and that we’re finally seeing the results?
I don’t think that is the reason. From what I’ve been seeing, it seems as if he has simply stopped swinging at all the junk in the dirt and is forcing the pitchers to throw him strikes over the plate a little more. Those are the pitches he can handle.
I don’t know, I think you’re both right. He’s definitely gotten better at watching the bad pitches inside, and I have to say his hands look twice as fast as they did early this season. Also, he himself said that he’s seeing the ball way better now for whatever reason.
I think his wrist has been healed, I thought he suffered another injury during the off-season or spring training to his hips or legs or something? Or maybe that was the other Carlos, there’s been too many injuries to keep trac of them all.
Yeah, he had a hip impingement in spring training.
The posters here have generally been brutal to Carlos Delgado (aka on this blog, “Delcrappo’) so it’s gratifying to see his recent upswing. He’s a decent, thoughtful guy who just doesn’t fit the mold most posters would like.
As Miller and Morgan pointed out last night, a whole lot of pressure and expectations are put on Reyes, much of which is unwarranted or undeserved. As much as folks may dislike, Morgan, his point about just letting the kid play seems to make a lot of sense.
Meanwhile, D Wright blew multiple chances to tack on runs and throws a DP ball in the dirt to Easley. If either Delgado or Reyes made these kind of plays, this blog would be lit up with angry invective. Double standard? Sure smells like it.
The Mets have 67 games remaining, if Delgado can hit say .270 down the stretch playing in 62 of the remaining games with 15 HRs and 50 RBI I think we woul all sign up for that production.
That is more or less the type of numbers on a per game basis he put up in 2006.
As far as the notion of Delgado in 2009? The only way I would accept that would be by him having an absolutely monsterous final 67 games in which he somehow vaulted himself into the conversation for MVP and finished in the top 5 in the voting which auto triggers his option. I will deal as a fan with that option being vested if it meant Delgado put up numbers that made him worthy of consideration.
I mean realistically for that to happen, you would be talking about a stretch in which Delagdo hit 20+ HRs and drove in 65+ runs.
That is too rosey to even imagine.
#1 The mets would not pick up the option on Delgado for next year no matter what. the only way he comes back is if the mets buy out his $4m option and negotiate a one year deal (Probably around an additional $5-6m)
Delgado may take it. Knowing he is not going to get $16m next season. That said, I dont think I want him on this team next year.
#2 I think all of you and myself are guilty of at some point, calling delgado finishing, wanting him cut/released, and saying Omar is an idiot for not getting rid of him. This just shows that everyone may need to admit that Omar may actually know more than us bloggers do. And that we may be a little too rash to make a decision on a small sample of work.
The whole scenario of this team is just so hard to grasp when you think about:
Pelfrey
Delgado
Reyes
Ollie
With the exception of Reyes, I thought the bashing that the other three took on this blog was legitimate. Who in their right minds would have thought all four of these guys would be playing like they are at the same time?
I mean, it’s like it isn’t really happening….unreal.
LGM!!!
its a good idea to sign carlos delagado, but not the option, try to offer him a two year contract and at like 20-25 million dollars and see if he would accept it, if not, if he does have, say a 30 hr close to 100 rbi season, and if they offer arbitration to him, and he leaves, then they can get two draft picks for him. so take the draft picks, besides isnt that the reason that they drafted ike davis?
His current average is higher than any of his averages prior this streak, dating back to April 15th.
Better?