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During yesterday’s dramatic 3 to 1 win over the Phillies, Carlos Delgado was 1-for-4, including a go-ahead 2-run double in the eighth inning.
Jerry Manuel, on Delgado, speaking to reporters after the game:
“Well, the one thing about Carlos is that he has found his stroke, he has found the mechanics and fundamentals of his swing and he has recognized pitches very well – and when he’s doing that he’s a very dangerous hitter. The one other thing about Carlos that he always had going for him was that he was a cerebral guy, he always thought about the plan of the opposition, kept books, kept notes about what to expect and so forth, so it was just a matter of him getting mechanically fundamentally sound before he could put everything in play – and he’s done that for a long period of time…
“(His resurgence) is a tremendous lift (for the team), in the sense that, even when Carlos Delgado struggles, he’s still the same man in the clubhouse. He’s still part of the leadership on the field. So, he’s constantly been very consistent regardless of whether he’s been hitting or not in his behavior as it reflects in the clubhouse. Therefore, when he does do well, obviously everyone continues to gravitate to him and that’s a good thing, because when the big fella is in the four spot doing what he’s doing and then also brings the intangibles that’s a big plus for us.”
Delgado, on turning his season around, despite so many fans and media wanting to ‘run him out of town,’ said:
“Did they? Nobody told me anything. (Smile). I feel good. I’ve got a lot of pride and that goes beyond what other people’s expectations are. I know I wasn’t happy with the way things were going and I worked my ass off – and I’m going to continue to work my ass off to get to where I want to be. I feel good at the plate and I’m going to continue to work and move on.”
During the month of July, Delgado is batting .397 with 5 HR, 16 RBI and a 1.201 OPS.
…going into the season, many pundits said delgado was the key to the Mets offense, with their fate resting in his bat…while i didn’t disagree with that, i didn’t think delgado had to be the 2005 verision in order for this team to be successful…
…with that being said, when carlos swings the bat like he has been, the team’s offense is taken to another level…as i believe Ron Darling said during yesterday’s broadcast, this is “Delgado 2.0“…
…added to by Matthew Cerrone…
…as i said yesterday, i owe delgado an apology…
…i didn’t think he was capable to getting healthy for a long enough stretch of time to allow himself the necessary breathing room to start seeing the ball better, catching up with the baseball, getting his hands moving and thus finding his swing…
…frankly, i love when i’m wrong…because, i’d rather be wrong and have a guy turn it around like he has, then have him fail and me be right…
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He finally said FU Jobu and he’s doing it himself.
Keep it going Cerrano!!!!!!!
Who drank Jobu’s rum…Jobu very angry.
I’m sure someone posted this yesterday, but they showed during the game that since June 3 (or 4), he’s batting .364 with RISP. I love seeing that look back in his eye, that badass “I’m gonna crush you ” look. Please, please keep it up!
I watched baseball tonight last night and Butsster Olney was mentioning Delgado specifically. He talked about the change in his hitting approach…specifically the dropping of his back shoulder and how it has affected his swing and control and timing for the better.
He pointed to the past at bats at the conclusion of last year and beginning of this year where Delgado was dropping his back shoulder (dipping) and this extra movement was causing him to be late on balls he normally catches up with or just missing balls that he used to mash.
Now he has essentially eliminated that movement from his swing and can and is waiting longer on a pitch and seeing it better and hence getting better pitches to hit and better swings.
I don’t know if Olney is full of it but it seemed plausible and was the most generous I have seen Olney when it comes to the METS since he was a beat writer for them
I agree
The confidence and swagger are back in a big way.
Now if they can get Church back and Beltran rolling…..watch the eff out
We finally have our cleanup guy. Glad to see delgado come around as we needed him badly. I dont want to mess with david because hes doing well so far but ultimatly i would like to see
Reyes
Reyes/Castillo
Beltran
Delgado
Wright
Church/Tatis/Easly
Castro/Easly/Evans
Schnieder
Pitcher
Castro in LF? For serious?
Now I’m not advocating picking up Delgado’s ‘09 option, BUT if he were to force the envelope by continuing his torrid pace of late, there is every chance in the world that he could end the season with 465-470HR’s..(ESPN projects him to finish with 461, but that estimation takes into account the slow start).
If that happens, Delgado has the opportunity to hit his 500th in a Mets uniform…..Just food for thought.
I have said it dozens of times already, there is an aspect of Delgados contract that forces the option if he finishes in the top 5 in MVP voting, even with his hot July that is a LONG SHOT, but let us be so lucky that he rakes in the final 60 games and drives in say another 55-60 runs on an absurd tear.
If that happens and his name in mentioned with MVP that means the Mets have accomplished getting back into the division driver seat.
Anyone who would not accept the penalty of having Delgado back next year based on the option kicking in automatically is crazy.
I meant to say that I’m not advocating doing it based on one month, as we have seen how streaky he can be…Obviously if Carlos keeps it up, then you’ve gotta think hard about it.
Considering the fact that the Marlins are still kicking in some cash towards that option (I believe it’s 4 million) then in that case, 8m for Delgado is not that bad of an investment…IF he can keep on hitting…IF
I don’t recall who mentioned it, but if Delgado was RED HOT hitting .397 for the month of July, what do you make of Ted Williams hitting .408 for the entire season? Doesn’t that speak to his accomplishment?
It was .406, actually. But your point is well taken. And remember, Williams was at .3995 going into the last day of the 1941 season, a doubleheader that would not affect the standings. Williams could have sat and preserved his .400 average. His manager offered him the opportunity. He insisted on playing, and went 6 for 8 in the doubleheader to finish at .406. Would today’s ballplayer do that? I don’t think so.
Hey good point, because everyone that is happy to see Delgado finally contributing in a big way to some success for the first time really since 2006 is really saying that Delgado is better than Ted Williams.
I never thought of how ignorant we are.
Now on to the topic at hand.
There is a lot to like about what Delagdo is doing, but it goes without saying, that while I do not expect him to hit .397 the year out, he needs to deliver some big offense in August and September. You have to back to 2004 and 2005 to see him drop two monster months to end the season.
The the time is now to get a healthy Church back and then stop the carp with Chavez in the two hole.
Reyes
Beltran/Church
Wright
Delgado
Beltran/Church
Easley
I’d prefer
Reyes
Church
Beltran
Delgado
Wright
so you get two cracks with the big bats to drive in the rabbits but Manuel is not going to do that.
Once we get Church back, I”m sure we’ll see one of those two lineups…hopefully with Beltran in the two hole so we don’t lose his speed hitting behind Delgado.
eventually we’re going to see castillo back in there, however one may like it or not.
Yeah, Ted Williams was an insane hitting machine. I doubt we’ll ever see anyone like him again.
It’s like he woke up and realized this was a contract year.
This kind of thing is so idiotic. It’s absurd to think that anyone would subject themselves to the first half he had if they had any choice about it. If you watch baseball at all, you have seen hitters just lose it, and get so tangled up in themselves they can’t hit the ball anymore. The idea that they can “wake up” and decide not to embarrass themselves anymore is ridiculous. Utley, for example, right now must be dogging it — he’s in a comfortable situation, why would he care that he’s not hitting? He’s getting paid.
It seems like people like you have such a deep-seated envy of the money they make, you can’t see that in any job, for anyone, at whatever pay grade, to be that unsuccessful at what you’re supposed to be delivering would be so horribly, soul-destroyingly frustrating. It’s so tremendously impressive that it did not destroy him, he just kept “working his ass off” (and, I believe, was helped with a much better practice routine when Manuel took over), and turned the corner. Nobody, but nobody, expected him to get this back. But he kept plugging away. So admirable.
i agree azmetsfan, but i think he is just being more patient, as for jason giambi and the stache, CARLOS HAS MORE RBI’s BETTER AVERAGE, AND ONE LESS HOME RUN, and he started slow, i mean carlos is back, this is the carlos i love to watch play, and he is a leader in the clubhouse. i say 31 hr, 108 rbi, .265 average, and he is signed for three years, carlos has a new hitting approach, and is writing in the notebook, and that is why i think that it will last, and even his outs if you notice, are being hit 400 feet to center field, and with ryan church the lineup is so much more balanced.
jose reyes
damion easly
carlos beltran
carlos delgado
david wright
ryan church
fernando tatis
brian schneider/ramon castro
and a great pitching staff, THEY ARE BETTA THAN THE CUBS, BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!!
“…frankly, i love when i’m wrong…because, i’d rather be wrong and have a guy turn it around like he has, then have him fail and me be right…”
If only more of your readers/posters followed the same philosophy……
i can’t believe someone just suggested delgado as a top 5 mvp candidate. I wouldn’t be totally opposed to picking him up for another year if we lost out on teix and could obtain a solid back up plan. if you look at delgado’s stats the last two years he’s been hto and cold from month to month, but his hot hasn’t been this hot. i still assume he’ll come back down to earth, but it’s undisputable that he is what the mets were missing. i don’t know if there was any correlation between the beggining of his hot streak and willie’s firing, but the reason for the mets success is the former.
I’m totally confused.I mean which Delgado do we have.How is his hip? lets see if he can sustain some consistency If he can I will have big respect for him.Not that he cares what I think
Wow- the guy finally earns SOME of his huge paycheck for the first time in 2 years and you want to make him mayor of NYC. How about we wait for him to actually put together TWO good months in a row for the first time as a Met?
This just proves my point that his “boredom” cost us the playoffs last year. THIS is what we paid 3 prospects and $40M for- this production EVERY month, not once per season.
Bookmark this and let’s see what you all have to say when he hits .190 in August again.
Mayor of NYC? I like your thinking. Delgado has always been politically active, and is frequently described as “cerebral” and “a thinking man’s ballplayer.” Not a bad idea!
Yes and unfortunately he would fit right in with every other lunatic who wrecked the city with the exception of Giuliani. Maybe he can go run for mayor of Vieques now that they killed the local economy by driving the Navy away.
Carlos Delgado is the Eli Manning of baseball.
Run out of town early in the season ( by folks like me!). Turns into the hero.
Now, if he can lead us to the championship, the comparison is complete!
Carlos has been such a pleasant surprise. I had a lot of negativity regarding the team coming into this season for very good reasons, but this resurgence from Delgado was not something I had even dreamed to see. My question is, aside from all the reasons not to, if he continues to tear the cover off of the ball for the rest of the year, how the heck could the Mets not ask him back? It sounds ridiculous to me too, and there are more “ifs” than sense to it. But just a thought.