The Marlins relievers failed to match the improvement of the starters in August. The rotation allowed a .310 OBA and a .378 slugging percentage in the month. The pen’s numbers during that time are .356/.449.
Pedro Feliz came off the disabled list on Wednesday and the Phillies scheduled him for a start tonight against the Nationals. Philadelphia holds a 54-45 record when Feliz plays (.545) and are 14-13 (.519) without him.
During the dirty dozen losses, Washington’s offense consists of seven players with at least ten at bats hitting below the Mendoza line. The great hitting by Ronnie Belliard and Lastings Milledge aren’t enough to overcome that.
Mike Hampton’s two good starts this season both came against San Francisco. Against teams with good offenses, his ERA stands at 11.08.
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so how those colorado schools working out for Mikey boy?
At least we got David Wright out of it.
I’ll forever be grateful.
Hampton provided us with CY caliber pitching and David Wright for the next decade.
One of the best things to happen to the Mets in a long time.
Now THAT”S the way to look at it!!
Mike Hampton as a Met = one excellent year getting to the WS, and us getting David Wright.
And Aaron Heilman. Say what you want, he’s been more good than bad for his career.
the nats have to win eventually, right? come on, just one win tonight
Haha that’s what I’ve been thinking. It’s hard for them to beat Philly in that shoebox stadium of theirs.
Maybe we should stop ripping Hampton for the Colorado schools comment. Sure Columbine was less than a year later, but let’s face it, we got an NLCS-MVP performance and David Wright out of the guy, and had we not been stupid enough to re-sign him it also got Roger Cedeno out of town. Very few Mets players have such a resume!
I think we are all glad he left so the Braves (and Marlins, who are still probably paying some of his salary) could suffer…
Excellent points. I am sure Hampton cries himself to sleep every night about not re-signing with the Mets, especially when he looks at the well-over $100 million he has made while basically working part-time for the last 8 years.
Hampton is a mediocre insincere clown, and I really wish everyone would just forget about him. If I hear my father make that damn school system remark one more time….let’s let it go.
And let’s seriously bomb him tonight.
Although Pedro and Hampton are a great matchup of contracts—about $165 million for a total of 86 wins!!
I doubt it…clearly his priority was not winning…and he’d have made just about as much sitting on our DL as Atlanta’s.
the guy was offered a mega contract that the Mets were not going to touch, who cares, everyone of us in his shoes would be fools to have not inked the same deal, it was double what the Mets offered him after the trade. DOUBLE.
And his taking a huge deal does not mean he did not want to win, it just meant he wanted to be paid market value at the time.
Yeah, its something that is pretty dumb to get worked up over these days.
And enough dissing Colorado guys. Denver is an awesome city, its just unfortunate that the altitude and baseball don’t seem to cooperate very well.
Yeah, Denver is maybe the most underrated awesome city in the US. Absolutely beautiful, tons of things to do, and lots of excellent weather.
And the altitude makes getting drunk cheaper!
Hahaha. True. I visit my good friend who lives there about once a a year and that is always the first thing I notice. I fortunately don’t get altitude sickness, but the altitude unfortunately kicks my butt when hiking. Phenomenal local breweries around too (not talking about Coors of course).
I could be moving there for work in a couple years as well, which I’m kind of excited at the thought of.
Saratoga Springs, NY is the most underrated city in America. Trust me, go there during track season.
Good call–that’s where I live!
But trust me, it is much nicer between Labor Day and July 4th, when there are about 50,000 less people in town every day.
I love COlorado…I marry marry it.
The Mets really have to win tonight because it doesn’t look like phillies losing anytime soon. I think the Mets can beat a pitcher with an 11 era but the question I have can the bullpen hold out. With Pedro on the mound we can get a good 5 two 6 innings but again the bullpen has to hold out
anytime soon??? they play the dodgers this weekend and managed to eeek past the pads for 2/3 and couldn’t win against the dodgers last week.
Baseballguy, go study the scores a bit more, then come back to us:)
Of course, the Mets couldn’t eeek past the Padres even once in 4 games in SD, if you study those scores…
logic dictates that the Nationals will win a game just by sheer force of nature.
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