"The Mets have had the best offseason of any team, not just this year, but in recent memory. By ignoring the middle class and focusing on getting the best players they could, like Mike Cameron, they've improved by 10 to 15 wins, vaulting to the top of the NL East mix."
"The Mets have had the best offseason of any team, not just this year, but in recent memory. By ignoring the middle class and focusing on getting the best players they could, like Cliff Floyd, they've improved by 10 to 15 wins, vaulting to the top of the NL East mix."
"The Mets have had the best offseason of any team, not just this year, but in recent memory. By ignoring the middle class and focusing on getting the best players they could, like Mo Vaughan, they've improved by 10 to 15 wins, vaulting to the top of the NL East mix."
"The Mets have had the best offseason of any team, not just this year, but in recent memory. By ignoring the middle class and focusing on getting the best players they could, like Bobby Bonilla, they've improved by 10 to 15 wins, vaulting to the top of the NL East mix."
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― major jingleberries (jingleberries), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Three or four again? Well four guys is something, I guess. I suppose LA should just be grateful they unloaded his horrendous contract.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 10 January 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Monday, 10 January 2005 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link
as per the mets, while neither move is terrible it's easy to see how either could become serious deadweight for a seriously long time. i dunno, seems well worth it to me but it's not my money/team.
― John (jdahlem), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 01:31 (nineteen years ago) link
Carlos Beltran: 27
Pedro Martinez: 33Tom Glavine: 37Mike Cameron: 31Cliff Floyd: 30[Carlos Delgado: 33]
Mo Vaughn: 34Bobby Bonilla: 29 / 36 (ha!)
"One of these things is not like the other..." (though it might be in 4/5 years)
BTW - what NY's (nominal) CFs will be making this yearBeltran - $17MBernie - $12.5M
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link
The Pedro contract presents a similar problem for the Mets, I think. There is just no way they are getting four solid years out of him. Even if he starts the contract in relatively good health, he's fragile. Plus, if the Mets don't win right away, his attention is likely to wander and he might even bark for a trade -- whereby the Mets are likely to have to eat a sizable part of his salary. So Wilpon is probably at the end of the day paying Martinez more like $26 or $27 million a year for performance.
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link
My fave thing about the Unit-cameraman nonsense is "Don't talk back to me." I guess he doesn't have a noblesse oblige clause.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link
ED FUCKING KOCH! W. T. F?
Fucking Riccardi. He better pull of this Hillenbrand thing that I've been hearing rumours about.
I wish I could just turn on some hockey (World Juniors notwithstanding) and ignore all this.
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link
i wouldn't get too excited about shea.
― John (jdahlem), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
i wouldn't get too excited about shea.I am also aware of this - but it would be nice to have someone on the team that's played SOME 1st base!Plus, I only became aware of his "colourful personality" ("Trade me faggot") after my last post.
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
$500,000
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
http://rotoworld.com/content/playernews.asp?sport=MLB
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Koch as a hard-thrower to burn through some righties in the 7th or 8th, preferably w/ bases empty = not too shabby. Koch as your save guy, or your guy in a bases-filled situation = you get what you deserve. This pickup is in the same realm as the BoSox's transaction involving Matt "Mickey" Mantei - if he pans out, super duper; if not, whatever. Though I would think the Jays would do s'more scouring & scavenging before dropping nearly a million on a "proven veteran".
Tony Batista getting $7.5M overseas = HOLY CRAP!
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link
Fuck a bunch of Tom Hicks. He got roasted on drivetime radio today because he said that shipping off A-Rod gave them room to acquire veteran talent - only now he's tying major free agent acquisitions (ie Delgado) to shipping off Soriano to keep the payroll close to even. I hope they go 60-102 this year and he loses the Stars forever.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 03:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, they can hit a lick, too, & probably have the best infield in the AL, & still will even when / if they trade Soriano. Delgado is not needed @ all - he'll only be taking ABs away from either Texeira (right!) or DH-to-be Adrian Gonzalez (or maybe Texeira's the DH - I have no idea re: their defensive reputations), and unless either of those kids can fetch some upper-tier pitching, I'd rather have the kids.
Also also, the outfield - the weak spot in their lineup - gets a kick in the pants via their signing of Richard Hildago; full seasons of Delucci / Mench in LF, Nix / Delucci in CF, & Hildalgo in RF could be quite sexxxy. To be honest, I have no idea how they got 89 wins last year, given the shatty quality of their pitching, and I hesitate to give Buck any credit (because I'm like that). Orel's work, especially w/ the relievers, is probably a year or two away from being touted as Mazzone-esque.
However, unless they can flip Soriano for a solid pitcher - which is really all they need to succeed, at least in the regular season - I can picture them coming down to the Mariners' level. It seems like, this year, w/ the way the batting orders (hott!) & the pitching rotations (not so hott...) are shaping up, the AL West is REALLY going to beat the crap out of itself.
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 06:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link
oh, wait...what was that? oh, yeah. it's dc's fault.
man, i really have a serious dislike for petey pete.
― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 13 January 2005 02:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 January 2005 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 13 January 2005 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 14 January 2005 01:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 15 January 2005 02:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Geez.
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 01:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Kinda discouraging: Delgado will "stand for" whatever nationalist hooey his new team wants him to...
http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-spmets154116223jan15,0,7166561.story
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link
(I might lose some respect if he accepts 3y/37M without a fight, FFS, JD Drew got 4y/40M!)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Neither have I, I guess.. I'm just a little sad that he'd feel like he couldn't continue to stand behind those positions playing for a US team. Which is really our culture's problem more than it is his.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link