I always wanted to make something official. Anyway the corner has been turned and relevancy and contention are real possibilities.Gone is the feeling that it will get worse before it gets better. This is a critical offseason and with a few " non-sexy" but solid moves, they should contend. The Giants and Royals proved good pitching goes a long way and the one thing the Mets have is the best young pitching in baseball. What do you want to see Alderson do in the next few months?
I just dont see a GM plunking down $25 million per for a .265 hitter who you'll expect to get 15-20 HR and 10-15 SBs at a non-premium position. I get that it could be justifiable based on defensive #s, but I dont see any GM actually doing it.
I just dont see a GM plunking down $25 million per for a .265 hitter who you'll expect to get 15-20 HR and 10-15 SBs at a non-premium position. I get that it could be justifiable based on defensive #s, but I dont see any GM actually doing it.
I'd suggest that will potentially effect his eventual contract than his trade value. Remember, all but one team in baseball currently has a full-time Sabermetric staff. There are teams that view defense as the most important aspect of the game (run prevention). But as I said the biggest issue with such an offer is Murphy is a pending FA making 8.1 million. That alone makes it a non-starter. If Daniel Murphy were making 3 million and locked up for 2-3 more, then MAYBE there would be an argument to be had for him in a deal. This does nothing for them.
PJ,
I actually think despite all of the words used here by both of us... we agree lol
100/6 would be 16.7 million per. Given the market, that seems way cheap. Look at Choo and Grandy.
However, re the defensive stats/Sabermetrics comment, I think the problem with paying for defense is not that it is somehow undervalued; the problem is that the defensive statistics are decently flawed right now from what I've read. Maybe teams have proprietary data we dont know about for defense though.
“He had a very good season in 2013, and exceeded that in 2014, both at St. Lucie and at Binghamton. His numbers were very similar at both places, which is very positive given the fact that he had moved up a level. I would say Steven is probably one of the top handful of left-handed pitching prospects in the game right now. The guy who was supposed to be the best left-handed prospect, Andrew Heaney, came up to the Marlins last year and didn’t do particularly well in his transition, but I think Steven is very comparable. He’s got an excellent fastball for a lefty, at 93, 94 mph. It can get a little bit higher than that. His breaking ball has gotten much better. And he threw some excellent changeups that night in Binghamton in that championship game.
“He’s been on the roster. He was on the roster last year. He’ll, of course, be on the roster again this year. I think the difference is that last year we put him on the roster to protect the talent. This year I think he’s got a chance potentially sometime during the season to help us at the major league level.”
Brandon Nimmo, OF
“There are several qualities that I think distinguish Brandon. One is his commitment to excellence, if you will. He’s a tremendously competitive individual. He takes his preparation very seriously. He has grown physically very impressively over the last couple of years through offseason workouts. He has an approach that’s very consistent with what we try to promote, which is selectivity at the plate. Being aggressive with good judgment, I guess, is how we look at it — getting a good pitch to hit. If anything, at Binghamton, I think he began to demonstrate a little more power, which we think he has. There may be a little trade-off between his discipline at the plate and his ability to turn on the ball, but I think that’s something that’s coming. He’s a very committed guy.”
Dilson Herrera, 2B
“We’re very happy with his progress. I mean, it was phenomenal last year really coming from Port St. Lucie through Binghamton and up to the major league club. It was tough for me to make the decision to bring Dilson up to the major leagues knowing how important he had been to Binghamton. I think I called [B-Mets owner] Mike Urda and said, ‘Look, I really apologize, but this is really what we need to do.’ And he was the right guy at the time. We had some playing time because [Daniel] Murphy was down.
“Herrera has surprising power for his size. He runs well. He’s very athletic. Turns the double play. I think he’s going to get more consistent defensively. He’s got pretty good hands and moves laterally well. We were impressed with him during his time with us. He had very good at-bats. I think he hit three home runs. So he’s got some real potential. And we were very happy with him during the course of his time with us, and he’ll come to spring training.
“You know, our middle-infield situation over the next couple of years is probably going to be in a little bit of flux. So he’s got an excellent opportunity.”
Matt Reynolds, SS
“He’s been solid at shortstop. And we’ve left him there and expect that he’ll be able to remain there. He’s also an excellent athlete. He’s got a strong arm, pretty good range defensively. Offensively, he had just a great season last year — really a breakout season for him both at Binghamton and at Las Vegas. The numbers get a little inflated at Las Vegas, but his were right in line with what he had done in Binghamton.
“I think what he’s done — by his own word, he’s indicated — he’s started to use all the field. He’s not really trying to pull everything. And although he had some home runs, and I think he’s got three home runs already in the Arizona Fall League, he tries to use the whole field. He’s sort of a gap-to-gap guy. So we’re very high on Reynolds and hope that he can at least at the outset of 2015 duplicate what he was able to do last year.”
Kevin Plawecki, C
“Plawecki is very solid — one of the handful of best catching prospects in baseball. I think we’re fortunate to have two young guys like [Travis] d’Arnaud and Plawecki. Plawecki is a little different hitter — more of a contact hitter, more patient at the plate. But I think he has some power potential. He’s a big guy.
“Defensively, he catches the ball well, blocks reasonably well. He probably has an average arm, but is very solid behind the plate and I think develops a pretty good rapport with his pitching staff. So we’re very high on both of those players. …
“Right now we’re fortunate that we have two who are essentially major league ready — I think Plawecki is close — of such high quality. At the same time, as they sort of both converge on the major leagues, it’s a question of whether both can be accommodated. I think there are circumstances under which that’s possible. For example, sharing the catching duties and then one of them playing first base a little bit or playing in the outfield. Or, during interleague games one of them DHing against left-handed pitching. I think there are ways to do it. The question is really whether that’s the best use of those two resources. And it may be, because beyond those two there’s a little bit of a drop-off at least in the catching we have in the system. We’ve got a couple of very young guys that we really like, but there may be a little bit of a drop-off after Plawecki. And so we have to be careful about trying to keep both of those guys in the system.”
Michael Conforto, OF
“Since I arrived in New York, he’s the first first-round pick out of college that we’ve drafted. Our other three had been high school players. So I do expect that he’ll move a little more quickly. We did get him to Savannah for the playoffs late in the season this year. So I would expect that he’ll move more quickly than some of our other top draft picks have certainly.
“Michael comes from a very athletic and competitive family. His father, I think, was a linebacker at Penn State. He played football there. His mother is a former Olympic athlete — a medalist in synchronized swimming. So he comes from a very athletic family. He’s a great kid, very humble and committed to the game and has interacted with fans — I think a terrific individual, and an outstanding hitter.
“A left-handed hitter, power is probably not his foremost quality. He’s got some, but he’s more of a gap-to-gap guy — high average, high on-base percentage — and a pretty good defender, which was not his reputation coming into the draft. But based on the time he spent in Brooklyn and then Savannah, our guys were very pleased with him defensively. He’s kind of an all-around player, and we do expect that he’ll move very quickly.”
As for Gordon, regardless of the numbers I think "everyone" agrees he's an elite defender.
I am not a fan of Martino's. Routinely seems to have "stories"that never end up being proven true that nobody else has. he also made the claim the fan base didn't like Castillo because they were racist...
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I guess he was looking at Nimmo as a center fielder. I'm assuming the Mets like what they have in Lagares and won't trade him, so when Nimmo is ready for the majors it will be as a corner outfielder.
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I guess he was looking at Nimmo as a center fielder. I'm assuming the Mets like what they have in Lagares and won't trade him, so when Nimmo is ready for the majors it will be as a corner outfielder.
Yes. Nimmo is a CF per Toby's lists.
Released: RHP Ramon Estevez, RHP Juan Marte, RHP Bret Mitchell, RHP Flabio Ortega, RHP Luis Rengel, LHP T.J. Chism, LHP Alex Panteliodis, LHP Waldo Rodriguez, LHP Juan Urbina, C Luis Arrizurieta, C Miguel Leal, 2B Jorge Rivero, 3B Cole Frenzel
Yup he was a bonus baby. I wouldn't say "massive" but over 1 million aint chump change. He sucked.
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Uggie wound up with a wild post-baseball off-season list of incidents, wasn't his mother kidnapped and held for ransom and they he murdered someone with a machete?
Was that all him?
Source: #DBacks held private workout for Yasmany Tomas today. Told he "absolutely demolished" the baseball.
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Released: RHP Ramon Estevez, RHP Juan Marte, RHP Bret Mitchell, RHP Flabio Ortega, RHP Luis Rengel, LHP T.J. Chism, LHP Alex Panteliodis, LHP Waldo Rodriguez, LHP Juan Urbina, C Luis Arrizurieta, C Miguel Leal, 2B Jorge Rivero, 3B Cole Frenzel
Panda Pants is gone?!? Say it ain't so :(
If he's in the international draft we wouldn't be able to sign him thought right?
Source: #DBacks held private workout for Yasmany Tomas today. Told he "absolutely demolished" the baseball.
Someone's going to get a young stud by signing this dude. Too bad it won't be us.
Would that imply that they may be moving one of their other OF's? Or is it a sign they are making him a full-time 1B?
and power 70
Since he is under 23 he is subject to the Internal Draft this year on June 15th
He is a SS
Badler says the 100+ demands are false. he's asking for "more than" Castillo who got 72.5
Agree, good news. Not worth a 1st round pick plus 12-15M.
@MarcCarig: Told that the qualifying offer kills the Mets’ interest in Michael Cuddyer. Draft pick compensation changes everything. My sense is Mets don’t seem particularly enthused by the other options on FA market (Rios, et al.)
#15 pick AND a multi year deal would have been insanity. Remember, he already has 15.3 "in his pocket" which means he KNOWS he can make 15 next year so you are likely looking at 22-25 MINIMUM + #15 overall pick if you wanted to sign him. No thank you
2 years 25 or so million + the #15 pick for a guy you are HOPING isn't starting for you in 2016 (the hope in this scenario would be a Granderson bounce back, Lagares legit and Nimmo ready). Dude is 36! Great to hear they are "out".