NFT: Michael Cuddyer

No two ways about it. Another one of aldersons brilliant moves.

but his free agent record has been dumbfounding. The one thing i'll say is that he hasn't hamstrung the franchise with longer term contracts for bad players like Minaya. But losing the 1st round pick was really bad. I wouldn't mind trading for Marlon Byrd again, he probably wouldn't cost that much.

last night 3-5 with home run and 2 RBI

should be based on his development arc, not short term need in Queens.

Happy Bobby Bonilla Day everyone.

Is it really not possible to trade for a Gerardo Parra type player and plug him in? If Conforto is still raking, we call him up in Sept and get him in there.

Akeel Morris to play left field.


I don't like Alderson and his offensive smugness but god forbid any of these signings just played to their career averages. Is that so much to ask? Literally I believe if today we traded cuddyer for Chris young, then for the rest of the year cuddyer would be excellent and young terrible. It's insanity what the mets Jersey does.

Also God forbid any of the rookies we bring up just bats .250. Is that too crazy? They all come up and proceed to bat between. .180 and .220. That's not much different than any pitchers career average.

say deGrom at SS Matz at 1b and Thor in RF with Harvey on the mound, do you think they get shut down? I don't and that is about a sad an indictment I can make about this horror show of an offense

In comment 12350222 Headhunter said:

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say deGrom at SS Matz at 1b and Thor in RF with Harvey on the mound, do you think they get shut down? I don't and that is about a sad an indictment I can make about this horror show of an offense

A couple of those guys would get hits but someone would also get injured fielding a ball because... Mets.

SA pulls it off and makes moves to improve the team for the short term and longer run without touching the 5 all is forgotten and forgiven. But if comes August 1st nothing has changed its going to be a long season and an empty ballpark

nobody's giving up building block offensive players without a tremendous haul. Offense might as well be the White Whale in baseball these days

how Alderson was at best going to get a B prospect for Beltran. We don't know anything until it happens or doesn't happen. It's fun to speculate, but I'll comment at the moves or non moves by 7/31

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SA pulls it off and makes moves to improve the team for the short term and longer run without touching the 5 all is forgotten and forgiven. But if comes August 1st nothing has changed its going to be a long season and an empty ballpark

The good news about the Matz "leak" several days before his promotion. Is that the FO completely understands the team and fan base NEED a jolt. And the four game win streak from "leak to Matz Day" only reaffirmed it.

too convenient excuse of injuires will be in play yet again for the Manager, GM and ownership. The closest thing we have in the lineup to a legit .300 hitter is Murph and he was dreadful at the start of the season then of course went down with an injury. Round and around it goes, where it stops nobody knows.

believe that ownership and the FO doesn't care about winning. To me that is as ridiculous as the owners and upper management of any business that couldn't care less about the product they sell as long as they are making money and getting paid.

Send him out to LA to hang out with his BFF Wright. They can stretch and rehab and go to the Dr every Monday while getting paid millions.

with winning is not close to the front burner with this ownership.

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with winning is not close to the front burner with this ownership.

Shame that the owners make a LOTTTTT more money when the team wins a few extra games,,, so maybe, just maybe, if all an owner cares about is making money... En just maybe he wants to win a couple of Lctober games. Just a silly thought.

a ton of time the past few seasons and his overall numbers were inflated by Coors field anyway. He's a horrible defensive outfielder and we gave up a 1st round pick to pay for his age 36 and age 37 seasons.

IMO, this has Wilpon's fingerprints all over it, as we've heard Cuddyer is a friend of Wright and by how quick the signing happened. Just a poor move and poor asset management.

I'd bring up Kirk for a week or two before considering promoting Conforto.

seems not to care, Fred & Jeff do seem to care. Anderson lives and dies each game. I give him credit when he could from the fan part of him, just go out and do something reckless to the health of the organization.

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In comment 12350310 Giants2012 said: Quote: with winning is not close to the front burner with this ownership. Shame that the owners make a LOTTTTT more money when the team wins a few extra games,,, so maybe, just maybe, if all an owner cares about is making money... En just maybe he wants to win a couple of Lctober games. Just a silly thought.

Just a delusion is more like it.

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seems not to care, Fred & Jeff do seem to care. Anderson lives and dies each game. I give him credit when he could from the fan part of him, just go out and do something reckless to the health of the organization.

Outstanding point HH. The easy answer is usual easy for a reason.

the BS is already deep.

when they tried to guilt the fans into paying their ticket prices to see the team LAST season, as if it's our fault they don't spend money.

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a ton of time the past few seasons and his overall numbers were inflated by Coors field anyway. He's a horrible defensive outfielder and we gave up a 1st round pick to pay for his age 36 and age 37 seasons. IMO, this has Wilpon's fingerprints all over it, as we've heard Cuddyer is a friend of Wright and by how quick the signing happened. Just a poor move and poor asset management. I'd bring up Kirk for a week or two before considering promoting Conforto.

Kirk is brutal. The Mets need to make a move for another OFer. Doesn't have to be Gomez or Braun.. Parra, Victorino, etc.. those guys won't cost Thor/Matz/Conforto.

When Cadaver is back make him the 4th OFer and play him at 1B vs some LHP until Duda gets his head out of his ass.

Worse than any other FA OFs we have had in the recent past

thinks Conforto best option

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keithlaw ‏@keithlaw 7m7 minutes ago keithlaw retweeted Mets Daddy I think so, although it's a big jump from AA (which he just reached) to the majors. keithlaw added, Mets Daddy @MetsDaddy2013 @keithlaw With Cuddyer's knee injury (presumed serious) is Conforto the best option the Mets have at this point (assuming he wasn't already)

No reason not to bring up the kid from AA. If eh fails so what? We sent D'Arnua down last year. Shit happens, if he has the make up to be a pro athlete in NY he'll be fine either way.

were a high school kid, I could see the concern, but he went to college, he's been in a couple minor league levels, and I admit I'm not an expert in major league development, but I'd be surprised if he is still "learning".

I'd bring him up today.

Bringing up Conforto is a no win situation. Literally the ONLY reason he would be called up is for the PR, and that would backfire anyway.

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believe that ownership and the FO doesn't care about winning. To me that is as ridiculous as the owners and upper management of any business that couldn't care less about the product they sell as long as they are making money and getting paid.

I did not claim ownership and management do not care about winning.

Honestly, if think injuries should be used as a crutch and the so-called "next man up" concept is a not a viable solution then that's your prerogative but my point was really more that injuries have been an all too convenient excuse for the continued struggles of the every day lineup for far too long. Sure, management is not going to avoid the subject of injuries altogether however they're also not going to highlight, say, the dearth of talent, lack of development or their over valuation of certain position players whether coming up through the system or through FA. We, the fans, get to make that call, as subjective as it can be, by watching the results on the field day in and day out. Bottom line is, management/ownership is not above reproach when it comes to an overall assessment.

Should be starting after 2016 spring training

They should really trade for an above avg OF for Niese

expect an adjustment period.By that I mean at least 100 AB's. He could come up a house on fire, some rookies do, but he will cool off as most rookies do. Not going to put too much on him, but this is NY

in BA's top 100?

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Bringing up Conforto is a no win situation. Literally the ONLY reason he would be called up is for the PR, and that would backfire anyway.

No it wouldn't be for PR. It would be because he's the best option. You really want to see Kirk back up here? Bringjng Conforto up would be no different than the Cubs bringing up Schwarber the other week.

He was #80 pre-2015.. I suspect he'd be quite a bit higher now.

I'd rather give ABs to all our young hitting prospects the rest of the season. I think we need Granderson in the lineup but we need to bench/DL/trade Cuddyer and Tejada the remainder of the season.

I want to see all those remaining ABs go to Wilmer Flores, Dilson Herrera, Kevin Plawecki (if Travis can't stay healthy) and Michael Conforto. If they need to go through rookie learning curve and slumps, have them get that experience this season. It will only make their potential to improve 2016 and beyond better.

Was he had managed to stay injury free.

We all know that would t last - and here it is!

Conforto can't possibly perform worse, so why not?

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Bringing up Conforto is a no win situation. Literally the ONLY reason he would be called up is for the PR, and that would backfire anyway.

Why would it be a mistake? Can he be better than Cuddyer?

What's next for Conforto? Hitting for inflated averages in Vegas?

I don't see the downside.

Can anyone explain what happened with him? He's obviously a player who could help the Mets but he was ridden out of town. In Alderson's defense, I don't think Cuddyer was brought here to be a full time payer and maybe if he was used more sparingly, he'd be more efefective. But, there are not many options. I agree with the post above that the signing has Wilpon's fingerprints all over it.

that the front office targeted Cuddyer, and when the rockies made a qualifying offer, they cringed. They went ahead anyway. Look, we all liked the signing when it happened - other than sacrificing the 1st round pick. We thought, here we go, we have another professional hitter in the lineup- a la murphy. He he .332 last year. He batted .311 and .280 away from coors field in 2013 and 2014. But he just does not look like a good hitter. I rarely ever see him hit the ball hard. So many of his actual hits have been bleeders and bloops, not line drives. His bat just looks awfully slow and he guesses on pitches to make up for that. He is just not that good of a player. More the reason to move him to the bench, he could be decent in a smaller role, and continue to help the clubhouse. But I don't think he's a starter anymore. Its a sunk cost, so whatever. Just get someone else out there. Even Cecilliani, will at least provide good defense.

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Can anyone explain what happened with him? He's obviously a player who could help the Mets but he was ridden out of town. In Alderson's defense, I don't think Cuddyer was brought here to be a full time payer and maybe if he was used more sparingly, he'd be more efefective. But, there are not many options. I agree with the post above that the signing has Wilpon's fingerprints all over it.

Cuddy was brought in as a two year bridge until one of the kids was (hopefully) ready to take over LF. You don't pay a guy 10 mill/year to be a spare part.

Young was dumped because, outside of a few big hits, absolutely sucked while here.

signed a one year deal for 7.5M and stole 7.5M from the Mets.

he was terrible.

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that the front office targeted Cuddyer, and when the rockies made a qualifying offer, they cringed. They went ahead anyway. Look, we all liked the signing when it happened - other than sacrificing the 1st round pick. We thought, here we go, we have another professional hitter in the lineup- a la murphy. He he .332 last year. He batted .311 and .280 away from coors field in 2013 and 2014. But he just does not look like a good hitter. I rarely ever see him hit the ball hard. So many of his actual hits have been bleeders and bloops, not line drives. His bat just looks awfully slow and he guesses on pitches to make up for that. He is just not that good of a player. More the reason to move him to the bench, he could be decent in a smaller role, and continue to help the clubhouse. But I don't think he's a starter anymore. Its a sunk cost, so whatever. Just get someone else out there. Even Cecilliani, will at least provide good defense.

"we all"? More than half the fans I know hated the signing. When I read it I felt like I was kicked in the stomach. I hated the signing from day 1 and felt it was a waste. The only solace I took was I believed "this must be the catalyst for other moves the Mets are gong to make to improve the team"

but alas, no other moves came and we're right where a lot of people expected to be.

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He was #80 pre-2015.. I suspect he'd be quite a bit higher now.

Thanks arc

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In comment 12350496 Shecky said: Quote: Bringing up Conforto is a no win situation. Literally the ONLY reason he would be called up is for the PR, and that would backfire anyway. No it wouldn't be for PR. It would be because he's the best option. You really want to see Kirk back up here? Bringjng Conforto up would be no different than the Cubs bringing up Schwarber the other week.

Lol. So your example is the kid tearing through AA, like Conforto?

Who was called up specifically to fill a role for a few MLB games, to then be sent to AAA. Which he was. And is now struggling in AAA??

Advantage for Conforto to at least see Vegas isn't his stats. It's so he can see several veteran junkballers and see how he adjusts. And when he does,he will be ready to be called up.

young for the level or young for MLB I'd agree, but he's 22 years old, played college, and has 450+ minor league at-bats.

Plenty of players go from AA to the majors and are successful.

David Thompson: 3B (4) - Brooklyn 16 AB, .313/.294/.500, only 1K

Chase Ingram: RHP (6) - Kingsport 1.1 IP, 1 H, 1 BB, 1 K, 6.75 ERA

Corey Taylor: RHP (7) - Brooklyn 3 IP, 1 H, 1 BB, 3 K, 0.00 ERA

Pat Mazelka: C (8) - Kingsport 28 AB, .286/.355/.393, 5K

Kevin Kaczmarski: OF (9) - Kingsport 27 AB, .370/.452/.593, 3 K

Witt Haggard: RHP (10) - Kingsport 0.2 IP, 4 BB,1 K, 4 R, 54.00 ERA

Jake Simon: LHP (11) - Gulf Coast League 1 IP, 1 H, 1 BB, 2 K, 0.00 ERA

Joe Shaw: RHP (12) - Kingsport 2.1 IP, 3 H, 3 K, 0.00 ERA

P J Conlon: LHP (13) - Brooklyn 2 IP, 1 H, 0 BB, 0 K, 0.00 ERA

Vince Siena: 2B (14) - Brooklyn 42 AB, .405/.468/.476, 7 K

Sixto Torres LHP (17) - Gulf Coast League 2 IP. 2 H, 0 BB, 0 K, 0.00 ERA

Taylor Henry LHP (21) - Gulf Coast League 0.2 IP, 0.00

Kenny Bautista RF (23) - Gulf Coast League.19 AB, .316/.381/.579, 2 steals

Seth Davis LHP (29) - Kingsport 1.0 IP, 0.00

2nd rounder Desmond Lindsay, 3rd rounder Max Wotell, 5th rounder Thomas Szapucki, and 16th rounder Dillon Becker are signed but have yet to play.


Looking very promising, very early, but very encouraging

Two more hard hit balls. Ali Sanchez going with the pitch again. Tiny little. Urdu k with a three run shot.