-Passan says the Mets never made an actual 4 year 60 million dollar offer as the LA Times is reporting. He says they had "discussions" with Grandal regarding potential deals but never made a firm offer.
-"Many" teams reportedly calling about Lugo... KEEP.
- Passan also says the Mets likely won't sign Pollock.. for some reason they feel they must trade Nimmo or Conforto if they sign Pollock (they reportedly considered trading one of them in general but have backed off) which would make you believe they felt they would be getting a big return from Cespedes... HOWEVER... today
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"If he gives us anything this year, that is great, we're happy for that," Minaya said.
So we are again back to questioning finances
instead of 'play like a champion' mets front office has a 'leave no excuse unsaid' sign.
Right, like build your roster to maximize pitching (starters and bullpen) and defense.
take advantage of the low exit velo.
that type of roster wouldn't really suffer on the road.
that's definitely true too. Forget the last few years even going back to citi opening. Above average hitters for their positions the home team for multiple seasons - Wright, Murphy, Cespedes, Granderson, Conforto, end of list?
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know people get tired of me citing numbers but the truth is the Mets simply haven't had many good offensive players the past few seasons. Ballpark is almost secondary. 2018 really only Conforto, Nimmo and 1/2 of Cabrera really represented "good offense" among regulars. We can chop and slice this all we want but they got garbage offensive output at 1b, C, SS, 3b and 1 OF spot. Very hard to win games that way.
that's definitely true too. Forget the last few years even going back to citi opening. Above average hitters for their positions the home team for multiple seasons - Wright, Murphy, Cespedes, Granderson, Conforto, end of list?
This is where the "good" teams take advantage. The Astros had 7 players in their lineup with 100+ wRC+, + Stassi 97, and Reddick 99. So they essentially had 9 players going out there every day who could hit and THEN they had Kemp post a 108 OPS+ over 97 games and White 143 over 66. The Mets had Nimmo, Wilmer (gone), Cabrera (half season), Conforto, Bautista (half season and gone), Mesoraco (half season and gone) and McNeil 1/3 season but absolute garbage players like Jackson, Reyes, Gonzalez saw SIGNIFICANT run and Jay Bruce was trash
Adding Harper or Machado would be 1 pretty quick way to increase Mets average exit velocity at Citi... if that's the KPI we're going by today.. haha
Santiago doesn't have strong numbers vs. lefties so he's not a LOOGY option. Looks like Syracuse SP depth to me. If so, while not especially good, he's still potentially an "upgrade" over guys like Conlon #Mets
Santiago doesn't have strong numbers vs. lefties so he's not a LOOGY option. Looks like Syracuse SP depth to me. If so, while not especially good, he's still potentially an "upgrade" over guys like Conlon #Mets
I LOVE this signing!!
And HATE this trade :(
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Maybe he's just not particularly good but if the Brewers are shopping Broxton I'd be interested. Still only 28, RH, 11 DRS in CF in 2018, he's not the "answer" for this lineup but I'd buy low https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=9253&position=OF #Mets
Pouring a 49 for Hill :(
If you really think about it... why not? Some players or stats may be overlooked until brought to your attention. It wouldn't be truly absurd. It's not like I'm claiming to be a scout lol
Jmo but this type of move + spending $20m per year is better than pollock. Though obviously the critical part of that equation is spending the 20m elsewhere.
According to Metsblog, this signing is a minor league deal.
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