The Walk-Off Offense

August 27, 2008

The Mets have a Walk-Off offense. And not in the good way of a lot of Walk Off wins. No, the Mets are the best team in baseball at scoring early, going home, and then losing. Tonight’s debacle was a paradigmatic game for this season’s game, and also a good reminder of what last year [...]

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David Wright: MVP Candidate?

August 21, 2008

Rob Neyer at ESPN listed his 4 leading candidates for NL MVP. David Wright was one of them. The biggest irony? Wright’s having his worst season. He has the lowest slugging percentage of his career, 30 points lower than last year. OBP only 3 points above his career low, 32 points lower than last year. [...]

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Tatis and Church

August 14, 2008

Tatis and Church each have 205 at bats right now. Their stats are frighteningly similar. They each have 42 singles, a triple and 10 homers. Church has one more double (for a total of 10) and one more RBI (36). They both have far too many strikeouts (Church has 50; Tatis 47) and far too [...]

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Daniel Murphy's lousy debut

August 14, 2008

On August 2, Daniel Murphy singled in his first big league at bat and then made a huge game saving double play in the seventh. Anthony DiComo at mets.com spoke of “Daniel Murphy’s sparkling Major League debut.” Ha — a lot he knows. So far that game stands as Murphy’s worst start. Murphy’s stats continue [...]

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Beltran: Lupica vs Marchman

August 6, 2008

Two excellent columnists just came out with seemingly opposite takes on Carlos Beltrans’ season. Lupica: Beltran is New York baseball’s biggest offensive disappointment calls Beltran “the biggest offensive disappointment in town, as much of an underproducer as any big name or big ticket or big player either New York team has.” Tim Marchman’s Mets Have [...]

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Brain Dead

August 4, 2008

You gotta love Jerry Manuel’s quote on mets.com regarding Robinson Cancel’s second inning play (hat tip to Mets Blog): He was brain-dead or something was wrong with him right there, … He’s a better player than that. Of course, Manuel was talking about the wrong play, Cancel getting thrown out trying to steal 3rd with [...]

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Strangely Optimistic

August 4, 2008

My post when we hit bottom in Atlanta a few months ago, Always look on the bright side of life, was sarcastic. This isn’t. Yes, the following are all true: We just got shutout 4-0, completing a sweep, extending our losing streak to 4, and dropping us 3 games behind the red-hot Phillies, 9 days after [...]

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The Play at the Plate

August 3, 2008

Up 4-2, bottom of the ninth, bases loaded with one out. Single to right field, but the runner at third held up to see if it would be caught, and then stumbled, while the runner from second took off on contact. Check out the video. I haven’t seen this play analyzed. Here are my thoughts: [...]

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Quick, Revert the Tagline

August 3, 2008

OK, it’s my fault. I was on such a high after Santana’s complete game against the Cardinals that the old tagline “Like a drug addiction, but without the highs” was just too inaccurate. The Beltran catch, the 3 homers, Santana’s 2 hits … everything just felt so wonderful. First place. The great July. The Mets smiling [...]

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No Deal — Whoo Hoo!

August 1, 2008

OK, I would have liked Adam Dunn (if he were available at a reasonable price) but all told I’m very happy that the Mets didn’t sell the farm yesterday. And it’s awfully hard not to focus on the fact that if we hadn’t sent Jason Bay, Xavier Nady, and Scott Kazmir away in previous deadline [...]

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