A few days late, but oh well. This is the last you’ll hear from me for about 10 days, as I’m going on vacation next week, but I suspect somebody else will post something while I’m gone. Or…they won’t. Either way, with the Yankees and Phillies playing in their respective League Championship Serieses, I can think of no better time to get away, other than maybe the following week if they wind up playing in the World Series. Here are the Mets’ pitchers grades, and if you thought the hitters grades were ugly, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
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Grading the Mets pitchers
Friday, October 16th, 2009The Chris Wilcox’s BlueAndOrange.net Plan for 2010 – The Bullpen
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009Fourth part of a series. For my plan for catcher, the infield, and the outfield, click on over.
Unlike last season, the bullpen seems to be pretty uncomplicated going into next season, and I don’t foresee much change to come. That’s probably a good thing, as under Omar Minaya, the Mets have blown way too much money trying to fix the bullpen since he took over as GM in 2004. Most members of last year’s bullpen are under team control another season, so we should expect to see much the same cast of characters back in New York for 2010.
Grading the pitchers’ first half
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Yesterday I did the hitters, today I’m tackling the pitchers. Yes, this remains incredibly hacky. I’m going to be taking a closer look at players, meaning I’m not using ERA alone (or really, at all) to look at how well they’ve performed; I’m going to look at their rate numbers (K/9, BB/9, etc) as well as some advanced statistics like FIP (again, if you aren’t hip to FIP, go to Amazin Avenue, where Sam Page, I have to say this again, wrote the best thing written on any Mets blog in 2009) to figure out who has made the grade and who hasn’t.
