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 Rotation
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009Fifth part of a series. For my plan for catcher, the infield, the outfield, and the bullpen, click on over.
The last on-field part of this series will look at what might be the most difficult area to fix this offseason on the cheap, the rotation. I’ve listed ways to fix first base, catcher, and the outfield without spending a ton of money, but because other teams overvalue the cost of starting pitching, it artificially raises the cost of obtaining a good pitcher. That’s why it’s so important that the team work on developing pitching from within, with the hopes of churning out cheap starters year after year, and converting failed starting prospects into relievers to avoid offering closers $17.5 million vesting options. Alas, I digress.
The 2009 New York Mets – Job’s Favorite Team
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009And sadly, I don’t mean GOB Bluth, although somehow that would be appropriate too. But with all of the pratfalls that have befallen the Mets this year, from the Tony Bernazard situation and the Adam Rubin situation that grew from it, to the injuries on the field, to the ridiculous poor play, to the downright agonizing ways that this team has lost games, only an absolute masochist could truly enjoy this year’s Mets.
Here is a look at exactly what has gone wrong for this team:
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.
Reasons to be Thankful You’re a Mets Fan
Friday, November 28th, 2008- The bright future of Jose Reyes and David Wright
- Johan Santana’s changeup.
- Memories of Mike Piazza’s dramatic home runs
- The Immortal Shinjo
- Robin Ventura’s grand slam single
- Endy Chavez’ catch
- Lenny Dykstra and Roger McDowel were traded for Juan Samuel; that’s just funny.
- Mookie Wilson’s “hit” in the ’86 Series
- Keith Hernandez’ appearance on Seinfeld
- Al Leiter’s ’99 one-game playoff complete-game shutout
- The 7 train
- The ginormousness of Mr. Mets’ head; it’s so great that the Reds cloned him!
- The drama of the non-stop string of Almost No-Hitters
- Shawn Estes MISSED Roger Clemens; what other team would have a moment like that?
- The half-second during the bottom of the first inning on the last day of the 2007 season when we all thought that Ramon Castro’s line-out was a grand slam.
- Vince Coleman threw fire crackers at kids after a game; he thought he was an NFL running back or something.
- Vince Coleman’s firecracker fun was on the SAME DAY that Anthony Young lost his 27th straight game. Awesome.
- Tom Seaver was in the dugout during the Mets 1986 Series win. The RED SOX’s dugout. Ouch.
- The constant smell of urine and tar at Shea Stadium.
- Suzyan Waldman is not an SNY broadcaster, but Gary Cohen is.
