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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Friday, May 16, 2008
Before this train reaches the next station it will become the scene of the most spectacular Mets hijack ever attempted!
Why do both teams, given their high payrolls, have such weak benches? Shouldn’t all that extra salary buy you some depth? The Mets banked on either Damion Easley repeating his outlying 2007 or Luis Castillo (who limps around like Fred G. Sanford) making 150 starts. Of course, neither is going to happen. Perhaps the front office disagrees with me and views Marlon Anderson as something more than the new Lenny Harris (pinch-hitter with no pop and zero defensive value).
Endy Chavez could be DFA’d right now and not be claimed. Angel Pagan? He’s at best Endy Chavez in 2006 form, if Chavez couldn’t field. Ramon Castro makes Castillo seem like Cal Ripken.
I’d have been happier if the team called up Val Pascucci rather than Fernando Tatis. In New Orleans, Tatis went .242/.345/.597. Pascucci, in 59 at-bats, is .303/.393/.731. Last year in Triple-A, Tatis hit 21 homers (in a pitcher’s park), Pascucci 34 (leading the Pacific Coast League, but in Albuquerque). Tatis is 33, Pascucci 29.
The Yankees bench has been terrible, too. Morgan Ensberg is showing why multiple teams released him. Shelley Duncan has done nothing with his limited opportunities. Alberto Gonzalez was actually useful during Jeter’s absence—5.27 assists per nine innings at short versus a pathetic 3.89 for Jeter (average is 4.57).
Repoz
Posted: May 16, 2008 at 01:27 PM | 14 comment(s)
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Make fun of the rest of the bench if you want, but speak no evil of The Former AG.
I'd like to think the Yankees' weak bench this year is in honor of the historically weak bench the Yankees annually employed at the tail end of Torre's tenure. I especially liked it when Minky was playing 1B last year, and John Sterling or Michael Kay would trumpet that they have JASON GIAMBI coming off the bench for the princely sum of $21 million.
Someone is going to make you look stupid by posting the worst 40 or so game stretches of teams that have won~95 games the last few years.
No doubt.
Mets' Last 148 Games = 74-74; 730 RS; 727 RA
Let me know when it's safe for me to conclude that they are not a 95 win team.
When they lose their 68th game?
And this is something to write home about?
Cue Francesa: "Yeah, Dawg, but they're the Yankees..."
Looks like it; I was just using their 39 game record since thats where the Mets are at right now.
They were 21-29, and then 12 games later they were at 500, after a 10-2 stretch. They actually got to 34-32, but before too long they were back to 36-39, before they just went on a tear. They were 40-41 at the halfway point, and finished 54-27.
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