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Monday, June 11, 2018
The New York Mets have released first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, the team said.
Gonzalez, 36, is making $21.5 million this season on the final year of the seven-year, $154 million deal he signed with the Boston Red Sox in 2011. Since then, he has been traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers, for whom he played more than five seasons, and then to the Braves this offseason. The Mets were on the hook for only $545,000 of Gonzalez’s salary this year.
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1. Joe Bivens, Slack Rumped Rutabaga Head Posted: June 11, 2018 at 06:20 PM (#5689911)154th in career RBI, 1202. trails Will Clark by 3.
259th in Hits, 2050. trails Indian Bob Johnson by 1.
129th in 2B, 437. tied with Jim Edmonds.
strong career, but thought he might rank higher in these categories.
Brett is HOF+HOM, Clark and Edmonds are HOM, and Johnson is one of the all-time leading HOM vote-getters who won't get in.
Then again, he may not be interested in meth and hookers.
For $170M he should at least get coke and escorts.
Indian Bob Johnson was a hell of a ballplayer. If he had reached the bigs at 22 or 23, instead of 27, he'd be in the Hall.
Meh, he was injured last year and the idea was to see if he had any life left in his bat. It says worse things about the current state of the roster that it took them more than 1/3 of the season to conclude that he was no longer useful.
He also has 2 fewer HR than the Fielders, and 2 more than Jeromy Burnitz
He has 10 fewer hits than Wally Joyner and 2 more than Dummy Hoy
He has 5 fewer RBI than Raul Ibanez and 8 more than Ryan Howard
He has 1 more double than Edgar Renteria and 3 fewer than BJ Surhoff
Active: Nelson Cruz
HOF: Eddie Murray, Mickey Cochrane, Zack Wheat, Buck Ewing
HOM: Joe Torre, Jimmy Wynn
Moderns: Josh Hamilton, David Justice, John Olerud, Bobby Bonds, Fred Lynn, Bob Watson
Earlier: SidGordon, Riggs Stephenson, John Reilly (AA)
677 PA
28 HR
103 RBI
137 OPS+
.646 OWn%
4.3 WAR
2.2 WAA
6.5 Rfield
He played in 5 ASG and was awarded 4 GG and 2 SS. He had top MVP finishes of 4th-7th-7th-12th.
I'd put him in the Hall before Steve Garvey.
strong career, but thought he might rank higher in these categories.
I agree. Worth remembering that he played in pitcher's parks nearly his entire career.
So, he's a "Hall of Good" player? I wouldn't put Garvey in the "Hall of Very Good".
#42 Adrian Gonzalez
#43 Joe Judge
#44 Paul Goldschmidt
#45 Fred Tenney
#46 Bill White
#47 Boog Powell
#48 Dave Foutz
#49 Harry Davis
#50 Steve Garvey
Going off memory, Fielders had MVP winning season(s)?
No, why do you ask? Cecil had 2 seconds, Prince had 2 thirds.
Sure, fine, but he'd only had a 111 OPS+ in the full and healthy age-34 season before that, so if that was the rationale, it still doesn't seem like a particularly high-percentage bet.
You don't get high % bets for the MLB minimum.
That said, the timing is weird, given that Smith was just sort of muddling along at Vegas when they promoted him, and Gonzalez was doing what he had been since the start of the season--hitting a little, then slumping a little. There's currently no timeline for Cespedes to come back, so it looks like Bruce, Conforto, and Nimmo going forward, with Smith and Flores (back soon!) in a platoon at 1B, at least until Cespedes returns and they have some crowding in the OF.
This team is just a mess right now though, really frustrating to watch. Wheeler was solid for five last night before imploding. At some point the offense needs to break out, but with Conforto and bruce slumping, effective zeros from C & SS, and middling production from 1B, it's tough to see how that's going to happen. FWIW Granderson's putting up a 119 OPS+ this year (.240/.364/.435), compared to Bruce's 77 (.220/.298/.332). I understood the decision to sign him with Conforto expected to miss a lot of time at the start of the year, but it seemed like a long-term commitment to solve a short-term problem.
He'd still be one of the best players on the Orioles.
Hmm, you're in the Czech Republic, saw Moses is in Poland (?), I'm in Spain -- how many BBTF posters are currently abroad?
bbchick is one
I just got back from Germany on Monday, but by your standards I'm still abroad.
(If you're ever flying within Europe, under no circumstances fly with Eurowings by the way.)
*rimshot!*
You don't have to be all that high-percentage a bet in order to be a better bet than a 36-year-old with marginal numbers who appears to be in clear physical decline.
Adam Lind is two years younger than Gonzalez, and in better health than Gonzalez, and hit .303/.362/.513 as a part-timer for the Nats last year, and all he got this offseason was a minor league deal with a NRI.
I didn't believe you until I looked it up. What's up with that?
That and with Bruce and Vargas. They moved early, which was a mistake. If they had waited longer, there might have been some better options, as when Frazier fell into their lap.
And not only for this year, but for the next 2 too!!!
That seems like an odd roster choice for 2018. Both are lefty hitters so you can't platoon. You don't have a DH and both really shouldn't play anywhere except DH (though I see Smith has a few AAA games in the OF). Back in the old days teams had roster space for a regular 1B and a guy who can back up or pinch hit, but in 2018 seems most teams would prefer another short reliever.
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