Mets - Signed Graves
New York Mets - Signed P Danny Graves for no particular reason.
Graves’ arm looks pretty shot - even when he’s been on (or as close to on as he realistically ever was), his stuff looks like I could hit it. Pete Gray would’ve hung around longer if he had been able to face the Saigon Cannonball.
If Peterson is able to do something with Graves, I promise never to criticize him again, even if he murders Jae Seo and does unmentionable things to the corpse. No, Graves won’t be doing any starting but Mr. ZiPS still think he’ll start a little because he never had to see Graves. If Randolph gets any ideas about starting Graves, he should skip the middle step and go straight to the autoerotic asphyxiation.
2005 ZiPS Projection - Danny Graves
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Period W L G GS IP H ER HR BB SO ERA
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Actual ‘05 1 1 20 0 18 30 15 4 12 8 7.36
Rest ‘05 3 3 33 6 66 75 37 9 21 28 5.05
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Total ‘05 4 4 53 6 84 105 52 13 33 36 5.55
Dan Szymborski
Posted: June 07, 2005 at 07:34 PM |
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1. There are no words... (Met Fan Charlie) Posted: June 07, 2005 at 07:54 PM (#1387977)Did Graves spit in your milk this morning?
I look at it this way: can he be any worse than Grey Poupon or Admiral Aybar (It's A Trap!)?
But since that makes no sense, it didn't happen.
Maybe they had money to burn and didn't know my address.
Marlins had a trade worked out w/ Cin (with the Reds eating the $$$), but that fell through when it was realized that Graves had a clause in his contract that included a bump in salary if traded.
The problem here is Randolph is slightly retarded. Or he is on LSD. Either way, with Randolph, I have learned to expect the worst.
Who/what is ska?
Then again, this is the Mets we're talking about.
If that gets picked up, the Mets will have won the National League East. Because it will mean that Danny Graves somehow became a cross between Mariano Rivera and Billy Wagner. Otherwise, it's a lock they'll be paying $500K for Mr. Graves to move along.
I have also wondered that aloud. Similar annoying negativity, tone.
[drinks]
Hey man, he brought in Pedro and Beltran when no one else was willing to pay as much as he did. Don't diss!
Ska was also afraid that if he was tolerant of Sam M, then Ska might accidentally have sex with a man.
I think Graves is finished. But for what amounts to chump change, why not give it a shot?
Because they don't want to make a roster move yet; Graves won't join them for a few days.
Wouldn't you?
I wonder if there's a chance for a pseudo-Coors effect here. Get Graves out of the Chamber of Horrors that is the GAB for a fly ball pitcher, let him find himself again in a place where fly balls don't always go over the fence. Maybe he can pitch with more confidence, not feel he needs to be so fine and perfect with every pitch, and re-establish himself as at least an OK pitcher. It'd be interesting to know if the Mets have done a HR-by-HR examination of the dingers he's surrendered, and analyzed whether they'd have gone out at Shea.
It's a longshot, but it's not exactly like they're paying a huge price to find out.
Graves is GROUNDBALL pitcher. Or, well, he used to be when he could get his fastball over 86 mph. Now he's more of a line-drive-in-the-gap kind of pitcher.
Well, he's certainly not a groundball pitcher now. I hold out no hope at all that he can get back to doing that again (there's only so many pitchers the Mets can try to get throwing from a 3/4 arm angle). The only hope -- and it's a thin one -- is that if he's going to be a fly ball pitcher, it's better to be one at Shea than at GAB, and if he's going to have shots hit to the OF, it's better to do so with the Mets' OF defense than the Reds.
Maybe the Mets got him to throw BP and improve their hitters' confidence.
Well, hell, guys, if you're going to keep beating me down for my completely unfounded, desperate attempt to find some reason to think this has an even 1% chance of paying a dividend, I'm just going to take my ball and go home.
C'mon guys, give the ##### #### half-#### #####-###### a chance...
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