The third-best AAOP entry we received -- with an average score of 7.75 -- was My plan to turn the Mets into "WORLD PHU**IN' CHAMPTIONS" by Schmidtxc. The highlights. Really well-written (you'll notice this one as a running theme among the winners). Trades Luis Castillo for Milton Bradley . Bradley's attitude and injury history are troubling, but so are Castillo's age and declining skillset....
Chris Coste signs...with the Mets In the immortal tradition of Rusty Staub and Fernando Nieve, Chris Coste is going from the Astros to the Mets. Not exactly groundbreaking news, but it becomes huge in a slow offseason for Houston.
I'm not exactly sure what we have in Fernando Nieve, is he another reclamation project who shows flashes of talent only to eventually under achieve or a savvy steal who only needed to be afforded a decent chance. Fernando Nieve was a highly touted prospect in the Astros farm system ( #5 prospect), he was one of the players Houston was praised for finding in there so called Venezuelan pipeline. The...
When things were beginning to unravel in early June, Fernando Nieve burst on the scene and filled a huge hole in the starting rotation — only to be befallen by the injury bug a month... [[ This is a summary ... visit MetsToday.com for the full story ]]
(note: bumped from FanPosts) In the same vein as yesterday's Minor League free agents, these are the John Maine -esque, under the radar steals of typically cheap, young pitchers that for whatever reason become available. Whether it's a post-hype prospect (like Maine), a 4-5 starter that's out of options but won't make the 40-man or just a player that's being overlooked, usually this is someone who...
At the beginning of the season, the Mets were poised to be post-season contenders. However, a plague of injuries haunted the entire team and now they are 20 games behind the NL East leader, much to the delight of Phillies Phans everywhere. To say the least, this has been a tough season for these hardy boys of summer. Without further ado Ladies and Gentlemen, your 2009 New York Mets! Other Mets who...
Inspired by this post at Gas Lamp Ball ( ed note: "inspired by" is just a nice way of saying "stolen from" ), and with a lot of help from the Internet Anagram Server , I managed to kill quite a bit of time this weekend. I plugged all of the 2009 Mets into the old anagram machine and here are the results. Feel free to try it yourself and post any other good ones in the comments....
It's a measure of how far we've fallen (with farther to go) that I switched off the TV feeling that the Mets had eked out something akin to a moral victory by only allowing the Phillies to beat them by two runs. Nelson Figueroa bit and scratched and came out of things only vaguely mussed, Ken Takahashi conducted himself well and our Triple-A lineup was gallant in tilting at a few windmills before its...
On Sept. 1st teams could expand their active rosters to include the entire 40man roster. Since then the Mets have gone two players over 25 men with the return of David Wright and the call-up of Josh Thole. They currently have 44 players on the the roster but five players are on the 60 day DL, leaving them one roster spot. The Mets are still carrying three questionable players; Argenis Reyes, Andy Green...
"Spahn and Sain and pray for rain" dates back to the late 1940s, when the Boston Braves' rotation was fronted by star pitchers Warren Spahn and Johnny Sain. That Braves team made it to the World Series in 1948, where they became the last team to lose a World Series to the Cleveland Indians. At the start of the season, the Met rotation could have been described as "Johan, Pelfrey and...
This exercise, called "Restoring the Rosters" , at NBC Sports in fairly interesting. The premise: construct, for each MLB team, a team comprised only of current players who were signed by the team. The author then rates the rosters. The Astros come in No. 19, even though the starting lineup and rotation looks fairly decent. The reason the rating is downgraded, according to the article, is...
Omar Minaya announced after Sunday’s game that David Wright has been put on the 15-day DL with his head injury. Minaya stressed that Wright wanted to stay with the club, but that after consulting with medical experts, the team decided it was in Wright’s best interest to rest. Wright joins John Maine, Jon Niese, Fernando Nieve, J.J. [...]
Last night, Bobby Parnell made his first major league start for the New York Mets against the San Diego Padres. A young, tall, hard-tossing righty who came up the minor league track as a starter before moving to the pen in the majors last year, Parnell got the nod while starting in place of an injured Jon Niese. Here was his line for the night: 2 1/3 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 1 K Not pretty, especially...
I cannot recall a team running into worse luck than the 2009 Mets. Mets players on the DL include: Starting Pitchers John Maine Fernando Nieve Relievers J.J. Putz Billy Wagner Infielders Jose Reyes Carlos Delgado Ramon Martinez Outfielder Carlos Beltran Oh, wait, I forgot: Luis Castillo tripped going down the dugout steps on Wednesday, and sprained his ankle. Seriously. So the Mets starting lineup...
Yesterday I was playing the game Out of the Park Baseball , a hyper-realistic baseball simulator, as the San Diego Padres . This particular franchise began with a fantasy draft, a draft of all players in baseball; and to prove how realistic this game is, it took ~250 rounds. (I was the Padres because I wanted to make the perfect "PETCO team.") The roster pack I was using had very accurate...
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