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jeffm
Pass.
Mysterious Two Hole Steve
With Baez, Bryant, Russell, and Soler, you are talking ELITE,ELITE talent. Stats say maybe one of the 3 will be a MLB contributor, but as a realist, I have no qualms thinking 3 of the 4 will be above MLB talents and mainstays for the big club, barring trades for pitching. Of the 4, I say Soler will make the biggest impact, and that’s SCARY.
NotCanon
For all the public relations “gaffes” Papelbon makes, his fellow BP arms in Philly have nothing but good things to say about his mentoring and leadership. He says stupid things to the media, but that’s as much persona as anything, and it appears he’s much better when he’s dealing with actual teammates.
Jaysfan1994 2
The Mets would’ve had the opportunity to draft Buxton or Correa in 2012 if they finished with somewhere close to 100 losses.
rct 2
Nowhere did I say he was worth 12 wins. I explicitly said he was worth 7 and 5.8.
They won 74 games and lost 88 in both of those. Toss out Wright’s 7 wins in 2012 and you’re at 67-95, which is pushing 100 losses as I stated.
Also, I indeed do have some idea of what the attendance would be. Their last year at Shea–coincidentally their last year with a winning record–they led the NL in attendance. With each passing losing season, the attendance and their rank within the NL has dropped, bottoming out at last year’s 13th out of 15 teams. Removing Wright makes them a markedly worse team in 2012 and 2013. The attendance would have been atrocious. Nowhere am I assuming that ‘people want to see stars’. I’m saying that people–Mets fans very much in particular–want to see a winner. Removing Wright makes them worse, ergo there would be far fewer people coming to games.
GR8FUL
Mets should trade for Cargo or Tulo….say they give up Murphy,Lugeres and Montero
Portland Micro-Brewers
The Dodgers wouldn’t trade for him if he wasn’t willing to become the setup man. They told Brian Wilson he had to earn a seventh inning role before signing him last year. They’re really not interested in moving a guy with 14.4 K/9 from the closer spot. Kenley is one of the better closers in the NL if not MLB.
ericl
He does have a no-trade clause. The reason I don’t think he would go if he isn’t the closer is last season he made the comment that he finds it hard to get up for an appearance when the game isn’t on the line, if it wasn’t a save situation. If that is the way he thinks, how is he going to get up for being an 8th inning guy? Don’t see it happening
Aloha Jack
Agreed, when you can’t even agree on how to calculate these stats like WAR, it’s time to pause and come up with something every website can agree on. Batting average is hits divided by at-bats, but WAR? Good luck finding one formula to calculate that.
Aloha Jack
That’s the end of his prime, which is 27-31.
Helloboy
Trading Murphy would be a bad idea, especially now. I see no reason they can’t sell Colon with a mid-level prospect for a major league player. He has another year of Control, so is not a half year rental and can help depth next year somewhere.
I think The Cardinals may want to help their back-end and may be willing to give up Craig in a move like this (Mets could put him in LF). If Craig can find his form of the past few years, this could be a big win on both sides.
If The Mariners really want another Starting pitcher for their back-end and depth and are willing to part with the scarcely used, 26 year old Morrison i would make that move too. Colon would give them consistency and would pitch in his familiar AL West. The Mets would get Morrison for LF and gain some youth and power potential. Even in his limited role, he is hitting a HR every 5 games on average in a place that is impossible to hit in. Morrison in Seattle is obviously not working for either side.