Month: July 2007

Mets Just Watch As Phillies Land 2B Tadahito Iguchi

The Phillies wasted no time in replacing the injured Chase Utley by acquiring second baseman Tadahito Iguchi from the White Sox today for a Class A reliever that was not even one of their top ten prospects.Yes, you read that correctly.Iguchi, 32, was batting .251 with six homers and 31 RBIs in 90 games this season. In 16 games against National League teams in 2007, he hit .311 (19-61). A native...

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Memo To Omar: Go West, Young Man

It don’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the Mets are having some difficulties in a bullpen that was one of the best in baseball last season.About the only pitcher the Mets can count on this season is their closer, Billy Wagner. He has been lights out this season and is clearly having one of his best seasons in close to a decade. Pedro Feliciano is not too far behind Wagner as...

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Roster News: Joe Smith Sent Down To AAA, Jon Adkins Called Up

Adam Rubin of the Daily News reports that Mets reliever, Joe Smith was sent to Triple-A New Orleans after today’s game. Smith allowed three hits and retired only one batter in todays game. For the season he had a 2-1 record and 3.03 ERA in 46 appearances.Smith had become very shaky since the All Star break and has seen a ton of inherited runners score when he came into games. It is clear...

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I Urge All Mets Fans Not To Read This Blog

We Keep Getting One-Upped – Is it me or does it seem like every time the Yankees bring somebody up from the minors he becomes a star? If it’s not Robinson Cano, it’s Chien Ming Wang, if it’s not Phillip Hughes, it’s Shelley Duncan. If the Mets keep picking ahead of the Yankees in the last 4 years of the MLB Draft, then why do they keep getting these seemingly...

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Mets Making Me Crazy, But Boy Do I Love them!

Just thought I would share with you some of the things that really ticked me off while watching/listening to yesterday’s game… First off, the dumb idea that Ruben Gotay’s throwing error in Saturday’s game may have been caused by the fact that he now knows he is going to be the everyday second baseman, at least for a while, and his nerves got the best...

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