21
2009
The Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Players
An article by Russell Zanca
Losing 6-4 to the Cards isn’t the story. It’s how the Mets lost that’s darkening every fans mood. How can so much badly played baseball be packed into 9 innings!
Perez returned to his bad self. Four decent innings, and that’s all she wrote. Loss of control, and then batting practice. Yadier owns us. We had a 4-0 lead that lasted till the fifth; we also had 10 hits till that point, and then added exactly one more over the final four innings.
Tonight it was the BP’s turn to let us down. New call up Casey Fossum walked in the tying run on four pitches (Whew! Good thing we DFA’ed Figueroa). Then it was Putz’s turn to implode in the 8th.
J.J. had a little help from Daniel—“I got it! I got it! He got it alright!—Murphy who manages to do lots of seemingly acrobatic things in the OF without ever making the play to go with the, er, act. Oy vey! How much more of this guy do we have to watch in LF? I am souring on him quickly. He needs to go to OFers school. Oh, and he also managed to get himself picked off of first in the first because, again, Yadier owns us!
And speaking of some bone-headed base running…What the &*^% was Beltran doing in trying to score on a bungled Sac fly throw to 3rd. He decided rather than sliding into home to beat the throw, he would just cross HP standing up, save that Yadier had the plate blocked w/ his foot; Beltran more or less beat the tag, but ended up on Molina’s foot.
Definitely a more painful and exasperating loss than the last one to the Brew Crew. Tonight was a carbon copy of so many games in ’08 when we would score big early, and then take the rest of the game off at the plate. I’m kind of hoping JMAN smashes some things around in that locker room tonight.
The Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time-Players gave us their worst game of this young season, but it’s reflected in the score; it’s reflected in the little stupid and careless things they did.
About the Author: Russell Zanca
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This was the worst loss i’ve seen in a …. ah, who am i kidding. I know we’re gonna have 30 more games like this this season.
They really need a wakeup call. Watching this crap every night is getting tiresome, to say the least. Nothing more for me to say since Russell said everything there was to be said (sigh!).
Their approach at the plate needs to be
adjusted mid-game, they are not aggressive
rather, it seems they are waiting for the next
guy to come through. I’d also like to see them
give Murphy a few days off, rest his mind a bit.
Not a bad idea. Insert Sheff in Left, and move Church into the two-hole; Sheff bats sixth.
BRUTAL!!! That’s all that comes to mind!
The Mets are playing heads-up baseball…heads up their arses baseball.
I think it’s time to put a true left fielder out there. Murph has had some good at bats but he’s a defensive liability and is not worth it.
Ollie–what will they do about him? We’ll have to suffer through half a season of this, I predict.
I wish the Mets could start playing sound, fundamental baseball–small ball, if you will.
I’m just really glad we didn’t overpay for Derek Lowe. That would have been stupid. Ollie at 12 mill a year is a much better deal than Lowe at 15 mill a year. And Lowe is 35 years old. Really it was a no brainer.
Andy Pettite for $5 million one year would have been an even better deal!
hey guys,
I hear what all of you are saying….the way I’m seeing this is, Oliver should of locked down rather then bi tch out when he gave up the 2 runs…..it’s typical of him to wimp out when something like this happens….ok fine Beltran didn’t slide, I can only assume he ran in because he wanted to avoid any injury…..Murphy….well look if he wasn’t hitting then yes take him out but he is working hard on getting the fielding right….we have 150 games left….hopefully he learns for next time, think about it who do we have to play, Shef? Shef can’t even hit….I know it’s a tough lost but damn if Santana’s mentally was in Oliver he can be a 15 – 20 game winner….this lost in my opinion all falls on Oliver….he needs to step up when something goes against him and prevent it on getting worse…..
Yeah it was great that the Mets signed “Good Ollie/Bad Ollie”. Everytime he pitches he has every Met fan sitting on the edge of thier seat wondering no matter how well he’s pitching is the next pitch he throws the beginning of his “melt down”. “Good Ollie/Bad Ollie”s ERA is now 7.80. The Mets should have signed Lowe (ERA 3.72).
Lots of frustrations:
> the Good Ollie / Bad Ollie problem
> Murphy can’t stay on his feet in the OF
> Poor base running all around
> Sheffield taking time from Church
> busted hit and run plays
> revolving door to fill the Pelfry gap
Can they manage to true to capitalize on the positives? Delgado and Castillo are playing lights out. Church has shown he can be a productive component to the team. Omir Santos showing some spark and capability. Trying building on those things and find work arounds on the deficiencies. Jerry Manuel has his challenges and needs to show us the HE can deal with adversity. So far he hasn’t.
I don’t care if Ollie was only $1 million a year–if he’s not pitching well, he costing us wins.
I feel with all the pressure on Murph to play solid defense, it’s going to have a negative impact on his hitting. I hope I’m wrong.