Spring Update: Actions Not Words, Tejada Rakes, F-Mart Temporarily Healthy Again

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• Bayonne Mets Fan February 21, 2011 at 4:26 pm

  Hey Hojo,

  I called Citi Field today but offices were closed due to Holiday so I’ll call tomorrow and let you know what happens. I hope they let me buy it even though the store doesn’t open until March 6.

  And my friend calls me, lays a bombshell that he bought the Caesar Gold plan so it looks like I’m gonna shell out some bucks after all for an 11 game package..but in good seats.

  Just hope Saber Sandy doesn’t expect Mets fans to be as cost conscience and cheap as he appears to be.
  So Tejada added some muscle? Nice. Funny how Spring Training games seem to turn out some surprises too bad our ownership feels they have to make decisions based on what happened last year. Not bright if u ask me….but i’m not too bright either shelling out the cash anyway….but Citi Field, notwithstanding the dimensions, IS a very nice park with top of the line food & drinks so it’s hard to resist.
  • Mr North Jersey February 21, 2011 at 4:36 pm

    Yea cause that is why they wanted Tejada to go down to AAA to gain muscle.

    Cmon it’s about showing he can hold his own against MLB pitching. Hitting a hr on Feb 21 vs Pelf means just as mucjh as if he K’d which is “nothing”.
    • Met Maniac February 21, 2011 at 4:40 pm

      Knowing full well how you operate now, I’m sure if it were in a game, you would have replied spring stats are meaningless.
      • Mr North Jersey February 21, 2011 at 4:42 pm

        lol wait lemme see so a Feb 21st hr is meaningful to you?
        • Mr North Jersey February 21, 2011 at 4:43 pm

          I guess 3 innings of no hit ball by Ollie means a lot to you as well.
        • Met Maniac February 21, 2011 at 4:49 pm

          No, I’m just saying you would have commented directly to Bayonne even if it was a spring training game homerun. I know, and so does bayonne I’m sure, that battting practice stats dont matter.
          • Mr North Jersey February 21, 2011 at 4:54 pm

            Hmm so if Tejada homers in the 8th game of Spring Training and Bay would have said the exact same thing would I have replied the same as well?

            Yes i have to agree with you Maniac. I would of said the following most likely.

            “Yea cause that is why they wanted Tejada to go down to AAA to gain muscle.

            Cmon it’s about showing he can hold his own against MLB pitching. Hitting a hr on the 8th game of Spring Training vs Pelf means just as much as if he K’d which is “nothing”.”
            • t agee February 21, 2011 at 5:25 pm

              ST is for pitchers to throw, strengthen their arms, work on stuff they may have worked on in the winter and get back in baseball shape.

              Last year Pelfrey got knocked around but he didn’t care. He was working on his new splitter. Got it under control and had some success with it in April and May. It’s a good pitch for him to have to keep LH hitters from elevating his 2 seamer.

              The fact that anybody on the 40 could drive a BP fastball on the first day of spring workouts shouldn’t really come as a huge surprise to anyone.

              I’m more interested in where that splitter went after he tucked it away in mid July and very interested to see if Tejada has re worked his batting stance at all.

              Tejada hit well enough in 2009 in AA but while he didn’t look over matched up here he certainly did not look right from a technique stand point to me. His bat wrapped around his neck, swinging at up in the zone semi strikes he couldn’t get on top of, it looked like he was going Rey Ordonez on us.

              He does have a good eye and a short compact swing though and I’m sure the errors will go down with more experience. He has the talent and instincts, now if he can just lay off the high strike…..
              • Mr North Jersey February 21, 2011 at 5:38 pm

                Nothing would make me happier than to see our Baby Mets impress so much that they actually make the team.

                Thole at catcher
                Ike at 1st
                Tejada at 2b
                Reyes at ss
                Wright at 3rd
                Duda in LF?
                Evans off the bench
                Murphy off the bench
                Pelfre, Niese, Mejia and Gee on the rotation
                Parnell in the pen

                That would be awesome. At the same time if some of them are meant to play in the minors a bit longer I am cool with it.
  • Donal February 21, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    The same SABR Sandy that made the As one of the highest payrolls in MLB?
    • Met Maniac February 21, 2011 at 4:51 pm

      Stop throwing facts around in this forum. Some people may not be able to handle it well. They can’t handle the truth.
  • Met Maniac February 21, 2011 at 4:44 pm

    I’m rooting for Murphy Bayonne, but I’m not going to wave someone like Tejada off simply because of Collin’s and Alderson’s inane comments which have more holes than a sieve. Play the games, lets see what happens. No need for the the people running the asylum to start acting like kooks.
    • Mr North Jersey February 21, 2011 at 4:50 pm

      “but I’m not going to wave someone like Tejada off simply because of Collin’s and Alderson’s inane comments which have more holes than a sieve.”

      I take it you don’t approve of Tejada being relegated to AAA from this?

      I understand wanting to see a Baby Met make the team over a Emaus or a Hu. I would love to find out that Tejada will be considered for the starting 2b job as well but at the same time I understand the wanting to see him show he can handle AAA pitching 1st as well.
      • alwaysnextyear February 21, 2011 at 5:19 pm

        again, the team never said that Tejada WILL be in AAA. They said they prefer him (and expect him) to be there. With the caveat that things could change in ST, as always.

        I would be far more worried if the FO worked under the A.E.N. plan (what, me worry?), and just said nah, we won’t plan ahead, just wait until the end of ST and decide how guys should be handled.

        every team (not jsut saber ones) makes plans for thier young prospects, and go into ST with some sort of tentative roster (depth chart). Guys that were not obviously ready the end of the prior year will normally be budgeted to be in the minors. COmpletely normal, old school BB management. Even guys with no math skills at all do that!

        setting expectations is not a bad thing. Part of that is giving guys things they need to work on and master if they want to move up.

        but of course, every year in ST there are surprises (good and bad), and tentative plans change. A guy like tejada might come in transformed, and blow everyone else out of the water, and make the team. Someone they are expecting to be on the roster might look like total crap and get bumped.

        wich is why all the statements were caveated with “as of now, subject to change” in some form. Although I still say pitchers are different, since there are more often requirements for building up innings pitched (to make the rotation).

        also just silly to say that a prospect will become crushed and not perform if they are told in advance they are most likely starting in AAA. If anything, it should make them try harder to prove them wrong.

        consider it a ball check. If you tell a guy he won’t, and he crawls up into the fetal position and does not even try, you don’t want him around anyone. But, if he gives them a big F.U, and goes out and dares them to send him down, then he has stones!
        • Mr North Jersey February 21, 2011 at 5:25 pm

          Exactly like Lady Kay says in the shoutbox has said more than once. Nothing that has been said means it is set in stone.

          No need to read too much into things.
• Marla Hooch February 21, 2011 at 4:30 pm

  Funny how you kill ownership for making decisions on last year, and you call him Saber Sandy……….giving up on the guy before he not only has a season under his belt, but a pitch thrown in an actual game.

  Not bright if you ask me.

  Have fun with those seats……
  • t agee February 21, 2011 at 4:58 pm

    Isn’t that where lady Gaga sits?
• alwaysnextyear February 21, 2011 at 5:21 pm

  ST can only mean so much. It is part of the puzzle, but not the only )or neccesarily the biggest) part of the player’s histroy and body of work.

  where do you draw the line? If Duda has a monster spring, does he win the starting job over pagan? Bay? Ike?