A Few More Names For The Chopping Block

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• Sean Kenny April 20, 2011 at 12:08 pm

  I guess I am not the only one enraged, hence my Scott Hairston post. It’s deserved, and players without track records should be treated as such. Players with poor track records, a’la Scott Hairston, should be treated the same.
  • Pete April 20, 2011 at 5:52 pm

    Yeah but at the end of your blog you said you were not endorsing his ouster, which was gutless.
• Mr North Jersey April 20, 2011 at 12:08 pm

  “This 4-12 start has really got me baffled, frustrated and angry.”

  No doubt you must be frustrated your even giving the team less wins. 5/W 12/L

  
  • Pete April 20, 2011 at 5:53 pm

    Ask metsie, he’ll tell you how glorious it is to be a Mets fan.
    • Mr North Jersey April 20, 2011 at 6:51 pm

      ok?
• scottydoesn'tknow April 20, 2011 at 12:09 pm

  Excellent point about Francouer. I admit I was a huge Francouer fan, mainly because he was a great person and had amazing character. Granted he didn’t hit .300, but he played outstanding Defense, and in my opinion, that is what a perfect back-up players should do. I know it is hard for a bench player to come off the bench and hit high averages, but you definitely can not be a liability in the field. Now I understand why Francouer got dealt, he wanted to start and the Mets felt that he did not hit well enough to start for the club. I agree with the Mets position on that, and I don’t hold any resentment towards Jeff for wanting to start.

  Hairston has to go, he looks puzzled and mythed at the plate. He swings at high fastballs that everyone in Citi Field knows are coming, yet he still swings at them. I prefer Harris over Hairston and I am thrilled Bay is back.

  Bullpen seems like it has been downgraded from last year. I love all the talk about how the Mets dodged a bullet with Feliciano, but what have they done to replace him; NOTHING!

  Starters seem to be struggling and with Chris Young now on the DL, it only makes it more evident. Let me be the first to suggest that 2011 be the year of re-building. Lets hope for a very SOLID draft, deal the players who aren’t part of the team’s future, and lets get some of these rookies up here to see if they are worth their weight.

  Call up Mejia, if he can’t get it done, trade him. Lets stop fooling ourselves like we do every year, it is time to call in the BOB’s and streamline this organization.
  • Des April 20, 2011 at 12:24 pm

    “Hairston has to go, he looks puzzled and mythed at the plate. He swings at high fastballs that everyone in Citi Field knows are coming, yet he still swings at them. I prefer Harris over Hairston and I am thrilled Bay is back.”

    He swings at high fastballs because he can’t hit low …… (fill in the blank, anything is correct).
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    “Let me be the first to suggest that 2011 be the year of re-building.”
    C’mon Scotty, many of us have been saying the same thing for awhile. Welcome aboard.

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    “Call up Mejia, if he can’t get it done, trade him.”
    Scotty, you’ve hit the jackpot — two whoppers ideas in one shot. Mejia needs time to improve his command. Trade him? Are you kidding? This kid could be another Koufax.
    • t agee April 20, 2011 at 12:35 pm

      How about DEVELOPING Mejia to be everything he can and THEN bringing him up? That’s what other organizations do.

      Do you think bringing Pelfrey or Kunz up here in their first professional season was “developing them?”

      Rushing guys because you have done a **** job in the draft just means your more likely to ruin whoever does show their talent and it’s almost always guaranteed to cause you to lose games up here.

      Mejia had 3 months up here last year under orders not to throw anything but his cutter, think that was “developing” the kid? He then spent a month injured then bounced between A, AA and AAA before coming up here and being shut down again. What kind of a “development plan” is that?

      Give him the full year and 3 or 4 starts if he’s doing really well in September. If they had done that with him last year he might be here right now and pitching great in the Major Leagues.
      • Des April 20, 2011 at 1:39 pm

        Tag, well said. My thoughts exactly.
• darth minaya April 20, 2011 at 12:10 pm

  What’s so baffling? The “top” of the rotation has pitched like dogcrap, there is no power on the team, and they have Wee Willie Harris gobbling up at-bats in left field.

  The only surprise to me was that they played relatively well against Florida and Philly before showing their true colors.

  Been saying it all along…this is a 70-75 win team at best.
• darth minaya April 20, 2011 at 12:10 pm

  And I’m fine with that, btw. They are “rebuilding”. These things take time.
  • francis April 20, 2011 at 5:09 pm

    darth, i agree with you.

    it’s unfortunate that some people can’t see more than a week into the future and fantasize about having a playoff contending team this year. unfortunate for them, because they’ve been and will continue to be disappointed.

    having debates like duda or harris, tejada or murphy – it’s hilarious. they’re deck chairs on the titanic.

    the reality is this: reyes is gone, beltran is gone, k-rod is gone. there is NO starting pitching on this team, and there is no money to spend.

    if there’s an ownership change, I would guess that this team may compete in two years. most likely, it will take at least three.
• Gregga April 20, 2011 at 12:18 pm

  Joe, no disrespect intended, but we’re not even twenty games into the season, it’s a little to early to be concerned with having the worst record on baseball. Keep an eye on the big picture here, Terry Collins and Sandy Alderson are trying to clean up years of incompetence, and lackluster play. The Mets have “sucked” for years now, it’s going to take time, and sadly lots of disappointment to turn the franchise around.
  I do agree with 100% about Emaus. He looked way, way overmatched. The second base situation is going to be a concern all season long. Maybe Sandy can work out a deal for a more established guy. We’ll just have to wait and see.
• Des April 20, 2011 at 12:39 pm

  “Finally, someone please tell me again why Chin-lung Hu is on our roster? It’s not because of his pinch hitting prowess right?”

  Pinch hitting Hu last night is a puzzler to me. He was totally overmatched. But the alternative for a middle infield roster spot was presumably Ruben Tejada. Because of the steady foghorn of misinformation coming from some point near our Statue of Liberty, I’ve posted a lot in the past week about just who Tejada is as a baseball player. It’s not pretty. Yes, we are in need of rebuilding our rebuilding.
  • The Coop April 20, 2011 at 1:47 pm

    “Pinch hitting Hu last night is a puzzler to me.” – Des

    Absolutely agree. I was screaming that Rodriguez was tired, he had thrown a lot of pitches and there were 2 outs with MOB and he sends up HU who then proceeds to strike out on three straight pitches? Really, Terry, we couldn’t do better than Hu at that point? I know, it’s early but he done f’d up there!
    • t agee April 20, 2011 at 2:23 pm

      A not so subtle message about the bench being short to Sandy? Having to go R/L with a bat like Hu’s? I think that’s a strong possibility.
      • The Coop April 20, 2011 at 2:31 pm

        That could possibly be it. But Murphy and…someone (my brain freeze has been setting in today) else were also on the bench. It was baffling that he sent Hu up there, even if Murphy was in his dog house about the base running gaffe.
        • Gregga April 20, 2011 at 2:42 pm

          Using Hu in that situation is so far the only Terry move I disagree with it. Still on the bench were Nickeaus, and Harris. Heck I would’ve went with Murphy and tossed the dice.
          Just to expand on your point Coop, Hu was badly at three pitches, but when Rodriguez was tired, Reyes, Thole, and Wright took very few pitches. I think Wandy had a ten pitch inning late. These guys need to know, late in the game, and the starters is still in there, be selective, especially with the tight strike zone they had last night.
• NK April 20, 2011 at 12:40 pm

  You mean you are not impressed with Hu? C’mon, give the guy a break. He is an average fielder that can’t hit lollipop curve balls thrown at him. In fact, he can’t hit 4 lollipop curveballs thrown at him.

  The Mets would be better off if Terry Collins played 2nd base and had Keith Hernandez teach some “fundies” to this group of losers.
• Metstheory22 April 20, 2011 at 1:22 pm

  Lets Go Rangers, tonight.
• Hawk April 20, 2011 at 1:38 pm

  Dan Warthen has to go.
• Russell Zanca April 20, 2011 at 1:43 pm

  Hu might get my vote for worst Mets batter ever!
  • Des April 20, 2011 at 1:49 pm

    Who might get your vote for worst Mets batter ever?
    • Pete April 20, 2011 at 6:03 pm

      Exactly!
• Donal April 20, 2011 at 2:50 pm

  “If this was supposed to be an improvement over Jeff Francoeur I got one word: FAIL.”

  Jeff Francoeur was the starting right fielder. Hairston and Harris are supposed to be back ups. Bay got hurt 3 days before the team broke camp and screwed things up. Not the same situation.
• Sammy Garcia April 21, 2011 at 5:27 am

  Funny Jerry Manuel looks like a genius now, but the reality is that this team lacks leadership from top to bottom. We need someone like Lou Piniella, with full control of all the trades and movements, and maybe we can turn this team around. Right now our players seem to be confused and disorganized. Someone must make a move soon, or we are doomed for another decade…
• sarge April 21, 2011 at 2:12 pm

  I saw Hairston hitting in a game in Spring Training against Nats and he showed me two things, he strikes out a lot and he can’t bunt oh, he swings for the fences on every pitch, sort of like Barrajas did last year.