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2011
MetsMerized Player Of The Week! (Week 3)
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With Spring Break over and the destruction of the bullpen mascot, the Mets have been looking to get themselves on track for the following season. Going 4-2 over a six game stretch is pretty good and the team seems to have woken up a little. However, when the dust clears on the week, we are still in last place and we’ve got a ways to go. But hey, things are looking up!
My choice for MetsMerized Player Of The Week is…David Wright!
There was definitely a hard decision to make this week with Ike Davis putting up similar numbers but I think overall, Wright’s numbers edge Davis’ slightly. Wright may seem young but he’s been around since age 21 in 2004 – about seven years now. Ike Davis needs a strong example in just his second year at age 24. Wright needs to be a strong force in the middle of a lineup that looks a little better with the return of Jason Bay.
Wright posted a .286/.444/.762 slash going 6 – 21 on the week with 3 Home Runs and 6 RBI. 16 TB on the week with 6 BB, 3 SB/0 CS and 7 R scored created a real nice week on the fantasy baseball scene for David Wright – and I’m sure nobody on the field for the Mets is complaining either. He had an error on the week but started 3 double plays, good to see.
It’s probably impossible for Wright to keep up this pace for the rest of the season but if he were to show this life for extended periods of time, I don’t think anybody would be complaining. The middle of the Mets lineup now includes Beltran, Wright, Bay, and Davis which looks pretty good to me. The order can alternate but if Bay puts up bounce-back numbers this year, things will look good. Congrats to Wright!
Who’s Hot And Who’s Not
Ike Davis: .381/.440/.905 (8 – 21; 2 2B, 3 HR), 6 RBI, 3 BB, 19 TB
Josh Thole: .067/.118/.133 (1 – 15), 0 R, RBI, 4 K
Past Award Winners:
One-Hit Wonders: Chris Young
Of Note:
Nationals and the Phillies this week – all on the road. If we can go 4-2 again and win both series, I’d be pretty happy. I’m not sure, but I do think we face Halladay this weekend.
The Mets had a surprise showing – a HR by Jason Bay on the 21st. It took him until the 27th last year to hit that 1st HR, and that was playing most of the games.
LGM!
About the Author: Satish Ram
I am a Senior Writer and Editor here at MetsMerized - where I specialize in Minor League coverage. I have been on the staff since 2007 and I am currently in my third semester of college in New York City. You can find me at www.facebook.com/SatishRam or @SilverHeatMMO. Feel free to message me - I love talking about the Mets or baseball overall with anybody.
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NL East Standings
| Team | W | L | Pct. | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braves | 43 | 30 | .589 | - |
| Nationals | 35 | 36 | .493 | 7.0 |
| Phillies | 35 | 38 | .479 | 8.0 |
| Mets | 27 | 41 | .397 | 13.5 |
| Marlins | 22 | 49 | .310 | 20.0 |
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I would have chosen Ike Davis hands down. He batted 100 points higher and had more total bases too!
Satish, I agree with the above. I think Ike’s homers were more important. Wright doesnt hit many game changers. Pops
Game changers? Is that the new cliche because people finally realized how silly “clutch” is?
What? Yes, Ike hit some great homeruns, and one of them gave the team the lead- AWESOME.
Did you forget one came when the game was already put away? Yeah, much more important. Then he went back to back with Bay, then the game went back and forth with leads and Murphy drove in the final go ahead in that game.
So tell me, other then the overturned homerun, how were Ike’s homeruns more important?
you love one of the worst mets hitters of all time in ed kranepool and hate david wright. unreal.
How does his remarks make him a Wright hater?
paul you’re an imbecile. Gotta love mets ”fans” that hate the best position player in team history. Wright’s numbers wrisp in his career are ridiculously good. Btw his walk set up ike’s homer huge in fridays game. Wright was the best playe rin baseball the last two months of ’07 and he gets blamed because crap like Brian Lawrence made big starts down the stretch of that season.
It’s quite clear you are the imbecile tom. This is about which player had the best week not career. Get your head out of your butt so you can see clearly. Ike Davis had the best week as a Met!
I would have chosen Ike, he’s hitting nearly .400 in this past week. Not to mention homering in three straight games during this week.
My God you people are pathetic getting your panties in a bunch over something that means NOTHING – it’s not a REAL award………..
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It’s not a real award, right, but they still have opinions and they have the right to offer them. I like to see the criticism on the choices. It’s less fun when everybody agrees.
On the topic of choosing Wright this week…the 100 points higher is misleading, Ike had two more hits. I chose David because I felt this week was important for him in terms of getting on track for the rest of the season – in my opinion, Davis has looked stronger over the season overall and this week, impressive for the both of them, had some importance for Wright outside what the stats show.
What I’m saying is, in my opinion, if Wright had shown more consistency this season, I’d probably have chosen Davis this week because they’d be no other factor adding into it.
There is nothing wrong with criticism, but most on this site do not know how to share it respectfully. People just insult others in the process.
This is a hobby, this is not life, and people don’t know the difference, calling people names, telling them to shut up, getting personal etc…. it’s a sickening actually.
Why are people incapable of having a differing opinion and voicing it without getting it across in such a nasty way?
Ike is the player of the Month!
Bay should have gotten an honorable mention for player of the week.
Wright broke out from his slump this week so he does deserve accolades but hitting HRs is not usually a sign of breaking out of a slump it usually means the reason he is slumping is because he is trying to hit HRs which his K total would back up.
Lets hope he doesn’t get HR happy and continues to hit for average.
Wow, you’re on a roll Metsie. That’s absolutely true. I would have rather seen a bunch of line drives into the gap or better yet balls hit sharply up the middle, that would make me feel more comfortable that Wright broke out of his slump.
To quote Clint…
A man has got to know his limitations.
Instead of trying to hit every ball out of the park it might be better if he just tried to hit every ball well and let the HRs take care of themselves.
If you over swing in order to hit HRs the likely outcome is going to be a strikeout because you give up bat control in favor of power.
It is only when you have both under control and balanced does the average AND the power increase.
Wright hit three home runs this week
Ike hit three home runs this week
Ike is the player of the month on a team that went a week without winning a game?
The night Wright hit the first home run after going 0-20 hit a double and drove in two more at his next at bat late in the game.
I swear that people find everything possible to hate on Wright. Its becoming Pomeseque like with his unrealistic hatred of Beltran.
Was that week of losing because of Ike or because of the tail end of Wrights 0 for 20?
In April
Wright 96PA 22H 6D 0T 5HR 14RBI 24K .262BA .351OBP .512SLG
Davis 88PA 24H 6D 1T 4HR 18RBI 20K .316BA .407OBP .579SLG
Any Questions?
It’s not hating on Wright. but Ike has been good in ALL categories not just HRs.
with RISP Ike also out hits Wright, .375 to .333
I’m not a wright hater but maybe your an Ike hater!
Yes, because I have a counterpoint that means I hate Ike. Good deduction.
Psst – they lost because the ENTIRE team stunk it up.
Well good enough to call me a Wright hater then it’s good enough to call you an Ike hater!
Don’t like the parameters used? Looks like you want things both ways…
Oh and while the rest of the team was Sucking Ike wasn’t!
Dude you picked Wright – so how did I call YOU a Wright hater? Did you read the other posts at all?
Someone pointed out how Ike’s homeruns mean something and Wrights don’t – tell me how that makes any sense? One was AWESOME game changing yes – the other came when the were up 8 runs. That is what I’m talking about.
Ike’s the man – no doubt, but why is it (generic question) we can’t compliment one player on the team we all supposedly follow at the expense of slamming another?