Theriot and Reyes aren’t comparable. Reyes’ career OB% are low because when he first came up he had a bad OB%. The Jose Reyes from 03-05 isn’t the same Jose reyes that’s playing for us now. So why do you want to count his stats from those years when he was a completley different player than he is now? His OB% from from 03-05 was .303 – that’s why his career OB% is low. His OB% from 06-11 is about .350. And Last year his OB% was down becuase wasn’t 100% the whole year. This year his OB% is .352…

And Reyes has much more power than Theriot. theriot has 16 HR’s in his CAREER, and Reyes had 11 LAST YEAR, playing hurt. Reyes will get on just as much as Theirot, and hit for a lot more power, and gives you way more speed – Reyes is better, it’s not close.

And if you want to give me Pagan’s sabermetrics stats that I really couldn’t care less about, i got one for you, he ranked 8th in the NL among NL OFers in WAR…..

btw, I don’t think we have the BEST lineup in the NL. I agree with you the Cards are better, but the Mets maybe #2…and no, it has nothing to do with the 5 game win streak, I said all ofseason long that we could have one of the best lineups in the league.

Theriot doesn’t even close to the hitter Reyes is – It’s not close at all.

and look at Herrera’s minor league numbers. He’s not that good, he’s off to a good start this year, but that’s in only 18 games, he’s gonna cool off soon. I’d much rather have Pagan/Murphy than Herrera.

Oh yeah, the Cardinals are pretty good too:
Freese – .333 BA/.364 OBP
Theriot – .311 BA/.361 OBP
Pujols – 7 HR…it’s Pujols, ’nuff said.
Holliday – .407 BA/1.148 OPS
Berkman – .378 BA/6 HR/1.162 OPS
Rasmus – .315 BA/.901 OPS

Both teams have better table setters then the Mets and 3-6 are as strong, if not stronger than the Mets. Lets not get too big for our britches, after 5 wins in a row over the mighty Astros, Diamondbacks, and Nationals.

The team had a bad start when the season started. But in the last week or so they seem to be putting it all together.

Could be part of sorting it out, along with the trying to hard did not work out for them when they started the season. But right now they seem to be calmed and collective, and ready to go.

And now (except for Pagan) they have every player there that is needed to go all the way. And that includes the hitting, pitching, pen, and not the bench, yet, because that is not good enough.

The problem with the top of the lineup is individually they all have talent, but they are hardly ever all together healthy and or playing at the top of their game together.

The only player in that entire lineup I’m fairly confident in, in a big spot is Ike Davis.

You can’t have the league’s best lineup if you have no confidence in them.

What’s wrong with Reyes leading off? So far he’s having a good year, is healthy and I don’t see why it’ can’t continue

- Murphy is doing much better than I ever though batting 2nd, right now he’s making the top of the order look strong and appears to work well with Reyes and may keep the 2nd spot when Pagan returns

- Beltran is swinging the bat as good as he ever has with the Mets. His mechanics are sound and Citi Field took 2 HRs away from him otherwise he’ had 5 on his way to a 30 HR season…there’s even been some great plays made on some balls he hit. I’d say he’s good for 25 HRs and looks healthy

- Bay is off to a good start. You think he’s gonna falter? Maybe. He may also return to his old from and start pulling the ball and hitting HRs again. He just might.

- I’m not his biggest fan and I think he should hit 6th in the lineup but he’s still a guy who’s gonna hit 30 HRs and around .300

- Ike Davis is a beast. He could be a 35-40 HR guy THIS YEAR and his HUGE in big spots. The guys with the good numbers who develop a knack for big hits are the ones who become stars. This is gonna be interesting to watch

- When Pagan comes back he may bat 7th in my opinion. He was arguably our best player last year, i’ll take it

- Nothing wrong with Thole hitting 8th

What’s your problem with that lineup. Still need some tweaks to bench but I’d go to war ANY SEASOn with that lineup.

The problem is we need PITCHING, PITCHING, PITCHING and the Front office should keep supplying us with arms whenever they get the opportunity.

Yes I’ll take that lineup in to do battle agains Roy Halladay as well. Let’ see it they grow to be even better.

Let’s get some pitching and drop this trade talk. We should be talking about getting better to contend for wild card, not dismantling a SOLID LINEUP

This happens every year whenever we play a couple of bad teams, fans start thinking we have the best this and the best that.

Tell me how great this lineup is on August 1st when you have Pagan, Murphy, Wright, Bay, Ike, Thole, Pridie, Tejada.

Tell me how good the lineup does against Halladay and Lee this weekend. Then we’ll talk.