23
2011
Starting Line-up, Game Preview: Athletics vs Mets
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Game Time 1:10 PM
RHP Graham Godfrey vs. LHP Chris Capuano
Starting LIne-up
Jose Reyes, SS
Justin Turner, 2b
Carlos Beltran, RF
Daniel Murphy, 3B
Angel Pagan, CF
Jason Bay, LF
Lucas Duda, 1B
Josh Thole, C
Chris Capuano, LHP
Game Preview
The Mets face the Athletics this afternoon for the concluding game of this series. Oakland took the first game of the series and rallied to tie the second game of the series in the top of the ninth. The Mets would go on to win the thanks to a walk-off hit by pitch in the bottom of the 13th, which I guess is the universe’s way of showing some pity from the walk-off balk loss from last week. Today’s game will feature a common feature from most games in the last week, where the two starting pitchers have very little to no experience against the teams they are facing.
Chris Capuano is 5-7 this season with a 4.29 ERA. In his last three starts he has pitched 19.0 innings with a nice 1.64 ERA. Chris, a National League pitcher, has never faced the Oakland Athletics franchise and has only faced two batters on the Athletics. Conor Jackson is 2-12 in his career against Chris, both hits being homers while Josh Willingham is 4-8, with one homer. Besides that, he will be new to this Oakland lineup.
The Mets bats will get a surprise when they face Graham Godfrey who will be making his third major league start of the season. So far he has pitched 11.1 innings in 2 games while allowing 7 runs, 6 earned (4.76 ERA) on 15 hits (two homers) and 2 walks while striking out 5. As you would expect, there is no one on the Mets who has seen Godfrey in his short major league career.
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NL East Standings
| Team | W | L | Pct. | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braves | 23 | 18 | .561 | - |
| Nationals | 23 | 19 | .548 | 0.5 |
| Phillies | 20 | 23 | .465 | 4.0 |
| Mets | 16 | 24 | .400 | 6.5 |
| Marlins | 11 | 31 | .262 | 12.5 |
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Well that didn’t last long! Bay back to sixth after 0-5 and 3 K’s last night. What disaster, and Matt Holliday is still ripping the cover off the ball. Yeah, the Cards really got burned on that deal, lmao.
looks like Terry going with the gold glove infield!
seriously though, when you aren’t scoring runs, gotta do the best you can to get some bats out there. Tejada has not hit at all lately.
Holliday got 7 years 120M and a possible vesting option of another 17M. Bay got 4 years 66 and an option that most likely won’t vest for 14M.
120M vs. 66M not really the same thing. Obviously Colorado is the one that really made out with Matt Holliday. Not only did they get one of the NL’s best players for five years for an average salary of 3M per year, they also got Carlos Gonzalez and Huston Street going forward.
That’s the way to do business. Draft a Matt Holliday in the 7th round (out of high school) Give him an over slot deal to give up his college schlorship and start his pro career. Do this often enough and your going to wind up with the best years of the best players and then, at the very least, get something for them when they leave, unlike getting nothing when guys like Pedro, Beltran, Delgado, Lo Duca, Perez, Castillo, Alou, Wagner, Schowenweiss, Matsui, Vaughn, Alomar, Burnitz, Coleman, Bonilla………..
When the big expensive free agent or trade acquisition leaves it’s always either by retirement, injury, salary dump or getting cut. That leaves nothing for us going forward. We’re creating holes in future teams in order to fill holes on our current team. This is madness. It’s like running up a credit card in order to pay the overdue bill on a different credit card.
At some point you have to get your house in order. Stop spending, start building. Start actually getting something for your money. Holliday and Pujols together are great but one is going to cost the Cardinals the other one and if he doesn’t he’ll cost the Cardinals some where else.
The way you win is by having the Matt Holliday when he doesn’t cost you another great player.