Mets Starters Are Curently The Best In The Majors

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• Midwestern Met June 13, 2011 at 12:29 am

  At this rate we won’t even need Johan Santana when he comes back. But if Santana does come back and regains his Minnesota-era dominance, who’s the odd man out? And if he doesn’t, can we manage a trade with someone?

  http://midwesternmet.blogspot.com/2011/06/game-65-mets-7-pirates-0.html
  • t agee June 13, 2011 at 7:12 am

    What’s really surprising is that the defense really hasn’t been all that great and still were hanging in every game. I can think of specific games where the D was directly responsible for us losing a game. Murphy a couple of times, Pagan, Hairston, Harris, even Reyes and in general it’s been spotty unlike last year when I thought it was really good.

    Somehow despite the bad start, poor defense, some blow ups in the pen, base running gaffes this team has still played .500 ball. I attribute it to having some competition so no one is too comfortable like in years past. That and serving notice that under performance will no longer be tolerated. Boyer, Hu, Carrasco, Emaus, Igarashi, Evans, Fern, Duda, they all got sent down. The message is clear. I am glad to see the entire team playing hard this year.
• Bayonne Mets Fan June 13, 2011 at 12:57 am

  I’ve been saying for the last couple weeks here and on Twitter that it’s time some recognition be throw Dan Warthen’s way. This is the 2nd year in a row Mets pitching was not projected not to be good, especially the starters and wouldn’t you know starting pitching is our strength again and that I think it’s time that Warthen starts getting a little more credit around here because if this keeps up he’s gonna get a name all around the league. This is not like Leo Mazzone inheriting a bunch of talented superstars but a guy who is getting top results with limited resources. Of course there’s some bumps in the road and Mike Pelfrey is enigma but overall Warthen is doing it again.

  Who knows? Maybe Maine & Perez were on the downside anyway when Warthen arrived and maybe veterans like Santana are already set in their ways (not that I know anything about the relationship between Warthen and Santana it could be great for all i know) but maybe it’s time Warthen’s impact with younger pitchers starts to make some news.
• tlagee June 13, 2011 at 5:21 am

  Shame about the bullpen.
• alex68 June 13, 2011 at 9:30 am

  well, currently i wouldn’t say so. but their pitching has been great, is good to see capuano pitching this way.. pitching and defense wins, and with reyes and tejada up the middle helping the pitchers our team has become better, and once davis comes back our defense will be even stronger.. by the way JOSE REYES MVP!!!!!!
• sarge June 13, 2011 at 12:20 pm

  Listening to Capuano and his approach to the at bat vs Overbay gives us a bit of an inside look to how Warthen is trying to change mindset of the pitchers by having them challenge batters in certain counts especially when leading and late in the game to avoid free passes.

  Leading the league in walks last year and the turn around this year can be put at the feet of Warthen and his getting through to pitchers especially Pelf and Niese so that walks don’t become a problem
  I apologize for not taking Warthen seriously last year but some of staff was beyond help but we see this year that he has the right approach.
• Annie Savoy June 13, 2011 at 2:11 pm

  It’s simple – Terry Collins knows his business and he has done his job well for the Mets – have we ever seen a Mets team like this??? I can answer that one, not since the days that Keith Hernandez ruled the field, and I’m not sure he was as friendly as Terry