Mets Bid Iggy Sayonara

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• letsgomets October 20, 2011 at 5:55 pm

  I am not upset.
  • t agee October 20, 2011 at 6:16 pm

    Good. Now it’s time to get Carrasco off the 40 man roster. Cut him if you have to or better yet get him off the 40, stash him in Buffalo and hope you don’t need him.
    • Metsie October 20, 2011 at 9:59 pm

      There are a LOT of guys in the pen that need to get purged from the roster…
      My question is will they spend enough on replacements to have any affect at all or will we just have different names attached to the 4+ ERAs there?

      This team hit and scored runs.
      If we had pitched even just as well as we did in 2010 we would have been competing at the end!

      But no matter how good you hit it is not easy to score 5 runs every game to overcome the 4 your Pitcher gave up!
• Bayonne Mets Fan October 20, 2011 at 6:01 pm

  Iggy was a guy that I liked and was hoping he would turn it around this year. Even when he first was brought up this season he had a nice knack of making big pitches in big spots and getting out of jams, but it was when he started innings later on that he would get into trouble and it continued to get worse.

  oh well…..
• Des October 20, 2011 at 7:43 pm

  Iggy often got excited and overthrew. He seemed to have an unending overdose of adrenalin. It got in his way, so he often wound up just being wild. The front office grew impatient. I wish him the best.
• jdon October 20, 2011 at 7:46 pm

  how about: “he stunk” and let’s leave it at that?
• Metsie October 20, 2011 at 9:57 pm

  He was never the same guy after he got hurt last year!

  And I certainly won’t cry about one less 4+ ERA pitcher on the Roster! Especially one that is 5+ ERA!

  I will give Gee (a rookie) and Niese (still developing) a break on that bellweather for another year maybe but we should not have more than one guy over 4 ERA in our rotation.

  I would rather spend 8 Mil ona 3+ ERA pitcher than to spend 2 Mil or 4 Mil on a guy with a 4+
• alex68 October 21, 2011 at 8:53 am

  i don’t like iggy, but what’s weird to me, is how he was doing really good at first when he came up, then his hamstring injury came, and it seems EVERYTHING fell apart, he wasn’t confident after that, he wasn’t the same pitcher. good bye iggy, hope you end up on the phillies and stink it even worst for them out there..
• XtreemIcon October 21, 2011 at 9:04 am

  Igarashi was never any good. He had a good month in July when he came back this season and a good August last year, but two good months in twelve do not a relief pitcher make. He pitched his worst in high leverage situations and couldn’t throw strikes. I didn’t have much of an issue bringing him back for this year, but it’s definitely time to cut bait now.
  • alex68 October 21, 2011 at 9:11 am

    xtree-micon
    he started real well for us last year, he went the month of april just allowing 1 run, then he had that injury and when came back wasn’t the same, i am not stretching it by saying it was because of the injury, but it seems as if he lost confident and wasn’t driving the fastball, hell, bob ojeda talked about this in one the pre game show
    • XtreemIcon October 21, 2011 at 9:44 am

      That “only one run” is a mirage. I guess you can give him credit for not giving up the big, back-breaking hit, but he didn’t pitch very well at all. 6.2 innings, a home run, four walks. I’m guessing it had more to do with NL hitters getting used to his pitches more than anything, because that month was a complete aberration from the next eleven months he pitched as a major leaguer. Too much of a negative sample size to say he pitched well that one month. Looks more like the league figured him out after inning seven and he never re-adjusted. He just wasn’t that good.
      • alex68 October 21, 2011 at 10:26 am

        well, to be fair, look at beato splits then… first month of april the man was unhittable, then he was injured, once he came back he wasn’t the same. was that month an aberration as well?? or hitters adjusted to him??
        • any October 21, 2011 at 10:40 am

          always hard (and dangerous) to make too much of a determination on a rookie pitcher. They almost all have some ups and downs.

          And these guys probably cover both ends of the spectrum for rookies (a guy with lots of experience overseas, vs. a guy that basically had 1 solid year in AA and was learning on the fly as a rule 5 in the majors).

          Would not be at all surprised to see Beato spend time in the minors to start the year if he isn’t lights out in ST. Who knows, maybe he follows the Johan path (rule 5 to stardom!) Not expecting that of course, but very easy to imagine him over the next couple of years really settling in as a solid BP guy (and potentially a set up, even a closer, at some point).
          • XtreemIcon October 21, 2011 at 10:41 am

            That’s another good point. Beato has a ton of potential to become really valuable, and Iggy is……well, this is Iggy.
            • Joe D October 21, 2011 at 10:51 am

              I can see Beato eventually becoming a top shelf setup man, He was young and probably promoted a bit to early to the majors, but Rule 5 rules are what they are. That said, he held his own and at times looked electric.
              • XtreemIcon October 21, 2011 at 10:53 am

                Agreed. Beato’s best years lie ahead.
        • XtreemIcon October 21, 2011 at 10:40 am

          The league caught up to him, same as Igarashi. But you have to give Beato a pass for his rule 5 season, though. The kid should rightfully have been in the minors and still pitched better than Igarashi did. Beato also stepped it up in high leverage situations (relatively….he was good, not great), whereas Iggy really screwed the pooch in big spots.
• Des October 21, 2011 at 10:01 am

  Iggy, Parnell and Pelfrey all seem to be Johnny-One-Note pitchers. None have the variety of changes of speed and pitches to do well in the majors. I hope Parnell can develop more, but we’ll see.
  • Metsie October 21, 2011 at 1:24 pm

    The problem isn’t their STUFF!
    The problem is you need to know how to PITCH to best use that stuff!

    They are Johnny One Notes because they don’t setup the hitter, setup the out, merely throw what they THINK is their best pitch which the batter knows is coming and crushes!

    Whenever a pitcher looks great until the 6th inning it is an indication that the pitcher is not mixing up his pitches enough, not playing off the previous success, and gets hurt because the guy has found his pattern and is ready for it!

    As annoying as it is to hear Ojeda say in every post game show about the need to locate and learn HOW to pitch, he does have a good point!
    Pelfrey goes out with an empty head, no plan, and no idea of what it is he wants to do!
    He has the stuff to get by the order twice if he doesn’t have troubles in the 1st with his command and after that they figure out the pattern and hit him to shreds!
    Parnell has only two pitches really and if he can’t locate the fastball he’s got nothing but the slider and that is hit or ignored to take the walk!
• Marie October 22, 2011 at 12:33 pm

  Good. We kept the wrong Japanese pitcher. If we had gotten rid of Iggy and never signed Carrasco, we would’ve had enough to resign Takahashi. Ugh
• Hitman October 22, 2011 at 12:46 pm

  *drops to knees*

  HALLEJUAH!
• Original Mets Fan October 22, 2011 at 1:07 pm

  I hope we dont let our poor experience with Igarashi keep us out of the Japanese market in the future. I for one would like to see the Mets be a little aggressive on this Yu Darvish kid.
  • Hitman October 22, 2011 at 1:15 pm

    You really think the Mets will shell out over $100 million for Darvish ($50 million just to TALK to the man)? Don’t get me wrong, I have been talking about Darvish on here for years, wishing that he’d be a Met, but I can’t see it.