Comments on: Mets Better Off Without Paulino

By: WilburHuckle

WilburHuckle — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:40:42 +0000

Why didn’t Martino report this when it happened?

By: Rickeybobby

Rickeybobby — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:57:39 +0000

Syonara Paulino !! Who needs that kind of attitude from that subpar catcher. I still think the mets will find a suitbale 2nd cathcer away from Nicklaus and Pailino but i see Nicklas getting some abs this season none the less. Ive seenother teams interest in teams 3rd/to out of favor cathcers in rotoworld, i think the Mets will come up w something to improve backstop position..or lets hope..

By: izzy

izzy — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:30:54 +0000

Nice to see the kool aide has worn off a lot of you.

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:03:35 +0000

He came at a cheap price, therefore his stats don’t matter as much.. this is what happened when you sign low risk/pray for high reward players. the mets and sandy don’t care how the player does on the field as long as it doesn’t cost them as much. paulino turned out to be yet another guy who signed for cheap and didn’t pan out. thole may not be the answer. but it seems he’ll be back along with someone even cheaper than paulino, nicklaus, who’s no better but cost way less, that’s music to sandy’s ears.

By: Metsie

Metsie — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:58:02 +0000

I want to know which ‘Met Official” Idiot thought this guy was supposed to hit for power?

Based on what a dream he had?

The most power Paulino has ever showed was 4 years ago when he hit a greand total of 11 HRs and 25 doubles in 133 games!

And that was years before he got caught using a banned substance!

SO I would REALLY like to know which official said something so dumb and would like to be assured he has nothing to do with player evaluation whatsoever!

By: Hodges14

Hodges14 — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:41:10 +0000

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By: alwayzamazin

alwayzamazin — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:06:42 +0000

thole and nickeas will be our catchers. best turn your focus to pitching

By: XtreemIcon

XtreemIcon — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:54:00 +0000

Only to play first base.

By: Bad Bad Leroy Brown

Bad Bad Leroy Brown — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:52:33 +0000

Is Scott Hatteberg available???

By: Bayonne Mets Fan

Bayonne Mets Fan — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:41:22 +0000

Blanco signed for 1.25 million with an even cheaper buyout! Oh my God , that makes it even worse that he should be on this team NOW

By: Bayonne Mets Fan

Bayonne Mets Fan — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:11:35 +0000

At this point i don’t care how old the catcher is – the Mets NEED a good, solid, defensive experienced catcher if they want to try and WIN for pete’s sake!

I’d go for Pudge Rodriguez at the rate they’re going and I don’t care how old he is because it doesn’t matter at this point. And at this rate maybe they should have then paid 4 million for Blanco and let him get 300 ABs, at least we could count on his defense and he’ll hit enough.

Blanco and Rodriguez, at this point, whatever they can give you offensively would be good enough because we NEED an experienced defensive catcher regardless how old he is. He’s not gonna be here for the long term anyway.

By: Joe Diaz

Joe Diaz — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:04:53 +0000

I agree they shouldn’t,but they probably will.He’s probably the worst defensive catcher in the NL and doesn’t give you enough offensively to make up for his poor defense.I don’t know where they’re getting a capable catcher but they can’t go into 2012 with the combination of Thole and/or Nickeas/Paulino.I would’ve signed Doumit for the 3mil he got and kept Nickeas instead of the other 2.Doumit is not a good defensive catcher either but he’ll give you much more offense than all 3 catchers we have now and can play 1B/RF.If we’re going to have a weak defensive catcher playing 100 games we should’ve got one that can at least hit.Hopefully Mike Zunnino us available at #12 in June.

By: Bayonne Mets Fan

Bayonne Mets Fan — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:59:58 +0000

But Sandy and the “New” front office use all kinds of sabermetric advanced statistical analysis and I guess they liked Paulino’s OBP thing and…….he was saving them money!

But since they’re smart and looked deep into statistical analysis and figured they’d rather save money than spend a little more money on one of the most important aspects of a winning team…. that’s how they determined Paulino was their guy last year.

Genius.

By: alwayzamazin

alwayzamazin — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:44:14 +0000

thole and nickeas will be our catchers.

By: Met Maniac

Met Maniac — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:38:30 +0000

That’s a terrible steal percentage. In contrast Blanco and Barajas were among the best in the league in 2010.

By: Des

Des — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:30:03 +0000

We need a good defensive catcher more than simply a veteran catcher.

In 2011, Paulino and Thole allowed 29 of 31 attempted steals when Pelfrey was on the mound. Dismal. Pelf is slow to the plate and when we don’t have good defensive catcher behind the plate, we have big problems. Henry Blanco is surely missed more than Ronnie Paulino when the main guy is Josh Thole.

By: tlagee

tlagee — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:25:57 +0000

The Mets, as a team, will not move forward with Josh Thole as their main catcher.