Is that saying much Bay? Are we asking if he would be a better 3B than 2B? Uh yeah of course he most likely would. Are we saying he would be better than Wright? I am guessing that unless Wright is still injured that would be a no.

How so? Because of the metrics you read about in the minors? Did you see him play in the minors? Did you?

When Murphy played last year and did a nice job at 3B and everybody saw it, even the announcers said he looked his best there yet you say he was real bad? And he did do a better job than Wright and Wright has gotten worse so YOU don’t know if he could be better at 3B for the Mets than Wright and I don’t know it either because Wright has been looking real bad there lately.

Well, no, but you can’t have a DH in the NL too often.

“Atlanta has Uggla, who’s a terrible 2Bbaseman, so I’ll count him as a 1stbaseman. Chipper Jones defense has been bad now that he’s 40, so he’s a 1stbaseman. Martin Prado is a natrual infielder playing the OF, so should we count him as a 1stbaseman too?”

Yup, pretty much. Actually, Chipper has a pretty good 3B when he wasn’t 40.

Uggla’s kind of like Valdespin. Has the athleticism to play middle infield, but he has an awful glove.

“It’s unfair, but if we are going to be unfair to our team, we might as well be unfair to other teams, right?”

How is it unfair? They are good hitters but lousy fielders and play in the NL. If they run and have a good arm, you can put them LF occasionally, but otherwise, you have a 1B playing out of position.

I’m not basghing any players or anything. If that is where a guy plays and you’;ve got 1B and LF already filled, then you do what you can to keep that bat like Uggla or Murphy in the line up.

Murphy is my favorite player, but he looks about as natural at third base as Nic Cage in the Wickerman remake. To think he’s going to be some kind of vast improvement over Wright is fooling one’s self.

that said, if Wright gets dealt before Murphy, then Murphy should take over at 3B.

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But let’s criticize past Mets GM’s for not getting a pick for him.

But I hear you on not having any creditable catching prospects much above the lower minors right now.

Atlanta has Uggla, who’s a terrible 2Bbaseman, so I’ll count him as a 1stbaseman. Chipper Jones defense has been bad now that he’s 40, so he’s a 1stbaseman. Martin Prado is a natrual infielder playing the OF, so should we count him as a 1stbaseman too? We probably should because T agee would if the Mets ever did that – So in total, Atlanta has four 1stbaseman in their lineup(Freeman, Uggla, Chipper, and Prado), using that logic.

It’s unfair, but if we are going to be unfair to our team, we might as well be unfair to other teams, right?

Nothing has happened at the major league level so far to call Murphy terrible at 3B.

It’s the one position he played quite well last year.

And I know your counting Thole and Duda too. They just changed their postions now. Plenty of MLB players have changed their postion from the time they were drafted. I know Thole is a weak defensive catcher, but why is the Mets catching situation only on the past GM’s? Alderson has had two offseasons here, and brought in only one major league catcher, Ronny Paulino, and he was awful. And in last years draft, we didn’t draft a catcher untill the 14th round – Alderson is just as guilty with the catching situation because judging by his moves, he seems fine with having Thole as the starting catcher.

This is the type of monkeyball move Minaya’s disciples worship. The kind that cost you big time down the road and nets you just 100 games over two years.

That was just one of the great moves that year. Bradford, Hernandez and Oliver left and we drafted 4 college relievers with those draft choices. Now relievers are available every off season like Scott Schowenweiss who we signed right after Alou but catchers, second basemen and right fielders need to be acquired BEFORE you need them unless the idea is to convert all your first basemen into whatever you need and let them learn on the job like Murphy did in LF because there isn’t a Jason Bay, on the free agent market every year to bail you out at every position, every year, thank God.

The very people that complain and criticize every single move made by the new FO are so sensitive to even the hint of criticism leveled at one of their predecesssors.

Every move made before Alderson got here was always the perfect decision. Not one of them ever made a bad decision and their idea of waiting until the off season to address every deffenciency on the roster was inspired.

By waiting until the last possible second you can not only pay the very highest price but you can also get the sh*ttiest performance and help pave the way for a starting 8 that includes 4 first basemen, Brilliant Idea. Wonder why no one else in Baseball ever thought of that? Probably because it’s stupid and doesn’t work and takes years to fix but who gives a **** when your not going be around that much longer.

Monkeyball, the gift that keeps on giving.