Spring Training Week 3: Who’s Hot, Who’s Not

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• Florida Met Fan Rich March 27, 2012 at 11:30 am

  I am really tired of watching this team during spring training. This team is border line unwatchable. Thank goodness the tickets are only $8.00 down here! I almost can’t wait for them to leave they are so bad!

  What really bothers me is that we are a last place team and our starting line up was basically all set even before spri ng training. Whay was their no competition for any position?

  Met fans, don’t take this team too seriously this year!…Lower your expectations to ZERO!

  Don’t let the Mets spoil a good summer or ruin a perfectly good day!
  • Alex68 March 27, 2012 at 11:35 am

    Lmao… FMFR, the CORE agree with you, but i do not think there’s any expectation for this team, after having yet another TERRIBLE OFFSEASON by the GM this team is what it is, a 65 to 73 win team… no more than that..
  • t agee March 27, 2012 at 11:47 am

    Rich when has their ever been any competition for a position on this team?

    The new expensive FA has a guaranteed spot, so do the three previous ones, then there’s a couple promising guys who hopefully won’t screw up too badly in their new position they’ll be learning on the job and a handful of retreads who, if they could do what they did 3 years ago might be able to help and a couple of underperformers who if they regained their former short lived flash in the pan status might do the same. Add in a couple of aging injury rehab cases and that has been our off season plan for 15 years.

    Mookie/Dykstra was probably the last ST competition till Mookie got hurt in the baserunning drill and that was over 25 years ago.
    • stick March 27, 2012 at 12:31 pm

      most teams don’t have any real competition. Certainly not true position battles. they do happen, but the norm is to pretty much have a set team, unless guys play their way out of a job.

      sometimes there is no incumbant, so then it is a play in to win the job. But normally there is a guy on paper.

      exceptions usually are “spare parts” (a couple bench spots, middle relief, maybe a 5th SP). those are always in play though.

      starters, especially position players? Not so often.
      • t agee March 27, 2012 at 12:47 pm

        That’s true Stick, there are much less positional battles in ST these days.

        Guaranteed contracts preclude competition at those positions, the 40 man roster complications, starting guys in AAA because of service time considerations but they still exist in some forms when you have a couple guys vying for full time status.

        Take a non tender like Jason Werth for instance in 2007. He was originally brought in to be the short end of a platoon with Victorinno and/or Robertson. That competition remained well into the season and by August Werth had the full time job, Rowand wasn’t resigned and Victorinno slid over to CF the next season.

        Still and all it wouldn’t have done us any harm to have someone vying for 2B, LF, or RF back in 2007-2009.

        ST though is more about the bench and backend of the pen these days.
    • trs86 March 27, 2012 at 12:41 pm

      You are forgetting about GMJR/Pagan!!!
  • Bayonne Mets Fan March 27, 2012 at 12:32 pm

    Yeah Rich,

    The last ST competition this team had was in the 80s (sarcasm) based on that loon’s take on it.
    Forget the much ballyhooed 2B competition of last year.

    But leave it to that guy to be as UNFAIR and manipulative as possible. And as usual he’ll bring up the past everyday.

    Mets never have ST competition, they’re the only team. ::rolls eye::

    Now comes the daily retrospect about the history of the 80s and how things COULD HAVE been done…knowing what we know now of course..and that’s years after all the historic Mets heartbreakers…but he has the answers now
• stick March 27, 2012 at 11:37 am

  Duda is a beast. Huge year coming.

  Pelf is scary.

  but mostly, ST 3s are usually fools gold.
• Jonathan Daniels March 28, 2012 at 5:49 am

  Random question for you guys:

  Would you rather have fill our # 5 spot in the rotation: Pelfrey or 49 year old Jamie Moyer who may or may not make the Rockies team.
  • trs86 March 28, 2012 at 8:11 am

    Most likely Moyer because he would be a decent mentor to the young guys and cost a lot less.
    • srt March 28, 2012 at 8:34 am

      IDK…just because he’s an older pitcher doesn’t necessarily mean he’d be good at mentoring.
      But we know he’d sure be cheaper than Pelfrey.

      Not sure Moyer will make it through the season without injury though. Have to give him credit for trying at his age though.
      • trs86 March 28, 2012 at 8:39 am

        The only reason I say that SRT is that I was listening to MLBN this morning and they were talking about how willing he was to do that, how he was a pitching encyclopedia and they thought would make a great pitching coach one day.
        • srt March 28, 2012 at 3:29 pm

          Fair enough. I don’t know much about Moyer other than anywhere he pitched, he was well liked by his teammates.
  • Even Flow March 28, 2012 at 3:25 pm

    Moyer. No contest.