MMO Player Of The Week: Johan Santana

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• Alex68 April 30, 2012 at 8:59 am

  Tyler,

  Sorry, i slighty, very slightly disagree… Ruben tejada should’ve been the POTW… He was ON FIRE during the week, specially in colorado.. Had not been for that revamped bullpen we might’ve swept the rockies… Even duda should’ve been mention above santana… But i see you go with #57..
  This week my pick for MMO POTW will be: Daniel Murphy…

  To answer your question,Harry Chiti.. 1962?
  • trs86 April 30, 2012 at 9:03 am

    I can see Ruben being the guy. I think for sure he had an incredible series but what about the rest of the week? He did have 10 of those hits in the last 3 games.
    As for Johan, hard to fault 12 innings of one run ball with 16K’s. It will be nice if Terry ever allows him to actually pitch again.
  • Alex68 April 30, 2012 at 9:06 am

    Yeah.. But remember, it’s better to take it easy on him NOW, then risk losing him for the season or for an extended period..
    • trs86 April 30, 2012 at 9:08 am

      I agree to an extent but 90 pitches is too soon IMO. I would have let him go one more inning and then perhaps you avoid some of the drama last night.
    • Alex68 April 30, 2012 at 9:14 am

      TRS86, 4 run lead can’t be protected?? Come on, he did his job.. I agree with collins, no need to forced the issue with him… He’s still recovering and regaining his form.. I think collins is doing a well enough job with him… I rather have johan healthy all season and aproachin 170 to 200 innings than not have him at all in this rotation woudln’t you agree?
      • trs86 April 30, 2012 at 9:24 am

        It’s 90 pitches though Alex. At least bring him out for the 7th.
      • XtreemIcon April 30, 2012 at 9:24 am

        Alex, I agree with you. Bookmark this. This is historical. You’re right, the bullpen needs to hold a four run lead and Johan needs all the rest he can get right now, especially when it’s 55 degrees. I’ve been very critical of Terry’s bullpen management recently, but not yesterday. Yesterday he played it right.
        • stick April 30, 2012 at 9:26 am

          I was expecting to see parnell in the 8th, with Rauch held back for the 9th (in a non-save situation). So seeing it paly out the way it did, I wonder if they are looking at Parnell as the closer in waiting (cold be a short wait the way FF is going!)
          • XtreemIcon April 30, 2012 at 9:48 am

            I think Terry really wanted to get out there with a win, and Parnell got hit around pretty good Friday by the Rockies. If he was going to pitch, it would have been instead of Batista, not Rauch. After Batista got the call, I had the feeling that Parnell and Ramirez had the night off.
        • trs86 April 30, 2012 at 9:34 am

          Like I said I don’t think asking Johan to go 100 pitches is too much.
          • Alex68 April 30, 2012 at 9:43 am

            Then again, you wanna give the advantage to the bullpen, bring them up with noone on base and to start the inning… Johan did his job so …
  • jessep April 30, 2012 at 9:50 am

    “Had not been for that revamped bullpen”

    I like that. Because last year’s bullpen never blew games. Shame on the Mets for acquiring better relief pitchers because they had a rough game.
  • Tyler M. April 30, 2012 at 10:01 am

    Alex,

    Both Tejada and Duda were under consideration, but ultimately I chose Santana for his great job this week. Starting pitchers’ performances tend to go undervalued when it comes to this type of thing, and some people think only position players should get it, but if I feel a starting pitcher is more deserving, he’ll get it. Thanks for the input though!
    As for your comment that the revamped bullpen cost the Mets a sweep, I completely disagree. The starting pitcher Friday, Chris Schwinden, gave up 6 runs (although 5 were earned), he was with the Mets last season. Manny Acosta gave up 7 runs in a third of an inning, he was here last year. Just looking at two pitchers who were here last year for that game, you have 13 runs given up, more than half. Don’t blame the revamped bullpen when most of the runs were attributed to pitchers here last year. Only new pitcher who gave up runs in that game was Ramon Ramirez who gave up 4, 3 earned.
• Shamsky April 30, 2012 at 9:00 am

  The answer would be catcher Harry Chiti, an original 1962 Met.
• trs86 April 30, 2012 at 9:47 am

  I understand that and I am not knocking Johan at all. It’s just to me while we want to keep him healthy we have to build arm strength as well so if he is pitching well and not laboring then I would work to get him his 100 pitches.
• srt April 30, 2012 at 10:00 am

  I’ll go along with Johan as player of the week. Slight edge over Ruben only b/c no one expected Johan to be this good for the start of the season. Heck, some of us didn’t see him making opening day.

  I was a bit surprised Johan was lifted after 6 innings and 90 pitches as well. Only thing I can think of is b/c it’s the first time he pitched on normal day’s rest as opposed to an extra day – and TC didn’t want to push it.
  • trs86 April 30, 2012 at 10:03 am

    I am guessing you are right. Thinking that he couldn’t have finished the inning under 100 pitches and did not want to bring in Batista with runners on.
• Mr North Jersey April 30, 2012 at 12:47 pm

  Congrats Santana.