Dickey and Wright Key 9-3 Victory Over Marlins

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• Mr North Jersey May 12, 2012 at 5:27 pm

  Very good comeback win. Nice job to hand Nolasco his 1st loss of 2012. Watching Dickey grab his wrist after getting hit by the ball left me only thinking that he may have broke it. I’ll be very attentive the next few days until I hear Dickey get a clean bill of health.

  How about Mr. Wright? Show the man some love or rather let me show the man some love for his play thus far this season and I am not talking about his .402 batting average. I am talking about his defense. The man has been locked in defensively.

  I want to take a moment to recognize Mike Baxter’s contributions thus far this season coming off the bench. Nice job Baxter keep it up.

  Positives for me goes to David Wright. The man goes 4 for 6 1/HR 3/RBI 2/R and 0/SO to raise his batting average to .402. Nice job.

  Niese on the hill 2morrow as we try to take the series and end the road trip 5-1 and reaching 6 games above .500.

  LGM!!!
  • Mr North Jersey May 12, 2012 at 5:28 pm

    I should note that I meant comeback win after last night’s loss.
    • Stick May 12, 2012 at 5:43 pm

      yup. solid rebound (statement) game after the heartbreaker last night.
  • Des May 12, 2012 at 6:01 pm

    Great win.

    Just about all the Mets are hitting, even Jose in the other uniform!!
    • Mr North Jersey May 12, 2012 at 6:56 pm

      True Des, Reyes has had a much better series vs us this time around. Hopefully the Mets can give him a nice 0 for the day 2morrow and we can take the series.
• Stick May 12, 2012 at 5:42 pm

  Wright is absolutely on fire. love to see him doing it. wonder how much is related to being fully over the beaning, and healthy for the first time in 2 years?
  • Bayonne Mets Fan May 12, 2012 at 6:48 pm

    or playing for a new contract?
    • Metsfan45 May 12, 2012 at 6:58 pm

      You really are a miserable person, I pity you.
    • Russell Zanca May 12, 2012 at 8:22 pm

      Excellent performance as MMO’s Gadfly-in-Chief
      • Bayonne Mets Fan May 12, 2012 at 8:37 pm

        this coming from a guy who doesn’t post – he grunts instead. Half the time we’re wondering if you’re drunk when you make one of type one of your emotional outbursts filled with bad grammar and misspelled words so be quiet.

        Anyway,

        One of the most common occurrences in sports is a guy stepping up his performance whenever it’s contract time. Everybody knows that, but David Wright doing that? GASP!!! David would NEVER, EVER do such a thing. He’s special, he looks like what a Met hero should look like even though he has as much to do with Mets special moments as Don Mattingly for the Yanks.

        Jose Reyes steps up performance in 2011 – it’s a contract year so of course, but David stepping up performance when it’s time for his contract talks? Nah, that’s not David, he’s wholesome and a star shines when he smiles. Never – he’s special. Can you say that? Special? Hmmm? I knew you could
        • XtreemIcon May 12, 2012 at 8:41 pm

          Well. It’s not Wright’s walk year. But sure. Anything to hate on Wright. Even lying.
          • Bayonne Mets Fan May 14, 2012 at 5:40 pm

            The 2nd inning on Wheel House:

            Is David Wright’s current success contract driven?

            Thank you, Wheel House

            I was called a liar by Xtreemshlthead for asking this simple question, which is a very FAIR question. That clown always calls me a liar and it ALWAYS winds up being spat right back in his face. It’s simply not true and it were true and here i’m typing here in front of the entire web site – i think i would not get away with nonsense like that and i would be caught. It’s funny how the story tellers like Xtreem and des are the ones that accuse me of lying, which I don’t do, but yet i’ve proven them to be deliberate liars right here on this very board.

            They can both go straight to ……..!
            • Metsfan45 May 14, 2012 at 5:42 pm

              You need to get a life.
        • trs86 May 12, 2012 at 8:44 pm

          If it was 2013 you might have a point. It isn’t and you don’t. Lucky for us because imagine how arrogant you would be if you ever did have one.
        • any May 12, 2012 at 8:50 pm

          reyes was finally healthy and had a hot start. Then he got hurt 1/2 way through, and until the last week of the season was pretty mediocre. Funny how that happens.

          and if he really was a guy that dogged it for years until it was time to get paid, then the mets dodged a bullet not resigning him. So I guess that was why he has pretty much stunk so far this year. Got the contract, stop caring or trying? Must be the reason.

          Wright played most of last year with a back injury, including a month or so with a fracture. I am going to go out on a limb and assume that had more to do with his struggles than not being a contract year (though technically this isn’t one either).
          • Bayonne Mets Fan May 12, 2012 at 9:02 pm

            any – different circumstances but essentially the same thing:

            From this February:

            http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/02/27/mets-david-wright-play-waiting-game-on-contract-extension/

            “The New York Daily News reported Monday that Wright is “unlikely” to go the route of Reyes, though if he wants an extension he’ll have to earn it this season. According to the paper, the Mets aren’t “100% averse” to trading Wright, though they’d have to be “floored” by a can’t-miss offer.”

            all the Wright lovers are storming out of their houses with their torches as if I were the Frankenstein monster for “gasp!” suggesting such a thing! Even being called a liar by the only guy who calls me a liar and it’s the one that has been PROVEN a liar over and over and over again here on this site – XtreemFatGuy

            Oh my God, how sacriligious to think that Wright can have contract in mind as part of his motivation this year. David? Nahhhhh can’t be – he’s wholesome, he has a nice smile.
            • Metsfan45 May 13, 2012 at 9:17 am

              Its not about being Wright lovers, despite your juvenile language, it’s about being METS fans and the fact that he is a Met and doing extremely well is a good thing.

              Your hatred for the guy is pathetic. Are you jealous or something?
    • Kingman 26 May 12, 2012 at 8:36 pm

      HAHAHA!

      Bayonne showing his miserable self. Again.

      Not a gadfly, just a sad fool.

      Wright, who grew up a Met fan, loves NY by all accounts, and has never done anything but hustle, is just playing for a contract.

      Ah Bayonne–the most reliable idiot on the planet.
      • Des May 12, 2012 at 8:42 pm

        Kingman26 — Don’t be harsh on a character whose emotional development stopped when he hit his 16th birthday. The last 25 years or so have not been kind to that misanthrope.
        • Phoenix Met Fan May 12, 2012 at 11:07 pm

          I’m surprised. I didn’t figure Baygoon for more than 12 years old. He’s even more pathetic than I thought.
  • Tony May 12, 2012 at 11:33 pm

    Stick, I agree with what you said. His success this year is also attributed to his new batting stance with his hands lower. Less unnecessary movement in his swing. He’s zoned in.
• Russell Zanca May 12, 2012 at 5:48 pm

  Clayton, Ol’ Boy good recap.

  Hate to act the part of literary snob, but it is “Wreak Havoc”, not “Wreck [sic] Havoc.”

  DWright’s the bomb!

  Let’s get this series tomorrow.

  LGM!!!
• Metsfan45 May 12, 2012 at 6:59 pm

  Ya Gotta Believe!

  Nice game – it’s time for McCarver to retire, he’s one of the worst announcers ever.
  • Bayonne Mets Fan May 12, 2012 at 9:22 pm

    Tim McCarver is one of the best of all time and spent many years with Ralph as a Mets broadcaster. It’s not a mistake that he’s one of Fox’s best and that him and Joe Buck are the real voices of the post season.

    So it’s not debatable. He is one of the best and is recognized by some of the top media outlets as one of the best broadcasters is not a mistake
    • Fonzie13 May 12, 2012 at 9:34 pm

      I learned a lot about the game listening to Tim when he was hired in 1983. He was the first of a new breed of analyst and worked for every network that carried baseball games. ABC, CBS, NBC and now FOX. He talks too much but nobody knows the game better than Timmy and when he was teamed with Kiner and even Zabriskie for a short while, they were as good as it gets, much like Gary, Keith and Ron.
    • Des May 12, 2012 at 10:24 pm

      Bayonne — “Tim McCarver is one of the best of all time and spent many years with Ralph as a Mets broadcaster.”

      If a person hasn’t seen or heard all the broadcasters, it’s BS to say he is one of the best of all time. Ralph said that in reference to Willie the Kid as the best player of all time. The same logic holds for Tim McCarver as a broadcaster. Also, most scientists disagree with Tim on his nonsense about anthropogenic global warming and home runs. But to a true believer like Ball Boy Bayonne, logic and expertise come in second to conviction and bias. Have another brewski.
    • Metsfan45 May 12, 2012 at 10:55 pm

      You are right, it is not debatable, he is horrendous, horrible, awful,atrocious, brutal, terrible, abysmal……….too much cannabis huh?
  • fie May 13, 2012 at 2:03 am

    McCarver is tuuuuurrible!!!!! Only Joe Morgan is worse!!!
• Mr North Jersey May 12, 2012 at 7:03 pm

  Nothing like kicking back and enjoying the scenery after a win.

  @redturn2
  Chillaxing on the balcony in Miami! I love this place!!!!! http://pic.twitter.com/nJkIJ2OD
• Des May 12, 2012 at 8:58 pm

  From Cot’s Baseball Contracts:

  David Wright 3b
  6 years/$55M (2007-2012), plus 2013 club option
  07:$1M, 08:$5M, 09:$7.5M, 10:$10M, 11:$14M, 12:$15M,
  13:$16M club option ($1M buyout)
  award bonuses: $50,000 each for Gold Glove, All Star selection
  if traded, Wright may void 2013 club option
  • Bayonne Mets Fan May 12, 2012 at 9:25 pm

    and as usual MMO’s number one evaluator of talent and travel agent has NOTHING to offer except quoting himself, horrendous judgement of young talent, and made up stories about non-existent college baseball programs.
    • Des May 12, 2012 at 9:32 pm

      Bayonne — If you say so sweetheart, it must be so. Now have another beer and drown your problems. You’ve got a lot.
• Des May 12, 2012 at 9:04 pm

  From Cot’s Baseball Contracts:

  Jose Reyes ss
  6 years/$106M (2012-17), plus 2018 option
  12:$10M, 13:$10M, 14:$16M, 15:$22M, 16:$22M, 17:$22M, 18:$22M club option ($4M buyout)
  award bonuses: $50,000 each for Gold Glove, All-Star. $0.1M for Silver Slugger. $0.25M for LCS MVP. $0.5M for MVP. $1M for WS MVP
  perks: suite at home and on road
  Reyes to donate $176,666 annually to charity
  deal does not include no-trade protection
• Joey D. May 12, 2012 at 9:45 pm

  I love this club but what worries me, like all others, is the bullpen and lack of a fifth starter.

  After a great start, in his last five appearances (4.1 innings) Rauch has given up five runs and eight hits. Rameriz has pitched scoreless baseball his last five appearances but has been inconsistent. After pitching brilliantly in relief his first four appearances, Francisco has been lights out – unfortunately, not in the manner we would like. And he has been signed for a two year contract. On the other hand, except for four appearances, KRod has 13 others where he has been lights out in the manner we would like to see.

  Yet we are counting on D.J. Carasco, who was also signed to a two-year contract, to help partially fix this problem?.

  With the absence of Pelfrey we do not as yet have someone to replace him in the rotation. Though I didn’t think much of his performance last season, Sandy did yet nevertheless released Chris Capuano (a move I agreed with last winter) because the G.M. did not want to commit to a two-year contract. Chris has started out hot for L.A. at 5-0 with an outstanding 2.06 ERA. The fact that I might have been wrong is OK. For the organization, it’s another story.

  Yet we are counting on Chris Young, with now four straight seasons of serious injury which has limited the starter to all of 120 innings in that four year span, to help fix this problem?

  I love this club but better moves have to be made than those that were already done. But even with the shaky bullpen and hole in the rotation, I still think we have enough to make a serious push for the wild card for what we might lack in those areas we make up with the big intangibles we had going for us last year and again this time around – guts and desire. And those things are something that can’t be measured in statistics.
  • Mr North Jersey May 12, 2012 at 10:22 pm

    Cmon Joey D,

    You do grasp what you just did? On one hand you say Rauch has had a great start then go on to show your concerns over what you describe as his last 5 appearances. Then you go to Krod and say other than 4 appearances he’s been lights out.

    If your going to do a comparison then at least apply the same standard to both KRod and Rauch. Rauch has had 2 appearances where he has done poorly. The April 29 game vs Colorado and the May 4 game vs Arizona. This out of 16 appearances so far this season. You want to say his May 9 game vs Philadelphia was bad where he gave up a 2 out triple for a run in what was a 9-4 game at the time in the 8th? Ok.To me he was throwing strikes avoiding walking the batter with a 5 run lead and the batter got a triple.

    How would Francisco look if you removed just 3 rather than 4 bad outings as you did with KRod? Say April 18 vs Atlanta, April 21 vs San Francisco and May 11 vs Miami? Probably something like 11.2/IP, 10/H, 5/BB, 14/SO, 3/ER, 2.31/ERA.

    Should there be concerns over the pen? Sure but how about doing a better job at how you express it?
    • trs86 May 12, 2012 at 10:38 pm

      Well that was a much better job explaining things than me: )
      • Stick May 12, 2012 at 11:12 pm

        also have to realize that every pen will have bad appearances, and closers will blow games. Just can’t have too many of them. even the greats blow games, just fewer.

        FFF is far from the best, but these days, plenty of teams have erratic pens and/or iffy closers.

        but overall, the pen has done a pretty good job. ERA not pretty, but that is certainly skewed by a few notable meltdown appearances. But there have been plenty of games out of the 19 wins that the pen played a big role.

        in terms of 3-F, I do think he was a compromise in terms of veteran experience, affordable enough, short-term deal, and he can easily move to a set up role. So in effect, he was hedging some bets, in case the young hopefuls (Parnell) weren’t quite ready. Plus, always an option to trade him away if he became redundant.
    • Joey D. May 13, 2012 at 12:07 am

      Hi North,

      Take into account the patterns of their pitching performances this year and not their overall stats. As we know, one or two bad outings can mare an otherwise good season to date statistical wise. It is not the amount of bad outings but the manner in which they have come.

      Jon was virtually untouchable the first few weeks of the season but over his last five performances he has surrendered five runs on nine hits in 4.1 innings (an ERA of over 9.00) – a complete reversal. Note I’m not picking out a game here or a game there but stressing the chronological log of his performances. Had those games been dispersed I would be less concerned about those five bad performances, however, they have been continuous and as a season goes on we know that word can get around in a league unfamiliar with one’s pitching manner and hitters can begin to catch up on him.

      So that is why it has to be asked whether we have the Jon Rauch of 2011 and not the one of 2010.

      Same holds true for Rameriz and Francisco. With his last five appearances at least, Rameriz has begun to settle down but I would feel more comfortable as well if his bad outings were scattered over the course of his game appearances rather than being grouped. It is even worse with Francisco. Let’s not forget Frank has put in spurts of solid pitching as a closer. Twice, he had four consecutive outings where he was very effective, however, he has had long spurts in which he was mostly tagged quite easily.

      I don’t know if those types of inconsistencies can be tolerable for middle relievers but I know they are unacceptable for closers.

      Hence, the equation of KRod, whom we did have under contract. In his 17 appearances thus far, Rodriguez gave up two runs in games 5, 6, 9 and 14. In his other 13 appearances he has give up all of one run and has not been cold over a long stretch of appearances, the mark of a true closer.

      Comparing KRod’s performance to date shows what is required of a closerand how vital it is for a club to retain a bonafide closer when it doesn’t have another proven one in the wings to be his replacement. Imagine what our record would be if we had one – not KRod in particular, but somebody with a proven track record still on top of his game.
      • Mr North Jersey May 13, 2012 at 12:25 am

        Your comments still don’t change the point of how you went about your comparisons. You want to say that Rauch had 2 of his worst outings this season over the last 5 games? You want to say you hope this is not a trend going forward? All valid and fair concerns. But what you did in your prior comment I find was not a balanced way to best make your point.
        • Joey D. May 13, 2012 at 12:39 am

          North,

          That is why I cannot claim to be a professional writer. Often it takes another’s critique (like your’s) to remind one of the points he had in his head were not clearly put down in writing. As you can see, there was more thought behind my concerns. Let’s hope there was really no need to worry.

          Will be catching the movie you recommended in a day or so. If you have Showtime, suggest catching “H.G. Well’s The War Of The Worlds” airing later this week. It sticks very closely to the book and is purposely slow in pace to build up the tension.

          Joe
      • Joey D. May 13, 2012 at 12:31 am

        ** forgot to add that the same type of consistency required for a closer is also vital for the eighth inning set-up man. Pitching well with one or two bad outings dispersed in between is more apt to limit losing streaks than pitching in spurts of hot and cold.
  • trs86 May 12, 2012 at 10:33 pm

    What in the world does Krod stats have to do with anything? Should we put up Mota as well? Krod has not pitched up to his contact and is getting closer money to suck at setup. Luckily that’s the Brewers problem we have our own.
    • Joey D. May 13, 2012 at 12:42 am

      See my post of 12:07 AM for the answer.
• Tony May 12, 2012 at 11:36 pm

  David’s success this year is a direct result of the off season mentoring by his college coach. His new batting stance with his hands lower is doing the trick. Less unnecessary movement in his swing. He’s zoned in.
• Satish Ram May 13, 2012 at 1:43 am

  Apparently the Mets had the fish throw 200 pitches tonight. Yeesh. Not sure if that’s a good or bad thing…