Comments on: Okay, Someone Needs To Say It… Re-Signing Hairston Was A Stroke Of Genius

By: Kay

Kay — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:37:57 +0000

So, was Scott Hairston a good pick up. Id say yes.

By: Vinny B

Vinny B — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:17:17 +0000

Ok, so I slipped up and made a mistake. You got me. Big deal. If you comment as much as I do, your bound to slip up and say something you might regret later somewhere along the line. It happens to everybody.

………..now back to baseball.

By: Even Flow

Even Flow — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:03:10 +0000

“Oh stop complaining. All you do now is complain about what other posters talk about. It’s annoying.”

….too easy.

By: Vinny B

Vinny B — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:55:46 +0000

Your right. I shouldn’t have went down to your level. I shouldn’t have said anything.

By: Vinny B

Vinny B — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 18:53:06 +0000

Sure I can. Jessep and Even Flow.

By: Kay

Kay — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:42:17 +0000

yadda yadda yadda

Just so much irony in your post lolol

By: Donal

Donal — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:32:55 +0000

Can you name them?

By: Metsie

Metsie — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:00:48 +0000

Do you not realize that some took that as wrong as others and Ran with it?
If it was meant in Jest maybe you should point that out to the other folks who agreed with the statement not the ones who pointed out it’s rediculous hyperbole!

I happen to agree Joe was looking for a hefty debate…

Now that we have it whay are you trying to squash what Joe was looking for in the first place hwne he made the statement?

You Run a blog you should understand why things happen on them and why Admins set topics!

By: Vinny B

Vinny B — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:34:27 +0000

Right, and they lower the bar for all of his signings, so when you get a guy like Hairston that plays well, and gets on a hot streak, everyone goes crazy and overreacts. Whereas if it was any other GM, it would just be viewed as a nice move and nothing more.

By: Vinny B

Vinny B — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:30:15 +0000

Oh stop complaining. All you do now is complain about what other posters talk about. It’s annoying.

So what if people like to argue and debate all the time? Why do you care?

And no one said Joe couldn’t say the word genius, we just simply disagree with him.

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:26:45 +0000

Vinny, it shows how BAD some of this people wanna praise alderson, all they got going is a backup player on a hot streak vs lefties and capuano doing good in LA as the greates acquisition for the GM and they wanna “tongue and cheek” pegged him as a genius.. How Sad..

By: Vinny B

Vinny B — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:21:20 +0000

Doesn’t matter if it was tongue in cheek. Posters in this thread are overreacting to a bench player that’s on a hot streak.

By: Kay

Kay — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:15:31 +0000

This blog, which is an opinion piece is about Scott Hairston, not yet another debate of every other player good or bad. Why do so many have to make every thing an argument.

Every GM in the history of MLB from the start of time have signed some good deals and some bad deals. Selective memory?

Does it really have to get regurgitated every time something positive is written the names of guys that didn’t make it?

Hairston has been a very bright spot in a trying time as a Mets fan.

End of story

Joe D – how DARE you use the word genius in an article YOU wrote on YOUR site? Where do you get the nerve?

By: TRS86

TRS86 — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:11:59 +0000

Do you guys not realize that Joe said “genius” as a smack at you guys? LOL. It was clearly tongue in cheek. It was a good signing, obviously not a genius signing.

By: Metsie

Metsie — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:05:38 +0000

“What’s going on is that everyone is lowering the bar for these signings to the point where if they aren’t completely useless, it’s a good move.”

Precisely!

And a lot of it has to do with folks jumping out in front and staking their reputations towards becoming a cheerleader for a GM for no other reason than his name was not Omar Minaya.

Others were excited to see the sequel to Moneyball…

And by Moneyball standards all these deals are sheer genius! The Best you can ever hope to get!

Anything that costs under 3 Mil per and doesn’t suck as much as Perez and Castillo is a GREAT acquisition…

And considering Castillo hit .302 with a .387 OBP in 2009 and had as much range as anything Murphy has it’s amazing what a difference a GM makes!

Castillo in his met career had:
.293 BA, .370 OBP only 21 errors in his 4 years here.

Murphy in his 4 years?
.291 BA .342 OBP 11 Errors in a half a season (78 Games at 2B)!

People think we hate Sandy and nothing could be further from the truth!
Our responses are directly due to the Over abundance of love showered on him before he has accomplished a damn thing and the incessant attempts at selling chop meat signings as a Steak Dinner!

As for Capuano if they had signed him to a two year deal at the reduced rate they might have a point.
To me we got nothing from him last year worth crowing about and all we really accomplished was giving him a venue to reclaim his career with nothing in return. We didn’t even get a draft pick out of it!

By: Vinny B

Vinny B — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:25:02 +0000

What’s going on is that everyone is lowering the bar for these signings to the point where if they aren’t completely useless, it’s a good move. I mean someone here a few weeks ago called Willie Harris and Ronny Paulino good moves, while they weren’t good at all – Paulino hit .260 with no power, and terrible defense, and Harris didn’t hit well, and didn’t field well either.

Or even with Capuano. Some people are making it out to be a great move, when he was mediocre last season – He had a 4.55 ERA and 1.35 WHIP and he couldn’t pitch effectively deep into games.Yes, he’s pitching good this year, but the Mets signed him to pitch last year, and he was mediocre.

I’m not saying it’s a bad move, but to act like signing a guy who gives you a 4.5 ERA is something special is ridiculous……And now we are going crazy about a bench player, who’s a on a nice hot streak? Come on.

By: Donal

Donal — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:32:36 +0000

He posted it too late in the day. Something like this has to go up just before lunch time.

By: Metsie

Metsie — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:24:54 +0000

Bingo! So what the word ABOVE genius we should apply to the Dickey Signing?

By: Metsie

Metsie — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:22:16 +0000

“And it wasn’t referred to genius at the time because we all cumulatively had more common sense than to say stupid things like that.”

PLUS PLUS PLUS!

It’s also because we were too busy and more interested in giving props to the Players who did well as opposed to the GM who got them!

and Excellent point by both you and Vinny in pointing out if Hairstion is a stroke of genius whats the label we should use for the Dickey acquisition?

By: Donal

Donal — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:10:08 +0000

Here’s the problem though, if he’s healthy, he’ll be on pace for 600 PAs, which kicks in the vesting option. No team is going to pick that up.

If he’s not healthy or so terrible they can justify benching him for extended periods, then they will either have to eat his entire contract or swap for another bad contract. Even that is a long shot.