2013 Mets Taking Shape: Give Justin Turner An Outfielders Glove

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• Brian August 16, 2012 at 7:26 pm

  Wow. Awesome. So we are set at fifth outfielder/AAAA bench player. What a joke this organization is.
• jerseymet August 16, 2012 at 7:51 pm

  Of coarse this move makes sense. The guy can play defense. Fact next year, we have no right hitting outfielders. Hairston walks and Bay doesn’t hit. Fact we are overloaded with AAAA right hitting infielders Lutz, Statin are you listening. Fact 2013 is about waiting for 2014. We are on to Sandy so lets do it as cheap as possible and hope for lightning.
  • Amazin August 17, 2012 at 7:02 am

    THE REAL FACT: ONLY a Clown is preparing for a season two years away. Tell us why cult member was 2011 about 2012… A LIE FROM YOUR MASTER? A FALSE DECLARATION to bring you into the cult? and then 2012 became about 2014 and the clown brigade of puppets will soon be proclaiming that 2014 is about 2017. Only a cult would believe, actually believe and proclaim they KNOW THE FUTURE. Go away, the kool aide is on tap for you all. PS:
  • Alex68 August 17, 2012 at 7:04 am

    I am sure he’s being sarcastic.. And if he’s not, MMO should need to start giving out Pre Screen Drug test…
• Hawk August 16, 2012 at 8:23 pm

  I was hoping we’d get rid of Turner after this year.
  • gorgeguy August 16, 2012 at 10:46 pm

    “After this year”????? ….. I was hoping to get rid of him this year at the AS break. I heard rumors some team really liked Turner. Alas ….. yet another false hope ….. sigh ….
• USMF August 16, 2012 at 8:56 pm

  *SIGH*
• USMF August 16, 2012 at 8:56 pm

  Why do the Mets make me feel like Charlie Brown?
  • Gina August 16, 2012 at 9:40 pm

    That made me laugh.
• USMF August 16, 2012 at 8:57 pm

  good grief…
• NJstuckinTX August 16, 2012 at 10:34 pm

  Does anything Terry says mean anything?
  • gorgeguy August 16, 2012 at 10:49 pm

    No doubt … seems as though everything he or Sandy says is just meaningless musings …. although scary meaningless musings.
    • NJstuckinTX August 16, 2012 at 11:10 pm

      Agreed. Poor man Murph (Turner) is not an OF.
• Joey D. August 16, 2012 at 11:04 pm

  The thought of Turner becoming an outfielder isn’t such a bad idea even if it just means an extra position he can fill in as a utility. He can always play winter ball to learn that trade prior to spring training.

  But if the thought process is that Turner could be a regular outfielder, would the rap about Daniel Murphy playing second and not having any power also apply to Justin? We don’t have any real power in the outfield other than the hope that Duda returns next season or Valdy proves he can hack it with the glove and can hit playing every day (since he is still an unproven commodity).

  Every ballplayer who has a decent career in the majors has to start out as an unproven rookie and prove himself but it seems the Mets are counting on that too much from too many. It was done in Oakland a decade ago but this is the first season that approach has again shown success in six years. We are now seeing Pittsburgh starting to falter two years straight. Kansas City has been chosen to be a dark horse so many times and never came close to those high expectations.

  Besides Oakland of a decade ago, Tampa Bay is the only other franchise to have had sustained success relatively quickly depending upon so many coming up within such a short time frame. Two out of thirty are tough odds to follow. Having a roster which combines youth, established players and a few veterans has usually worked out much, much better.
• Alex68 August 17, 2012 at 7:03 am

  My Goodness… This is gonna get uglier for next year… But hey, it’s the wilpons fault ok…