Comments on: Maybe The Mets’ 2012 Season Wasn’t So Bad After All

By: Metsie

Metsie — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:22:46 +0000

If they trade a power hitter they are going to want SOME power hitter back. One who HAS played the OF but could also play 1B!

Duda is not going to be the key piece in that deal but a large chunk of the value when combined with a Flores or Familia and Mejia.

By: Metsie

Metsie — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:20:51 +0000

Well you do realize that the shortfall of hitting .100 compared to a respectable .300 is about two hits every 10 ABs.
Ikes lowest performance in BA was about .154 making him 1.5 hits per 10 Abs lower than respectable!

Hard to say that one hit and a half cost us many games considering that no one gets 10 Abs per game!

So for every three games where Ike didn’t hit above .150 at best you can say he cost us one game and thats a MAYBE at that!

April/March he hit .185, Horrible but only 1.2 Hits every 10 AB
May I talked about already
June he hit .264 which isn’t bad BA for a power hitter

and during that entire time he drove in 45 RBI.

Can’t really say he cost us many games there!

He had played 65 games from March till June…SO maybe he didn’t help us in 21 games but he sure wasn’t the entire reason we lost either.

By: SaltyGary

SaltyGary — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:03:44 +0000

Alex,

If you were so concerned about respecting MMO then I imagine you wouldn’t be getting banned around here.

And it was merely a jab at TRS who says that he has no ideas about anything to write yet he spends all day badgering you guys. So, mind your own business.

By: TRS86

TRS86 — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:00:49 +0000

Alex, come on back down man. Where did anyone disrespect MMO? Because Salty said I should write an opinion piece on Ike Davis? Seriously?

By: Mr North Jersey

Mr North Jersey — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:48:16 +0000

Ike has done very well indeed. To think Ike is putting up the numbers he has in what can be labeled as a bad season. Imagine what he may do in a good season? We are talking Silver Slugger 1st baseman possibly.

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:26:49 +0000

I understand the desert is hard place to be, but guys, have some respect for a blog that it’s not your own… Disrespectful if you ask me.. You have your own blog to go and discuss things, don’t disrespect MMO like that

By: TRS86

TRS86 — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:14:47 +0000

Alex, are you off your rocker?

So I make a comment about Ike and where he ranks in the NL East and Salty wants me to write an opinion piece on it and we are suddenly stealing from MMO? Are you crazy all of the time or just some of the time?

By: TRS86

TRS86 — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:13:09 +0000

Yeah, possibly. I might take on that challenge… maybe. What I had thought about doing was taking a look back at those rankings and see where they are now but I usually do those when the season ends.

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:12:34 +0000

TRS this would make a great opinion piece”

So you are coming to another site to steal ideas to create articles? You guys are amazing… Joe D should ban both of you if an article like that comes up in the desert!

By: SaltyGary

SaltyGary — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:10:37 +0000

TRS this would make a great opinion piece…

By: TRS86

TRS86 — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:10:11 +0000

I am not so sure they trade Duda for an OF honestly.

By: TRS86

TRS86 — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:06:54 +0000

I too still like Ike’s potential over the rest of the NL East but I need to see it over a full season next year.

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:58:30 +0000

Too bad i’d still take IKE ahead of freeman and anybody else you wanna mention!

By: TRS86

TRS86 — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:54:49 +0000

Again, I had Ike as hopefully taking the throne as the NL East best 1B this year so maybe it’s just I was burned this year.

As for the trade, why in the hell are we discussing that again? It has nothing to do with this at all.

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:40:06 +0000

Metsie, only 7???? Probably you find that the first 3 weeks of the season… Lol.. I love ike metsie, but come on. You don’t wanna go ahead and ask that!

By: Metsie

Metsie — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:38:48 +0000

When you can cite 7 games Ike davis was the reason we lost the game we can talk about this!
Or even 10 Games where Rauch was the reason we won it

Point is Ike had a semi-decent excuse for his poor start!

Rauch just sucked and if you want to use Injury then he should not have been in the game and on IR instead!

By: Mr North Jersey

Mr North Jersey — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:33:02 +0000

LoL, I can’t say I am surprised by this response. Just remember Alex he had a horrid 15 game stretch that’s it. He has pitched well before and since that stretch. By the way is it OK if I use some of your comments as talking points in a post over at RDM from time to time? Your comments are very popular. You’d be doing me a favor.

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:24:40 +0000

MNJ, difference is, Ike needed to get back to baseball activities after being hurt for a whole year, it took beltran exactly 2 months in 2010 to come back to baseball form and shape when he came back from his injured knees. Difference with rauch is, he started hot, then flamed out in the month of may and most of june where he alone had 7 LOSSES!!! i said ike will be fine in about 2 months, that is why I keep bringing June 12 as a gap date.

By: Metsie

Metsie — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:23:57 +0000

Of course they were because when you put two struggng guys in the lineup together there is no protection.

Just saying if they had a little better protection they might not have struggled as much as they did.

My problems with Duda are not bat related it’s all about his plodding speed in RF where LF is at least better as they will not take third on him as often there as they will in RF.

The problem will be if they do get a RHPB that plays OF more likely Duda will be part of that trade and Kirk or Valde will wind up taking his spot, we will lose some of his power and niehter of them are decent #3 hitters either.

By: Metsie

Metsie — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:19:48 +0000

Funny how you need to see it with them but you don’t to know the Wheeler for Beltran trade was a great success…..

You have two different CONVINCE clocks don’t you?

And what happened to your “I’m a MET FAN and will be optimistic that every thing Mets is going to be just fine!” Routine?