I know that’s heresy in this age of numbers first/reality second but so what? That’s like getting bent out of shape because the hit was that won the world series was categorized as a line drive when in fact it was a bloop.

It’s about winning and not sweating these stupid details. Ruben is a winning ballplayer. Hopefully the powers that be after this current front office (cuz they sure are not going to do it) will build a good enough team that can go to the post season despite the talents of a Ruben Tejada, despite the talents of a Rafael Santana, despite the lack of power from a Rey Ordonez, and despite the lack of offense of a Bud Harrelson – get my point?

And in this age of relying TOO much on numbers instead of building the best competitive team you possibly can – guys like Ordonez, Harrelson, and Santana would have been CRUCIFIED and torn to shreds by saber geeks who know NOTHING about baseball.

And Ruben is still learning and already is a better hitter than the 3 I mentioned.

Seriously, I like when Bobby O talks pitching. He is really good at that. He’s informative and expresses himself well for lay people. But, he has a limited scope. He’ll start talking about hitting and at times will be the polar opposite of what Keith is saying…actually, what Keith is demonstrating.

and that is why the mets have a losing record and always fail to come trough in the clutch…

I get what ojeda was saying, while he was wrong, he probably just said it after what he’s watched w/o looking at the number, funny, tejada probably has come trough more for us this year than expected. the kid would’ve been just fine at 2B imho..

He started out so-so with six games over but by the time he finished what turned into a rant, he completely devalued the record at the break. Yet we hear him praising these NL Wild Card contending teams, with similar games over, and even fewer.

Lets, see….Here’s A Few Of Many

Yesterday he claimed Tejada makes a great play every night.

And that being 6 games over .500 at the break was terrible.

Today he claimed Tejada was not at all bothered by two episodes of intentional walks of ahead of him, even though we soon hear David Wright made a point to say a few encouraging words to Tejada to diffuse any fallout after the second intentional walk occurred.

On Sept 15th, Ojeda claimed Ike Davis missed all of 2011.

On Sept 14th, he twice claimed Murphy had surgery on both knees even though Murphy’s had none.

On August 22nd he said all those Mets two out hits in the first half were the result of pitcher failure.

On August 21st he said Murphy had surgery on both knees even though that’s not true.

On August 20th he said Santana’s back could be hurting because he’s dehydrated (as if that’s a viable medical statement for back pain, let alone not knowing when Santana’s back started hurting – which was at least 4 days before Ojeda’s comment. You’d think Santana was stranded on a desert island or the U.S. ran out of water.

And to make matters worse, in same analysis, Ojeda said it could be from the plane ride back to Citi Field even though the Post Game Show had just aired comments of Johan saying his back was hurting during the road trip, something that was already publicly known known to everyone but Ojeda who had second chance to listen to the facts but chose not to, busy yet again making things up, his own alternate reality.