SURELY, I CAN’T BE THE ONLY ONE WHO WOULD DEMAND TO SEE WRIGHT’S BATTING POSITION DROPPED TO PROTECT DAVIS & SPLITTING UP A POTENTIAL DOUBLE LH POWER COMBO HITTING 4th,5th AS JUST BEGGING FOR THE OPPOSITION’S LOOGIE.
AS FOR BATTING THIRD, I AGREE THAT’S MURPHY’S NATURAL POSITION ON ANY DIAMOND BE IT OFFENSE OR DEFENSE.
IF DUDA IS TO KEEP FACING LOOGIES AS I SUSPECT HE WILL BEHIND DAVIS DIRECTLY, HIS STRUGGLES WILL BECOME LEGENDARY BETTER TO TEMPT THE OPPOSING MNGR TO SHOOT HIS L;H LOAD PREMATURELY TO FACE MURPH & IKE THEN PULLING HIM AGAINST WRIGHT NOTRIOUS LHP KILLER, FOLOWED BY DUDA.

CONFUSED?

HERE’S MY PREFERRED LINEUP
COWGILL-CF
TEJADA-SS
MURPHY-2B
DAVIS-1B
WRIGHT-3B
DUDA-LF
BYRD-RF
BUCK-C
PITCHER
CONSIDERING WHAT’S IN CAMP I BELIEVE THAT’S TO BE OUR POTENTIALLY MOST DANGEROUS. ANY DISSENTERS?

And having said that Spin with a HR today and it is followed by this tweet from Rubin.

@AdamRubinESPN
Yes. And he’d have to displace Kirk or Turner. Kirk, I’d bet. // RT @BTeneyck54: is it safe to say Valdespin makes the opening day roster?
https://twitter.com/AdamRubinESPN/status/310123327446454274

Duda/LF, Den Dekker/CF, Valdespin/RF vs Righties?

You held up his home road splits and yes, there is a big difference, but his road splits were not terrible. they just were less than his home.

His splits look way better than Justin Upton’s.

Remember we have more needs on this team than just the Glove positions…We also have a severe lack of Power we need to get into the lineup everyday and Duda is the ONLY guy who seemingly can give it to us.

Duda is not competing with anyone else…He is competing with himself!
And it’s all about his Bat. If his Bat shows what it should he will be the regular LF or at minimum the platoon player vs righties.

(of course I’m joking!)

The Mets – with a projected payroll of roughly 52.5 million $ for 2014 – should AT LEAST have room to add another 30 million $ in payroll for 2014 this upcoming winter. With the goal being to break even. There will be a big revenue spike for 2014 thanks to the new National TV deal. And that´s even leaving out what the Wilpons could easily chip in from the outside using gains SNY will make thanks to their favorable TV deal with the Mets.

So, for the first time in 4 off-seasons, SA & Co. will have serious money to play with. And at the same time a youthful roster that´s basically set except for maybe one rotation spot, maybe a bullpen spot or two and probably two fulltime outfielders. At the same time, the farm system depth should be gravitating from the lower levels to the upper levels to create more valuable trade bait, especially among the plethora of young pitching.

So far, most of the moves made a lot of sense with this big picture in mind.
However, next year, the building phase needs to be completed – even if the peak of the “new” Mets may not be until 2016 or 2017.