Mets Need Harvey and d’Arnaud to Become a Dynamic Tandem

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• Mr North Jersey March 7, 2013 at 10:16 am

  Harvey is on the hill and today’s game is televised. Nice.
  • Joey D. March 7, 2013 at 10:41 am

    Hi North,

    Nice, except for us who don’t want to get caught watching it at the office.
  • John Ward March 8, 2013 at 1:21 pm

    Major League Baseball Players Association,What about the LINEDRIVE to the pitchers head?Anything new? I may have the Answer. EMAIL-mjmjward@aol.com. John
• Craig Roth March 7, 2013 at 10:43 am

  Today when Harvy is pitching and a chance to throw to Travis, Bucks in the lineup!
  • TRS86 March 7, 2013 at 10:45 am

    I think Recker is doing the catching though.
• Metsie March 7, 2013 at 1:08 pm

  “He has to trust what I put down, and he has to trust himself that it is the right pitch.’’

  If this was a Veteran saying this I might agree….
  But d’Arnaud also has to trust the Pitcher especially one who faced MLB hitters for half a season and did quite well doing what he did.

  If Travis was a guy who has worked with many great pitchers (like Grote), the the Quote is valid….
  But even a guy like Grote did not tell Seaver and Koosman what to throw and where, when they agreed it happened and when they didn’t THOSE pitcher did what they hell they wanted! In that case the Catcher had to trust the Pitcher not the other way around!

  In time as they worked together more and more they learned (together) what each other’s thinking was and then it wasn’t about trust it was about SYNERGY!

  Travis is still too inexperienced to be dictating to the Pitcher even one as young as Harvey. And Harvey is not apt to listen to others telling him what to throw anyway because when they tried (throw more Changeups) he didn’t succeed, but when he went back to pitching his game the way he always had he had some pretty good success!
• TRS86 March 7, 2013 at 2:25 pm

  GO HARVEY, GO HARVEY!!! Great outing today!
• Alex68 March 7, 2013 at 2:26 pm

  No hitter for harvey……………….
  • Bayonne Mets Fan March 7, 2013 at 2:34 pm

    and did you see Ike hit a 0-2 breaking ball down the RF line for a double, alex?
    He’s back. Not because of the hit but the way he’s been swinging all spring. Totally balance, staying back as much as possible. He looks 100% normal up there and gone is all that crazy body-language and excessive lunging from last year. It’s gone.

    I fully expect a solid year from Ike at no worst than .250/35/90. But he’ll do better than that.
    • joey d. March 7, 2013 at 9:45 pm

      Hi Bayonne,

      Did you happen to notice where on the plate that 0-2 breaking ball was that Ike hit out of the park?
      • XtreemIcon March 7, 2013 at 10:33 pm

        It was knee high and in, right there in his happy zone. He was out in front and his hips were wide open at the point of contact. Not at all balanced. He likely got fooled, but recovered nicely. He was still out in front. He was able to keep his weight back a little and get the barrell on the ball.
        • joey d. March 7, 2013 at 11:27 pm

          Hi Xtreem,

          By “in” do you mean the inner half of the plate or those inner-most two inches?

          Thanks again.
          • XtreemIcon March 7, 2013 at 11:49 pm

            SNY didn’t offer an overhead angle, but if I had to guess, it was inner half and not inner-most because if he was that early on a pitch that inside, it probably would have ended up foul.
            • joey d. March 8, 2013 at 1:04 am

              Hi Xtreem,

              I think you might be right with that. Bet ya used advanced stats to come to that conclusion!
  • Alex68 March 7, 2013 at 2:39 pm

    Bay, today i am not watching it, i am trying to go see the dominican game at 6:30 PM. but i do agree with you, the guy is back, and around late june i look for the guy to take sole possesion of the leadership of this ballclub, not with his looks or soft spoken manners, but with his bat, defense and grind it out mentality…. i see 30+ HR and 110+ RBI this year…
    • Mr North Jersey March 7, 2013 at 2:44 pm

      “and around late june i look for the guy to take sole possesion of the leadership of this ballclub, not with his looks or soft spoken manners, but with his bat, defense and grind it out mentality”

      Hahaha, Wright it really gets under your skin.
• METS62FAN March 8, 2013 at 10:16 am

  JOHN, A POINT OF CONTENTION TO THIS STATEMENT…

  If there’s one thing the Mets are noted for it is the development of young pitchers. Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Nolan Ryan, Dwight Gooden and now Harvey

  WAS SEAVER,KOOSMAN,RYAN,GENTRY A RESULT OF SUPERIOR DEVELOPMENT?
  OR
  7 STRAIGHT YEARS OF BEING NEAR THE HEAD OF THE DRAFTING LINE AS WELL AS BEING DAMNED LUCKY(SEAVER LOTTERY)

  ONE CONSISTANCY THAT’S APPARENT WITH THIS FRANCHISE IS IT’S TENDANCY TO BE YO-YOish IN THE STANDINGS WITH VERY SHORT PERIODS OF PLAIN OLD FASHIONED MIDDLE OF THE PACK MEDIOCRITY. TOP-BOTTOM TRIPS UP & DOWN, LIKE PROVERBIAL YO-YO WHERE ONLY FO DOES SLEEPER TRICK

  IN ADDITION TO THOSE OBVIOUS 60s ROTATIONAL STUDS LET’S NOT FORGET THE SOCALLED ROTATION FAILURES ie McGRAW A RIVERA PRECURSOR OF SORTS.

  JOHN, AS FOR d’ARNOUD, I BEIEVE HE’LL BE MORE JOHN STEARNS THAN MIKE PIAZZA AS A MET. CERTAIONLY NOT HORRIBLE & A CERTAIN TENDANCY TOWARDS GAME CONTROL.
  SPEAKING OF STEARNS, WHO PERSONALLY AUTHORED ONE OF MY MORE CHERISHED ‘COMIC-RELIEF MOMENTS AS A METS’ FAN WHEN, IN ATLANTA, THE FORMER ALL-AMERICAN LINEBACKER RAN DOWN “CHIEF KNOCK-A-HOMER AFTER HIS MOUND WARDANCE TACKLING THE SPRY OLDER MAN B4 HE REACHED HIS OUTFIELD TEEPEE. BTW, BEFORE PC-RULES WERE TANTAMOUNT(INDIAN WARDANCE? FEATHURED HEADDRESS? NO PC MOMENTS THRE!) & IF MEMORY SERVES ONLY A LEAGUE REPRIMAND FOR STEARNS’ “PERMANENT RECORD” PERHAPS A $$$ FINE; WITH NO SUSPENSION, ONLY A MANDATED PUBLIC APOLOGY .
  • Metsie March 8, 2013 at 12:26 pm

    Funny that you equate him with Stearns because I was thinking just the other day that d’Arnaud might not even be a Hundley let alone a Piazza and Stearns was next guy on the list that seemed to fit the profile!
    • TRS86 March 8, 2013 at 12:40 pm

      I would think that Stearns would be a little light offensively IF he lives up to potential. I don’t see Joe Mauer numbers but I could see AJ, Martin, etc.