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From: Ruben Safir on 28 Jun 2010 15:27
There is so much panic and anxiety with the Mets over the last few
weeks. It seems that the fact that they are winning is creating a
greater irattionality than if they were losing. Actually, if you look
at this team, things look very good for them presently and I'd like to
review where they are at and how they can rationally procede at this
point in the season.

First, let's begin by acknoledging that this team has been very
entertaining as it is and a core of players now exist that are worth
rooting for. And as a fan, I can't really desire much more than having
a core team that I can personally connect with. And as good as they've
been, the bad news is for the rest of the league, because I firmly
believe that if the Mets do nothing other than continue their internal
development program, that they are going to get much better in the
second half of the season.

First of all, the team has burried a bunch of crusty and underperforming
players that makes fans want to boo, and replaced them with enjoyable
players who are fun to watch, are playing crisp baseball, and leave you
with a serious sense of optimism. The pitching staff has been A-1. The
changes in Dickey, Neise, and Pelfrey has them throwning a shutout
threat every day. The wailing about Dickey, and Neise, in particular,
has been way off base.

Looking at Dickey in particular, the calls that he is magically going to
tranform into his previous statistical norms are based on total
ignorance. The man has in fact developed a new pitch which is a killer
and which the league is never going to catch up to. He has remade
himslef as a pitcher and will likely give us several years of front line
efforts. there is NO REASON to expect him to revert to his previous
norms. He has adjusted and he has become leathal. And this is not an
unprecidented performance in MLB history. Other pitchers had found such
adjustments and had dominating late segments of their career. The Mets
have been either lucky or smart to have seen this coming, but the league
better get used to it because Dickey is going to be a force in baseball
for at least the next 2 years.

I've read the analysis of Neise here that he has been lucky. I
disagree. Neise hasn't be so much as lucky as he has been smart and the
Mets have improved. Look at where the balls are hit in his last few
starts and you will see he is keeping the ball in the infield. He is
young and improving as he goes. And most importantly, he has a defense
behind him at the momement which has been on of the best I'd ever seen.
the Wright, Reyes, Tejadah, Davis infield has been on of the best I'd
ever seen. their out conversions must be off the scale. Their handling
of the bunt and drives, throwing and coordination has been the key to
their winning. And Neise has leveraged that. And the catching hasn't
been too shabby either.

The two pitchers, going into the allstar break, that we need to have
concern with is Santana and Pelfrey. Pelfrey has the ability to slide
back to mean adequacy and has been inconsistant in this regard in the
past. His last 2 starts have seen the league catch up to him and he
need to stay on his game and focus. Santana has been slow to recover
from Surgury. But even here there is good news. Santana is
historically a second half pitcher. I'd not be suprised at all if his
velocity picks up in the second half of the season and puts up HoF
numbers. I believe we will see one or two more weak starts from Johan,
and then he is going to trottle the league.

The real weakness for the team is not pitching. Asuming that they don't
blow up this team, I expect to fully see aditional pitching help come
into the late season with Meja. And going into next season, the teams
pitching will even further solidify. Overall, they will pitch the best
baseball in NL, assuming that they don't completely screw up the staff
by trying to add another old "All-Star" arm into the routation and give
away vital parts of their core.

Where they have needed help is on Offence. But they are going to hit
much better in the second half. Aside from the explossion of Jose
Reyes, Tejadah is improving almost daily and so is Davis. But the team
is likely to get it's biggest offensive boost from Bay and Beltran. Bay
has underperfomed up until now, but I see no reason to not expect him
not to recover. I think he is going to have a monster second half and
end up with his historical 400 OBP and 550 Slugging. So expect him to
be on fire in August. Also, I expect Beltran to have a slow July to
come on like gangbusters in August. With the improved offense from 3
positional players as the summer continues. the only thing that the Mets
can do to prevent a playoff run is made a stupid deal, or force feed
Catillo, Maine, Frechy and Perez onto the team. By next season I expect
to See MArtinez in the Mets OF, giving them solid positions up and down
the line up with the only seaious long term concern at the catching
position.

In a word, I believe that the Mets MUST sit tight as the trading
deadline approaches. We now have a fun team that plays sharp winning
baseball, and who we can be very attached to. Nothing on the trade
market can improve that ....

If they lease this team alone, I expect it to enter the World Series.

Ruben
From: Ruben Safir on 28 Jun 2010 15:37
we also need to dump our bunch of washed up latinos. elmer, jesus, lol

Ruben

From: Element on 28 Jun 2010 19:07

"Ruben Safir" <mrbrklyn(a)panix.com> wrote in message
news:i0at2f$djc$1(a)reader1.panix.com...
> There is so much panic and anxiety with the Mets over the last few
> weeks. It seems that the fact that they are winning is creating a
> greater irattionality than if they were losing. Actually, if you look
> at this team, things look very good for them presently and I'd like to
> review where they are at and how they can rationally procede at this
> point in the season.
>
> First, let's begin by acknoledging that this team has been very
> entertaining as it is and a core of players now exist that are worth
> rooting for. And as a fan, I can't really desire much more than having
> a core team that I can personally connect with. And as good as they've
> been, the bad news is for the rest of the league, because I firmly
> believe that if the Mets do nothing other than continue their internal
> development program, that they are going to get much better in the
> second half of the season.
>
> First of all, the team has burried a bunch of crusty and underperforming
> players that makes fans want to boo, and replaced them with enjoyable
> players who are fun to watch, are playing crisp baseball, and leave you
> with a serious sense of optimism. The pitching staff has been A-1. The
> changes in Dickey, Neise, and Pelfrey has them throwning a shutout
> threat every day. The wailing about Dickey, and Neise, in particular,
> has been way off base.
>
> Looking at Dickey in particular, the calls that he is magically going to
> tranform into his previous statistical norms are based on total
> ignorance. The man has in fact developed a new pitch which is a killer
> and which the league is never going to catch up to. He has remade
> himslef as a pitcher and will likely give us several years of front line
> efforts. there is NO REASON to expect him to revert to his previous
> norms. He has adjusted and he has become leathal. And this is not an
> unprecidented performance in MLB history. Other pitchers had found such
> adjustments and had dominating late segments of their career. The Mets
> have been either lucky or smart to have seen this coming, but the league
> better get used to it because Dickey is going to be a force in baseball
> for at least the next 2 years.
>
> I've read the analysis of Neise here that he has been lucky. I
> disagree. Neise hasn't be so much as lucky as he has been smart and the
> Mets have improved. Look at where the balls are hit in his last few
> starts and you will see he is keeping the ball in the infield. He is
> young and improving as he goes. And most importantly, he has a defense
> behind him at the momement which has been on of the best I'd ever seen.
> the Wright, Reyes, Tejadah, Davis infield has been on of the best I'd
> ever seen. their out conversions must be off the scale. Their handling
> of the bunt and drives, throwing and coordination has been the key to
> their winning. And Neise has leveraged that. And the catching hasn't
> been too shabby either.
>
> The two pitchers, going into the allstar break, that we need to have
> concern with is Santana and Pelfrey. Pelfrey has the ability to slide
> back to mean adequacy and has been inconsistant in this regard in the
> past. His last 2 starts have seen the league catch up to him and he
> need to stay on his game and focus. Santana has been slow to recover
> from Surgury. But even here there is good news. Santana is
> historically a second half pitcher. I'd not be suprised at all if his
> velocity picks up in the second half of the season and puts up HoF
> numbers. I believe we will see one or two more weak starts from Johan,
> and then he is going to trottle the league.
>
> The real weakness for the team is not pitching. Asuming that they don't
> blow up this team, I expect to fully see aditional pitching help come
> into the late season with Meja. And going into next season, the teams
> pitching will even further solidify. Overall, they will pitch the best
> baseball in NL, assuming that they don't completely screw up the staff
> by trying to add another old "All-Star" arm into the routation and give
> away vital parts of their core.
>
> Where they have needed help is on Offence. But they are going to hit
> much better in the second half. Aside from the explossion of Jose
> Reyes, Tejadah is improving almost daily and so is Davis. But the team
> is likely to get it's biggest offensive boost from Bay and Beltran. Bay
> has underperfomed up until now, but I see no reason to not expect him
> not to recover. I think he is going to have a monster second half and
> end up with his historical 400 OBP and 550 Slugging. So expect him to
> be on fire in August. Also, I expect Beltran to have a slow July to
> come on like gangbusters in August. With the improved offense from 3
> positional players as the summer continues. the only thing that the Mets
> can do to prevent a playoff run is made a stupid deal, or force feed
> Catillo, Maine, Frechy and Perez onto the team. By next season I expect
> to See MArtinez in the Mets OF, giving them solid positions up and down
> the line up with the only seaious long term concern at the catching
> position.
>
> In a word, I believe that the Mets MUST sit tight as the trading
> deadline approaches. We now have a fun team that plays sharp winning
> baseball, and who we can be very attached to. Nothing on the trade
> market can improve that ....
>
> If they lease this team alone, I expect it to enter the World Series.
>
> Ruben

Well written, Ruben.

PS - F-Jacko, another FAILURE REMAILER

LGM 2010

From: Lou Jason on 28 Jun 2010 21:15
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:37:15 -0700 (PDT), Ruben Safir
<bigbadjocko(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>we also need to dump our bunch of washed up latinos. elmer, jesus, lol
>
>Ruben
>


I agree Ruben. You have finally come to your senses.
From: Ruben Safir on 29 Jun 2010 00:07
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:48:18 -0700, jonathan wrote:


> Name one. Be very careful here; you're the one who used the term
> 'dominating'. Don't give me Jaime Moyer. I want to see somebody else
> who put up a 174 ERA+ after having NEVER CLEARED 100 in any previous
> major league season.

Mike Scott
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