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September 8, 2005
Calvin Pickering
The Royals designated Calvin Pickering for assignment today. The left-handed first-baseman has struggled at the major league level hitting .223/.329/.428 in 264 career ABs. But coming into the year, he had a .303/.407/.558 career line as a minor leaguer. Last year, Pickering destroyed AAA as he had a Barry Bonds-like .314/.451/.712 line to go along with 35 HRs and 70 walks in only 299 ABs. This year, the 29 year old is hitting .275/.384/.528 with 23 HRs in 335 ABs at Omaha. Needless to say, he’s worth a shot. Pickering is obviously not a long-term answer, but he would be terrific insurance in case our first-baseman next year goes down with injury or pulls a Mientkiewicz on us. OFF writes. You read. 26 Responses to “Calvin Pickering”Leave a ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment. |
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Ricardo, I understand where you are coming from on this… but are we really so desparate at first that we have to feast on the Royals’ scraps? So yeah, we should probably sign him.
Mets rank among 1b
BA - last in the majors
HRs - 27th in the majors
OBP - last in the majors
SLG - last in the majors
OPS - last in the majors
RBI - last in the majors
Runs - last in the majors
Hits - last in the majors
Give Jacobs a chance!
Keep him off of my 40 man roster! Minor league contract is all he is ever going to get at this point of his career. But why not give Jacobs a chance?
And the sad thing is you know the Mets will never be secure enough to actually give Jacobs the chance (I have a hat, I’d eat it, but I won’t have to!). They will have to go out and trade so value they don’t value at all for someone who will barely make a difference OR they will spend lots of money on someone who will barely make a difference.
While I see your point, I’d rather see them give Jacobs the ABs or use Daubach as a fallback (he also crushes AAA pitching). For next year, it should be fight between Diaz and Jacobs for ABs. Diaz appears as if he has proven that he is a ML hitter. We need to sign a RF RBI guy for next year. Maybe Manny will be waived again or we will sign Giles.
To compete we need Beltran to hit like he should and one more big bat. Pickering has just had too many chances, can you say Bobby Brown (NYY)?
Re: 6. The Real Marty
“Pickering has just had too many chances”
Really? He’s had 264 ABs at the major league level. Just last year he hit 246/338/500 in 122 ABs, which btw is almost half his major league ABs. The year before he hit 280/379/480 in 50ABs.
So, at what point in the other 90 Major League ABs did he run through his last alloted chance?
I think since Mo Vaughn, Mets fans are just frightened of fat first basemen.
Seriously though, Pickering wouldn’t be a bad guy to have around.
we have piazza coming back so we have offense at the catchers position next year him and jacob should split time piazza could show jacob how to direct a game while hitting his 400th homerun as a met. then we sign adam dunn trade cliff floyd and offer arbirtation to looper who will decline it so we get a first round draft pick then we sign billy wagner and bring up orber moreno who can replace roberto hernadez . the mets should then leave matsui at 2b since his revival and let him and hernandez split time at 2b so hernadez isnt overwhelmed and you get trade value for matsui. then in 2007 after piazza retires a met and matsui leaves are infiled looks like this
david wright
jose reyes
mike jacobs as catcher
adam dunn
carlos beltran aka the stool
anderson hernadez at 2b
milledge at right field with victor diaz sharing time at left field
man i should be the mets new gm
It amazes me that Harry keeps finding his way to this site
I remember when Neyer was writing about Pickering right before he went in to Insider, this is exactly the kind of player we need at AAA to avoid the Offermans of the world. If he put up this line last year: 246/338/500, he’s definitely worth a look, and I think most met fans would be happy with 260/340/480. And because he’s still kind of new to the majors, it’s the perfect kind of player that Omar and Willie can dick around, won’t prevent us from signing other players and won’t get in the way if Harper or Jacobs turn into good major league players. At the least, he’s a great bat off the bench.
A big reason why people haven’t given Willie more shit for his terrible managing is the idea that Omar didn’t give Willie enough tools, that he had to play such crappy players sometimes, so this would be a step in the right direction.
Can someone explain to me why no one is talking about free-agent-to-be Paul Konerko? Wouldn’t his bat fit in perfectly after Floyd’s?
Harry, my man, seriously. I think I speak for everyone here when I say that we all understand that you want Mike Piazza back next season. You have made your point abundantly clear over the past week. There’s no need to make it in every thread posted.
Matt, they’ll be going after Konerko and he certainly fits the bill for the Mets, but the concern is whether he can be that RBI guy in Queens since US Cellular is the nicest play to hit homers.
He’ll cost Richie Sexson / Troy Glaus money, but at this point, the Mets have no other choice.
Going after Konerko is like going after the ugly girls as the club closes because we struck out with the decent ones ! Let’s not throw money or time to the unworthy ! Keep to the course we’re taking now and fill the gap with our people. We will have plenty of chances to fill that “void” next year. Geeez….Are not we the same team that was blessed with Dave Magadan power from the same spot for 3 years ?????
I can see it now. Omar signs Palmeiro and Sosa. Brilliant. They put up identical .220/10/45 lines. . Diaz-Jacobs ride the pine. ask to be traded. put up .280/20/80 and .270/25/85 somewhere else.
From the Baltimore Sun
Put DIAZ at 1st- platoon jacobs/castro at C, fix the f*%*ing batting order and find a closer!!! and either willie learns how to construct a batting order and use the pen (why the F@@# was a SIDEARMER pitching to not ONE but TWO LH hitters- it takes away the curve which is his best pitch VS RH hitters- THAT was even worse than lettin looper go out fot=r the 10th or even leaving him in after the 1b and BB
I was wondering why Pickering was expendable to a sorry team like the Royals, and then I remembered that catcher-turned-first-baseman prospect that they have: Justin Huber.
duh we should go after paul konerko and adam dunn cliff floyd is going back to suckvile after this season hes already fading. and cameron sucked before the crash now i dont even want him on my roster and the mets dont need any roster help with moreno on the way
meant bullpen help in replacement of the 100 year old roberto hernadez
Between Petagine and Pickering, who could contribute more next year?
If only Omar the laservision sales rep would be doing his homework like you did….instead of scouring the waiver wire for washed up old hasbeens he might do this. Certainly Pickering is worth more of a shot than Galarraga, or Will Cordero, or Daubach or Offerman……to name a few of Omar’s brilliant first base options he’s given the Mets. But of course, then Willie Gump would never play him because he’s not a washed up old hasbeen and “one of MY guys”.
I’d say he’s worth the same chance that the Mets gave Daubach.
Pickering is worth a flyer as was Shingo. Konerko is not a good bet to age well.
What would have happened if Willie had left Heilman in in that loss in Pittsburgh instead of bringing in Looper to blow a four run lead? What if Heilman had managed to close the door and gained Willie’s trust? No 15 straight fucking fastballs to Tike Redman and no Looper to start the tenth last night. Man if you are going to bury Heilman’s talent in the bullpen at least use him. Ack. I’m not coping terribly well. And tonight the hammer got hammered.
Konerko is the perfect Mets bust. Stay away from him.
I love Konerko. Just to add to my suffering as a Mets fan, I also root for the chisox. That being said, Konerko is not the answer. He throws up some nice HR numbers, but he seems to have a 3-4 month slump EVERY season. Then he turns it on and hits a bunch of HRs, I don’t know what his OBP is, but it’s not what we need. He’s not worth the money. I admit, I wasn’t too excited about the Mets going after Delgado earlier this year, but he would have been a nice fit, and it would have allowed Beltran to bat 2nd.
That’s a great idea. Pickering is a power-hitting walk machine. He has proved he is capable of handling major league pitching, blasting 14 homers in 264 at-bats and posting a decent (but not great) .757 OPS. He’s also shown to have good plate patience at every stop he’s made, walking once every 6 at-bats. Though he may hinder your team in the field, ideally he’s a great fit as a part-time DH for an AL team, preferrably for the Royals. But noting that he’ll more than likely give enough punch as a bench bat, he should at least be worth a shot in the organization as a minor-league contract and/or possibly as a September callup.