After posting my first journal here on Metsgeek.com and thoroughly astounding my friends and family with my supposed knowledge of baseball and organizational planning, subsequently followed by my undressing by some of my fellow frequenters of this site I discovered several things about myself. I learned I didn’t know as much as I thought I […]

Pedro Feliciano – Season Analysis 2008

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After taking a look at Aaron Heilman and Scott Schoeneweis, we continue to take a look at the bullpen by looking at Pedro Feliciano’s 2008 season.Feliciano, much like Aaron Heilman, have taken drastic steps down since 2006.  After finishing 2006 with an outstanding ERA of 2.09 and finishing 2007 […]

Carlos Beltran (perhaps subsidized) and Daniel Murphy (and perhaps Parnell or Niese) TO
Dodgers FOR
Matt Kemp, Clayton Kershaw, and Tony Abreu and/or Chin-lung Hu
followed by:
F.A. acquisitions C.C. Sabbathia and (perhaps) Milton Bradley
ADVANTAGES:
For the Dodgers:
The Dodgers (a contender) get the best CF in baseball at a good price for three years (and a substantial improvement over Kemp) […]

Well my fellow jet geeks, tonight is our whole season. HUUUUUUUUUGE game and even bigger when you consider we got the Titans on the road next week.  Its time to put these guys in their place and show we’re for real and the AFC East is ours.  Tonight we become contenders or we realize we’re […]

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After taking a look last week at one member of our bullpen in Aaron Heilman, this week we will turn our attention to another bullpen member, Scott Schoeneweis.
Scott finished the season with a 3.34 ERA, however reliever ERA is generally not indicative of how productive that pitcher has been for the season.  His ERA […]

Hi everyone. This will be my first of hopefully more than one journal entry on Metsgeek.com, I hope you enjoy it.
In order to make perfectly sure you do not enjoy this entry, I’ve decided to make it the exact same thing that every Mets fan, nay, every baseball fan begins to formulate from the moment […]

Aaron Heilman – Season Analysis 2008 
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After looking at some of our starting pitching the past three weeks, it’s time to look at some members from the weakest part of the Mets for the past two seasons, the bullpen.  First up, we take a look at a member of the bullpen who was huge for […]

If you were looking for a 4th or 5th starter, would you be happy with a 32 year old who had averaged 206 innings per year over 11 years (6.43 IP/S), a 3.3 K/BB ratio, an average career ERA of 4.32, and who was signed for another 2 years at $11.5 million per? Down side- […]

Very interesting poll results from my blog. It shows the Mets might be onto something by targeting Fuentes!
1. 42% - Brian Fuentes (3 yrs., 36 mil.)
2. 32% - Kerry Wood (2 yrs., 20 mil.)
3. 14% - Trevor Hoffman (1 yr., 6 mil.)
4. 7% - Brandon Lyon (4 yrs., 20 mil.)
5. 3% - Francisco Rodriguez […]

FUCK!

compared to my old version which shows who is availble in free agency who the mets pick up see http://www.metsgeek.com/articles/2008/10/07/mets-2009-depth-chart/ this is actually what I think the mets roster should look like this year   Lineup 1. Jose Reyes SS  2. Daniel Murphy 2B. 3.Ryan Church RF 4. Carlos Beltran CF  5.Carlos Delgado 1B  6. David Wright 3B 7. Fernando Tatis LF (was resigned)  Fernado Martinez when ready  8. Brian […]

The New York Mets on Thursday rewarded Fernando Tatis for a unexpectedly solid season by signing the 33-year-old outfielder to a one-year deal.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Tatis, who had been out of baseball since 2006, hit .297 with 11 home runs and 47 RBI in 92 games after having his contract purchased from […]