Tony B may be gone, but looks like he might of had this one right. After lots of folks had given up on Isaac, Tony was apparently staying the course.

Nice quick piece from FanGraphs.

Being in the DC market with access to SNY, I can truly appreciate these three since my other option for a ballgame is Bob and Rob. When I read their conversations in writing, it seems funnier than when I recall listening to it, but maybe that is just because I can imagine tone and facial expression better.
Anyway, I cherry-picked this from Cerrone. I hope you guys enjoyed it as much as I did.

According to Rubin's blog, there are at least 1,216,007 indications that America doesnt actually watch baseball, and instead just swallows all of mainstream media's views on grustle and grission.
Sheesh

I just wonder what the specified "roles" will be...hurry back, Wags!

If we linked to the original post, then Greg's responses to the questions raised must be made available.
Side note: congrats, guys on the lil' bit of pub that he throws to AA.

Rubin describes conversation with both NL and AL scouts on particular woes of the Mets in general, and Daniel Murphy, specifically.
Conspicuously missing was the analysis on J-Roll's buck-seventy-five start to the season.

Interesting article about the ability and subsequent value of 1B scooping at FanGraphs by Michael Lichtman from a couple days ago. He acknowledges the flaws of the methodology, but explains in pretty good detail the gist of the analysis.
Crux: scooping is probably a quarter of a firstbaseman's defensive value while fielding grounders provides the majority of worth.
Leaders: Berkman and Choi at 4 runs per 1000 throws , while Thome is at the bottom with -2.5 runs per 1000 throws.

I mention this because I was one of those guys who rationaled away not getting Delgado the first time around in favor of Mein-whats-his-name for all "the errors he would save." As usual, joke's on me.

I dare say that fans on the other blog about the Mets will probably blame Omar for this too.

Solid piece by John Walsh of THT. Referenced by Neyer in his Friday blog.

Church? We knew he could chuck it.
Voltron? Average?
Alou? Who?

Some surprises up and down all three positional lists. Check it!