SB Nation User Blog: dissento

Manny in the ASG? A job for Voltron

dissento — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:19:35 -0000

Help preserve the honor and dignity (*coughcough*) of the All-Star Game. Manny Ramirez is a close fourth in the NL OF voting. There's only one way to prevent the worst voting travesty since Ruben beat Clay -- Vote for Carlos Beltran!

Manny an all-star?

Ramirez is fourth among outfielders, with 442,763 votes in the first round of National League balloting, which was released today. He is only 34,080 votes behind third-place Carlos Beltran, who is in line for the final starting outfield spot.

Who has more RBI...?

dissento — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:33:43 -0000

Who has more RBI than:

Miguel Tejada
Carlos Beltran
Albert Pujols
Mike Jacobs :)
Ryan Howard
Big Papi and Manny
Vlad Guerrero

Ryan Church. I know it won't last, but I love it when players surprise you. I'm so used to having players come in with big expecations, only to disappoint. So here's one that goes the other way, change. It will be interested to see how he looks over the full year.

Confident Pedro Martinez Performs Own Rotator-Cuff Surgery

dissento — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:52:03 -0000

Breaking news from The Onion:

"NEW YORK--Mets pitcher Pedro Martinez, who will miss the next eight months with an arm injury, showed no loss of morale or confidence as he performed his own rotator-cuff surgery last week. "My original plan was to make a minor incision in the shoulder and conduct an arthroscopy to examine the torn labrum," Martinez told reporters at the Mets training facility while outlining his method on the photos he took during the procedure. "However, the damage was extensive enough to necessitate me detaching my entire deltoid muscle and performing a thorough acromioplasty to remove bone spurs in my shoulder." Martinez said he expected himself to recover well enough to perform surgery on his calf in three to five months and begin throwing off the mound in eight."

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/53701

But there's some bad news as well:

Experts Predict No NL Team Will Go Deep Into Playoffs

"BRISTOL, CT--Even though the National League somehow managed to send four teams into the 2006 MLB postseason, baseball experts said Monday that it is "unlikely" that any of them will advance past the second round of the playoffs. "The Mets, Dodgers, Padres, and Cardinals have serious pitching issues, almost zero offense, and have played terribly down the stretch," ESPN analyst Buster Olney said. "However, they each luckily drew a first-round opponent that is similarly ill-fitted for postseason play, so we may see one or two emerge from the first round. But as for the World Series--not a chance." Experts went on to predict that it will "probably be another Yankees-Red Sox World Series this year.""

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/53700

Rumor Central: Oswalt or Schimidt for Milledge

dissento — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:57:37 -0000

...According to SI.

"The New York Mets are engaged in serious talks for two superb starting pitchers who carry the potential to stamp them as a World Series favorite -- Giants right-hander Jason Schmidt and, in something of a shocker, the Astros' Roy Oswalt -- league sources told SI.com.

Mets general manager Omar Minaya was debating late Sunday night whether to surrender one of the biggest pieces of the Mets' future to acquire either Schmidt or Oswalt and greatly enhance his team's immediate chances. The asking price for both Schmidt and Oswalt is believed to revolve around multi-talented young outfielder Lastings Milledge."

In my opinion, I hope they go for Oswalt.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/jon_heyman/07/31/mets.trade.deadline/index.html?cnn=yes

Poll

WWSOD (What should Omar do?)

Go for Schmidt

1 votes

Go for Oswalt

17 votes

Hang to Milledge

6 votes

24 votes | Poll has closed

RBI Poll

dissento — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:57:43 -0000

Four games to go and David Wright and Cliff Floyd both have 97 RBI. Who's going to win this meaningless race?

Edit: and apparently my diary was to short so I have to add some blather to get my poll posted. So, in addition too my question above, who likes pie?

Poll

100 RBI?

Ana Benson is hawt

6 votes

Only Wright will have 100 or more

6 votes

Only Floyd will have 100 or more

0 votes

Both will have 100 or more

14 votes

Neither will have 100 or more

3 votes

29 votes | Poll has closed

Mid-Year - Indiviudal stat questions

dissento — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 16:26:20 -0000

Rather than show "at this pace" projections, I thought I'd list some of the individual stats I'm interested in and what I'm wondering about...

Will Floyd have a 40 HR, 100 RBI year? (He is projected to)

Will Beltran have a 30 HR, 90 RBI year? (He'll have to pick up the pace).

Will Piazza break 20 HR? Will he get his average up to .280?

Will Pedro win 20? Will he lead the league in strikeouts? (C. Carpenter is gaining on him)

Will any regular Met hit .300?

Will Jose score 100 runs? (Also, he had an outside shot at 700 ABs, but that's shot with him batting 7th.)

Will Benson win 17 games? (he's on pace for 15.)

Will Glavine have a winning record?

Starters - Did you know...?

dissento — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:59:06 -0000

Did you know, despite a pretty dominating start to the season by Martinez, the Mets are only 8-6 in Pedro's starts? By no means, an automatic win. Contrast that with the fact that we're 8-2 in Kris Benson's starts. Maybe Carlos Beltran loves Pedro, but I guess our bullpen does not.

Here are the current SP's records compared to the team's W-L on their start days.

W-L Team Record
Martinez 7-2 8-6
Benson 6-2 8-2
Glavine 4-7 5-10
Zambrano 3-6 4-9
Ishii 2-6 4-6

Also, did you know that Victor Zambrano has not allowed more than 3 runs in a start since 4/24? Surprised me.

Poll

Is Pedro still the man?

Yes

18 votes

18 votes | Poll has closed

Brag about your Fantasy/ Rotisserie team thread

dissento — Tue, 31 May 2005 19:47:53 -0000

This is semi-off-topic, but I love talking about fantasy baseball. How are you doing this year? What Mets are helping you? Who's hurt you?

I've have several teams and only one is doing well (lineup after the bump). I dropped Glavine (whom I picked up for almost nothing) off one team already. I managed to pick up Cameron on waiver on the same team, which was nice.

My first place team (Yahoo head-to-head league):

C J. Varitek (Bos - C)
1B M. Teixeira (Tex - 1B)
2B E. Alfonzo (SF - 2B,3B)
3B D. McPherson (LAA - 3B)
SS J. Reyes (NYM - 2B,SS)
OF H. Matsui (NYY - OF)
OF G. Sheffield (NYY - OF)
OF G. Anderson (LAA - OF)
Util R. Hidalgo (Tex - OF
BN M. Ensberg (Hou - 3B)
BN J. Burnitz (ChC - OF)
BN K. Millar (Bos - 1B,OF)
DL B. Crosby (Oak - SS)
SP Jo. Santana (Min - SP)
SP R. Oswalt (Hou - SP)
RP T. Hoffman (SD - RP)
RP B. Looper (NYM - RP)
P M. Clement (Bos - SP)
P D. Davis (Mil - SP)
P K. Benson (NYM - SP)
BN T. Wakefield (Bos - SP)
BN M. Redman (Pit - SP)

Poll

How's your team(s)?

Holding my own

4 votes

Eh

1 votes

Sucking

1 votes

Don't ask

0 votes

Kicking butt

2 votes

8 votes | Poll has closed

Homestand Challenge - 12 Game predictions (POLL)

dissento — Tue, 31 May 2005 15:59:15 -0000

The Mets finally meet the West, but they do so back East, er, at home that is. We've looked like a decent team at home, but we haven't faced many world beaters. The next twelve games looks like we'll be facing the good, the bad, and the unpredictable.

My prediction: An optimistic 8-4. I'm going to take a straight two out of three approach with each series. Yes, we could sweep the Astros (especially if we miss Clemens) or the Giants, but the Angels could give us trouble. And of course, like the majority of the season, I think the Arizona series swings on Kris Benson's shoulders.

This is more optimistic than I've been most season. Why? No Braves or Yankees.

Poll

Mets record for this homestand:

4-8

0 votes

9-3

2 votes

5-7

0 votes

10-2

1 votes

6-6

4 votes

11-1 or 12-0

0 votes

2-10 or worse

0 votes

7-5

13 votes

3-9

0 votes

8-4

7 votes

27 votes | Poll has closed

10 Game Challenge (w/Poll)

dissento — Thu, 19 May 2005 19:25:42 -0000

This next stretch of ten games in a row is really going to show us what this team is (or isn't). The Yankees series is probably a circus where anything could happen -- it's hard to tell how good or bad the Yankees are right now. But then you know what we're getting with the Braves and Marlins.

I'm predicting 5-5, which would be a result that indicates this is a team that could compete or at least hang in there for the playoff race. (Ultimately, I think we're going to come up short this year, but I'd bet that at the end of the season we'll be within 5 games of either NL East leader or the wild card).

I think we're going to beat the Yanks twice, lose two to the Braves (because we always do), and split with Florida (hopefully we'll face Leiter again).

Poll

What's going to hapen in the next ten games?

6-4

10 votes

2-8 or worse

0 votes

7-3

1 votes

3-7

1 votes

8-2 or better

0 votes

4-6

6 votes

5-5

6 votes

24 votes | Poll has closed