amazinavenue.com - 10/12/2008
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If you were asked to guess the player with the highest walk rate (BB%) among Met hitters with at least 100 plate appearances in 2008, who might you throw out there? Carlos Beltran walks a lot, and he'd likely be my guess. David Wright also has great plate discipline, so he'd probably be a ...
gothambaseballmagazine.com - 10/10/2008
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gothambaseballmagazine.com —
Everyone, it seems, has a blueprint for fixing
the New York Mets' bullpen. Most of the...
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The Heilman Maneuver
mlbtraderumors.com - 10/14/2008
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mlbtraderumors.com —
Next up in our Offseason Outlook series ,
the Mets. Their likely 2009 commitments: C - Brian...
Schneider - $4.9MM C - Ramon Castro - $2.5MM 1B - Carlos Delgado - $12MM 2B - Luis Castillo - $6MM SS - Jose Reyes - $5.75MM 3B - David Wright - ...
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Offseason Outlook: New York Mets
nybaseballdigest.com - 10/14/2008
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nybaseballdigest.com —
John Sickels over at minorleagueball.com does a great
job, and he just recently came out with his...
top 100 list. There were four Mets, and four Yankees on the list, so New York didn’t do half bad. For the Mets you had shortstop Wilmer Flores ...
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John Sickels Top 100 Prospect List
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It's Mets For Me: Off-Beat, Tangentially Relevant Mets Ruminations —
... think we've heard enough about this. But what are the options? **Second Thoughts? (Stay or roll the dice?) Orlando "Calrissian" Hudson He "yearns to play for the Mets." In Star Wars, he was kind of a traitor, but he comes through in the end. Wants big money, is defensively fartsy. would you trust this man? Brian Roberts this ain't such a bad trade idea. Stick with Daniel Murphy and his expensive valet Luis ...
Castillo playing winter ball...
Mets Fever —
... Eric Simon of Amazin Ave. showed just how productive he was despite the bad year. Eric also makes some very good points about Hudson and the 2B available..... ...
Is Castillo at the point of no return....
Mets Fever —
... Eric Simon of Amazin Ave. in a great post disputes the ineptitude of Luis Castillo. But in reading Jon Heyman's most recent post there he reports that Jerry Manuel and Luis Castillo haven't gotten along since Florida when Manuel was the ...
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