I had no idea thye Mets traded for Chin Lung Hu... He had some pretty good seasons in the minors for a MI. His offense is nothing to write home about but he is quite acrobatic in the MI. A very good defensive player. I've seen this guy play roughly 50 minor league games and he has the potential to hit for high avg but he'll never hit for power or drive in a lot of runs but he does have some speed. It's an under the radar move that could give the Mets a good defensive 2B.
Anything that hopefully means castillo is flipping burgers rather than playing 2b is an upgrade. A rotting corpse would be an improvement on the waste of salary cap that is luis castillo
It's looking like an open competition between Castillo, Tejada (who the Mets say probably won't win), Emaus, and Murphy. I'd be surprised if Castillo got the job. Because, you know, he sucks.
Alderson has already stated that Castillo will only make the opening day roster if he earns it. In other words, Castillo has to play great in spring training or he will go bye bye.
Mets acquired Chris Capuano and Taylor Buchholz. Awesome. Capuano will be a nice back end starter if he's healthy, or at worst, a long man with the ability to competently spot start. Buchholz is making just above the league minimum and is not Manny Acosta. -X-
Like both signings tbh, what I like at the moment is we are severly hand cuffed financially but the signings are low risk high reward if 1 or 2 pan out.
I'm okay with these signings, glad we did not throw tons of money at these guy's, he is similar to Omar in trying to catch lightning in a bottle, difference is he spending less money. Hey if the Giants can win with just a little offense, no reason why we can't be optimistic.
And they're gonna sign Young now. I would say their rotation is definitely better now than it was a week ago, and thats all that really matters. They only had a little of bit of wiggle room to work with this offseason, and when you combine the fact that they have put together a heckuva front office, they are quietly having one of the best offseasons in baseball. One move I like under the radar: Brad Emaus - 2nd baseman with some pop in his bat, had an OPS of .890 in AAA last year. I predict he will be the starter opening day.
The Giants had an amazing pitching staff though, and pretty obvious but if you have pitching you win, especially in the playoffs. Is it so much to ask for the Mets to draft and develop their own true, legit #1-type ace starter? In our past our organization was known for having had a bunch of amazing, talented pitchers come through our system.
Newly elected Bert Blyleven was also traded on December 8, 1977 in a four-team trade that involved the Mets. The Mets ultimately gave up Jon Matlack and John Milner and got Willie Montanez, Ken Henderson, and Tom Grieve back. Montanez hit .247/.303/.362 in 268 games for the Mets before being traded for Ed Lynch and Mike Jorgensen; Henderson played 7 games for the Mets before being traded for Dale Murray; Grieve hit .208/.273/.297 in 54 games before being traded with Kim Seaman for Pete Falcone. Meanwhile, Matlack pitched 6 more years for Texas with a 3.41 ERA and Milner played 7 more years for Pittsburgh and Montreal and was an important contributor on a World Series champion (1979 Pirates). Another brilliant trade for the pre-Cashen/Doubleday/Wilpon Mets of the late 1970s. This Hall of Fame induction is just chock full of Mets memories! :up:
Poor Ed Lynch. Wasn't he shipped out to the last place Cubs back in 86? Guy was around for the pre-Davey Johnson/Cashen pile of shit teams and then gets dealt as soon as the team becomes a force. John Milner snorted up half of Peru.
Met great? Are you kidding? He should not have made the HOF just because how bad he played for the Mets. I know his numbers derserve induction but from watching him here I would say he is the worst HoFer ever!
Not great and maybe not even well, he just has to play better than Emaus and murphy. I know some here are high on Emaus but he needs to prove himself yet and Murphy is coming of a horrible injury filled year. Normally, when a GM says that they bring in real competition but the Mets really have not done that.
To be fair, he was on the 1984 and 1985 teams, which were quite good, and he contributed (19-16 record, and 42 starts). The acquisition of Bob Ojeda and the emergence of Sid Fernandez made him expendable after he got hurt at the beginning of 1986. He did get a 1986 World Series ring that he wore with pride, and the trade to the Cubs might have helped him eventually get the GM job there in 1994.
AdamRubinESPN Adam Rubin Josh Thole is going to try to catch Chris Capuano in the Phoenix area a couple of times before both report to camp.
