Monday, April 16, 2007

4/16/07

With the two rain-outs in a row The Mets are making some changes with the starting rotation.

Tom Glavine, Tuesday
John Maine, Wednesday
Orlando Hernandez, Thursday
Mike Pelfrey, Friday
Oliver Perez, Saturday

Glavine jumps over everyone, while duque jumps over Pelfrey who jumps over Perez. I guess Rick Peterson wants some more bullpen sessions with Perez before they let him get back out there.


Carlos Gomez is tearing it up in AAA he made baseball america's first hot sheet

#9 "No sense in waiting until the second half this year. The precocious Gomez is hitting .375/.405/.575 and leads the PCL with six doubles and six triples."

Yeah lets not forget Gomez has 6 steals and 5 RBI.

Gomez has a bright future, and it could be batting second behind Jose Reyes. Though right now with Gomez's plate discipline it doesn't seem like Gomez would be a good #2 hitter. Gomez said something like "If you don't swing then you can't hit" last year so I don't think he would be taking pitches for Reyes to run on. #7 hitter ?

What does this mean for Lastings Milledge who is struggling right now in AAA? The Mets could just keep Milledge in the minors then in 2008 have an outfield of Milledge Beltran Gomez. Or like many people think The Mets could trade Milledge at the all-star break for a starting pitcher. Here are some things to think about for all of you who want to trade for a starting pitcher..

Pedro Martinez is ahead of schedule and is set to return right after the all-star break? 20 pounds of muscle. Thats like gaining a #2 starter at the break without trading away anyone.

Maine Perez Pelfrey if these guys are giving you the solid pitching you need why do you need to trade for someone? and really if Pedro is going to come back healthy you only need 2 of the 3 to work out.

But lets say the Mets trade for a starting pitcher. Lets just throw out Haren, I'm not saying he's the guy the Mets will trade for but he's a good example because he won't be a FA for a while.

Looking ahead to 2008 if you trade for someone these are your possible starting pitchers..

Pedro Martinez
Dan Haren
John Maine
Oliver Perez
Mike Pelfrey
Orlando Hernandez (2 year deal)
Philip Humber
Jason Vargas

Now in a perfect world the Mets convince Hernandez to retire, or go to the bullpen. But look at that you have 9 starting pitchers for 5 spots. You have to give Pedro and Haren a spot. Now if Perez Maine and Pelfrey all have good years those are your next 3 spots. But then are you going to let Humber rot in the minors? are you going to trade him then if somebody goes down your left with nothing? same thing as Vargas.. and wait Tom Glavine hasn't decided if this is his last season..

I think you just go with the starters you have and hope Pedro comes back strong for a playoff push.

The Mets should be happy they have these kind of problems. Delios Guerra should be ready by 2009 :)

The Mets have another problem with the future of the outfield another great problem to have but what do you do?

Carlos Beltran 29 years old right now, by the time F-Mart is ready in 2009 he will be 31-32 years old still in his prime.

Carlos Gomez a Jose Reyes in the outfield? more power? how can you trade that away?

Lastings Milledge 20+ homerun guy who can hit for a good average play great defense and steal you some bases

Fernando Martinez in AA at age 18 #24? prospect in all of baseball predicts to be the next great hitter in the league.

What do you do? How long do you wait to trade a guy? Switch F-Mart to 1st base? but then what about possible FA Mark Texeira (SP?) is a free agent.. What about 1B prospect Mike Carp that Mets MLB coaches love.. what do you do? again a great problem to have but will have to be addressed sooner or later.

This is talking without future draft picks that can turn out, and guys in the minors that can break out at any time.

Around The League to come later..

Leave your thoughts on what the mets should do for now and for the future.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mike Carp is going to be a good First Baseman. Forget about Texierra. The problem you are failing to realize is Second Base. What are we going to do with a 38 year old Velenin?

TY to the LER said...

Great Post i absolutely love it!

The Man said...

william you have a point what about second base?

Right now the Mets don't have an answer for that in the farm as it seems Hernandez can't hit and Gotay is just not good enough. If you look deeper in the system you see Lagares who like Gomez is compared to Reyes but he's hitting like .159 in low A

Second base will have to be filled by a Free Agent for a while until The Mets can develop good 2B prospects.

and Tyler thanks a lot :)

Anonymous said...

I think the mets would be best served with converting one of the a plus outfield prospects, a younger one like Gomez, not F-Mart. Or since Beltran isn't getting any younger (in a few years) convert him or trade him. Branch Rickey never kept an aging superstar, "Trade them when they're worth something, but not when their still young enough to hurt you." Or do what any Mets fan would like BRING BACK WIGGINGTON!

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