May 20
According to Jerry’s interviews TODAY, for now he sees Sheffield in LF, Church in RF and is going to give Murphy the chance to play 1B while Tatis and Reed are backup OF.Â
In theory Murphy will be given the chance to to succeed at 1B before the Met’s make any major moves. If he fails I expect to see Tatis back at 1B and a move made.
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17 comments
dentulous
5/20/2009-6:25pm at 6:25 pm (UTC -4)
Man, I am hoping for no errors tonight. this team has horrendous defense, and we should be a good club defensively.
It seems from that conference call, that Omar has pretty much ruled out (for the most part) any acquisition for 1B. What if Delgado returns, but totally sucks. Someone that old cant possibly recover fast and carry the team like he did 2nd half last year.
Hope Murphy does well enough tonight to get more consistent starts.
TheDirtySanchez
5/20/2009-6:29pm at 6:29 pm (UTC -4)
I hope he gets the start….
I know he will mess up eventually but i hope they stick with him here…
saltygary
5/20/2009-7:21pm at 7:21 pm (UTC -4)
This is the decision that should of been made last week. I would rather see Murphy get a shot then to see them do something drastic like push FMart too quickly. They need to give Murphy a chance though. I’m sure a lot of the mistakes that he is making and the slump that he is having is due to the short leash Manual has been giving him.
gravediggerhebner
5/20/2009-8:46pm at 8:46 pm (UTC -4)
TRS, in case this Murphy fella doesn’t work out at 1B, your boy Nick Johnson just stole a base, so I guess his legs feel good!
trs86
5/20/2009-6:27pm at 6:27 pm (UTC -4)
I don’t think Omar has rulled out any trades. Just that we are going to give Murphy a try (while he works the phone). It’s important in any negotiation to make it LOOK like you have options.
trs86
5/20/2009-6:40pm at 6:40 pm (UTC -4)
I am curious to see what he could do batting 6th in the lineup and bein left the hell alone.
TheDirtySanchez
5/20/2009-6:44pm at 6:44 pm (UTC -4)
i actually want to see him bat 5th but 6th is fine since shef draws so many walks. I want murph to develop and be a mike lowell rbi guy. If we give him enough chances i think he could do it. I just dont want them to scrap him when he makes his first error at 1b
trs86
5/20/2009-6:50pm at 6:50 pm (UTC -4)
It’s not like he has been a rock in LF anyway. I think Manuel will stick with Sheff 4th is why I said 6th. I have no idea why he is doing that either.
TheDirtySanchez
5/20/2009-6:54pm at 6:54 pm (UTC -4)
only thing i could think of…his on base %age and wright gives him some protection…but i want this experiment to be over. Honestly i want to start grooming wright to be a clean up guy as i think that will be his role in the future for this team and i want him to adjust to that role sooner than later..
trs86
5/20/2009-7:28pm at 7:28 pm (UTC -4)
I don’t know about the short leash, possible. For sure Murphy should have been there instead of Jeremy Reed.
gravediggerhebner
5/20/2009-7:34pm at 7:34 pm (UTC -4)
Agreed, using a fine defensive OF at 1B seems like two mistakes.
trs86
5/20/2009-7:35pm at 7:35 pm (UTC -4)
No doubt Grave. It forced 2 players to play out of position.
gravediggerhebner
5/20/2009-7:38pm at 7:38 pm (UTC -4)
I posted this elsewhere earlier, but since you’re active here right now let me say again kudos to you and Dirty on this blog, you’ve done an excellent job on content and it is easy on the eyes as well.
trs86
5/20/2009-7:39pm at 7:39 pm (UTC -4)
Thanks grave, and again anytime you want to be added to the list of authors just let me know. Dirty and I want this to be open to all the old Metsblog guys.
gravediggerhebner
5/20/2009-7:48pm at 7:48 pm (UTC -4)
That’s quite kind. I would love the opportunity to be one of your authors, but I must say up front I’m not the best self-starter, and would likely be a better contributor if I were given an assignment as opposed to having total autonomy. Is there a niche you and Dirty feel is uncovered, and would care to hand off? Something along the lines of Joe Hamrahi, who did the “around the NL East” thing at the old place. Not necessarily that, although it would be fine I suppose, just giving an example. Your input is encouraged.
trs86
5/20/2009-8:00pm at 8:00 pm (UTC -4)
Hmmm, let me get with Dirty on that one. Sounds great.
trs86
5/20/2009-8:47pm at 8:47 pm (UTC -4)
LOL, you really should not have said that. There is something about freak injuries and Nationals players current and former.