" Trying to catch a wave out of Flushing Bay ?"
Well it is good to see that player known as Jason Bay has finally checked into the Mets clubhouse. going into last night he has been on a hitting tear. He has three homers in about a weeks span, and his hitting is becoming more and more consistent. In the 115 games he has played so far this season his stats include a .245 batting average, 12 home runs , 56 RBIs.
These numbers are obviously a whole lot better than what he put up in last years injury shortened season. So the question that I pose is has Jason Bay made himself attractive enough so that another Major League team will be willing to take a risk on both Bay, and his bloated contract ? Will Sandy Alderson vigorously try to deal Bay, who despite being a good clubhouse guy and above average defender? Will Sandy have to either eat a big chunk of the remaining 30 odd million dollars that is still owed to Bay – or is he willing to take a chance on a high priced reclamation project such as a Chone Figgins or a Carlos Zambrano ( just examples – not suggestions).
Through the past two seasons Bay has been demonized the way we had demonized both Bonilla and Foster – with the exception that Bay has never caused any type of off-field controversy. That being said I do feel like he would thrive in a ballpark that is better suited to his hitting style.
So whether or not Bay is a Met hinges on how he finishes this season. If he remains hotand can put up some more power number, well I think he will be elsewhere next season. if not, well we will have “Bay Watch” manning the outfield for the next 2 seasons.
And with that said… HERE COMES THE INFAMY !!!!!
Mets alumni celebrating a birthday today includes:
Spot starter/middle reliever from ’64-’65 Tom Parsons is 72 (1939).
Reserve outfielder from the ’92 team, Rodney McCray is 48 (1963). Rodney played most of the ’92 season as a defensive replacement and pinch runner for the Mets. He would collect a hit in his lone at bat for the Mets, and ended the season batting 1.000. He was released shortly after the season ended.
Mets middle reliever from ’00-’04, Grant Roberts is 34 (1977). He was drafted in the eleventh round of the ’95 draft, and soon became one of the Mets top pitching prospects. He faltered as a starter , and was converted into a middle reliever. I believe he is the only Mets player to ever publicly acknowledge being blackmailed with pictures of smoking from a bong by a groupie. He was subsequently released just before the start of the ’05 season.
The New York Mets sold the contract of middle reliever, Chuck Taylor to the Milwaukee Brewers on September 13, 1972.
The Cincinnati Reds claimed middle reliever, Pedro Martinez ( NO NOT! HIM !) of the New York Mets on waivers on September 13, 1996. This Pedro was nothing like the Pedro that we came to know and love from ’95-’98. In 5 games, The faux Pedro had a E.R.A of 6.43 in 7 innings pitched.
Mo Vaughn is pondering whether he should buy one of those small blocks of Mets ownership. The deal breaker is whether he gets his own personal Pomme Frites concession stand all to himself !!
10 comments
Anonymous
9/13/2011-10:58am at 10:58 am (UTC -4)
NO. unless you get just as bad a contract back. SO trade him for Zambrano or Lackey!
Anonymous
9/13/2011-11:20am at 11:20 am (UTC -4)
actually, I think he will be here next season, and elsewhere in 2013. And next year, likely platooning. Gotta keep those ABs down!
MetsFan4Decades
9/13/2011-12:11pm at 12:11 pm (UTC -4)
I think it’s a day late and a dollar short.
I’m sure Sandy will definitely give it the old college try. If he manages to trade him, I believe he’ll have to eat a large chunk of that contract to do so. If Bay had put up a consistently good second half, would have been different. But good couple of weeks or last month of the year isn’t really telling much. For all we know, it has something to do with the quality of pitching – or lack thereof – that we’ve been facing this month.
Only positive you can say about him all year is his defensive has been far better than we were lead to believe. Also, prior to this month, the few and far between he actually got on base, he hustled – often looking to swipe a base as well. He’s a lot faster then I originally thought he was.
SaltyGary
9/13/2011-1:12pm at 1:12 pm (UTC -4)
One productive week in meaningless games don’t mean crap. Lets see what happens when the pressure is on.
TRS86
9/13/2011-1:36pm at 1:36 pm (UTC -4)
Well no. One month does not a player make.
However it is clear that like what the Nat’s are doing with dispiriting Wertheimer you have to change his position to a less offensive spot. Bay has to be moved to RF.
THERE is one trade scenario that may be there. Bay for Zito. Zito still has 46 million guaranteed to Bays 37. Those are including buyouts. Seems like it could work from both sides but who the he’ll knows?
Anonymous
9/13/2011-3:03pm at 3:03 pm (UTC -4)
oh, please no. Zito is toast. More so than Bay.
Ceetar
9/13/2011-1:38pm at 1:38 pm (UTC -4)
no.
he’s had hot streaks before. Granted, they cold streaks seem to be getting shorter, but he hasn’t regained value to the point that you’d trade him. You won’t get value back, anything approaching value. It’s much easier to work around an underperforming left fielder than it is a crazy starting pitcher.
If Bay recovers a bit, which is certainly possible and even I’d dare say likely, he’ll be a contributing offensive player and that’s really fine for the 2012 Mets, who project to have a very powerful offense.
If not, selectively sitting him against tougher righties. If this is the case, Sandy should look into a serious 4th OF type. He probably should anyway. Pagan probably should sit against the occasional tough lefty, and Duda in the best case should be defensively replaced (if he wins the job)
MetsFan4Decades
9/13/2011-2:25pm at 2:25 pm (UTC -4)
Glad to be reading that Duda will be going to winter ball to work on his fielding. As someone who has watched every game, I can tell you his fielding, particularly reading the ball off the bat has not been very good. He’s getting a late read, taking weird routes and too many balls going over his head I feel he should have got to.
I will say that most flys in front of him he’s managed to catch.
WIth his bat in the lineup the offense is just that much better. If he can improve to even a mediocre type corner OF, that should be better than we’ve got now.
TRS86
9/13/2011-2:59pm at 2:59 pm (UTC -4)
He has got to play LF to be even an average of though.
MetsFan4Decades
9/13/2011-3:42pm at 3:42 pm (UTC -4)
Yeah, starting to agree with this. Especially in Citi field.
I’m getting the feeling Bay would rather play CF than RF though. If Pagan comes back, wonder if they’ll try Bay in CF and move Pagan to RF? Not like Pagan can’t play there. And Pagan’s defense in CF has been less than stellar this year.