Baseball Thread IV

Speed never sluimps.

In an unrelated transaction, the Devil Rays just sent Joey Gathright (.201 avg, .305 OBP) to the minor leagues.

Edit: For awful grammar.

 

Poor Joey was never able to solve the shift teams put on him.

 

Sorry, Moddy. There is Nothing...NOTHING... in the Nats organization that is worth giving up Milledge for.
And with Soler's 2-hit shutout of the D'backs tonight and El Duque's complete game  last time out, the back end of the rotation has been stabilized for now.
No deals..at least for now.

 

Shhh...I think I've got him sold on Victor Diaz

 

What, you don't think trading him and some other guy for Matt Herges was a good idea?

I keep saying it. Forget the money. If not for pure stupidity, this team could have Chris Young to lead that young pitching staff, Chris Shelton at first base and Aramis Ramirez at third. I know Ramirez to the Cubs was a salary dump, but it was an idiotic one.

Hell, Brian Giles was a salary dump the same season, but they got actual prospects for him -- Jason Bay and Oliver Perez. Even if Perez never straightens out again, it was a great trade. To see a player like Bay and a ballpark like PNC wasted on that franchise is truly sad.

 

Can the Mets trade for a backup manager?  

I can't remember reading colder comments than the ones Willie Randolph made about Kaz Matsui. "I wasn't here when he was signed." Jerk.

 

Man...fuck Kaz Matsui. We're paying that non-hitting jackass 7 million to ground out four times a game. Also I think Willie was getting pressure to play him when he clearly didn't want to.

But...fuck Kaz Matsui.

 

What he really meant was: "Look, the guy sucks. We should have gotten his sorry ass out of here a long time ago."

 

What he really meant was "He doesn't meet my specifications of being 'my guy,' even though I haven't been managing long enough to have 'my guys.'"

God, if they win the World Series, he's going to get a big ego.

 

Seriously, BYH, do you want Kaz Matsui on your team? The freakin' Rockies farmed him out!

 

Yeah what are you getting at BYH. We're talkin' bout Kaz Matsui man. Not Delgado. Not Reyes. Kaz Matsui man.

 

No of course I don't want Kaz Matsui on my team, but the reception he gets from management and fans makes him out to be Armando Benitez crossbred with John Franco circa 1990-1998 crossbred with Roger Cedeno circa 2002-03.

He wasn't very good and he wasn't very healthy. But he didn't put a gun to the Mets' heads and say "Give me eight million a year." those jackals, like usual, were a year late and a player short when they said "Hey! This Matsui thing worked out well for the team that does everything right! We gotta get us one of them even though we have an all-world prospect at shortstop!"

He got hurt then had to switch positions. Not like he mailed it in for 2 1/3 years.

I'm not asking Willie to just play the guy and blow sunshine up his ass. But there's no reason either to kick him on his way out by saying "I wasn't here when he was signed." We know. He's not one of your guys.