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Mets @ Phillies 4/5-4/7 Series Report Card

Written by Tyler M 23:23 PM, April 7th, 2011

Series Report Cards grade certain Mets and aspects of the team for each series. Series Report Cards are written by Tyler M.


Well, not too many positives in this series, so lets get right into it.

Starters

Name Stats Grade
Chris Young
W, 5.1 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 4 BB, 7 K A-
Mike Pelfrey
ND, 2+ IP, 8 H, 7 R, 1 BB, 1 K F
Jon Niese
L, 4.1 IP, 8 H, 6 R, 1 BB, 7 K F
Mets Starters 1-1, 9.2 IP, 21 H, 14 R, 6 BB, 15K D

The Mets starting, other than Young, failed to impress me this weekend. They had a lot that needed to be done, and faltered. Pelfrey is lucky he got taken off the hook, but Niese wasn't as lucky. Overall, the starters get a D.

 

Key Hitters

Name Stats Grade
Jose Reyes 6-14, 2 R, 2 SB A
David Wright 7-14, 3 R, 3 RBI, 1 SB A
Carlos Beltran 1-7, 2 R, 1 RBI F
Ike Davis 4-12, 1 R, 3 RBI B
Angel Pagan 3-11, 3 R, 2 RBI, 2 SB C+
Team Batting (from above only) 21-58, 11 R, 9 RBI, 5 SB B

The offense, except the final game, caught me off guard this series. The Mets showed were very aggressive. More aggressive than I have seen in a while. The grade for the Key Batters is a B.

 

Bullpen (minimum of 2 IP)

Name Stats Grade
Tim Brydak 2.0 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 K C+
D.J. Carrasco 2.2 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 K B+
Pedro Beato 3.0 IP, 3 H, 2 R B
Team Bullpen (from above only) 7.2 IP, 9 H, 5 R, 3 K B

The bullpen had its good moments and its bad moments. Overall, it was worthy of a B.

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We Won an Away Series!

Written by Brian Kalinka 19:19 PM, April 3rd, 2011

Somebody brought this up to me about an hour ago:

 

  • In 2010 The New York Mets won their first NL Road Series on August 2nd. 
  • In 2011 The Mets won their first NL Road Series on April 3rd. 
  • Progress

 

Progress indeed. 

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Recap Of Wilpon/Madoff Situation

Written by Brandon Lee 15:15 PM, February 4th, 2011

I haven't really posted my thoughts about this Wilpon/Madoff financial crisis topic because I really don't know 100% what's is going on. From what I understand the Wilpon's said they lost $500M in the Madoff scandal while a trustee for Madoff is suing them because they are saying the Wilpon's made off with $300M in profit from Madoff.

Apparently this has no impact on the day-to-day operations of the Mets. But the Wilpon's might be out a significant amount of money so they are looking for someone to buy 20-25% of the ownership. Might be hard to find because they people that buy wouldn't have a controlling stake, so they wouldn't be able to make any decisions regarding the team. So they might need to included a partial sale in SNY, which is very profitable and would attract more buyers.

I've been trying to follow Adam Rubin on ESPN because he has done a great job reporting this story. I've read most of his articles but I'm still kind of confused. I'll just fill you in on what I've been reading:

  • Here is the lawsuit that was brought against the Wilpon's. Here is the summarized version of the lawsuit.
  • Here is the statement the Wilpon's made.
  • Here was what some legal experts have to say on the subject. It's a bit long, but if you want to understand what's going on it's worth a read.
  • The Wilpon's are being excused of spending $93M of the $300M they "made" from Madoff directly on the Mets.
  • The Wilpon's offered Bernie Madoff a share in the Mets ownership back in 2002.

 

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