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Mets 2011 Season Review (Part 1: Batting and Fielding)

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Free periods at school should not be used for doing homework…how about for blogging? Ok that’s a joke, I do my homework and I just have none to do today and I needed to post a blog. ANYWAY…here is my 2011 season review of the Mets and I will start with batting and fielding. You can’t talk about anything with offense or defense without Jose Reyes. Jose Reyes was an absolute beast. How else do you describe him? The man is going to be payed. Jose Reyes won the NL batting title (to where there should have been NO debate) and made great fielding play after play. I have an opinon of how his contract should look for next year, but that is for another time. Anyway, here is a list of the top-5 offensive standouts for the Mets this season (not counting Jose Reyes).

  1. Lucas Duda- The dude hit for power and average after he broke out from an early season slump and demotion to the minors. He has ridiculous pop and could do very well in this lineup if he is protected.
  2. Daniel Murphy- The Jacksonville native (that’s where I live) hit over .300 this season until his knee was taken out at a game I was attending. He is a great hitter and I see him as an ideal number 2 hitter in our lineup.
  3. Ike Davis- As he was hurt in May and did not return for the rest of the season, Ike still was on pace to hit over .300 hit 30 bombs and drive in 110 runs on the year. Would have been an amazing year and I can only hope that he can return healthy next season.
  4. Carlos Beltran- The man raked for us while he was still a Mets leading the team in homers even though he was traded in July. He had a great comeback year and we got Zack Wheeler because of him. He had a great year.
  5. Ruben Tejada- Ruben really proved that he could hit against big league pitching this year. He really toughened up with 2 strikes at the plate and made pitchers work. Most memorable by his 16 pitch at bat earlier in the season.

We had an average defense this year. Pagan and David Wright really disappointed me. David seems to have lost everything with his defense. He was making too many errors at 3rd. Also, Pagan lost the ability to get good jumps in center. He started the wrong ways on balls and struggled mightily.

Grade for the Year:….Not yet wait for part 2. Coming soon.

Review: The 2010 Season (Part 1)

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Well, it’s over, the 2010 season is done. It seems like it went by so quickly going from David Wright’s first inning homer opening day, to the call up of Ike Davis, to R.A. Dickey and Jon Niese’s one hitter, to Beltrans return, and finally to Oliver Perez pitching the last inning of 2010. ALOT happened this year and it seems like it just went by so quickly. It’s sad. Anyway, part 1 of the season review is all about the offense as a whole. Baseball is a team sport, individual evaluations will be saved for the player by player evaluations.

Record- 79-83

The Good:

  • The pinch-hitting was great this year whether it was Chris Carter, Josh Thole, Mike Hessman, or Jesus Feliciano someone always seemed to get the job done.
  • The Mets led the league in stolen bases this year which means they are the running team that they had to be in order to be successful.
  • Many players turned it on late in the year including Carlos Beltran, David Wright, Josh Thole, and Ike Davis.
  • The Mets had 4 walk off homers this year Rod Barajas, Henry Blanco, Ike Davis, and Josh Thole all hit them. The Mets were the first team ever to have 3 catchers hit walk off homers in a season.
  • The Mets used the triples alley in their park to rack up a ton of triples from Pagan and Reyes.
  • The Mets had more players hit more homers and more players have higher RBI totals.

The Bad:

  • The Mets were the worst team with the bases loaded this year hitting 0 grand slams and hitting around .200 all together.
  • The Mets had too many players who struck out, don’t get me wrong they aren’t the Diamondbacks, but they were wild swingers who struck out too much and didn’t walk enough.
  • The lineup was never the same, it seems that they could never find out who would be a good cleanup hitter. Carlos Beltran, Chris Carter, David Wright, Ike Davis, Jason Bay plus others all hit cleanup this year.
  • No Met hit over .300 this year.
  • No Met had over 30 homers this year.

Offensive Grade for the Year: C….Needs ALOT of improvement

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