213 Miles From Shea

It wasn’t just a weather system that pushed through Newark and the 5 Boroughs yesterday as Adam Rubin quoted a source saying that the Mets will consider trading Ike Davis this winter because, among other things, they aren’t happy with how late he stays out after games and that he doesn’t take coaching advice.

Ike was then quoted as dumbfounded, because as he says he never heard this from anybody in the organization.

And I have to agree with Ike on this one. Ike has tried a lot of things this season, he was hardest on himself and wasn’t a sour player.

And the trading debate, in my opinion, is off point. If you are going to trade Davis, do it because he’s a good player, don’t undersell him like this. If we trade Davis, we need a lot, like two ready to play in the majors prospects lot. Davis is more than just a bat (which, when was the last time the Mets had a player with 27 homers in a season?) he’s also one of the best defensive players at first base. Duda is a defensive liability in the outfield, but moving him to first base doesn’t help the team that much.

Look, I’m still in the camp of thinking that this team needs Duda and Davis. Not one or the other. The positions the team needs to work on are the other OF positions, which is the elephant in the room in the Duda vs Davis debate.

As of 5:28 AM, it looks like Matt Harvey will make the start tonight, with Hefner making the start in the make up game tomorrow. It hasn’t been announced yet who is making the start for the Phillies, so I’m going to assume right now that it is Tyler Cloyd.

The Mets and Phillies play again tonight as Matt Harvey makes his final start of the season. Harvey is 3-5 over 9 games this year while pitching 52.1 innings posting a 2.92 ERA. His last start this season will also be the first time that he faces a team that he has already faced. Against the Phillies earlier this season he pitched 6.1 innings allowing 2 ER and striking out 2. In his last six games he has pitched 36.0 innings with a 2.50 ERA and 40 strikeouts. The Phillies have the following numbers on Matt:

Howard 0-2
Kratz 0-3
Mayberry 0-3
Nix 1-3, 2B
Pierre 2-3
Rollins 1-3, 2B

Tyler Cloyd makes the start for the Phillies tonight. On the season, Tyer is 1-1 over 4 starts and a 4.95 ERA while pitching 20 innings striking out 20 batters. His major league debut was against the Mets as he allowed 7 hits and 3 earned runs in 6 innings of work on his way to a loss. In his last two starts he has allowed 4 ER in 4 innings and 3 ER in 3 innings. The Mets have the following numbers against him:

Tejada 0-4
Davis 2-3
Duda 1-3, HR
Hairston 1-2, 2B
Murphy 1-2
Harvey 1-2

Let’s Go Mets!

The Mets and Phillies play again tonight as Matt Harvey makes his final start of the season. Harvey is 3-5 over 9 games this year while pitching 52.1 innings posting a 2.92 ERA. His last start this season will also be the first time that he faces a team that he has already faced. Against the Phillies earlier this season he pitched 6.1 innings allowing 2 ER and striking out 2. In his last six games he has pitched 36.0 innings with a 2.50 ERA and 40 strikeouts. The Phillies have the following numbers on Matt:

Howard 0-2
Kratz 0-3
Mayberry 0-3
Nix 1-3, 2B
Pierre 2-3
Rollins 1-3, 2B

Tyler Cloyd makes the start for the Phillies tonight. On the season, Tyer is 1-1 over 4 starts and a 4.95 ERA while pitching 20 innings striking out 20 batters. His major league debut was against the Mets as he allowed 7 hits and 3 earned runs in 6 innings of work on his way to a loss. In his last two starts he has allowed 4 ER in 4 innings and 3 ER in 3 innings. The Mets have the following numbers against him:

Tejada 0-4
Davis 2-3
Duda 1-3, HR
Hairston 1-2, 2B
Murphy 1-2
Harvey 1-2

Let’s Go Mets!

The Mets announced yesterday that they have reached a two year agreement with the Las Vegas 51’s to be the Mets AAA affiliate.

Honestly, I’m having a hard time figuring out this one.

The AAA team is a Major League’s club emergency back up. If something goes wrong with a player, the AAA club has to get the replacement player to New York as fast as possible so the head club can play with a full roster. With the AAA team now in Vegas, the replacement player is almost always a cross country flight away (since the 51’s mainly play teams on the Western side of the states).

I haven’t decided if this does, or doesn’t make sense for SNY. SNY likes to show Bison games on their broadcasts (same with Cyclones game) but now most of the AAA games will be late at night. Will they show after the Mets game? Doubtful. (Pure opinion on my part).

It wasn’t a good thing a few years ago when the Mets team was down in New Orleans and the Bisons did a good job looking the part of a Mets team.

I guess I just don’t get this move.

The Mets and Phillies start a series tonight as the Mets look to play spoiler for the suddenly resurgent Phillies. If you have been tuned off to baseball with the Mets decline, the Phillies have been on the rise to become mathematically relevant as the Pirates have really slid off. Tonight, R.A. Dickey will make the start as he goes against Cliff Lee.

Dickey is 18-5 over 205.0 innings with 197 strikeouts with a 2.68 ERA. In the last five starts he his 3-1 over 36.2 innings with a 1.72 ERA while striking out 22 batters. In 14.0 innings against the Phillies this year, he allowed 6 ER. The Phillies have the following numbers against Dickey:

Rollins 6-20, 3 2B, 3B
Ruiz 5-16, 2B
Howard 3-12
Mayberry 2-9
Utley 2-8, 2B
Pierre 1-5

The Mets batters will go against Cliff Lee, who is 5-7 over 26 games and 182.0 innings while posting a 3.36 ERA. In his last four games he has pitched 27.1 innings allowing 4 runs, 3 earned.  He’s 1-1 against the Mets in 4 starts this year pitching 27.0 innings while posting a 3.67 ERA. The Mets have the following numbers against him:

Hairston 6-24, 2B, 2 HR
Wright 5-17, 2B
Bay 4-14, HR
Murphy 5-15, 3 2B
Torres 4-14, 2B, 3B
Duda 4-12, HR
Tejada 5-10, 2 2B

Let’s Go Mets!

The Mets and Brewers play the rubber game of the series this afternoon as Chris Young makes the start against Wily Peralta. Young is 4-7 on the season over 17 starts over 96.1 innings with a 4.39 ERA. In his last two starts he has pitched 11.0 innings and has allowed only 3 ER while striking out 10 batters. The last time he faced the Brewers was in 2008 and he pitched a complete game allowing only one earned run against the Brew Crew, who have the following numbers against Young:

Ramirez 3-10, 2 2B
Braun 0-6
Hart 0-5
Weeks 1-6, HR
Morgan 2-2, 3B

Wily Peralta gets the start for the Brewers, and he is fresh into his major league career. So far he has pitched in 3 games, 2 starts, while pitching 13 innings allowing 15 hits and 5 ER. In the minors this year he pitched 28 games over 146.1 innings with a 4.66 ERA. Being this is his third game in the Majors, he has no MLB stats against the Mets.

Let’s Go Mets!