213 Miles From Shea

Delgado has gone thru a lot of dips this year, but he is starting to heat up, so this is a game log from the 22nd to the second, its hits, AB's, and RBI's:

0,5,0
0,4,0
0,3,0
1,4,2
1,4,0
2,4,2
2,4,1
1,4,1
2,4,3
1,3,2
0,3,0

Thats a lot of numbers, so its time to break it down with meaning, He started to hit again during the second loss to the Phillies. The next game he had 0 ribbies and then after that he went 5 straight games with RBI's. His power production was up (but not high), but more importantly, his run production is up.

So, the next segment will be breaking this down more, but you can get try to figure out what I will break down from these numbers until then.

In the latter part of August, the 17th on, the Mets stole 25 bases. Here are some splits:

In 6 home games, they stole 16 bases.
In the first 3 Away games they stole 4 bases.
In the first 4 Away games agaisnt Philly, they stole 4 bases.
In the first 3 Away games agaisnt Philly, they stole 1 base.
They won 7 games in that 14 game stretch, and stole 9 bases.
They lost 7 games in that 14 game stretch, and stole 16 bases.
They lost back to back games agaisnt the Padres where they stole 5 bases in each game.

Lets keep running

Earlier in the Month, I did a segment about the Mets stolen bases in the first 13 games. In cased you missed it, The mets in those 13 games stole 18 bases, roughly 1.385 per game and Reyes had 8. Here are the final 14 games of the month:

8/17- 2 SB (2 Reyes)
8/18- 1 SB (1 Reyes)
8/19- 1 SB (0 Reyes)
8/21- 1 SB (1 Reyes)
8/22- 5 SB (3 Reyes)
8/23- 5 SB (1 Reyes)
8/24- 1 SB (1 Reyes)
8/25- 2 SB (1 Reyes)
8/26- 2 SB (1 Reyes)
8/27- 0 SB (0 Reyes)
8/28- 1 SB (0 Reyes)
8/29- 0 SB (0 Reyes)
8/30- 3 SB (1 Reyes)
8/31- 1 SB (1 Reyes)

Over this stretch of 14 games, the Mets had a total of 25 stolen bases, or 1.7857 per game.

Reyes had 13 stolen bases, or .9286 per game.

Other Notes, when the Mets had 0 stolen bases, they were 0-2. When Reyes had 0 stolen bases, they were 1-3. When they had 3+ stolen bases during this stretch, they were 0-3.

There is still more splits I have for this data, those splits I will save for another day

Not sure in anyone has reported this yet:

mlbtraderumors.com is reporting that the Rockies have “long coveted” LoDuca. Troy Renck, a beat writer for the Rockies, expects them to make a push to sign pauly

LoDuca has had a shaky year with injuries, and his BA is down from last year. He is a solid player, but just average. If the mets dont resign him, then they will go after someone else (well duh thats always one of the choices) or they will make Castro an everyday.

If Castro is everyday, then I think its pretty much automatic that we get another back up catcher. Diflice and Alomar are just not cutting it with the bat to be on the bench as our back up catcher. (It will def show more if they had to be back ups all year long)

After being beaten badly, and being beaten late, the Mets will try to avoid the sweep agaisnt the Phils tonight (and keep their record against them at .500). That being said, lets look at tonights numbers:

Ollie's last start was the first time since July 26th that he allowed 2 runs or less. (Another way to put it, July 26th and August 24th he allowed 0 runs. Between those days, he allowed 4 runs or more, and 3 runs once.

Before Last night, the last time Delgado hit a homer was on August 12th.

Jose Reyes hasnt stolen a base in 2 days.

The mets dropped the first game in this series…big time. Tonight they will ralley behind Glavine and hopefully take the middle game, and take the series tommorow….so lets get some numbers thrown around:

Glavine 2-0 this year agaisnt the Phils. Eaton hasnt pitched since august 11th when he gave up 6 runs against the Braves.

In his last 10 games, David Wright has 10 RBI's and 10 runs (1 homerun).

In his last 10 games, he has 5 RBI's, despite his .205 BA. (If you didnt figure that one out, that would be Carlos Delgado). He should have more like 15 RBI's but he strands runners like how Lawerence gives up hits.

Beltran, in his last 5 games, has 1 RBI, in his last 10 games, he has 13 RBI's…ergo his hot streak is over and now he is on a cold streak.

Lets Get em

In a moment of confusion, I said in the last post that those five teams, compensation picks aside, would be lined up in that order for the first 5 picks, although that was close to be correct, there are some teams like the Nationals, although they have a higher elimination number than the Orioles, that would go before the birds in the draft due to the record.

So to re-do this, all things staying the same, the first five teams to be elimiated (elimination number):
1. Tampa Bay (4)
2. Baltimore (12)
3. Texas (15)
4. Florida (16)
5. 3 Teams Tied with 17 (San Francisco, CWS, Nationals)

Teams slated for the top 5 picks based on record:
1. Tampa Bay (.392)
2. Chicago White Sox (.431)
3. Pittsburg (.442)
3. Kansas City (.442)
5. Washington (.443)
5. Houston (.443)

I know many of you think the same:

On a non-Mets note, was anyone else really surprised to hear that Wakefield got his 16th win of the season, I knew Beckett was doing well in terms of wins, but I had no idea about Wakefield…is there possibility for two 20-game winners on the same team?

Why was Alomar 7th instead 8th? I know in the late innings, having gotay then a pinch hitter, then the top of the order can start a ralley, but having alomar than Gotay can end a ralley as well (which it did at on point in the game)

Alomar's defense…good stuff.

Do you know that last year, Carlos Beltran was hitting .275?
Do you know that this year, Carlos Beltran is hitting .274?

There are 34 games left in the season, there are 30 more SB's till 100, lets see if Reyes can do it.

The stats from today (mlb.com) look like this. Wells has had three consecutive bad starts. Maine has yet to lower his ERA since the allstar break, (6.10 since the break) and is walking nearly twice as much. Furcal is hitting over .300 against the Mets this season.

Lets just go and attack him.

(Before I begin, I would like to start off with saying that this will be my 213th post).

We are getting to that time of the year were magic numbers will start slipping towards 0, and teams will start to get eliminated. Here's Looking to the first five draft pics of '08 (ruling out any loss of picks due to compensation losses

First to be eliminated from winning the division, thats the Devil Rays, their number is 6. (Theres no hope for a division come back in this case)

This helps the Devil Rays even more with that 2012 world series championship ring again, as they are currently destinied to get one of the top picks….again.

Rounding out the bottom three is (ironically) Texas and Baltimore, who both have a magic number of 16. Baltimore could use the high draft pick, as their minors system is lacking position players outside of Matt Wieters (2007 draft pick) and Billy Rowell (19 year old first baseman, just loss a 27 game on base streak.

There are two teams with a magic number of 19, that would be the Florida Marlins, and the Sanfancisco Giants.

I am keeping the websites name, but physically, I am no longer 213 miles from shea stadium, I am now 233 miles from shea.

Just an update