K-Rods A Met!!!

[Heidenreich]

No, you can't, not going by the official definition of save which is the last pitcher to pitch in the 9th inning with a 1-3 run lead. Earlier innings aren't save opporunities. You might be thinking of a "hold".

Edit: Well I was wrong, you could potentially get a save as early as the 6th inning. (If the pitcher finishes the game). No one uses their bullpen like that though.

Damnit, you fixed this before I could come back with more ammo....

I am slightly wrong, you can't blow a save in the 5th inning (because the starting pitcher has to pitch five for a win), but you can blow one in the 6th, 7th, 8th, or 9th.

K-rod's setup man, Scot Shields, had 31 holds last year, and 5 blown saves. But K Rod was the closer. So Shields blew those earlier than the 9th.

If you want to get technical, Wagner had 7 Blown Saves for the Mets last year. While some of the remaining 22 were blown saves when Wagner was hurt, I'd be willing to bet that at least 15 of them were before the ninth inning. Which would be a "Blown hold" which is a stat that doesn't exist..... (yet)

[Metskins]

Bad bullpen management. Read the article.

Uh, no. I don't need to read the article. See, I watched about 150 of the 162 games last season so I know that the problem wasn't "bad bullpen management". It was the fact that we had 3-4 starters every week that couldn't pitch more than 6 innings and by the end of the season the Mets had probably 3 guys in the top 5 for bullpen innings pitched. Plus you had the fact that there were too many situational guys on the staff who could only get out left handed batters and not right handed batters and vice versa. Sure there were times when it would have made sense to let the starter pitch the ninth, that came up in September a few times with Johan, but that was the exception.

Games aren't won in the ninth inning. If you only choking doggs to pitch an entire third of a game, you're probably going to lose a lot of games in those innings.

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And GACOLB, for a team with like four wins, I think the Wiz are pretty entertaining to watch. You've got some young guys that at least bring some energy. This could be the beginning of a big turn around in a few years for this team if they get some good lottery picks. I just wish they would have tried harder to get Elton Brand in a sign and trade deal for Arenas.

[Metskins]

And just so we're clear, the Mets weren't the only team to offer K-Rod that kind of deal:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/cardinals/story/CB78D09625D452B58625751B00197160?OpenDocument

[Hitman#21]

But the Mets CLOSER didn't have 29 blown saves last year.

The way baseball statistics are now, you can Blow a save in the 5th or sixth inning.

So while K-Rod might make things slightly better in the ninth inning (and it's not like Wagner was Jose Mesa out there), there will still be plenty of blown saves in the middle innings by the Mets quality relief arms like Aaron Heilman, Scott Schoenweise, and Luis Ayala.

My friend Ayala isnt on the roster anymore Heilman is on the block and so is show. The Mets bullpen will be revamped before the end of the offseason mark my words this isnt the end this is just the beginning. So no point of arguing now about guys that wont be here at the start of the season.

[Metskins]

Now THIS is something to be excited about!!!!

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/baseball/archives/156688.asp?from=blog_last3

Putz appears headed to Mets in three-way deal

The Seattle Mariners appear to be on the verge of trading closer J.J. Putz in a three-way deal with the New York Mets and Cleveland Indians.

The Indians, looking for a closer, would probably wind up with Putz, and the Mariners would seem likely to land a package of players that would include Cleveland outfielder Franklin Gutierrez and Mets reliever Aaron Heilman and New York first base prospect Mike Carp.

There's a typo here, all the pub says Putz to the Mets, not the Indians.

Update:

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/8922020/Wednesday-MLB-winter-meetings-blog

UPDATED 10:19 p.m. — Mets working to acquire Putz

The Mets are working to acquire a setup man for new closer Francisco Rodriguez — and that setup man would be another closer from the American League West.

J.J. Putz could be headed to the Mets in a three-team trade with the Mariners and Indians, according to major-league sources.

Under terms of the deal, the Mets would get Putz, outfielder Jeremy Reed and reliever Sean Green from Seattle. The Mariners would receive reliever Aaron Heilman, outfielder Endy Chavez and first baseman Mike Carp from the Mets. They'd also get Franklin Gutierrez from the Indians and minor leaguers. The Indians would get reliever Joe Smith from the Mets and infielder Luis Valbuena from Seattle.

From the Mets' perspective, the deal would be Heilman and Smith for Putz. Chavez and Reed would be an exchange of backup outfielders, Smith and Green an exchange of right-handed groundball specialists.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Good for the Mets, I guess.

They had to do something drastic to stop that nasty choking problem that has hampered them for the past two years.

[brianforster]

Where are they getting the 'K' in Francisco? Is that is middle name? Or is it supposed to be some hint that he strikes alot people out?

Why would K-rod be a hint that he strikes a lot of people out? I don't follow baseball but this intrigued me. One of those things I need to know now that I heard it.

edit: got impatient and went to wikipedia

"Rodriguez's nickname of "K-Rod" became quickly popular during late September 2002.[citation needed] It is a take-off on "A-Rod," the nickname of baseball star Alex Rodriguez, with "K" representing the common abbreviation for strikeout."

[Hitman#21]

Putz and K-rod what a great duo!!!!