Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Thoughts
Time to mark down some thoughts I have now...
-SI took a poll of the most overrated players in baseball... Carlos Beltran is second behind Derek Jeter on the list, which is unsurprising as Beltran has been really awful in his seven months as a Met; also in the top 10, however, are Johnny Damon and Alex Rodriguez, meaning the top three hitters most nights in the Yankee batting order are viewed as overrated by their peers. Damon and Jeter don't surprise me all that much, but A-Rod is possibly the best hitter of this generation and a sure-fire hall-of-famer, as well as a decent shot to break Hank Aaron's HR record of 755..
-Alot of people have said the Mets have paid their way out of last place, mainly through signing high-priced free agents such as Pedro, Carlos, and Wagner; but the Mets 2006 payroll is actually a few notches below the $104 million it was in 2003...
-The Mets send Pedro Martinez and Tom Glavine up against the Pirates, and combined they have 480 career wins... Pirate starters Ian Snell and Paul Maholm have six...
-Good pitching matchups in two games today, first it's John Smoltz and Brett Myers at Turner Field, and then it's Roy Halladay and Josh Beckett at Fenway...
-The Red Sox have a good record at 15-11, but they've been outscored this season. They haven't been outscored this late in the season since 1996, when the Sox went 85-77...
-The Key to Detroit's early success has been young pitching. RHPs Jeremy Bonderman and Justin Verlander have both pitched great and the Tigers see them both as future aces. It's likely that the Tigers still will fall short of the postseason when all is said and done, but they have a solid young pitching core to build around...
-SI took a poll of the most overrated players in baseball... Carlos Beltran is second behind Derek Jeter on the list, which is unsurprising as Beltran has been really awful in his seven months as a Met; also in the top 10, however, are Johnny Damon and Alex Rodriguez, meaning the top three hitters most nights in the Yankee batting order are viewed as overrated by their peers. Damon and Jeter don't surprise me all that much, but A-Rod is possibly the best hitter of this generation and a sure-fire hall-of-famer, as well as a decent shot to break Hank Aaron's HR record of 755..
-Alot of people have said the Mets have paid their way out of last place, mainly through signing high-priced free agents such as Pedro, Carlos, and Wagner; but the Mets 2006 payroll is actually a few notches below the $104 million it was in 2003...
-The Mets send Pedro Martinez and Tom Glavine up against the Pirates, and combined they have 480 career wins... Pirate starters Ian Snell and Paul Maholm have six...
-Good pitching matchups in two games today, first it's John Smoltz and Brett Myers at Turner Field, and then it's Roy Halladay and Josh Beckett at Fenway...
-The Red Sox have a good record at 15-11, but they've been outscored this season. They haven't been outscored this late in the season since 1996, when the Sox went 85-77...
-The Key to Detroit's early success has been young pitching. RHPs Jeremy Bonderman and Justin Verlander have both pitched great and the Tigers see them both as future aces. It's likely that the Tigers still will fall short of the postseason when all is said and done, but they have a solid young pitching core to build around...
# posted by Dave @ 12:06 PM 
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An interesting note on that overrated players thing: 8 of the 10 most overrated play in huge markets. Not surprising, really.
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