(above: "honorary" team captains Doc Gooden, Daryl Strawberry and Iron Mike Tyson keeping things light) Introducing the 2011 New York Mets!
Reasons for impending 2011 success:
- Platoon-heavy offense mashes righties and obliterates lefties with both high OBP and power to spare.
- Rotation features strong-armed veterans mixed with strikeout-happy youngsters. All righties...don't bahleed the lefty hype, yall!
- Bullpen's as good as it gets without the names. Cards are sick, yall!
- A legacy of league dominance and unmatched managerial intelligence, evidenced by a 2009 NL championship and seven other playoff appearances.
Geo Soto
Ryan Doumit
---First Base---
Prince Fielder
Erik Hinske
---Second Base---
Omar Infante/Placido Polanco
Jeff Baker
---Third Base---
Placido Polanco/David Wright
---Shortstop---
Starlin Castro
---Left Field---
Chris Heisey
Alfonso Soriano
---Center Field---
Carlos Gonzalez
---Right Field---
Andre Ethier
Logan Morrison
---ROTATION---
Roy Oswalt
Tommy Hanson
Vicente Padilla
Ian Kennedy
Barry Enright/Homer Bailey
---BULLPEN---
Stephen Strasburg
Kyle McClellan
Clay Hensley
Santiago Cassilla
Wilton Lopez
---CLOSER---
Luke Gregerson
---MINORS---
Paul Janish - IF
Seth Smith - OF
H.C. Contreras - RP
Homer Bailey/Barry Enright - SP
That right there is a pretty good-looking squadron. I'm trying to pick something to make fun of, but there's not much there to ridicule. Vicente Padilla will do just fine, I guess.
ReplyDeleteAwesome honorary cap'n's to be sure.
ReplyDeleteCurious as to how you have Enright and Baily listed as your 5th starter AND in the minors. Make a decision.
Over/under on the # of unearned runs Starlin lets cross the plate? PTP charts indicate that 25 Error rating means that 85 percent of the time, the SS will be getting the old E-6...
I'll go with 7.
Castro has played three games and has three errors. I think I may be tweaking the lineup now, though, and trying Infante over there instead.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't sure who to start as my number 5 when I posted earlier, but now I am. My #5 is Homer Bailey. Enright and his red-head were demoted. A 25 error number at short aint nuthin to f with, yall!