Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

Shannon Shark is the founder of MetsPolice.com, tweets as @metspolice, is an avid fan of Lee Mazzilli and Daniel Murphy, hates black uniforms and is the author of "Send The Beer Guy" available at Amazon.com. #imwith28
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Reyes bunting for base hits

As part of my efforts to get beat up in the schoolyard (has that one particular big blog called me a moron yet today?) I’ll ask this one.

Does anyone know where we can find stats about how often Reyes bunted for a hit?  During the game I had the same question as the Post reader below – where did this magic ability to bunt for a hit come and why wasn’t it used more often?

John Fortuna: What’s lost in the shuffle of all the talk about Jose Reyes’ bunt is that I honestly can’t recall him bunting once for a hit in the last few years — even when he was slumping, even when there was a guy on third with two men out and the ream was scuffling for runs. That’s what bothers me most about this whole episode.

VAC: Everything about that moment bothered me, and still bothers me. Reyes has had a good run in New York, and been treated by Mets fans as well as any player since Keith Hernandez. He owed them better. He just did.

via How historic collapses stack up – NYPOST.com.

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A Reyes-less Mets lineup with $19m spent on other things

Is this really that bad?

CF    ?     Centerfielder TBA

SS    R    Tejada  .284

2B    L     Murphy   .320

3B    R     Wright   lets give him a full season (in a contract year) like 2010’s .283 29 103

1B    L     Davis  let’s also give him 2010’s stats of .264 19 71

LF    R     Jason Bay batting 7th.  .245 12 57

RF    L     Duda  .292 10 50.   The .292 may be unrealistic to expect (though he did hit .286 in the minors) but the power seems fine.

C      ?      A catcher

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Basically what this comes down to is:

Do you think Reyes’ .337 and glove is better than 17 points lower, fewer steals, way worse glove but maybe $19m in other parts.

The flip-side…losing one of the team’s most popular players who is atop the leaderboard in many of the team’s offensive categories.

I know this makes me the unpopular kid in the schoolyard…but I think I’d rather try the lineup above and $19 million in other things.  As for what those other things are..I leave that to the smart bloggers with their WAR and OPS+ and knowledge of baseball.

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Jimmy Rollins: Blogger?

Via Mike Puma in the Post

[Reyes] had a great year, but with free agency you take a year and a career all into consideration. Then on top of that you take the things you don’t see on the field — the intangibles in the clubhouse, leading the team. Is this guy a winning player? How does he impact the team by himself when he’s in the lineup and out of the lineup? They are all great things to compare.

“Baseball is not only about numbers. You get paid a lot with numbers, but you get people to fall in love with you and want you around and give you a little bit more money when you can do all the other things along with putting up good numbers.”