Comments on: Luis Castillo and the Mets 2010 Offseason by Stuart Miller, Author of “The 100 Greatest Days in New York Sports” http://empiresportsnow.com/2009/11/07/luis-castillo-and-the-mets-by-stuart-miller-author-of-the-100-greatest-days-in-new-york-sports/ New York Sports Blog Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:33:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Slydell http://empiresportsnow.com/2009/11/07/luis-castillo-and-the-mets-by-stuart-miller-author-of-the-100-greatest-days-in-new-york-sports/comment-page-1/#comment-379 Slydell Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:14:50 +0000 http://empiresportsnow.com/?p=1512#comment-379 After the fiasco of '09, I'm hungry for any sort of forward-looking Mets conversation, so thanks for this... I agree with you that Castillo's performance (Yankee flub-fiasco notwithstanding--and, even there, he showed me something, by the way he responded both in the media and, most importantly, in the field afterwards) was one of the few relative bright spots of the season. (The acquisition of Jeff Francouer was surely the brightest.) So your proposal has some merit, especially since we don't yet know what we're going to get from Jose. Why not slot in a known quantity and play him to his real strength, as you suggest? MVP, though? Let's just hope for what we got in '09: .302 /.387/20 sb. Give me that, some better fortune on the injury front, some hard-knocks development from Pelfrey and Maine (I've given up hope on Ollie), a reasonable step forward for Murphy, and--oh, yeah--a big free-agent bat in left field, and I'll breath easier again. After the fiasco of ’09, I’m hungry for any sort of forward-looking Mets conversation, so thanks for this… I agree with you that Castillo’s performance (Yankee flub-fiasco notwithstanding–and, even there, he showed me something, by the way he responded both in the media and, most importantly, in the field afterwards) was one of the few relative bright spots of the season. (The acquisition of Jeff Francouer was surely the brightest.) So your proposal has some merit, especially since we don’t yet know what we’re going to get from Jose. Why not slot in a known quantity and play him to his real strength, as you suggest?

MVP, though? Let’s just hope for what we got in ’09: .302 /.387/20 sb. Give me that, some better fortune on the injury front, some hard-knocks development from Pelfrey and Maine (I’ve given up hope on Ollie), a reasonable step forward for Murphy, and–oh, yeah–a big free-agent bat in left field, and I’ll breath easier again.

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