Halfway Mark - Projections

Midseason Projections

Some interesting notes. The Mets had a bad June, and without a swoon like that in the second half, I forsee these numbers being a little higher. If they have a better second half than first, Carlos Beltran and David Wright both have a chance to be 30 Home Run and 30 Stolen Base guys. Another key note is that Scott Schoeneweis should have significantly less IP than Feliciano, and he doesn't. Heilman's not been very good this year, but somehow he's the most used reliever. Maybe he just needs a little more rest to be the most effective. I left out Aaron Sele because he's horrible, but his numbers look like 51.1 IP with 74 hits. That's really all you need to know about him. I want to see Feliciano, and even Smith get more pitching, rest Heilman a little more and Schoeneweis a lot more.

Player	AVG	OBP	SLG	Hits	R	2B	HR	RBI	SB	BB
Jose Reyes	.316	.397	.453	208	114	34	8	68	80	90
Carlos Delgado	.229	.293	.418	140	78	38	26	90	4	50
Carlos Beltran	.271	.346	.475	164	90	32	28	100	26	72
David Wright	.290	.378	.505	176	92	42	28	88	36	82
Paul Lo Duca	.280	.329	.371	148	62	18	10	48	4	32
Shawn Green	.276	.331	.436	134	70	32	14	54	12	38
	Win	Loss	ERA	IP	BB	SO	HR	Hits	SV	SVO
Tom Glavine	14	12	4.39	217.1	78	104	28	228
John Maine	18	8	2.74	204	76	168	20	158
Oliver Perez	14	12	3.14	189.1	74	170	22	146
Orlando Hernandez	8	6	2.78	144.2	50	118	18	104
Jorge Sosa	14	6	3.92	128.2	46	76	12	110
Aaron Heilman	12	6	4.19	77.1	18	58	12	70		6
Joe Smith	4	0	2.73	66	32	66	2	56
Billy Wagner	2	0	1.73	62.2	18	98	8	48	32	34
Scott Schoeneweis	0	4	5.46	59.1	40	30	10	64		2
Pedro Feliciano	2	2	1.76	61.1	30	52	2	34	2	2

Good Brews

I was in attendance for the Saturday game against the Milwaukee Brewers. I have a Saturday season plan, so I'm always in attendance for the Saturday games. Today the Brewers just looked good. The Mets were a bit sloppy, Pelfrey's unseasoned and Ben Sheets pitched pretty well.

I know they didn't play as well Friday night, but seeing them in person I was impressed. From Tony Gwynn throwing out David Wright at second on his hit off the wall, to the crazy antics of the fourth inning where Prince Fielder popped into a sacrifice double play. 4-2-6-3-6. Gotay drifting back makes the catch in shallow right, and has no momentum on his throw home to get the tagged runner. I wonder if Shawn Green should've called him off and made that play? On the throw J.J. Hardy attempts to goto second, and Lo Duca grabs the too late, and way off line throw and guns it to Reyes, who now has Hardy in a rundown. However in the 6-3-6 rundown somehow they forget about the other runner, who scores from second. Sure it sloppy of the Mets to let it happen, but it was also sharp of the Brewers to capitalize on that. J.J. Hardy hit a grand slam, and also made a great catch in the bottom of the 9^th of a lopsided game to end it. J.J. Hardy looks like the Freddy Sanchez of this year.

Joe Smith and Pedro Feliciano finally shed their 0 eras after that, and any chance of a Met comeback just faded. At least it didn't come in a situation where they blew the game, and now we can stop worrying every time they come out that they're due to give up some runs. Feliciano actually got out of the jam Aaron Sele got in in the 6^th very nicely. 1 pitch double play, and then another out 3 pitches later.

It'd be nice to win today, not lose another series and hint to the Brewers that they just might not be the best team in the National League. The Braves play against Ian Snell today, who I just picked up in a fantasy league and I think they'll be losing. I'm still sticking to my prediction that the Mets are going to click one of these next couple of days and go on a tear that takes both the Yankees and the Braves in their wake.