Mets Need A 1B

The Mets need to get a first baseman, because Murphy/Tatis is not cutting it, lets go into the stats.

First lets go over the fixed number stats.

Carlos Delgado= 4 HR 23 RBI 15 R 28 H 12 BB 20 K 49 TB in 112 PA

Murphy/Tatis= 6 HR 33 RBI 38 R 69 H 31 BB 28 K 102 TB in 329 PA

Look at that, Delgado would have needed maybe 20 more games to ge to those numbers, and he would probably have better stats, so we could get a replacement, like Mark Derosa, who could fill in at SS, give Wright a day at 3B, or play the corner outfield, which has been better, butnot league average. There are other stats that are not fixed numbers, that make it even more clear.

http://www.stathead.com/bbeng/woolner/vorpdescnew.htm , that is a good defintion of VORP, which is a complicated stat. It is basically if you had Joe Average and replaced him with David Wright, they would get 34.2 more runs than Joe Average.

Carlos Delgado's 09 VORP= 7.3

Murphy+Tatis= 09 VORP of -3.2

They have been a black hole, and Omar needs to makle a change, that is is 10.5 extra runs we could have, imagine how we could use 10.5 runs? We could have won that game where Castillo dropped the ball, or then ones versus the Phillies when we lost in extra innings, so who is out there?

Adam Dunn

Dunn can play left, and first so when Delgado gets back he can move out to left field, he adds some serious power to the Mets line-up, as he has slugged 30 homers every year since I can remember. He has a VORP, of 17.4, a that is about 20 extra runs.

Nick Johnson

I am not a personal fan of Johnson as he is often hurt, and does not seem to be built for Citifield, but Omar seems to like him as he traded for him in Montreal, he has a VORP of 11.5, which is about 14 more runs.

Aubrey Huff

I like him and Dunn more than the other options, as they can hit for power, and play LF/1B, which both would help us substantially, his VORP is -2.5, as his D hurts him there.

There have been some other names, but these seem to be the most likely to be dealt to the Mets, last time I heard, the Nats are asking a ridiculous amount for Johnson, so maybe take him off hte list.