Sheff, and Ollie

I am riding high after a Met win, and I have caught up on my sleep and am ready to sit down and post.

Gary Sheffield has been the most underrated player on the Mets this year, and without him we would have been out of it a long time ago, as he has been the fourth best player this year based on Baseball Prospectus's VORP (Value Over Replacement Player). He leads the team in home runs, and has been the closest thing to a cleanup hitter the Mets have had, and without him, Wright would have no protection in the line-up what-so-ever.

Gary Sheffield is even better then I thought, and when I looked deeper into it I realized what a steal Omar got. His MLVr, which is how many more runs than an average player he contributes to, is .234, which is .4 less than David Wright, who many say has been our best hitter. He has an AVG of .283, and in similar situations the league would bat .263. His SO/BB is 1.06 which is okay; his career average in that stat is .79. He has an RBI every 6.1 ABs, and a HR every 18.8.

Oliver Perez went 5 innings of 2 run ball, which by all means is fine with me, but other people say that the 7 walks make it not as good as it really was which means that he will be back to bad Ollie soon. If we look deeper we can see that him, and the rest of the pitching staff held the Dodgers to a 2-11 with RISP, which is huge, and they left 12 on, and the highlight of Ollie's night for me was when he got a soft liner from Ethier with the bases loaded and two outs, when the old Ollie would have walked him, or allowed a hit.

So for Ollie, the future is bright.