Mets Projected 2008 Opening Day Roster

blueNorange · Post #1 » by **blueNorange** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:15 am

Starting Line-up:

SS - Jose Reyes
2B - Luis Castillo
3B - David Wright
CF - Carlos Beltran
1B - Carlos Delgado
LF - Moises Alou
RF - Ryan Church
C - Brian Schneider

Bench:

UT - Damien Easley
UT - Marlon Anderson
OF - Endy Chavez
IF - Ruben Gotay
C - Ramon Castro

Starting Rotation:

SP - Johan Santana
SP - Pedro Martinez
SP - Oliver Perez
SP - John Maine
SP - Mike Pelfrey/Orlando Hernandez/Livan Hernandez(rumored)

Bullpen:

CL - Billy Wagner
8th - Aaron Heilman
7th - Duaner Sanchez
RL - Pedro Feliciano
RL - Scott Schoenweiss
RL - Matt Wise
RL - Joe Smith/Jorge Sosa/Steven Register/Orlando Hernandez(if Livan is a Met or if Pelfrey has a good ST)

randomhero423 · Post #2 » by **randomhero423** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:16 am

we are a bit injury prone. but w/out injuries we are in good shape.

Wrighteous · Post #3 » by **Wrighteous** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:20 am

blueNorange wrote:Starting Line-up:

SS - Jose Reyes
2B - Luis Castillo
3B - David Wright
CF - Carlos Beltran
1B - Carlos Delgado
LF - Moises Alou
RF - Ryan Church
C - Brian Schneider

Bench:

UT - Damien Easley
UT - Marlon Anderson
OF - Endy Chavez
IF - Ruben Gotay
C - Ramon Castro

Starting Rotation:

SP - Johan Santana
SP - Pedro Martinez
SP - Oliver Perez
SP - John Maine
SP - Mike Pelfrey/Orlando Hernandez/Livan Hernandez(rumored)

Bullpen:

CL - Billy Wagner
8th - Aaron Heilman
7th - Duaner Sanchez
RL - Pedro Feliciano
RL - Scott Schoenweiss
RL - Matt Wise
RL - Joe Smith/Jorge Sosa/Steven Register/Orlando Hernandez(if Livan is a Met or if Pelfrey has a good ST)

I just creamed myself for the eleventh time today!

Post #4 » by **Manhattan Project** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:23 am

Honestly I think one of the biggest things for this team would be a healthy Delgado this year. If he can provide us with a 270/25/90 season that would do wonders. Add in a half of a season in Alou, he was phenomenal last year. Its really World Series or EXTREME BUST.

mets87 · Post #5 » by **mets87** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:24 am

we will score lots of runs and give up very few. LOVE IT.

Jose7 · Post #6 » by **Jose7** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:48 am

Defense will be much better as well with Shcneider, Church and Castillo for a full season. With Church, Beltran can now shade more to the left and help Alou because Church is very good defensively.

randomhero423 · Post #7 » by **randomhero423** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:51 am

i wish we had a better hitter then church out there.

blueNorange · Post #8 » by **blueNorange** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:43 am

randomhero423 wrote:i wish we had a better hitter then church out there.

Dude, he had 15 homers and 40 doubles in that joke of a ballpark. His SLG and OPS on the road are 10x's better than his numbers at home.

I say he'll hit 20-25 homers with 70-80 rbi's.

krustytheclown · Post #9 » by **krustytheclown** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:20 am

color me excited

bringinhinkie · Post #10 » by **bringinhinkie** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:32 am

church aint a scrub, its just what we gave up for him..

anyway whats the status/update on duaner?

blueNorange · Post #11 » by **blueNorange** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:39 am

KnicksMetsJetsNova wrote:church aint a scrub, its just what we gave up for him..

anyway whats the status/update on duaner?

Last report on him that was a few weeks ago, he's throwing 94 mph and will be ready when pitchers and catchers report.

bringinhinkie · Post #12 » by **bringinhinkie** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:41 am

blueNorange wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

Last report on him that was a few weeks ago, he's throwing 94 mph and will be ready when pitchers and catchers report.

wow great to hear.. i cant wait for this season..

superLuigi21 · Post #13 » by **superLuigi21** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:26 pm

we certainly could use another corner outfielder... chavez is good in spurts, so if someone goes down we'll have a pretty big hole... how good is pagan?

Post #14 » by **Luv those Knicks** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:37 pm

superLuigi21 wrote:we certainly could use another corner outfielder... chavez is good in spurts, so if someone goes down we'll have a pretty big hole... how good is pagan?

I found this on Pagan and it seems to coinside with what I've read about him. Good defender. Still learning as a hitter.

http://mets.scout.com/2/219978.html

but I have to wonder, if Pagan was good, why did we sell him to Chicago. it couldn't be that he was out of options, (could it?)- he'd never been called up.

Maybe it was cause there were too many guys ahead of him - Milledge and Gomez, so NY sold him to Chicago, then reacquired him.

I'm not sold on Chavez as an every day guy. I have some confidence in Church, so, I hope Pagan works out as we may need him.

yaomac11-1 · Post #15 » by **yaomac11-1** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:08 pm

Pagan is Young enough to still develop a little more. He and F-Mart could be our corner guys next year, w/ Beltran in the Middle.

knick4life1218 · Post #16 » by **knick4life1218** » Fri Feb 1, 2008 4:59 am

i wonder when we are going to call for fernando man.....

man, i like the whole team, just not delgado, for some reason, i really dont like him, i wish we still had jacobs

gooGD · Post #17 » by **gooGD** » Fri Feb 1, 2008 5:39 am

ieatcurry wrote:i wonder when we are going to call for fernando man.....

man, i like the whole team, just not delgado, for some reason, i really dont like him, i wish we still had jacobs

I think if he does well in the minors this upcoming year there is a REAL chance he could replace Alou... that would be so scary if he is the real deal.

Lex2007 · Post #18 » by **Lex2007** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 4:36 am

I think Delgado is going to have a monster year, I bet we see his career average numbers not like last year.

gooGD · Post #19 » by **gooGD** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 5:07 pm

here would be my 25 man roster

C Schneider
1B Delgado
2B Castillo
SS Reyes
3B Wright
LF Alou
CF Beltran
RF Church (8)

Bench
Castro, Endy, Easley, Gotay, Marlon (5)

Starters
Santana, Pedro, Perez, Maine, Pelfrey (5)

Bullpen Heilman, Feliciano, El Duque, Wise, Schoenweis, Duaner Sanchez,
Wagner (8)

Misc:
Its going to be really hard for joe smith to make the 25 man.
Sosa may be the odd man out from last year in our pen... for good... (dfa?)

our outfield is injury prone, and Endy himself is injury prone..
I love our bullpen with duaner, hopefully he is 100%
Matt wise HAS to be better than Mota :rofl:

mets87 · Post #20 » by **mets87** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 5:54 pm

metsblog is saying we're looking at lofton...offensively he's superior to endy and defensively they're pretty close so i'd take lofton in a heartbeat.