Omir Santos: Topps Rookie All-Star
Posted by CaseStreet on 12:52pm, Wednesday November 25th 2009
Topps announced it’s 2009 Rookie All-Star team. Omir Santos has been selected as the Rookie Catcher.
The squad consists of catcher Omir Santos (Mets), first baseman Travis Ishikawa (Giants), second baseman Chris Getz (White Sox), third baseman Gordon Beckham (White Sox), shortstop Elvis Andrus (Rangers), outfielders Chris Coghlan (Marlins), Andrew McCutchen (Pirates) and Nolan Reimold (Orioles), and pitchers Tommy Hanson (Braves) and J.A. Happ (Phillies).
A 28 year old former Yankee prospect, Santos had a .260 BA, .296 OBP, .391 SLB in 306 plate appearances. Santos finished the year with 28 Runs, 73 Hits, 14 Doubles, 1 Triple, 7 Home Runs and 40 Runs Batted In.
Santos received 8 Real Dirty Mets Blog Man Up Awards and his most memorable moment as a Met was when he hit one over the Green Monster to beat the Red Sox.
Jonathan Papelboncame on for the save but walked Sheffield to start the 9th. Two strikeouts later, Omir Santos stepped up to the plate and carved his place in the hearts and minds of Met fans everywhere, but especially those that made the trip to Fenway.
To read more about Santos, make sure to check out Make it or Break it?: Omir Santos Starting Catcher 2010 and Omir Santos Is A Dog.
Congratulations Omir!
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I wouldn’t mind a Santos/Thole platoon but I’d prefer to pick up Barajas.
Rookie this has to be a joke
Interesting perspective on Miggy from Bill Simmons mailbag on ESPN:
Q: I’ll make it simple. Miguel Cabrera: Yes or no?
– Patrick, Weymouth, Mass.
SG: Yes. Yes. And yes. For three reasons …
1. He’s only 26, which makes the 0.26 blood-alcohol thing much more defensible to me. Look, I am ashamed of at least 50 things that I did in my mid-20s. You don’t know any better in your mid-20s, only you kinda do, but not totally. You don’t appreciate anything. You’re supposed to start growing up, but you’re not quite ready yet. You can keep acting like an ass and keep assuming that someone will always give you a second chance, whether it’s with a job, a woman or whatever. If you’re 29 and things like the 0.26 are still happening during the biggest weekend of your team’s season? Yeah. That’s a problem. I am willing to forgive the 25-26 range. Especially in baseball, a sport in which maybe six guys have an IQ over 82.
2. The Boston Red Sox, as currently constructed, do not have a single hitter who makes other teams say, “I am absolutely terrified of that guy.” In 2004, we had two. In 2007, we had two. In 2010? Zero. We also don’t have a single guy who makes me think, “I can’t go pee right now, (player X) is coming up.” We have a bunch of perfectly likable, capable hitters who milk pitch counts and look statistically effective as a whole. And that’s great. I just think it makes it much harder to win a World Series that way. The biggest advantage that Boston has — really, the biggest — is owning a share of the “We Can Spend More Money Than Everyone Else” penthouse along with the Mets, Yankees, Cubs and Angels. They can absorb Cabrera’s monster contract pretty easily. And they should. How else are they going to find a slugger with a A-Rod/Teixeira/Pujols-type pedigree?
3. Every baseball team needs at least one talented enigma — someone who has to be constantly figured out, debated, defended and analyzed — because it’s a long season and what else are we going to do? The players need this person and so do the fans. New Englanders and Red Sox transplants around the country are trained from birth to handle them. We get it. We get their ups and downs. We understand that the plusses usually outweigh the minuses. We give them a long leash, as we proved with Manny over the course of eight-plus years. Ultimately, we’re attracted to real greatness, and that was the biggest problem with last year’s team — there was nobody truly great. We had a lot of good players, but no great ones. That’s why last year’s team had a ceiling of sorts. If Cabrera puts everything together in Boston, that ceiling is removed.
Anyway, I think he’s worth the risk. Especially if they can get Detroit to take Mike Lowell’s contract and figure out a reasonable package for him. I am on board. Will I make a few blood-alcohol jokes about him? Of course. But I will not pee when he’s coming up. I will tell you that much.
(And by the way, don’t listen to the sarcastic remarks from Yankee fans. They do NOT want us to get Miggy. And/or Halladay. I promise you.)
bill simmons often has the most intelligent, well thought out, and constructive ideas about players and moves. Makes the mainstream guys look like the shallow hackers they are.
I bet TRS agrees with him too!
Sorry, just had to go there…
yeah, Boston ran Manny out who was EVERYTHING in Boston, and they’re going to take a guy like Miggy.
He doesn’t fit their TYPE of player for many reasons.
LOL! What drivel! Cabrera DOES NOT have a Pujols/ARod pedigree, not even close, in any way. And number 1 above is too moronic to really believe. The guy has been a wealthy pro athlete on a giant stage for 6 years now and he cannot behave in public, stay in shape, or be ready to play.
His stats, as I pointed out yesterday, are basically the same as David Wright’s, of course without good fielding, good baserunning, speed and SBs, being in shape, and without being a selfish, out-of-shape moron.
Does anyone care in the slightest about facts or personal responsibility anymore?
Someone, go look at the numbers for Cabrera and Wright, then go look at Pujols and ARod.
Two different classes of players. Wright and Cabrera are all-stars and very possible HOFers. Pujols and ARod are two of the best in history.
I mean, Ernie Banks and Orlando Cepeda were great, but they were not in the class of Mays and Aaron, anymore than Cabrera is in the class of Pujols.
And when one looks at the shape ARod, Pujols, and Wright keep themselves in, it makes the comparison even weaker.
And yeah, I know, Orlando Hudson is the greatest leader since Alexander the Great; his leadership is actually magnified by being benched in the stretch run and postseason.
Sorry, but it takes seconds to learn this stuff, and whether it comes from one of us or a so-called pro expert, the lack of respect for facts is pretty comical.
$20+ mil a year for a guy who is a great hitter, but a 2-tool player (he cannot run, field, or throw), and a total knucklehead? No way, no chance, no thanks.
+1
Like I said yesterday. Power hitting First Baseman are a dime a dozen.
Yes, Miggy is good. Is he leaps and bounds better, no.
1B WAR for past 3 seasons:
Pujols 25
Tex 15.7
Youk 15
Fielder 14.3
Miggy 14.1
Berkman 13
Gonzalez 13
Pena 12.6
Howard 12.4
V-Mart 10.9
Helton 10
Thank you for these numbers, which show what I was trying to say even better!
yeah, fangraphs did a piece on Miggy and his WAR and dollar value.
it got me thinking about a few things I might write about.
Looking forward to reading whatever you write next, as I am not as up on these newer stats as some of you guys are.
The list was eye-opening, as I would have guessed Howard would be higher, and Fielder would have been ahead of Youk…but Pujols’ dominance is indeed incredible and ridiculous.
Yes, power hitting first basemen are indeed a dime a dozen.
Now, how many of them are 27 or younger?
Prince Fielder 5/9/84
Miguel Cabrera 4/18/83
Adrian Gonzalez 5/8/82
That’s three, not eleven, that we could conceive of playing for the Mets in their prime years instead of slowly declining and being paid for their past glory.
Many people on this blog have noted AGon’s interesting home/road splits and wondered about how he might hit at Petco East since he doesn’t do so well at Petco.
So unless we’re pulling off the miracle Fielder trade, we’re not going to do better than Cabrera. But who needs him? Not the Amazin’ Mets.
Never said we could not use him or that we did not need him.
Just personally think we need starting pitching far more than a 20+ mil/per year overweight malcontent who cannot field, throw, or run.
Grave, I hope you have an absolutely wonderful Thanksgiving sir!
Sorry, I just think the big bopper type is overrated. Look at how many of those guys hit tons of HRs. There’s many options to improve at 1B. Baseball is moving in a different direction.
Yes, you could pay Miggy 20+ and whatever prospects it takes to get him.
OR
You could pay a guy like Doc, Lincecum, Haren, Greinke, Beckett, Vazquez, Verlander, or Felix. All those guys have a higher WAR, meaning they were that much better than the replacement player.
To me it’s about getting (paying) the most from premier positions, like SS, CF, C and SP because there’s not that many great players that play those positions as compared to corner infield or outfielders.
So, yes he’s a great hitter that could help the Mets and I’d love any help we can get but he’s not exactly the best for this team.
WOW Miggy just gets your goat doesn’t he.
No. He ate it! Live!
HA!!!
Yeah, I guess guys like him do. His lack of respect for his talent, his teammates, the game, and people in general really turns me off.
I also get defensive when folks criticize Wright (not saying you did) because he is such a hard worker and such a solid person.
Not saying everyone needs to be a choirboy, as Keith Hernandez is my all-time favorite Met, but despite his coke issue, Keith was always prepared, always in shape, always hustled, and to my knowledge never slugged a wife or threatened an overweight fan.
I personally think committing 20+ mil a year for 5 years for a guy with Cabrera’s proven lack of character and disrespect for everything just is not the way to go.
But I certainly know what an excellent hitter he is. I just don’t want to root for him.
Having said that (anyone see the last episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm?), if Cabrera becomes a Met and is our first baseman next year, I will immediately forget all of this and root HARD for him, just as I did when Shef became a Met!
DWrights the king and I hope he remains with the team for his entire career. Anyone that gets on him for being a little streaky needs to lighten up. And, I only proposed that trade to get some discussions going and to gauge the love for him on the boards.
Personally I am not in favor for any player not named Pujols getting 20million from the Mets. If they can pull off a guy like Miggy while still being able to get a top tier pitcher and a well rounded bench then bring it on. Don’t think it’s possible but when does that matter. Miggy is just such a feared hitter and the fans would go nuts with him hitting bombs. Who knows in the right clubhouse he may grow up and turn his act around. 25 is young especially when you add fame and money into the equation.
Gotcha, and I agree totally about Wright, and I certainly do agree that Cabrera is a great offensive player.
I could see giving Halladay 20/mil a year if he is 100% healthy.
And you did get some opinions by proposing the trade!
Not a very impressive crop of rookies.
In a few years we may only remember that McCutchen, Hanson and Beckham did not win the ROY. We won’t remember who did…
Or Porcello.