Know Your Place Rook

How many times have Met fans seen this scenereo - pump up the rookie as the 2nd coming of Cleon Jones only to find that said rookie has major flaw.

I don't know how Minaya did not know - anyone paying remote attention could see it coming a mile away.

 

Too many to count, from Mike Vail, Mardie "the Chief" Cornejo and Kelvin Chapman up to Milledge, it's the same old song.

 

Billy Beene , Timo Perez , ect ect

 

So what else has Milledge done besides get high fives from the fans following a home run? I don't exactly follow the Mets so I don't know. To me it sounds like you guys are blowing this out of proportion to some extent, he's still a hell of a young player.

 

We did not put the sign up at his locker - the Met players did so we can only assume he has done a lot to piss them off. Baseball still has a lot of those unwritten rules - one of them being act like you have been there before -

 

A vet told him to get in line, Milledge responded with a string of profanities shouting the guy down; said message left on locker. Membership application for the alex ochoa/sean peyton/steve henderson/mike vail/club now being processed.

 

Assume you mean "jay" Peyton - who has to be Club president.

 

Can't let this thread get any farther without mentioning probably the most overhyped rookie of my lifetime -- Gregg Jefferies.

 

Great call - how could we forget.

Also need to give a shout out to Ryan Thompson who Mets got when they traded David Cone -

Thompson was suppose to be the 5 tool plum in trade that also included Jeff Kent.

 

Can't let this thread get any farther without mentioning probably the most overhyped rookie of my lifetime -- Gregg Jefferies.
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Indeed ...

 

Can't forget the Big Three, either -- Bill Pulsipher, Jason Isringhausen and Paul Wilson, who were supposed to be the next Seaver, Matlack and Koosman.

But to be fair, the last two mega-hyped Met minor-leaguers were Jose Reyes and David Wright.

 

Don't forget Scott Kazmir, whoops wrong thread.


Though you're right about the Mets traditionally overhyping their minor leaguers.