are bad as 1998 team?

 

 

1997 / 1999 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

 

 

 

 

Rk Pos Age G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB

1 C Gregg Zaun# 27 106 338 298 19 56 12 2 5 29 5 2 35 52 .188 .274 .292 .566 53 87 7 1 2 2 2

2 1B Derrek Lee 22 141 513 454 62 106 29 1 17 74 5 2 47 120 .233 .318 .414 .732 96 188 12 10 0 2 1

3 2B Craig Counsell* 27 107 399 335 43 84 19 5 4 40 3 0 51 47 .251 .355 .373 .729 98 125 5 4 8 1 7

4 SS Edgar Renteria 21 133 580 517 79 146 18 2 3 31 41 22 48 78 .282 .347 .342 .689 88 177 13 4 9 2 1

5 3B Todd Zeile 32 66 270 234 37 68 12 1 6 39 2 3 31 34 .291 .374 .427 .801 116 100 4 2 0 3 2

6 LF Cliff Floyd* 25 153 641 588 85 166 45 3 22 90 27 14 47 112 .282 .337 .481 .818 118 283 10 3 0 3 7

7 CF Todd Dunwoody* 23 116 462 434 53 109 27 7 5 28 5 1 21 113 .251 .292 .380 .672 80 165 6 4 3 0 0

8 RF Mark Kotsay* 22 154 623 578 72 161 25 7 11 68 10 5 34 61 .279 .318 .403 .721 94 233 17 1 7 3 2

We're not on World Series hangover. No. We're deprived and bad, that's worse.

We're not on World Series hangover. No. We're deprived and bad, that's worse.

 

 

Looks like you might lose the bet in your sig. I laughed hard early in the season at us being any where near the Mets record.

We're not too far off from their win total and it's June, so no.

much better than 98 talent wise

As crappy as the 98 team, its hard to compare this team to them. The 98 team posted two eleven game losing streaks. That team recorded two 20 loss months also.

In my mind we are worse. The 1998 team made no attempts to be good despite being defending champions. That team was the result of a genuine firesale. This team is just the result of incompetent front office work, with years of bad trades and practically letting talent walk while trying to maintain the presumption that we were going to be just as good as before, finally taking their toll. In my mind a season like this is a couple years over due because the front office has been getting too much credit from sources around baseball for merely putting mediocrity on the field year after year, just because of our payroll. Low payroll or not, it wasn't not spending money that bothered me after 2006, it was that most of the talented rookies we had from a team that battled back from being practically league worst to nearly winning the wild card was eventually gotten rid of for almost nothing in return.

We're not on World Series hangover. No. We're deprived and bad, that's worse.

 

 

Looks like you might lose the bet in your sig. I laughed hard early in the season at us being any where near the Mets record.

 

Hah, right? I mean, I'll still acknowledge it and live my side of the bet. But regardless, based upon speculation on paper we shouldn't be this bad, so in all likelihood we will still pass above the Mets by the end of the season. Unfortunately, once we get out of this slump, we've already pissed away all of our 1st place ball and likely ruined our chances barring another amazing stretch of making the playoffs.