They posted the first tally of All Star votes earlier this week.
Cardinals Yadier Molina leads the league with over 316,000 votes . Carlos Ruiz, Pudge,Brian McCann and Russell Martin are the top 5. No sign of Mets catcher Rod Barajas.
The Mets catcher is new to the league this year having spent time with the Bleu Jays but is having a great start to the 2010 campaign. He leads all catchers in Slugging with .552, home runs with 10, rbi’s with 27 and total bases with 74. He has 27 rbi's from the 7th or 8th hole . He is now second on the team head of Bay and behind Wright.Now I understand its not just about is offense and of course hitting .269 is not anything to write home about but come on Met fans he has been Mister clutch for this team.
His defense really has not been too bad. He has 1 error and only 1 passed ball so far. He only has thrown out 1 base runner trying to steal but there have been only 14 attempts of a stolen base when he has been catching. That is the lowest among of any of the first string catchers in the league.
This guy deserves our vote just for the way he handles our pitching staff and he takes a lot of abuse back behind the dish and he doesn’t complain or want to rest. In last nights win Takahashi had no problem crediting the catcher for having a great plan to attack Ryan Howard last night in the 6th inning.
When it comes to offense would you rather up with 2 runners on and 2 outs at this point? Barajas or Wright? Come on Met fans he might not win the All Star voting but he deserves to be at least close.
Cardinals Yadier Molina leads the league with over 316,000 votes . Carlos Ruiz, Pudge,Brian McCann and Russell Martin are the top 5. No sign of Mets catcher Rod Barajas.
The Mets catcher is new to the league this year having spent time with the Bleu Jays but is having a great start to the 2010 campaign. He leads all catchers in Slugging with .552, home runs with 10, rbi’s with 27 and total bases with 74. He has 27 rbi's from the 7th or 8th hole . He is now second on the team head of Bay and behind Wright.Now I understand its not just about is offense and of course hitting .269 is not anything to write home about but come on Met fans he has been Mister clutch for this team.
His defense really has not been too bad. He has 1 error and only 1 passed ball so far. He only has thrown out 1 base runner trying to steal but there have been only 14 attempts of a stolen base when he has been catching. That is the lowest among of any of the first string catchers in the league.
This guy deserves our vote just for the way he handles our pitching staff and he takes a lot of abuse back behind the dish and he doesn’t complain or want to rest. In last nights win Takahashi had no problem crediting the catcher for having a great plan to attack Ryan Howard last night in the 6th inning.
When it comes to offense would you rather up with 2 runners on and 2 outs at this point? Barajas or Wright? Come on Met fans he might not win the All Star voting but he deserves to be at least close.
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