[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by mikestack

Hi there, a couple quick notes on my beloved Mets. This appears to be the best roster set I've seen from you guys. A couple areas of note, mostly data-driven with a couple observations:

As a die hard Mets fan myself I'm happy to see another Mets fan here. Thanks for the praise too, it's appreciated.

Originally Posted by mikestack

SP Jeurys Familia: The Mets have given up on Familila on a starter, lack of changeup development is usually cited. I think his overall rating is accurate, but with a couple pitch adjustments (Baseball Prospectus cites his fastball as "plus plus", so maybe bumping that up and his changeup way down) would profile him as a reliever.

Agree. Will do so on the change and fastball. Although it's worth noting that this isn't something we have full control over. We can set the stuff rating and the general level of the pitches but the game itself does some sort of voodoo to come up with a specific numerical rating for each pitch. Sometimes it's a bit trial and error to get this sort of thing to come out right.

Originally Posted by mikestack

SP Matt Harvey- I think your velocity rating is a touch low, he's listed 92-94mph, but Harvey is averaging 95mph (per Fangraphs PitchFx) and touching 98mph since his callup late last year.

Agreed here too. Adjusted to 95-97.

Originally Posted by mikestack

SP Jonathon Niese is renowned for his ability to hold baserunners in place, virtually neutralizing the running game of opponents, including a streak of 36 games without a stolen base allowed at one point. I'm not inclined to make subjective calls in this thread, but it seems like an average "Hold Runners" score seems way off.

Done. Up to 175.

Originally Posted by mikestack

MR Pedro Feliciano's velocity has been low-80s since spring training, there's talk of it being arm strength issues, but it's unclear whether he's overrated or not.

He is overrated. I've already killed his velocity and significantly decreased his stuff. It'll show up in the next update, as will all this stuff.

Originally Posted by mikestack

MR Aaron Laffey is being used as a starter by the Mets and started 16 games for the Blue Jays last year, but profiles as "Strictly Bullpen".

Laffey's stamina is fine, maybe even too high. He's just not rated as a guy the ai will want to start. And I really don't think he should be, since he's not really that good.

I don't see any problems here, the profile in game should be taken with a grain of salt.

Still, gave him a tiny boost to his control.

Originally Posted by mikestack

I don't know why Mike Baxter is coming up as a 1B when he's been an outfielder his entire MLB career (though he played some 1B in the minors). This may be out of control of the roster set.

It's not. Someone gave him a 1b rating and set his primary position in the db to 1B. That's clearly wrong. I'm changing it. In fact I've removed his 1b rating entirely, since he's only played one inning at 1b his entire MLB career.

Originally Posted by mikestack

3B David Wright's defense was, by objective measures (e.g. UZR), about as good as it got last year in the league, and he's running a 60+ streak of no errors, but he's listed as an average third baseman. It's a small thing, but I never saw Wright as a pull hitter either.

I'm torn on Wright's fielding. Most years it hasn't been good, for his career he's at -12.1UZR according to fangraphs and in 2009-2011 he was at -9.9 UZR or worse every year.
Overall, I don't really see any compelling evidence to support making much of a change.

Agree on the pull hitter, changed to normal.

Originally Posted by mikestack

I have some thoughts about the farm system as well, but obviously it's hard to be objective about prospects, what with no real history to work with. I'm going to give the farm a once over in the next few days, if I find anything else notable, I'll let you know,

The minors are still very much a work in progress, we had some issues just before release that kept us from polishing them up as much as we'd like. Still I'd love to hear your thoughts. Especially since the minors and the draft are really the parts of the roster I focus on personally.

Originally Posted by mikestack

but this is really noteworthy:

2B Reese Havens has been just devastated by injuries over his career, but the game lists him as "Durable".

So sad. I loved him coming out of South Carolina, I was thrilled when the Mets took him. He's been as big a disappointment to me as any prospect in a long time.

Mentioned this elsewhere in the thread but we have no control over this. The injury ratings are auto generated by the game. I wish it wasn't that way, but it's what we have to work with.

Thanks for your thoughts, they're much appreciated.

Let's go Mets!