JASON BAY RUMORS & GOSSIP

It’s Jason Bay Day on MMO. Okay, just kidding, but check out this video from MLB Network’s Clubhouse Confidential. Host Brian Kenny does a nice job pointing out some revealing stats on Bay. From 2004-2009, Bay posted a .280/.375/.519 slash. From 2010-2011, Bay posted a .251/.337/.386 slash. Look at that drop in slugging percentage! His ground-ball rate has risen...

Andy Martino of the Daily News, spoke with Jason Bay and over the weekend and the Mets’ $66 million left-fielder sees a return to his 30-homer seasons despite his struggles the last two years. Now 33, Bay believes his troubles are not related to age or mechanics and attributes the problems to overthinking. “All those years I did well, I never worried about what I was doing...

There are two strikes on Jason Bay, but he is still alive. It is one of many Citi Field nights, and Bay looks at the pitcher, taps the plate with his bat, and thinks: Slider in the dirt.

No doubt there are a myriad of questions and curiosities about the 2012 Mets, but two I am wondering about most are Lucas Duda and Mike Pelfrey. I’m skipping the obvious choices, David Wright, Johan Santana and Jason Bay. With Wright, either they’ll trade him or they won’t. With Santana, he’s either healthy or he’s not. And Bay? Based on his first two years with the Mets...

The Mets will be soon playing in Citi Field in a little more then 2 months. This will be the 4th season in the new ballpark which will have new dimensions to help the park become more neutral and also help David Wright and Jason Bay stop shaking there heads as they round 1st as they see a ball in left center or right center go to die. Couple of years ago there was talk about the Mets hosting

As we all know, the Mets will probably still be dumping players after the season begins. Even if the Mets only have to pay $83M from the Madoff issue, it’s still a big hit and they don’t have money to add players. They didn’t even have money to retain superstar shortstop Jose Reyes. The Mets may get off to a good start but that means those players the Mets would try to move...

With the biggest move of the off season taking place in the outfield, the dimensions of Citi Field have certainly been adjusted in the favor of David Wright and Jason Bay. Each should reap the benefits of a lowered, shortened porch in left field, but will that be a enough do assume the teams power crown?What do you think? Will David Wright return to the 30+ potential we saw only...

Lucas Duda’s lack of defensive ability anywhere on the field has been a big cause for concern between many Mets fans, bloggers, and people in baseball. Many feel Duda is a bat without a position, so he is similar to Daniel Murphy except Duda shows even less general athleticism and doesn’t slot in well to most NL teams plans unless it involved stashing him at 1B and hoping he...

Yesterday I wrote an article asking if the Mets should trade Jason Bay and David Wright for nothing. My idea, clearly not explained well enough in the piece, was that the price to the Mets for another club taking on Bay and his salary was Wright. In the comments section, some suggested holding Wright and trading Bay. Sounds great – who’s the GM who’s giving up anything...

Back-to-back multi-hit games have Jason Bay’s OPS up to .651 for the season. Earlier I wrote that it was time for the team to move on from Bay. I still believe that’s the direction the Mets need to go but right now Bay should continue to play to see if this is the beginning of a hot streak or merely some type of dead-cat bounce. The main objection to benching/releasing Bay...