Fernando Martinez is Called Up

Fernando Martinez was the New York Mets number one prospect for the last two years. The Mets signed Martinez at age eighteen out of high school. Last week after the Mets placed Ryan Church and Jose Reyes on the DL, they called up Martinez who was hitting .291 with 8 home runs, 28 RBI’s and 21 runs with AAA Buffalo. Since being called up Martinez has had 19 at bats and is hitting .211 with 3 RBI’s, 2 runs and 2 stolen bases with the Mets. Although Martinez is off to a rough start, he has showed signs as to why he was the number one prospect for the Mets. In his last three games he is 4 for 11 with 2 runs and 2 stolen bases. Martinez will be a centerpiece in the Mets offense for many years to come as long as he stays healthy. Mets fans hope that he will not only help the Mets out in the future but also the present.

Josh Jakers

NYchalktalk.com

NYchalktalk.com is BACK

NYchalktalk.com is back and better than ever. We have taken more than a month off from writing and now we are ready to return. When baseball season began Josh and I decided to write a review of every single Mets and Yankees game. At first this seemed like a great idea to keep our readers informed with quick updates on the previous days action. After we did that for a while it became long and tedious, writing about games and gathering our information from other sports sites instead of creating our own. Now, enough about the past, this is how the new NYchalktalk.com is going to work. There will be interesting and opinionated articles regarding controversial topics in all sports. The game reviews are now a thing of the past because after gathering information from some of our readers they were sort of pointless to begin with. Another main aspect to our website was our weekly blogtalkradio show that we also took a break from. That is coming back as well. Our first show back will be next Sunday June 7 at a time to be later determined.  After reading this I am sure you are just as excited as we are that the website is back. With that said, go back to reading NYchalktalk.com and listening to our weekly radio show. Once again, thanks and welcome back to the website!

Daniel Weberman

NYchalktalk.com

Cleveland Indians vs. New York Yankees 4/18/09

There isn’t much to say about this one besides, WOW. The Cleveland Indians beat the New York Yankees, 22-4. No, that is not a typo, the Yankees got beat very badly. In yesterday’s post I said Chin Ming Wang would rebound from his two terrible previous starts, but he did not. Wang was a star pitcher two years ago and this year has followed last years for the worse. He could not get out of the second inning after allowing eight earned runs on eight hits. The man’s ERA is now up to 34.50 and that is unbelievable. I normally like to go over the positive things the Yankees did in each game, but I have nothing to go over. On the other hand, there is plenty to discuss about the Indians. They had two players get seven at bats and their big inning came in the second when they scored fourteen runs. Cleveland hit six home runs in this game with two sets of back to back homers. All Yankee fans can hope is that they can rebound tomorrow.

Tomorrow, the New York Yankees play the final game of their four game series with the Cleveland Indians. They will be hoping to get close to winning after taking a terrible pounding in their prior game. The pitching match up features former Yankee Carl Pavano for the Indians against A.J. Burnett for the Yankees. This should be a great game as the Yankees truly need to win this one.

Daniel Weberman

NYchalktalk.com

Cleveland Indians vs. New York Yankees 4/17/09

Yesterday the New York Yankees got their first win in their new ballpark. They defeated the Cleveland Indians by the score of 6-5. Joba Chamberlain did not pitch well for the Yankees; he allowed five runs in 4.2 innings of work. Brian Bruney picked up the win and Mariano Rivera got his third save of the season. Robinson Cano hit another home run for the Bronx Bombers, making it his third of the season. He has been the star offensive player for the Yankees so far, batting .405 with 8 RBI and 10 runs. All in all, it was a good game for the Yankees and they got their first win out of the way at the new stadium. The win wasn’t impressive but at this point they will take. They can only hope that the rest of the offense starts hitting and Alex Rodriguez comes back as soon as possible.

Later today the Yankees play the third game of the series against the Cleveland Indians. For the Indians Fausto Carmona is pitching against Chin Ming Wang for the Yankees. Both pitchers are 0-2 this season so they are both looking for their first win. I’m sure Wang will lower his ERA today but you really have to wonder if he still believes in himself to pitch a quality game today. 

Daniel Weberman

NYchalktalk.com

San Diego Padres vs. New York Mets 4/16/09

In the third game of the series against the Padres, the Mets jumped out to an early lead off Jake Peavy. Carlos Delgado hit his second home run in as many games in the first inning to give the Mets an early 3-0 lead. That lead quickly diminished in the 3rd inning when John Maine imploded. Maine let up five runs in the 3rd on four RBI singles by Jody Garut, David Eckstein, Chase Headley, and Kevin Kouzmanoff. That gave Jake Peavy a two run lead to work with the score 5-3. The Padres then extended their lead in the 5th when Chase Headley doubled in a run, while he was on his way to a 4 for 4 evening. The Mets tried to make a comeback in the 8th when former Met Duaner Sanchez let up a two run homer to backup catcher Ramon Castro; that made the score 6-5. That’s as close as the Mets would come though as Heath Bell tossed up a 1-2-3 ninth inning to get his second save of the series and give the Padres the series win.

The Mets will open up a weekend series with the Brewers at Citi Field starting Friday. The pitching match up will be Livan Hernandez 1-0 with a 4.63 ERA for the Mets against Dave Bush 0-0 with a 5.40 ERA for the Brew-Crew. The key to this series is going to be if the Mets can shut down the Brewers potent offense. If they do that, they will have a good chance of winning the series.

Josh Jakers

NYchalktalk.com