AMAZIN' YOUTH WINS NY BATTLE

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Mets Youth are making a difference.
Published 8/21/2008 by Long Island Met Fan (noreply@blogger.com) at 24 Hours From Suicide...A Day In The Life of a Met Fan
... Check out the article from Joel Sherman who compares the Mets Youth to the Yankees youth. Guess who wins? The article can be read here

Sherman: Mets Youth Better Than Yanks Kids
Published 8/21/2008 by Steve Lombardi at WasWatching.com
Via Joel Sherman - So this game was yet another reminder that - forecasts to the contrary - the Mets’ young players are outdoing their Yankee counterparts in 2008. That is among the reasons the Mets are in first place and the Yanks are barely hanging in the wild-card race. Pelfrey, at 24, is just 11 months older than Ian Kennedy. Yet while Pelfrey was becoming the first Mets hurler 24 or younger to win 12 games since Bobby Jones went 12-7 in his age-24 season in 1994, Kennedy was losing last night at Triple-A. The starting center-fielder ...

Read: The Youth Movement
Published 8/21/2008 by Matthew Cerrone at MetsBlog.com
... Mike Pelfrey pitched a complete game and moved to 12 wins on the season, while 26–year-old Argenis Reyes, who was 1 for 4, is batting .290 in his last 30 at bats. The day before, 22–year-old Nick Evans had two hits and scored a run in three at bats. By the way, Jose Reyes is 25 years old, as is David Wright, both of whom will likely be considered in voting for the National League MVP this season. In the New York Post, Joel Sherman writes… “(Last ...

Channeling Your Inner Boggs
Published 9/2/2008 by Metstradamus (noreply@blogger.com) at The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus
... The name that has been associated with Daniel Murphy has been Wade Boggs. You saw all sides of that today. Boggs wasn't the best of fielders in his rookie season either. And Murphy had some adventures in left field today that looked a lot like "Danny Being Manny". ...