{"id":1500,"date":"2011-08-26T14:33:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T18:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2011-08-25T22:50:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T02:50:13","slug":"some-random-math-about-bay-and-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/08\/26\/some-random-math-about-bay-and-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Random Math About Bay and 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/eAeDlNpNmdJWtRIHyBDWjA?feat=directlink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Jason Bay\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/---SjXG2W7rs\/TlcJvYMcZHI\/AAAAAAAADLA\/P6K1KVe--Lk\/BayHR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a>The Mets offense has the potential to be pretty excellent next year. \u00a0That next level to &#8216;really excellent&#8217; depends a lot on Jason Bay. \u00a0He&#8217;s shown some improvement lately, perhaps there were lingering effects of the concussion that he didn&#8217;t even realize. \u00a0Still, he&#8217;s been pretty bad overall. \u00a0 I think how well Jason Bay plays the rest of 2011 will go a long way towards how the media feels about the Mets in 2012. I&#8217;m proposing a direct relationship between Jason Bay&#8217;s home run total through the rest of the season, and the Mets predicted win total in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s got 9 right now. \u00a011 seems a stretch, but if he got to 20 I feel like people would proclaim him &#8216;back&#8217;. \u00a0I&#8217;ll set that as the absolute ceiling, and say it equates to 89 wins. \u00a0 Each home run less than that will be worth 1 win. \u00a0If he doesn&#8217;t hit another, the Mets will be predicted to win 78. \u00a0If he hits 5 to finish with 14, 83 wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets offense has the potential to be pretty excellent next year. \u00a0That next level to &#8216;really excellent&#8217; depends a lot on Jason Bay. \u00a0He&#8217;s shown some improvement lately, perhaps there were lingering effects of the concussion that he didn&#8217;t even realize. \u00a0Still, he&#8217;s been pretty bad overall. \u00a0 I think how well Jason Bay &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2011\/08\/26\/some-random-math-about-bay-and-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some Random Math About Bay and 2012&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1133,1248,19,259,3],"tags":[1400,2202,1094,2203,2201,2204,2964,2206,2205,1382,2169,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}