IGT 04/19 - Mets at Braves

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Damn, the Braves considered starting Sims tonight, but decided to call Wisler up and have him start instead. Unfortunately for the Mets, the Braves made the right choice. Sims really sucked in relief of Wisler.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Centerfield wrote: Um. Why would you bring in our lone overworked lefty tonight?

Blevins has been awful, with and without rest and geez faced more than 1 batter only 2 or 3 times all year. I wouldn't call him overworked. I'd call him shit.

[nymr83]

Lagares hacking at the first pitch a bit too eagerly there

[Guest cooby]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Hey we're one swing, and then another 4 swings, from making this a game again.

Most mostiest quote ever!

[Edgy MD]

Down by eight, in the ninth, two runners on ahead of him, ahead in the count 2-0, and Lóbaton swings.

Such a messed-up universe.

[Zvon]

[Benjamin Grimm]

Cast your vote!

[Centerfield]

I really don't get using Blevins last night. The more I think about it, the less sense it makes.

First off, Blevins has appeared in 11 games. That's 1 off the MLB lead (12, Blake Wood and Sam Freeman). Granted he hadn't pitched since Monday, but generally we are going to want to limit Jerry's appearances as much as possible given he's our only lefty.

Secondly, it's a 4 game series. Why would you give them a look at Jerry in a spot like that? You figure FFF is going to come up in a high leverage spot some time this weekend. Why give him extra looks in a blowout Game 1? And allowing him to face that many batters. Now you may have burned him for tonight. (Or if you pitch him tonight, for the day after). Makes no sense.

And not that I think it ultimately made a difference, but without the Blevins blowup, the winning run comes to the plate in that 8th inning.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Would be nice to hear a "whatever's best for the team" here, but it's Harvey.

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[Centerfield]

Fastball: Shot
Breaking pitches: Shot
Control: Shot

Being a Dickhead: Mid season form.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Centerfield wrote: Fastball: Shot Breaking pitches: Shot Control: Shot Being a Dickhead: Mid season form.

Yepp. Trying to imagine how that conversation would go with any other player. They're all pros and they want to play every day, of course. I'm certain Reyes still wants to play every day, but at least he knows he sucks right now and accepts his role. Throw Harvey's ass in the pen. Let him try to hit mid-90s for an inning and sniff success again. Or be playing for the Long Island Ducks in 2 years. Whatever, dude.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I have to think that releasing him is an option that's on the table.

[batmagadanleadoff]

What if the Mets decide they don't want Harvey around for a while but don't wanna release him? They could DL him with some fake injury --- if Harvey goes along with the ruse. Or you could have another ugly Ollie Perez situation with Harvey taking up a spot on the 25 even though the Mets might be loathe to use him.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Vegas, baby. Vegas.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Waivers, baby. Waivers.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I'm dumb on transaction stuff, but if Harvey has options (which I think he prob does), the Mets could simply demote him without exposing him to waivers, no?

[Guest d'Kong76]

I share dumbness on this, hopefully someone here can clarify. We should
probable start a Harvey Rumble Pony thread or something.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Because Harvey has at least five years service time, the Mets would need his consent to assign him to the minors.

Interesting -- Harvey came up seven seasons ago, but pitched more than 100 innings in a season only twice.

[Chad ochoseis]

Gary and Ron talked about that last night, sometime around the fifth or sixth inning. Gary broached the topic of Harvey going to Vegas to work on things and Ron used up about five hundred words of verbal gymnastics to say diplomatically, "Harvey's way too much of a dickhead to ever accept a minor league assignment".

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yes that was an interesting exchange.

[Guest d'Kong76]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Because Harvey has at least five years service time, the Mets would need his consent to assign him to the minors.

Thanks, I mean I guess I know this. For some reason DFA's, waivers and such
makes me skittish to speak definitively about transactions.

[Benjamin Grimm]