If ... Then ...

[Edgy MD]

If this was a regularish season, with 162 games and a minor league season and healthy country and an adult president, then would the Mets have farmed out Pete Alonso? Would you have, if it was your call?

[Edgy MD]

And Alonso is up now as the tying run, with a chance to make me look stupid for starting this thread.

[whippoorwill]

Farmed out how???

[Benjamin Grimm]

Sent to Syracuse.



I think they might have done it. It would also have had the unstated benefit of messing with his service time.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I don't know what I'd do but I recently also considered this idea.

[whippoorwill]

Wow the guys just slumping right?



You guys are mean lol

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

He's been awful all year long

[MFS62]

If

the Mets had signed DJ LeMahieu instead of Jed Lowrie

then

The Mets would have the potent right handed bat in the lineup they need, keep JD Davis in left field where his defense doesn't hurt too bad

and

We would have the excitement of watching DJ and McNeil battle it out for the NL batting title for years to come.

Later

[smg58]

Normally I wouldn't consider anything drastic until Memorial Day -- which, ironically, would be about sixty games. A little more than a week ago his OPS was in the low .800s, which is not what you'd want given last year but also not grounds for panic. It's evidence that the season is still young enough that things can change quickly, in either direction. You also have to consider that there are guys on the team hitting over their heads, too. But in a compressed season, everything gets magnified. Alonso has been awful all year, but "all year" is a month. By the time you get a real sense of how everybody's seasons are going, the season will be over.

[whippoorwill]

Yeah that's the sad part

[LWFS]

"All year long" has been, like, six weeks.



Also, he hasn't been slummy for all six weeks. Majority, sure.

[ashie62]

All year? In a 162 game season this would likely be a blip. You could sit him for a few days.

[Edgy MD]

"All year long" has been, like, six weeks.

Name one useful thing he did in June! I'll, like, wait!

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I'm not saying, I'm just saying, you know? It's not the right season to start the way he has.

[LWFS]

Edgy MD wrote: "All year long" has been, like, six weeks. Name one useful thing he did in June! I'll, like, wait!

Do TikToks count?

[Edgy MD]

IF ...



... Jacob deGrom could withdraw all the extra run support that he didn't need from his last two starts, and deposit them instead into games throughout his career where they might have made the difference ...



... THEN ...



... what might his career win total be?

[Edgy MD]

Orioles prodigious-slugger-turned-incredible-wind-maker Chris Davis is https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bs-sp-orioles-chris-davis-out-20200919-r5k5ihfocbaktfe7mivda5vasa-story.htmlending his season early and hitting coach Don Long (relative of Kevin?) has advice that may relate to Big Pete also.

“I think the process of hitting is always being reshaped. It's ongoing. I think the most dangerous thing a hitter can do is look back. I think you have to continue to [ask] what am I feeling now?," Long said. "What am I able to do now? And within what I'm able to do now physically and mentally, can I go back and have the same kind of game I had before, or do I have to kind of reshape what I'm doing? I think that's the first part of the assessment for any hitter, to be able to be reflective enough to say, ‘Is going back the right answer, or is it in going forward, maybe becoming a different version of myself based on what's available to me right now?'”

[MFS62]

I read the other day (can't find the link. SNY?) that JD Davis says he misses having his hitting coach with the team. I wonder if Alonso is feeling the same. The ability to go over an at-bat just after it happened (e.g.- make in-game corrections about the way they're being pitched) may be a missing factor in their performance this year.

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

Gary mentioned that on last night's broadcast. Tom Slater is with the team, though, so it's not like they don't have an on-site coach.