IGT - 9/15/20; Mets @ Philly

[Frayed Knot]

Stop reading the scouting report Pete: See Ball, Hit Ball

[Edgy MD]

Kingery didn't gak on that throw. He rushed it and threw off balance.



And the Mets run their way out of the inning.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

This club needs to safely distance itself from stupidity

[Frayed Knot]

So I guess the runner hadn't crossed home yet although we saw nothing and nobody commented on it. It had to be close either way.



Philly relievers have now recorded 2-2/3 innings (8 outs) but have retired only 5 hitters.

[Edgy MD]

Everybody on this team looks defeated.

[kcmets]

I'm sorry GKR, but fuck Joe Girardi and his brilliance.

[Edgy MD]

Edwin Diaz does not look defeated.



Or maybe he does but it just makes him more relaxed and therefore dangerous.

[Edgy MD]

Another 10-hit game too.

[Edgy MD]

Conforto has been swinging at balls in on his belt buckle this evening.

[Frayed Knot]

How weird is it to be thinking: Please don't leave it up to Alonso?

[Frayed Knot]

Before this season is over I think it just might be possible that we'll see a game where the Mets get shut out while going oh-for-27 w/RiSP

[Benjamin Grimm]

I would have loved to have been able to spend October watching the Mets. 🙁

[G-Fafif]

This was the ninth nine-inning game in franchise history in which the Mets have totaled at least 11 hits yet have scored no more than 1 run. They are 0-9 in these games.

[bmfc1]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I would have loved to have been able to spend October watching the Mets. 🙁

Especially because we didn't have April, May, June and most of July.

[Edgy MD]

Man, this is such a fixable thing.

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: Man, this is such a fixable thing.

Tell us how.

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

http://potg.leaptoad.com/mets/images/schaefer46.jpg>



http://potg.leaptoad.com/mets/index.phpCast your vote!

[Edgy MD]

Edgy MD wrote: Man, this is such a fixable thing. Tell us how. Later

Ways to avoid double plays:

2. Take early in the count.


4. Steal.


6. Hit and run.


8. Run and hit.


10. Bunt, especially if they're giving it to you.

Yes that leads to other sorts of outs, but the upside is greater because I say it is.



Ways to get a guy in from third:

2. Take early in the count.


4. Bunt, especially if they're giving it to you.


6. Shorten up with two strikes.


8. Make like a Marlin and just steal the damn plate if the nearest defender is 60 feet away.

Enough of this notion that, if a guy's game is swinging from the heels, you've got to let him do that. Learn to take what you're given. The game is too hard and you're just making it harder if you don't. I don't need another half hour of shots of Pete Alonso in existential agony.



This is the best hitting team in the league and they can't score. That's way too much irony for me. Responsible baserunning, effective bunting, clean fundies, and heads-up play shouldn't be rare virtues, but basic organizational standards.

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: Responsible baserunning, effective bunting, clean fundies, and heads-up play shouldn't be rare virtues, but basic organizational standards.

Exactly. The Mets have been deficient in those areas for a long time.

One of the links in the "New Owner" thread listed all the coaches, managers and special titles throughout the organization. Which of them are responsible for developing, then teaching, those standards?

I remember when Frank Cashen joined the Mets, he brought his organizational playbook from the Orioles. It went into detail about everything, things like where to stand to take a cutoff throw and how to defend first and third with no outs to situational hitting. Those things were taught uniformly at every level of the organization, so when a player got promoted, he wouldn't have to learn a new managerial "style". That is not scouting. It is player development. And it isn't only procedural, it is an organizational philosophy.

Maybe that should be the first hire/ fix by the new owner.

This writer talks about a paradigm shift:

https://www.amazinavenue.com/2020/9/15/21437049/mets-editorial-wilpons-sale-steve-cohen-culture-changehttps://www.amazinavenue.com/2020/9/15/21437049/mets-editorial-wilpons-sale-steve-cohen-culture-change

Later

[Frayed Knot]

Over the last three games (since the 18-1 white washing of the Jays) the Mets have out-hit their opponents 32-23 but been outscored 14-6

So, yeah, that's 6 runs on 32 hits, plus 7 walks and 2 HBPs. I didn't count opponent errors. Not surprisingly this is due in large part to the

3/25 hitting w/RiSP (.120) ... and only two of those hits actually knocked-in any runs.



Then, after you toss in the four GiDPs plus various other baserunning miscues, opposing pitchers were required to retire not 81 NYM hitters to

close out those games but somewhere more in the low-to-mid 70s range. iow: more than 35% of NYM batters reached base over this three-game

span and that amounted to an average of .222 Runs/Inning, less than half the league average in any given season.