All-Star Break … From Norms!

[batmagadanleadoff]

So who should be there for the Mets other than deGrom, who decided to skip the ASG anyways and as an aside, insofar as Rojas ruled out deGrom for this Friday, I'm wondering if the Mets aren't concealing a new minor injury or flareup involving deGrom?



Who else? Alonso, the Mets best 1st half hitter is batting .250 and though he's the world's best power hitter, he's tied for 14th place in the NL in HR's hit - and he's in 4th place just among NL first basemen.

[Ceetar]

Lindor. Diaz. Alonso. Stroman. All valid choices. It's not a stats thing, it's a meaningless exhibition. They're all stars/good players/etc.

[batmagadanleadoff]

=Ceetar post_id=71313 time=1626223774 user_id=102]
Lindor. Diaz. Alonso. Stroman. All valid choices. It's not a stats thing, it's a meaningless exhibition. They're all stars/good players/etc.

[Edgy MD]

BRANDON FUCKING NIMMO GUYZZ!!

[Frayed Knot]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=71312 time=1626223544 user_id=68]... insofar as Rojas ruled out deGrom for this Friday, I'm wondering if the Mets aren't concealing a new minor injury or flareup involving deGrom?

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

So the Blue Jays players are wearing the Canadian flag on the front of the jersey under the Nike ad and the American flag on the sleeve. Why not just wear the Canadian flag on the sleeve?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Because they play their home games in Buffalo?

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Because they play their home games in Buffalo?

Makes as much sense as anything else having to do with these uniforms.



Game is falling out of reach for the NL. Again.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Frayed Knot wrote: =batmagadanleadoff post_id=71312 time=1626223544 user_id=68]... insofar as Rojas ruled out deGrom for this Friday, I'm wondering if the Mets aren't concealing a new minor injury or flareup involving deGrom?

Supposedly the idea is to line him up for upcoming in-division games.

Gary mentioned this a couple days back.

[Ceetar]

yeah, it's Rojas deflecting or being clueless (your choice!) they play five against the braves, he'll get one of them. You potentially want to make sure he pitches against bot hthe Phillies and the Nationals in early August, but it's ridiculous to try to project that now.



The best way to make hey against the division is to have as many deGrom starts as he can handle.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Walker gets an inning!

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Well, nice at-bat against Merrifield!

[batmagadanleadoff]

=Ceetar post_id=71323 time=1626227376 user_id=102]
yeah, it's Rojas deflecting or being clueless (your choice!) they play five against the braves, he'll get one of them. You potentially want to make sure he pitches against bot hthe Phillies and the Nationals in early August, but it's ridiculous to try to project that now.



The best way to make hey against the division is to have as many deGrom starts as he can handle.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Well, that was the NL's best chance.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Wait 'til next year. Again.

[MFS62]

Glad to see the CPF was well represented.

The mic-ed up Liam Hendricks (the AL closer) was really our Fmann in disguise.

He dropped a few cuss words while pitching because he thought his mic wasn't working.

It was.



Later

[bmfc1]

Richard Justice on the Tony Kornheiser podcast about Alonso at the HDR: "This felt like a coming out party for the whole New York Mets organization."

[batmagadanleadoff]

Frayed Knot wrote: ... insofar as Rojas ruled out deGrom for this Friday, I'm wondering if the Mets aren't concealing a new minor injury or flareup involving deGrom? Supposedly the idea is to line him up for upcoming in-division games. Gary mentioned this a couple days back.

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Now it looks like deGrom might not start until Sunday, with even Walker, who pitched in yesterday's ASG, getting a start before deGrom. I'm suspicious.

The Mets are planning to start the second half of the season on Friday with Marcus Stroman on the mound, The Post's Mike Puma reported. Walker could follow Stroman on Saturday after pitching an inning in Tuesday's All-Star Game, with Jacob deGrom going on Sunday. The team wants to see how deGrom feels when it reconvenes for a light workout on Thursday at Citi Field before flying to Pittsburgh to take on the Pirates. That would give deGrom 10 full days of rest since his last start.

https://nypost.com/2021/07/14/tylor-megill-has-earned-his-stay-with-the-mets/https://nypost.com/2021/07/14/tylor-megill-has-earned-his-stay-with-the-mets/

[Ceetar]

The Mets ha ven't really been telling the press anything, certainly not starting pitchers. I'll reserve any judgement until Thursday's post-workout conference. Hopefully there's no rat/raccoon type incident to talk about instead.

[MFS62]

=Ceetar post_id=71365 time=1626302291 user_id=102]
Hopefully there's no rat/raccoon type incident to talk about instead.

[Edgy MD]

The Castellanos family shows up for Nick's first All-Star Game.