IGT 04/08 - NYM at ATL - Time to Get Real

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: Mets in 1974 "Who pitches tomorrow?" "Koosman." Mets in 2024 "Who pitches tomorrow?" "Everybody."

That made me laugh out loud.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Big move was leading off the top of the seventh with the score tied 5–5. With lefty AJ Minter coming on, Carlos Mendoza pinch-hit Tyrone Taylor for the lefthanded Joey Wendle. The more obvious switch would have been Zack Short, but Mendoza wasn't just thinking about the immediate matchup. With the team having come back twice to tie against a division leader and now entering the bottom third of the game, he was muscling up to steal a game that was looking like a mismatch six innings earlier.



In the short term, the free-swinging Taylor struck out swinging, as he is wont to do. But the offense and the defense were a little beefier the rest of the way, with Taylor taking over in left and McNeil moved in to play second. Taylor would later single in the eighth to extend the rally that allowed the ultimately decisive eighth run to score, and then make a completely stunningly unlikely game-saving catch in the ninth.

[metirish]

Sounds like Mendoza gets a lot of credit here

[Edgy MD]

Well, I'm giving him credit on that, certainly.



I don't approve of the ever-shorter workdays for starting pitchers that leaves his 11th best pitcher on the hill with the game on the line time and time again, while his seventh or eighth best pitchers are put through waivers.



I realize everybody is doing it, but somebody has got to stop, and I want it to be my team and my manager. It's a race to the bottom.

[MFS62]

This may be an organizational philosophy, how to handle pitchers coming from above, because we said Buck was doing the same thing last year.

I had hoped it was Buck, and Mendoza would bring a fresh approach.

Later