IGT, 2025-7-21, Angels of Desire

[Edgy MD]

As the trade deadline approaches, only three American League teams (Sacramento, Chicago, and Baltimore, to a lesser extent) can be reasonably described as "out of the playoff picture. Into town come fringe contender Anaheim, and they have been given a challenge by their star player Mike Trout to muscle up at the deadline, rather than trade off parts. The Mets are in a position to give Mike Trout a wakeup call.



LA lefty Ty Anderson (one of those parts likely to hit the market if The Angels do not show some spark over the next week or so) matches up against Kodai Senga.



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[ashie62]

Our pudgy little catcher is back



Nimmo 7

Lindor 6

Soto 9

Alonso 3

McNeil 8

Vientos DH

Baty 5

Alvarez 2

Acuna 4



Senga 1



Neto 6

Schaunel 3

Trout DH

Ward 7

Adell 8

Moncada 5

O'Hoppe 2

Wade Jr 9

Renifgo 4



Anderson 1

[Edgy MD]

Our bubble-butt firstbaseman is back also.



McNeil in center does not seem to be a thing in any hurry to go away.

[Gwreck]

Edgy MD wrote: McNeil in center does not seem to be a thing in any hurry to go away.

I'm still surprised they use McNeil there over Nimmo. But given the current state of the offense, there's very little room to put Taylor in the lineup.

[Frayed Knot]

LAA is not as bad as we've gotten used to them being of late: last winning season was 2015 (85-77) and they've lost 85, 89, 89, and 99 games from 2021 thru 2024.

But they're just one game under now (49-50) and +4 since June 1st. They also just took two of three from the Phillies which was right nice of them and in recent weeks

did the same to both the Yanx & Braves so they're not just feasting on a weak part of their schedule.

[Cowtipper]

Magic number: 64

Mets must go 34–28 the rest of the way to be a 90-win team.

[Edgy MD]

Edgy MD wrote: McNeil in center does not seem to be a thing in any hurry to go away. I'm still surprised they use McNeil there over Nimmo. But given the current state of the offense, there's very little room to put Taylor in the lineup.

WORLD: Man, Taylor is mired in a long slump.



McNEIL: Imma play center.



WORLD: Nimmo's feet aren't 100%.



McNEIL: Imma play center!



WORLD: Siri's return doesn't seem to be approaching any time soon.



McNEIL: Yeah, well, Imma play center!



WORLD: The Mets have these two young infielders without available positions to play. Both have worked out in center and have more speed than you could dream of.



McNEIL: IMMA PLAY CENTER, ASS!



WORLD: OK, don't get the red ass, Jeff. I just noticed that Nimmo has been stealing a lot of late, and his wheels seem to be functioning fine.



McNEIL: IMMA PLAY CENTER!



WORLD: This was never going to be a permanent ...



McNEIL: IMMA! PLAY! CENTER!

[Edgy MD]

Sixty years ago last night, the Yankees' Mel Stottlemyre hit a grand slam off of Boston's Bill Monbouquette.



Stottlemyre would add insult to injury 19 years later by taking the Mets pitching coach role that Mombo had been relieved of the previous year.

[Edgy MD]

Hey, Yoán Moncada is still playing!

[ashie62]

Leadoff walk, glarg

[ashie62]

Sweet!!

[Edgy MD]

I think this gets overturned, but it shouldn't have even been close.

[ashie62]

Alvarez with a clean unpainted face tonight

[Frayed Knot]

With all the splits Senga threw they must have gone through at least 15 different baseballs in the top of the 1st.

[Frayed Knot]

Mets: three outs on ten pitches

Senga: four outs on 27 pitches

[Edgy MD]

These Angels don't lay out on defense.

[ashie62]

RISP not converted here

[Bob Alpacadaca]

Alvarez sure had a chance at redemption there.

[Frayed Knot]

Three things we've seen a lot of from NYM pitchers in the 3+ games since the ASB

- 3-2 counts

- leadoff hitters on

- infield hits by the opposition

[Lefty Specialist]

Senga looks like crap tonight.

[ashie62]

Mets getting outplayed

[ashie62]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Senga looks like crap tonight.

Creamed crap at that

[ashie62]

Gonna be a long night for the bullpen

[Frayed Knot]

Gary mentioned Trout's first eight seasons: 2011 - 2019 [1009 OPS / 178 OPS+]

Starting in 2020 he's appeared in less than 1/2 of LAA games [393 of 808]. His OPS+ was still 156 but he was only occasionally in uniform.

His first eight full seasons he appeared in 89%

[Frayed Knot]

They can't continue to lead the planet in BBs and expect to get away with it night after night.

Especially seeing as how the offense has scored more than four runs just once in their last eight games.

[Frayed Knot]

Getting the ball out of the infield isn't something we're big on doing.

[Frayed Knot]

Three innings from the starter .... Yippee!

[ashie62]

Fans only meeting may be on tap



They're looking very 84-78

[ashie62]

[bIGPURPLE]Baty Boomer![/bIGPURPLE]

[Frayed Knot]

We're Really good at pop-outs lately.