The Mystery Dance - Mets at Cleveland IGT 8/4/26

[Frayed Knot]

I've tried and I've tried but I'm still mystified. I can't do it anymore and I'm not satisfied.

 

OK so they're forcing us to play tonight. No, it's not optional, it's on the schedule and stuff. But, after dealing away about 1/4 of the active roster this past weekend you might not even be able to tell all the players With a scorecard so the mystery of who is actually on the 26-man roster will presumably reveal itself over the next dozen hours or so. 

The Guardians, currently in 2nd place in the AL Central 3 games behind the ChiSox, pitch well (8th lowest RA/G) but score even less than the Mets (29th in RS/G)

A pair of lefties match up in the opener as Sean Manaea and Joey Cantillo [23 starts, 3.88 ERA / 1.45 WHIP] will find a game ball sitting on their locker room stool when they arrive at the ballpark.

As a side note on Cleveland's starters, five guys [Cantillo, Gavin Williams, Tanner Bibee, Slade Cecconi, and Parker Messick*] have started 112 of the team's 113 games this season. Seeing that makes me wonder what color the sky is in a world where that kind of thing happens.

 

 

* btw, I'm thinking that not many of you had a lot of Tanners, Slades, Parkers, or Gavins as part of your grade school classrooms. Just a guess.

 

 

[seawolf17]

Curry is back according to mets.com, but the other additions haven't been officially announced.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Sad bullpen chart.

	THU	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TOT
Kodai Senga	0	49	0	0	0	49
Devin Williams	17	0	0	14	0	31
Daniel Duarte	0	0	29	0	0	29

 

[seawolf17]

But hey! Senga's rested!

[MFS62]

11 hours ago, Frayed Knot said:

But, after dealing away about 1/4 of the active roster this past weekend you might not even be able to tell all the players With a scorecard so the mystery of who is actually on the 26-man roster will presumably reveal itself over the next dozen hours or so. 

 

Look! Up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. It is a signal in the shape of a Maryland Crab.

It's the Edge-meister, come to save the day. 

We will know them when his official roster, complete with pictures, is posted.

I can hardly wait.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

I failed to mention in the opening post that today (and tomorrow) are 6:40 EDT starts and that Thursday's game goes off at 1:10 ... so plan your lives accordingly.

[cal sharpie]

I'll be at that Thursday afternoon game.

 

[Edgy MD]

1 hour ago, cal sharpie said:

I'll be at that Thursday afternoon game.

Bring a glove and stay loose.

[Edgy MD]

Meet the new Mets, now with 100% less Polanco.

Starting Pitcher

Sean Manaea LHP 2-5, 4.42 ERA, 88 SO

Lineup

1. A.J. Ewing (L) LF
2. Francisco Lindor (S) SS
3. Bo Bichette (R) 3B
4. Francisco Alvarez (R) DH
5. Carson Benge (L) RF
6. Luis Robert Jr. (R) CF
7. Marcus Semien (R) 2B
8. Jared Young (L) 1B
9. Luis Torrens (R) C

 

Starting Ptcher

Joey Cantillo LHP 8-6, 3.88 ERA, 124 SO

Lineup

1. Steven Kwan (L) CF
2. Jo Adell (R) RF
3. Chase DeLauter (L) DH
4. Rhys Hoskins (R) 1B
5. Angel Martínez (S) LF
6. Travis Bazzana (L) 2B
7. Gabriel Arias (R) 3B
8. Austin Hedges (R) C
9. Brayan Rocchio (S) SS

[Frayed Knot]

New acquisition Jo Adell (he of the three HR-stealing game earlier this year) makes his Guardians debut after being part of yesterday's marketplace mayhem.

[Edgy MD]

It's been a storm of transactions and the roster updates are only up to yesterday, and yesterday was a whirlwind.

But for tonight, well, meet your new Mets.  Temperatures and uniform numbers are expected to be high.

Starting Pitcher Sean Manaea (L) Lineup A.J. Ewing (L) LF Francisco Lindor (S) SS Bo Bichette (R) 3B Francisco Alvarez (R) DH Carson Benge (L) RF Luis Robert Jr. (R) CF Marcus Semien (R) 2B Jared Young (L) 1B Luis Torrens (R) C	Bullpen Xzavion Curry (R) Daniel Duarte (R) Nate Lavender (L) Chayce McDermott (R) Dedniel Núñez! (R) Kodai Senga (R) Devin Williams (R) Jefry Yan (L)	Spare Starters Nolan McLean (R) Christian Scott (R) Robert Stock (R) Zac Thornton (L) Bench Brett Baty, of (L) Eric Wagaman, if (R) Cristian Pache, of (R) Jorge Polanco, if (s)

[Cowtipper]

Manaea is on a roll.

[ashie62]

I would like to see Ryan Clifford get called to play some 1B

He may or may not be having a good stretch at Syracuse but let's get some Intel at the MLB level on him

Maybe he can help thwart the push to 100 loses

Not trying to be overly snarky as I do believe the Mets will be some where between 90-100 l's

 

 

[The Hot Corner]

Thou shalt not run on Benge!

[ashie62]

My brother flew out to see a friend and is at the game

He said he noticed a good number of Keith Hernandez jerseys as a Cleveland Indian in the crowd

[The Hot Corner]

Bichette no doubter makes it 4-0 for the whole are these guys in Mets unis.

[Cowtipper]

We nearly missed that home run due to the stupid commercial playing. Bichette's hitting .293 since June 1.

[ashie62]

4-0

In some industry they call this Mets effort tonight a dead cat bounce

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

SHaM-Wow

[ashie62]

Ewing got fooled on that one

[Edgy MD]

Not a clean game, but they are sure playing a lot looser.

[Edgy MD]

Torrens should have gotten two out of that hit.  Then he'd be out there just needing a triple for his cycle.

[Edgy MD]

I guess Duarte is now one of our setup guys.

[Edgy MD]

Laura Albanese filling in on the radio.  Asked Gary if she was the first woman to work a Mets broadcast.  Gary answered that she wasn't, because way back in the day in 1993, he did a series in Houston with Suzyn Waldman filling in for Bob Murphy.

"How did that go?" Keith asked.

"It was interesting," answered Gary.

[Edgy MD]

NATE LAVENDER, welcome to the bigs!

Rough to debut with the tying run at the plate, however.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Purple Reign!

[Edgy MD]

Progressive Field? 

No, LAVENDER FIELD!

[The Hot Corner]

Benge goes KABOOM!!

[Edgy MD]

Benge is doing everything right, establishing himself as a hitter and letting the power come.

[Edgy MD]

NATE going back out there to face two righties and a switchie.