IGT NYM@SEA, 2026-06-03

[Edgy MD]

Getting out of town with a win would be some small consolation and that's what Freddy Peralta hopes to make happen for the Mets.

A 3:40 start for East Coast viewers allows for daytime baseball engorgement. 

[duan]

and those of us on the east of the atlantic can get a rare sighting of Safeco (now T-Mobile) Field in the wild. 

[Frayed Knot]

It's just another sleepy, dusty, delta day.

[Brock Beauchamp]

	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	TOT
Sean Manaea	0	0	0	63	0	63
Luke Weaver	14	0	0	15	0	29
Huascar Brazobán	12	16	0	0	33	61
Devin Williams	0	8	0	18	0	26
David Peterson	0	0	51	0	0	51
Cionel Pérez	0	12	0	0	28	40
Brooks Raley	5	0	0	19	0	24
Austin Warren	7	20	0	0	0	27
A.J. Minter	14	0	0	9	19	42

[The Hot Corner]

The Mets need to avoid the sweep.  It seems every time they play well for a few games and look like a potentially competitive team they go right back into a tailspin of poor offense and shaking defense.

[Radar]

11 hours ago, Edgy MD said:

Getting out of town with a win would be some small consolation and that's what Freddy Peralta hopes to make happen for the Mets.

A 3:40 start for East Coast viewers allows for daytime baseball engorgement. 

Yeah, West Coast games allow me to just watch fast forward on SNY rather than slow suffering through a game with this team. Between getting rid of players that weren't the problem and actually making  what Stearns thought was bad defense even worst and not really improving the pitching enough which was the problem last year I think the owner should know what the biggest problem is and for 10 mil per year.......worst decision since he's owned the team.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Edgy MD]

Does anybody else think the defense is worse?

I mean, it is at shortstop, but that's because the top two shortstops got hurt, but not because of any change the team made.  Even last night, as two liners weren't successfully handled by the infielders, really good defense was on display in the outfield and at catcher.

I think they are almost certainly better at defense with a chance to improve further as the season progresses.

[Centerfield]

The outfield defense is much better.  I mean, it had to be.  We had Jeff McNeil out there in center.  Catcher is the same.  Shortstop is only worse because of injury.  First base is worse.  Second base is better.  Third has been fine.

 

 

[Centerfield]

But to Radar's point, yes.  The biggest problem the Mets have right now is David Stearns.  A last place team in the standings, the worst OPS in MLB, roster construction, players underperforming.  It all comes back to him.

Princeton Review used to cite to a guy named Joe Bloggs as part of their SAT prep.  Joe Bloggs represented the average guy.  A guy who would get the easy questions right, get some of the moderate questions, then miss on all the hard ones.  Part of their strategy was to recognize a hard question then identify the Joe Bloggs answer.

I kinda think of Billy Eppler as the Joe Bloggs of GMs.  He'll get all the slam dunks.  Hit or miss on the moderates.  Rarely makes an exceptional, out of the box move.

Joe Bloggs gets a $380MM team into a 12 team playoff pretty easily.  He won't build a dynasty, but he'll never have a last place offense.

The problem with David Stearns is that he's performing well below Joe Bloggs level.  And because he considers himself a 1600 guy, he refuses to make adjustments.  He figures his genius will eventually emerge.  

[Edgy MD]

However Stearns may be indicted, let us not call the defense worse if it isn't.

[Centerfield]

I think the defense has been kinda fun to watch.  Ewing and Benge and Baty all made great plays in this series.

And the biggest problem on defense can be remedied pretty quickly by never playing Vientos in the field when you have Jared Young in the lineup.  

Why he was out there is a mystery to me.  Except that David Stearns thinks Mendy is doing a great job.  

[Fman99]

I like this sideline reporters Michelle Margeaux.  She just used the word "thrust" and, uh, hmm, well, I like this girl is all I am saying 

[Edgy MD]

This game already features a hit AND a run by Dante Bichette!

[MFS62]

And just like that, the score is 1-1.

Later

[seawolf17]

11 minutes ago, Edgy MD said:

This game already features a hit AND a run by Dante Bichette!

Which is impressive for a guy who retired in like 1998.

[Edgy MD]

4 minutes ago, seawolf17 said:

Which is impressive for a guy who retired in like 1998.

I just stirred from a nap.  Sometimes it's 1998 in Napland.

Have you heard the new track from Third-Eye Blind?  Also, those new iMacs look pretty sweet.

[Edgy MD]

Also, bad checked swing call against Marcus Semien there.

[Edgy MD]

A successful hit-and-run/run-and-hit is such a rarity that MJ Melendez didn't know what to do when Torrens executed it perfectly.

[Edgy MD]

Keep calling him "Dante."

Pass it on.

[Frayed Knot]

In my mind, the Mets are somewhere around a negative 186 on that type of 1st/3rd double steal trick. So this one makes it -185

[Frayed Knot]

Some less than hard-earned runs by the Mets this afternoon:

- throwing error

- a (poorly executed by the defense) double steal

- pinball double off 1st base

All three coulda/shoulda have been inning-ending plays so that's a potential three runs that never existed

[Edgy MD]

Gary said there was nothing that Naylor could do when that ball ricocheted off the base, but if anybody knows how false that is, it's Daniel F. Murphy.

 

[Edgy MD]

Also, that two-run single by Dante Bichette was sweet, but had not J.P. Crawford reached the Derek-Jeter-range period of his career, that might well have been an inning-ending double-play.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Pretty good game so far! 

[Frayed Knot]

So is merely the act of asking for the timeout a violation or was 'Strike 3' caused by a delay in him getting back in the box following his request? While I was typing Gary also seems confused thy this. 

If simple asking is a violation w/penalty then I think that's a bad rule. If doing so made him late to get in the box then tough cookies, dude.

[MFS62]

20 minutes ago, Edgy MD said:

Also, that two-run single by Dante Bichette was sweet, but had not J.P. Crawford reached the Derek-Jeter-range period of his career, that might well have been an inning-ending double-play.

A day without a Derek Jeter insult is a day without sunshine.

Later

[Centerfield]

6-1!  What a nice surprise. 

[Frayed Knot]

And J.P. Crawford is just ... say it with me folks ... a triple short of the cycle.

[Edgy MD]

More important-like, Dante Bichette is sitting on a 4-for-4 game.

[Edgy MD]

And he keeps his day perfect-ish by plating a run with a sac fly.