Duque's Calf

[metirish]

] For the playoffs, I guess it was Little Joe. (After Pratt)

Wasn't Vance Wilson with the Mets then.

[Guest Rotblatt]

I'm not so worried about not being able to use Castro during this series, since the Dodgers have no LOOGY's to speak of, but going forward (if we DO go forward), it'd be nice to have him available off the bench.

Dude crushed lefties last year and has always had a pretty dramatic split.

[MFS62]

This just in;

]El Duque off Mets' roster; Maine to start Game 1ESPN.com news services First Pedro Martinez, now Orlando Hernandez. The Mets lost a second starting pitcher as the postseason starts as El Duque was left off the roster with a torn calf muscle. John Maine will get the start for New York in Game 1 Wednesday afternoon against the Dodgers. Oliver Perez will take Hernandez's spot in the Mets' postseason rotation. Hernandez felt discomfort in his right leg while he was jogging in the outfield Tuesday and was pulled off the field and went for an MRI exam, which diagnosed a Grade 2 proximal gastroc tear of his right calf.

Ugh.

Later

[Guest Hillbilly]

Rotblatt wrote: I'm not so worried about not being able to use Castro during this series, since the Dodgers have no LOOGY's to speak of, but going forward (if we DO go forward), it'd be nice to have him available off the bench. Dude crushed lefties last year and has always had a pretty dramatic split.

I agree and would make a similar agruement about Lastings. Hopefully we'll see one or both of these guys available as a right-handed PH later in the months.

[Guest Hillbilly]

I don't think Doug Sisk threw a pitch during the 86 post season. Anybody know?

[duan]

as the fourth I think he's gonna rise to the occasion.
I'm also hoping that by the time i get home from training tonight (5.20 pm your time) we're still in the game.

Sod it, these are breaks, everyone of our pitchers have had some decent games in their arms, we just need a few of them to happen together.

Sorta like Ireland in the world cup.

[HahnSolo]

Sisk appeared in game 4 of the NLCS (the El Sid-Scott game), and I believe game 2 of the WS.

[Guest Hillbilly]

Thanks

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

metirish wrote: ] For the playoffs, I guess it was Little Joe. (After Pratt) Wasn't Vance Wilson with the Mets then.

No. Vance Wilson was never on a postseason roster.

[Willets Point]

Hard to believe that with 3 extra inning games in the 1986 postseason that any players got left on the bench or in the pen.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Well, I bet he was last night.

[Guest Edgy DC]

You know, I am put out (though I understand it) when a manager tries to win a post-season series by riding the first 1-3 guys on his pitching staff mercilessly, and hiding the guys on the back end --- Dodgers in '88, Houston in '86, Arizona in 2001. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.*

Sometimes it works and Orel Herhiser is never the same.

But now the Mets are really going to have to pull this off with a full staff, and I'm a bit excited.

*It took a superhuman Randy Johnson effort to start the Yankees drought in 2001, and I'm looking forward to him helping to extend it this year.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I'll be really happy if the Mets are 2 and 0 when I go to bed tomorrow night.

[metirish]

If the Mets advance and El Duque somehow recovers can he then be added to the NLCS roster?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

He could, but according to the medical reports it doesn't seem likely that he'd be healthy enough by then.

[RealityChuck]

I believe they're allowed one roster change.

[Guest cooby]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: I'll be really happy if the Mets are 2 and 0 when I go to bed tomorrow night.

Yance is so excited he's staying up for two days

[Frayed Knot]

Yes.
Rosters are frozen within eadh round but you can make numerous changes between rounds, limited only by the pool of eligible players.

[MFS62]

metirish wrote: If the Mets advance and El Duque somehow recovers can he then be added to the NLCS roster?

That's a good question.
I believe thay can because they still hold some wild cards - several pitchers were on the 60 day DL this season, and Orlando was on the active 25 man roster as of August 31.
Adding another position player would be dicier.

Later

[Farmer Ted]

I'm smelling a Gentry-'69 WS-esque performance by the Maine Man today. Dodgers blow.

[Guest Rotblatt]

So let's look at Trachs a little. He's been bad all season, posting overall numbers of 4.97 ERA, 1.60 WHIP, 1.01 K/BB. He did have one good month, August, where he was decent (4.50 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, 1.75 K/BB) but the bottom dropped out for him in September (4.91 ERA, 1.80 WHIP, 0.46 K/BB).

His ERA is significantly better away from home this year (4.34 compared to 5.52), which would seem to bode well for his Game 3 start, but his WHIP is about the same (1.59 / 1.60) and his peripherals are worse (0.82 K/BB compared to 1.21 at home).

He's pitched okay at Dodger Stadium (74 IP, 4.74 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 2.8 K/BB) with his last start coming in 2004 (6 IP, 3 ER, 5 H, 3 BB, 2 HR, 1 K).

Still, Trachs, while inconsistent, has given us a quality start in almost half of his appearances. And my threshold for what I'd call a successful start is even lower than that: 5 innings, and 3 runs is all I want from Trachs on Saturday, and he's managed that or better 17 times this year (57%).

So if you ask me, that gives us a better than 50% shot to win the game he starts.

I'll take those odds.