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[Edgy MD]

Available Catchers

Name	Team	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Johnny Monell*	Las Vegas	29	6	20	17	2	6	0	0	1	3	0	0	2	3	.353	.400	.529	.929	9	0	0	0	1	0
Kevin Plawecki	Las Vegas	24	8	36	35	1	8	2	1	0	6	0	0	1	3	.229	.250	.343	.593	12	1	0	0	0	0
Nelfi Zapata	Las Vegas	24	1	5	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	1	0	0	0	0
Xorge Carrillo	Binghamton	26	7	26	23	4	4	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	4	.174	.269	.174	.443	4	2	3	0	0	0
Albert Cordero#	Binghamton	25	3	11	11	0	4	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	.364	.364	.545	.909	6	1	0	0	0	0

Available Lefthanded Pitchers

Name	Team	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G ?	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
Jack Leathersich*	Las Vegas	24	0	0	�	3.60	5	0	3	0	0	0	5.0	3	2	2	1	0	0	10	1	0	0	18	0.600	5.4	1.8	0.0	18.0	INF
Scott Rice*	Las Vegas	33	1	0	1.000	3.00	5	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	1	1	1	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	12	1.333	3.0	0.0	9.0	6.0	0.67
Darin Gorski*	Las Vegas	27	2	0	1.000	1.80	2	2	0	0	0	0	10.0	7	4	2	1	6	0	8	0	0	0	41	1.300	6.3	0.9	5.4	7.2	1.33
Steven Matz*	Las Vegas	24	0	1	.000	3.48	2	2	0	0	0	0	10.1	8	4	4	0	8	0	9	0	0	0	44	1.548	7.0	0.0	7.0	7.8	1.13
Duane Below*	Las Vegas	29	0	1	.000	4.15	1	0	0	0	0	0	4.1	4	3	2	2	1	0	7	0	0	1	20	1.154	8.3	4.2	2.1	14.5	7.00
Dario Alvarez*	Binghamton	26	1	1	.500	3.00	3	0	2	0	0	0	3.0	4	3	1	1	0	0	2	1	0	1	14	1.333	12.0	3.0	0.0	6.0	INF
Adam Kolarek*	Binghamton	26	0	0	�	13.50	3	0	1	0	0	0	4.0	7	6	6	0	2	0	4	1	0	0	21	2.250	15.8	0.0	4.5	9.0	2

Guys already on the roster are shown in blue. If we have to disable both d'Arnaud and Blevins (and based on the last time I checked, I would guess we do), the decision seems to point straight to Monell and Leathersich, though Ricecakes and Alvaraez both have room for hope.

Also possible that Gilmartin and Torres do the left-handing and the Mets call up a righty. Kudos to Sandy for seemingly needing one left-hander and going out and getting two.

[Ceetar]

reverse splits for Chipotle rocket

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Word is out that it'll be Hansel Robles and Kevin Plawecki. I guess that make Giltorres the lefty killer.

[nymr83]

its Plawecki Time!!

Nice knowing you, Travis d'Pipp!

[Guest d'Kong76]

Funny, I too have the feeling that we won't be seeing much
of d'Arnaud again in these parts.

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: Kudos to Sandy for seemingly needing one left-hander and going out and getting two.

Sandy's looking pretty smart to me. Because of his moves, or lack of moves, we were prepared for stuff like this. But I'm thinking we were prepared for over the long season. W/Wright and these two down today, all of this in around a week...it's really kind of unbelievable. How prepared are we for the rest of the season?

I think it's got to be Monell gets the call.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Word is out that it'll be Hansel Robles and Kevin Plawecki. I guess that make Giltorres the lefty killer.

Mmm. Thought they'd go with the hot hand. Hope Plawecki is up for this.
*Cues Nilsson's JUMP INTO THE FIRE.

[Edgy MD]

I feel confident we'll see more of d'Arnaud. He's hitting a lot better than Wally Pipp was. And Pipp was 32. And as hopeful as one may be about Plawecki, there's little reason suspect he's a catching Lou Gehrig.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Just a feeling, nothing more than feelings!

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: I feel confident we'll see more of d'Arnaud. He's hitting a lot better than Wally Pipp was. And Pipp was 32. And as hopeful as one may be about Plawecki, there's little reason suspect he's a catching Lou Gehrig.

I've been all high on "The Lumberjack" so I was saving my praise of d'Arnaud for a future time. I was very happy with his performance and consider him a big part of this team now. Even if Plawecki excels, I expect 'lil d' to return.

[Edgy MD]

If Blevins' season is done, he'll have thrown five Metly innings, coming up two outs short of the best unblemished career in team history, behind only Dan Schatzeder and C.J. Nitkowski (fellow lefty short relievers both), who each pitched and punched their Metly cards at 5 2/3 innings, without giving up a run.

[Frayed Knot]

The difference here being that Blevins had yet to surrender a hit or even a baserunner whereas Schatzeder & Nitkowski were allowing >1 baserunner/inning and so must have spent all their time dancing around trouble during their (brief) NYM lives.


This is now around 30% of the projected (or at least possible) opening day roster that's been DL'd: Wright, Wheeler, Edgin, d'Arnaud, Blevins, Mejia, Black [7 of 25 = 28%] and that doesn't even include Parnell.
That's a lot for the 3rd week in April.

[Edgy MD]

So then, he's sitting on what may turn out to be the perfectest season in Metly history.

[Zvon]

Oh, now I get it. Washington knew that Blevins had brittle bones!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

In the meantime you may have seen that Vic Black is going back to the doctor's office for more tests: His rehab went further than Parnell's so far but this appears to be another setback.

Robles has been excellent in Vegas so far.

[ashie62]

We are losing important pieces day by day. It has to catch up at some point.

[seawolf17]

Ashie62 wrote: We are losing important pieces day by day. It has to catch up at some point.

Yes, but we're WINNING. This would be MUCH worse if we were 3-10 and losing important pieces.

WE'VE GOT THIS.

[smg58]

d'Arnaud was easily our most improved player to this point. I don't see Plawecki coming close to matching what d'Arnaud has been doing, much less giving the Mets a reason to "Wally Pipp" d'Arnaud, but I'm hopeful he'll be at least decent.

Alderson also deserves credit for not being too quick to cut ties with Gilmartin. Hopefully Gilmartin rewards the confidence.

I'll feel much better about our pen when (if?) Black and Parnell come back. Until then, where's the duct tape?

[Edgy MD]

I'm not sure what is supposed to catch up.

[ashie62]

seawolf17 wrote: Ashie62 wrote: We are losing important pieces day by day. It has to catch up at some point. Yes, but we're WINNING. This would be MUCH worse if we were 3-10 and losing important pieces. WE'VE GOT THIS.

I guess you are saying we have the depth to get through this so relax. Works for me!!

[Benjamin Grimm]

The good news is that there is a lot of depth. But the question is, as the injuries pile up, will it be enough depth?

Over the long term, Plawecki may very well turn out to be a better catcher/hitter than d'Arnaud. But over the next few weeks, I expect he'll be a bit of a downgrade. Blevins is probably replaceable too. I'm hoping that both of these guys will be back inside of six weeks, but I have no idea whether that hope is at all realistic.

[Edgy MD]

An ironic upside to a surplus injuries is, if you can hang in there, healing players are always on the way back.

Of course, that means you have to hang in there, and they have to come back relatively whole.

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[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: An ironic upside to a surplus injuries is, if you can hang in there, healing players are always on the way back.

Great. Maybe we should stick deGrom's right arm in a wood chipper.

[Ceetar]

if we have to sacrifice a good player a week to not lose, do we have enough to win the World Series or would we run out?

[Edgy MD]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Edgy MD wrote: An ironic upside to a surplus injuries is, if you can hang in there, healing players are always on the way back. Great. Maybe we should stick deGrom's right arm in a wood chipper.

It's a plan!

[Benjamin Grimm]

This must be bittersweet for Plawecki. Sure, he gets to spend a month or so as a starting big-league catcher, but it kills his chance to be the 1000th Met.

[Theoldmole]

I did think they'd bring up Monell. He seems more prepared to be a stopgap.

[Edgy MD]

I thought they would also.

I think there are concerns about Monell's defense. They are likely going to put Plawecki as the number one guy, and could neither abide that defense every day, nor Recker's offense (which was perfectly fine last year until he became the number one during the brief interregnum while d'Arnaud was clobbering the ball in Vegas).

If Monell is to appear, it'll likely be if Recker gets hurt, or at some point if they want to experiment with three catchers.

This could also be understood as them expecting a bit of a long haul sans d'Arnaud.