Memories of Tyler Clippard

[Guest themetfairy]

A generally productive piece of the bullpen during the postseason run.

But mostly I'll remember the glasses. And the great Clip Art image that Zvon created (even though I can't find it right now).

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Often screwed us before he was a Met and often screwed us after.

Worked slower than Steve Traschsel in shackles.

Eff him.

[Edgy MD]

A Met enemy who tried to insinuate himself into the story by running off a sweet almost-scoreless run after his acquisition, giving up like one earned run in his first 20 innings. Then he absolutely and routinely coughed it up in the post-season.

As such, he's pretty much cemented into my mind as a white Guillermo Mota, and I fully expect him to get popped for PEDs within a year.

Omar would have thrown him a two-year deal, and ended up eating it.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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Edited February 9, 2016 by Guest

[Guest d'Kong76]

My best memory is he got a memories thread.

[batmagadanleadoff]

My best Clippard memory is probably his MLB debut with the Bronx team against us. As a Met, he was pretty good right up until he wasn't.

[ashie62]

I liked his glasses.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Often screwed us before he was a Met and often screwed us after. Worked slower than Steve Traschsel in shackles. Eff him.

This.

And the glasses kinda sucked, too. Like shooting-range half-goggles. If you're going glasses, go full-on Rambis/Henke, man.

[Guest themetfairy]

He didn't wear glasses during the National Anthem, which always made him somewhat unrecognizable.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Cripes. Maybe Superman was onto something.

[Benjamin Grimm]

[Guest themetfairy]

I FINALLY located Zvon's awesome image of Clippard!

[Zvon]

Jeeze, I was trying to think of something to add and I forgot I made that. Well, ^ that.

Clippy was an important factor for a very short, but needed, period of time. Then he ran out of gas. Good luck out there Clippard!




OE: & Thank you TMF

[Guest themetfairy]

My pleasure Zvon - I always loved that card

[MFS62]

Maybe not the goofiest looking guy ever to play for the Mets, but certainly in the group photo.

That's all I remember about him.

Later

[TransMonk]

Even though he played for the Mets, I will always remember him as a Yank and Nat facing the Mets more than any time he pitched for us.

[G-Fafif]

His arrival was yuuuge, to put it in the contemporary political vernacular. Lost, perhaps, in the excitement over Cespedes and giddiness over Flores and the power barrage that buried the Nationals as July became August and second place became first place was how enormous the bullpen was in the series against Washington: 8 2/3 innings, 0 R. Clippard was a big part of that performance and, more generally, the stabilization of the bullpen.

But his last two batters as a Met, in Game Four against the Royals, will stay with me in unwanted fashion for quite a while. That's why, though I wish him well, I'm not sorry to see him go.

[ashie62]

The glasses. He had his moments, good and bad.

[Guest themetfairy]

I'm not wishing him well so long as he's pitching for a division rival.

Sorry - I just can't.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Isn't he going to be in Arizona?

[Guest themetfairy]

My bad - I conflated him with Torres, who's going to Atlanta.

Fine - good luck Clippy except when the Mets play the Snakes.

[Zvon]

themetfairy wrote: My bad - I conflated him with Torres, who's going to Atlanta. Fine - good luck Clippy except when the Mets play the Snakes.

We're gonna light him up like the friggin' Shea scoreboard.

[Edgy MD]

Maybe, but the extra-divisional schedule being what it is, the Mets'll likely not get a dozen innings against him over the two years.

He's not done being good (hell, Putz wasn't even quite done when he left), but I imagine he'll be productive over maybe half of his contract. They can get his production out of somebody with roster flexibility.

[Lefty Specialist]

Stabilized the back end of the bullpen in August, exactly when it was needed. Went wobbly after that but was at his best at a critical moment in the season.