FIDGET 03/24 - HOU @ NYM

[Guest d'Kong76]

REYES 3B
CABRERA SS
CESPEDES LF
GRANDERSON CF
WALKER 2B
BRUCE LF
DUDA 1B
d'ARNAUD C
SYNDERGAARD P

[Benjamin Grimm]

Now THAT looks like Opening Day!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Whoa that probably is the OD nine but I think my lineup might be more like
Grandy-Cabrera-Cespsy-Doodoo-Walker-Bruce-Reyes-dArnaud, perhaps switching Grandy and Reyes, or Cabrera and Reyes.

[Ceetar]

meh

Reyes
Cabrera
Cespedes
Duda
Granderson
Walker
d'Arnaud
Lagares
Thor

or, if we're dreaming

Reyes - 3B
Cabrera - SS
Wright - DH
Cespedes - LF
Duda - 1B
Granderson - RF
Walker - 2B
d'Arnaud - C
Lagares - CF

Syndergaard - P

[Centerfield]

If we are dreaming, then Mike Trout is in that lineup someplace.

Back closer to reality, I am hoping that Conforto performs so well he forces his way into the middle of the lineup. I know this might be wishful thinking, but I feel like he can do it.

Eventually I'd love to see this:

1. Reyes 3B
2. Cabrera SS
3. Conforto CF
4. Cespedes LF
5. Duda 1B
6. Walker 2B
7. Granderson CF
8. d'Arnaud C

If Cabrera doesn't hit well enough to stay at #2, you can flip flop him with Walker.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

And if Walker has the kind of year I fear you replace him with Cecchini

[Centerfield]

Right! Or Floreboom, or Rivera. Some depth here is good.

I'm high on Cecchini. Not sure why. Just seems hitter-ish to me.

[Benjamin Grimm]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: And if Walker has the kind of year I fear you replace him with Cecchini

I haven't heard anything about contract extension talks with Walker in quite a while. For a day or two, it seemed that something was imminent. I wonder if these negotiations have been temporarily paused, or if they've abandoned the idea until after the season?

[Frayed Knot]

Thor's given up two singles thru 4 ... Yay!!
Mets have three singles thru 4 (to go with their only three or four yesterday) ... Boo!!

[Edgy MD]

Ninth inning. Five hits. No runs.

Opening Day lineup, you say?

[Lefty Specialist]

Syndergaard 6 innings, 4 hits, 1 run, no walks, 5 strikeouts.

And the loss.

[Edgy MD]

They pretty much went with their #1 bucket brigade out of the pen: Salas and Blevvy for the seventh, Reedy for the eight, and Dangling Familia for the ninth.

[Guest sharpie]

5 stolen bases for 'Stros (4 against Syndergaard, 3 of those from Derek Fisher), 1 caught stealing for Mets.

[Frayed Knot]

So that's two games in two days with no runs combined on a total of 9 hits, most of them singles, and pretty much with full-strength lineups in (although the starters didn't necessarily go all nine).
Among other things they loaded the bases with none out in the 8th today but didn't score.

Yup, sounds like mid-season form to me.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I didn't see most of the game; were the stolen bases more off Noah
(who I think has been working on some delivery/windup stuff) or off
Travis's d'noodle arm?

9-10 days until the games count, would be nice to scoring some runs.