Rotation is Set

[Frayed Knot]

... at least for now anyway. Injuries and/or ebola outbreaks still could change things between now and Monday.

Syndergaard - deGrom - Harvey - [u:bviqv08b]Wheeler[/u:bviqv08b] - Gsellman

NS, JdG, and MH will take the Braves series in that order. Wheeler is scheduled to start the Friday game vs Miami, followed by Syndergaard's second start on Saturday, then Gsellman's debut on Sunday.

Matz officially to the DL, almost certainly out until at least May.



Combined sources via mlb.com http://m.mets.mlb.com/news/article/221533686/zack-wheeler-will-begin-2017-in-mets-rotation/ and Puma at the Post http://nypost.com/2017/03/30/zack-wheeler-will-open-season-in-mets-rotation/

[Benjamin Grimm]

The Mets opting, with Wheeler, to go with "pitch him while he's healthy" which makes a certain kind of sense. He may run out of innings before September, but they won't worry about that now.

Maybe he'll get a mid-season hiatus.

[Guest d'Kong76]

It's the spring talking, but I am really jazzed about our pitching! Who would
want to go into a series and face Noah, Jacob, and The Harv?

Who? LGM! YGB! #fidget

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Me too. I was heartened to see Wheelz made it. First time I really got pumped for this season.

[G-Fafif]

I'm so freaking optimistic, I'm believing Matz will be better off coming on later, eventually picking up where an innings-limited Wheeler leaves off.

[Edgy MD]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The Mets opting, with Wheeler, to go with "pitch him while he's healthy" which makes a certain kind of sense.

After two years, they may be in a healthy-as-he's-gonna-be mindset, so it's now or never. Let him off the chain.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

And let this be a lesson to Matz! That guy is Fake News.

[G-Fafif]

Matz is in that gray area, all right. Suck it up and maybe damage your elbow or don't suck it up and you're not giving it your all. Hope it all works out with a little rest and rehab.

Keith, talking about this the other day, recalled Rick Aguilera's arm being "delicate," which concerned him. Then, he noted, Aggie was traded, had whatever ailed him fixed and went on to a great career. I remember when Aguilera was on an extended DL tour, there was an unnamed Met quoted in one of the papers saying of Aguilera, "he's such a woman." The way Keith lingered over "delicate" kind of tells me, 29 years later, who was zooming who.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Very perceptive! Of course Aggie also became a short man, maybe that's Matz' destiny.

I'm sure he'd love to close games for the Yankees.

[Edgy MD]

Man, if the Mets went with Aggie in the pen early on, things would have been sweet. If he and Myers succeeded McDowell and Orosco as the late-inning men, that's an impressive one-two punch!

in Bats, Davy Johnson confesses he vetoed a 1985 in-season trade to bring back Seaver, because he didn't want to mess up the planned rotation he had. I don't know what that trade would've cost the Mets, but Johnson stuck with Aggie a long time with a rotation spot he never fully secured on merit, gender-shaming aside.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm not calling Matz a woman, but I swear he's a Yankee Fan pretending to be one of us, and there's a probably cognitive dissonance in his elbow. The game that really syrups my waffles on this guy was that game last summer where he had a 4-0 lead against the White Sox and let it all go to waste. Gotdamn, Steven. Put a couple of those away and we don;t wind up facing Bumgarner in a loser-goes home.

[G-Fafif]

Aguilera, born a starter and transitioned to a reliever, should be able to use any bathroom he likes.

[Benjamin Grimm]

G-Fafif wrote: I remember when Aguilera was on an extended DL tour, there was an unnamed Met quoted in one of the papers saying of Aguilera, "he's such a woman."

That's such an awful, and stupid, sentiment. I guess, back in the 80's, it was before people knew about how women are able to endure the pains of child birth, and are in many cases willing to do it multiple times.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, now that we have woman drivers and woman singers and stuff, people know better.

[G-Fafif]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: G-Fafif wrote: I remember when Aguilera was on an extended DL tour, there was an unnamed Met quoted in one of the papers saying of Aguilera, "he's such a woman." That's such an awful, and stupid, sentiment. I guess, back in the 80's, it was before people knew about how women are able to endure the pains of child birth, and are in many cases willing to do it multiple times.

Technology has certainly made such information more readily available.

Wonder what the unnamed Met said when he saw Aguilera's 1991 World Series ring. "Figures she'd be wearing all that jewelry."