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  1. Benjamin Grimm
    It's unrealistic to expect that the manager would have total control, at least not in today's game. Can Andy Green decide to make Christian Scott, for example, a relief pitcher without the blessing of the front office? Would Mendoza have been able to do that? Will next year's guy, whoever he is? I doubt it. Going further back, if Davey Johnson had wanted to move Ron Darling to the bullpen, was that decision entirely in his hands, or would he have needed Frank Cashen's approval? I suspect he would have. What about if Gil Hodges decided to make Gary Gentry a relief pitcher? Maybe in those days a manager could have acted unilaterally. I suppose we can be pretty certain that there were very few limits on what John McGraw or Connie Mack could do, but we're going back a very long time to their days.
  2. Benjamin Grimm
    This isn't a doubleheader, is it?
  3. Benjamin Grimm
    Keep Holmes if he's will to sign an extension. Trade Robert for whatever you can get.
  4. Benjamin Grimm
    The UMDB pretender site that I'm keeping alive made the change this morning.
  5. Benjamin Grimm
    I wish I had as much confidence in the Mets front office as I did two years ago.
  6. Benjamin Grimm
    I saw a "story" saying that he asked to drop the "H", just as Peter Alonso once asked to drop the "R". My guess is that he's always spelled it "Zac" but someone somewhere assumed it should be "Zach" and he never bothered to correct it until now.
  7. Benjamin Grimm
    Check your math.
  8. Benjamin Grimm
    Was Pete Harnisch in Alaska?
  9. Benjamin Grimm
    Wyoming is John Buck and Brandon Nimmo.
  10. Benjamin Grimm
    Well, we still have four of those five guys, so it can still be eighty percent glorious.
  11. Benjamin Grimm
    So not much better or worse than Freddy Peralta. This might turn out to be one of those trades that sucks for both teams. The Brewers might have been able to get someone better for Peralta. And the Mets might have been able to get someone better for Sproat and Jett.
  12. Benjamin Grimm
    I generally agree with that. I've never aligned myself with the angsty "let's tear it all down and suck for the next five years" position. I think that it's important to get away from the plan to cobble together a new pitching rotation each year and hope that enough of them have a good year. I didn't feel comfortable with it in 2024, but it worked. But then they tried it again in 2025 and 2026 and it didn't work. I guess, at this point, they should look ahead with McLean and Scott and Thornton and try to get Tong's act together, but they should get at least two veteran pitchers on multi-year contracts. Injuries and disappointments are always possible, but I'd rather see them attempt stability rather than consciously avoid it.
  13. Benjamin Grimm
    Is he really 6'3"?
  14. Benjamin Grimm
    One story has it that he didn't want to immediately replace Carlos Mendoza whom he respects. Another story said that his upcoming Cooperstown induction would have been a distraction from managing the team. Rumor has it that he's the Mets' first choice for the full-time gig. If there's a labor stoppage in 2027 it could give him plenty of time to get fired again before ever managing a single game.
  15. Benjamin Grimm
    This is going to be an ongoing conversation, so let's start it here. It may or may not be Carlos Beltran. Apparently he turned down the interim job that went to Andy Green.
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  17. Benjamin Grimm
    And also... By 1980 every parent should have known better than to name their child Gaylord. I bet those last remaining holdouts had last names like "Crotchfelt".
  18. Benjamin Grimm
    I didn't know he was still alive! Turns 88 in September.
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  20. Benjamin Grimm
    He thought it was pointless to talk about the schedule, I suppose.
  21. Benjamin Grimm
    Hopefully the Mets and the Tigers will be there too!
  22. Benjamin Grimm
    I imagine all teams are using it to one extent or another. Maybe not in-game however. If the Mets aren't using it, they should give it a try. And if they are, they should stop. Whatever they're doing isn't working.
  23. Benjamin Grimm
    How about in the manager's office?
  24. Benjamin Grimm
    AI is more advanced than Davey Johnson's PC software, but it's still the same thing, just to a different degree. Which is to be expected, it's 42 years later. Davey's PC would tell him how well Mookie Wilson does against a certain pitcher. But it couldn't guarantee that Mookie would get a hit or an out. AI could tell Andy Green where Bryce Harper is likely to hit a pitch thrown by Sean Manaea, but again, there's no certainty in that prediction.
  25. Benjamin Grimm
    I don't see the need for a ban.
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