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  1. Benjamin Grimm
    Ooooh! Zombie-themed prizes!
  2. Benjamin Grimm
    I think they should go into the season without concerning themselves with innings limits. Let Syndergaard and Wheeler and Montero pitch as they would normally. (Most of their starts would probably be limited to six innings anyway, at least early on.) If we get to June and the Mets are contending, then maybe you start coming up with ways to reduce the innings load. Of course, as I implied above, it may be hard or impossible to reduce the amount of innings from certain pitchers without having a negative effect on the ability to stay in the race. I'm glad they have Matsuzaka and Colon and Lannan. (I forgot to mention Colon in my first post in this thread!) It will, if necessary, give the Mets more flexibility when it comes to innings management. It will still be very difficult to have Wheeler and Syndergaard pitching in October, unless they end up missing a chunk of time during the regular season. (And nobody wants that!)
  3. Benjamin Grimm
    Or they go into the playoffs with a rotation of Niese, Gee, Matsuzaka, and Lannan. I remember the Nationals had this issue with Strasburg in 2012. The team had a pretty comfortable lead and could have backed off Stasburg's innings in August (maybe shift him to five innings per week in long relief), built up his innings a bit in September, and then they would have had him available in October. The Mets could do something like this if they're contending, but there's a difference between nursing a comfy lead in the standings and scratching for a wild card spot. If the Mets contend, they're more likely to be scratching than comfy. But I do believe they should do something to stagger the innings load among these young pitchers. One idea that's been floated is to have some of them start the season in the bullpen (either in New York or Las Vegas) so they don't pile up too many innings too early. It will be interesting to see if the Mets do anything like that.
  4. Benjamin Grimm
    I get the sense that if it weren't for the "Super Two" thing, Syndergaard would have an excellent chance of making the rotation right out of the gate.
  5. Benjamin Grimm
    I'm curious to see where Rosario starts the 2014 season. Brooklyn? Savannah? St. Lucie? (St. Lucie would me he's on a fast track; it's probably very unlikely.) I'm guessing we won't see him at [crossout:2lap2pez]Shea[/crossout:2lap2pez] Citi Field until around 2018.
  6. Benjamin Grimm
    I added each player's age as of April 1, 2014 and the team they played for in 2013: 1) RHP - Noah Syndergaard (21, St. Lucie, Binghamton) 2) C - Travis d�Arnaud (25, Binghamton, Las Vegas, Mets) 3) 3B - Wilmer Flores (22, Las Vegas, Mets) 4) RHP - Rafael Montero (23, Binghamton, Las Vegas) 5) SS - Amed Rosario (18, Kingsport) 6) 1B - Dominic Smith (18, Gulf Coast, Kingsport) 7) OF - Cesar Puello (23, Binghamton) 8) C - Kevin Plawecki (23, Savannah, St. Lucie) 9) CF - Brandon Nimmo (21, Savannah) 10) RHP - Marcos Molina (19, Gulf Coast)
  7. Benjamin Grimm
    Lego Batman?
  8. Benjamin Grimm
    What about Gary Sheffield? Wasn't he a Brewer?
  9. Benjamin Grimm
    I don't know what's wrong with DEN DEKKER or D'ARNAUD. If they're capitalizing the RNAUD part, they can capitalize the initial D.
  10. Benjamin Grimm
    Yes, but by the early 70's they were pretty much past that. I wonder, who was the last Washington Senator? The last St. Louis Brown? The last Boston Brave? (I'm pretty sure the last Milwaukee Brave had to have been Henry Aaron.)
  11. Benjamin Grimm
    That was 2013 that he was with the Mets? Wow! My memories of him are so dim I would have guessed it wasn't nearly so recent.
  12. Benjamin Grimm
    Opening Day just a little more than six weeks away. This can't drag on much longer.
  13. Benjamin Grimm
    To me, anyway, the article about Lenny Dykstra reporting to spring training in 1987 marks the beginning of the steroid era.
  14. Benjamin Grimm
    Wow. Think of all the gagging that could have been averted if Rivera had been traded to Seattle at that time.
  15. Benjamin Grimm
    If only we had asked these questions a few days ago, when Jim Fregosi was alive to answer them.
  16. Benjamin Grimm
    Were the college buddies frightened?
  17. Benjamin Grimm
    That fool in Poughkeepsie wants them to bend the rules so that Jeter and Rivera can go into the Hall together. "It's the right thing to do," he says. If a joint induction is so important, then the simple solution, which doesn't involve "bending" any rules, is to not vote for Mariano in his first year of eligibility. There! Problem solved!
  18. Benjamin Grimm
    It's early yet. Let's see how we feel about him in, say, about another six or seven hours.
  19. Benjamin Grimm
    That's gotta be Ed Kranepool, right? (He got that clean close shave by using Gillette Foamy.)
  20. Benjamin Grimm
    John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: As I recall, was in the big picture of candidates last few times we needed a skipper. Yes, and I was kind of rooting for him to get the gig. It would have been a nice way for him to earn some redemption; if he had managed the Mets to a championship maybe some people would have let up on the Nolan Ryan thing, at least a little bit.
  21. Benjamin Grimm
    I think the Mets will win more than 71.5 games. (How would one place a bet on this, if one were so inclined? And what does (-115u) mean?)
  22. Benjamin Grimm
    A repeat of 2013 for him would suit me.
  23. Benjamin Grimm
    Well, if the Mets had missed out on Strawberry, they still would have been okay. They would have instead drafted someone like Garry Harris, or Ken Dayley, or Mike King. Or maybe even Jeff Pyburn. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/1980draft.shtml
  24. Benjamin Grimm
    Vic Sage wrote: how can anyone not vote for the Mets to retroactively beat the MFYs in '00? I voted for 1988 because the Mets were more important to me then than they were in 2000.
  25. Benjamin Grimm
    There's a strong argument for all of them. (Naturally.) I ruled out 1973, because I wouldn't have been old enough to appreciate it. I went with 1988 because at that point I was still young enough that it meant the world to me. The appeal of 2000, of course, is that it would snatch a championship from the Yankees. My mouse pointer did linger over that season.
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