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Lagares is wearing No. 87. That ain't right. Mazeika is No. 76 and damn happy to be so.

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=stevejrogers post_id=44560 time=1598380229 user_id=57] And further confirmation from the 2020 Media Guide that lists Beltrán in-between Calaway and Rojas.

Porcello and Lugo today. DeGrom tomorrow. TBA thereafter.

From DiComo: Tony DeFrancesco is coaching third base today. Brian Schneider is serving as the Mets' bench/quality control coach today. Gary DiSarcina and Hensley Meulens are not on site for undisclosed reasons.

Today's machinations, via DiComo: -C Ali Sanchez will be activated as the doubleheader's 29th man. -C Tomas Nido and INF Andres Gimenez are going on the injured list for undisclosed reasons. -C Pat Mazeika and OF Juan Lagares are here and active.

Marlins beat writer says Tues doubledip indeed.

Joel Sherman reports Mets resume tomorrow; MFY twinbills Fri, Sat, makeup game Thu 9/3.

Brian Dozier has been released. Go back to bed.

Two different spellings for travelling/traveling, but otherwise an encouraging tweet.

How concerning to you that it was two positive tests at the same time rather than one, like the Reds? I'm more concerned than if I saw one because having two cases at the same time suggests either these guys were both infected in the same place away from the team or that there's transmission within the team. Either one of those is not great. At a minimum, that's two people who could have been spreading COVID-19 around the team instead of just one. Tim Britton digs into what might be going on, with Zachary Binney, an epidemiologist at Oxford College of Emory University in Atlanta. Informative, if necessarily speculative. https://theathletic.com/2015141/2020/08/22/whats-next-for-the-mets-a-conversation-with-epidemiologist-zachary-binney/https://theathletic.com/2015141/2020/08/22/whats-next-for-the-mets-a-conversation-with-epidemiologist-zachary-binney/

Coulda been Raleigh if he claims he was talking about cigarettes with a British acquaintance.

Peterson to the IL. Kilome to the Alternate Site. Drew Smith returns, as does Corey Oswalt.

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Franklyn Kilome has been recalled. Brian Dozier has been Doz-ignated for assignment.

I'm still not past processing passing mentions of Zack Wheeler as “ours”. I suppose that stops today.

A game that began with a pain in the neck ends as a pain in the ass.

The neck bone's connected to the back bone The back bone's connected to the Jake bone

Drew Smith to the alternate site; Robinson Cano to the illusion that he's a vibrant young fella.

Really deep dive on a really compelling idea. https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2020/8/14/21368488/major-league-negro-leagues-classificationhttps://www.theringer.com/mlb/2020/8/14/21368488/major-league-negro-leagues-classification Because of the prejudiced decision of a committee that met more than 50 years ago, the Negro Leagues are still excluded from the official list of major leagues, much as Black players before 1947—and, in many cases, long after—were excluded from the American and National Leagues. Like those players, the Negro Leagues have been denied an opportunity to prove that they were as deserving of major league status as their white contemporaries. But for the first time, MLB is considering righting that wrong. I entered a little skeptical and exited completely on board.

Forty percent of the home schedule complete (geez, that was fast), let's check in on the updated All-Time Citi Field Met Regular-Season Home Run Leaders. Active Mets in ALL CAPS. 1. Duda 71 2. CONFORTO 57 3. Wright 49 4. Granderson 38 5. Flores 37 6. Cespedes 30 6. Cabrera 30 6. I. Davis 30 9. ALONSO 29 10. Murphy 27 11. Reyes 25 12. d'Arnaud 22 13. Frazier 20 14. NIMMO 17 14. J. DAVIS 17 14. Bruce 17 17. Pagan 15 18. SMITH 14 18. Walker 14 18. Beltran 14 21. ROSARIO 13 21. Hairston 13 23. Nieuwenhuis 11 24. McNEIL 10 24. Lagares 10 24. Bay 10 27. Plawecki 9 27. Francoeur 9 29. RAMOS 8 29. R. RIVERA 8 Cespedes added two in 2020 before melting into the crowd/going on the restricted list. Lagares is polishing his Gold Glove at the Alternate Site by the sea. If you wish to consider them current Mets and therefore meritorious of capitalization, feel free to upper-case their respective cases. (Hell, Wright is still more or less under contract through this season.) Current Mets further down the chart... CANO 6 (tied for 34th with six others) NIDO 5 (tied for 41st with three others) DEGROM, MATZ, SYNDERGAARD 2 (tied for 58th with thirteen others) GUILLORME, LUGO 1 (tied for 74th with twenty-four others) The next Met to hit a first home run as a Met at Citi Field will become the 100th Met to hit a home run at Citi Field. One-third of the way into this truncated season and no Met among the thus far fifteen new-for-2020 Mets (seven of them position players) has hit a first home run as a Met, home or away.