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  1. Gwreck
    I'm absolutely, positively, shocked to find this out. David Wells is a jackass? Who could have known?
  2. Gwreck
    Frayed Knot wrote: I don't want a set of rigid rules governing number retirement. But I'd like there to be some sort of guidelines and mine would look something like this: 1) a career NYM or at least a solid majority of his career as one 2) HoF inductee or at least pretty darn close to it 3) Was a member/citizen of good standing while a NYM … - Mookie, HoJo, Krane, Beltran, Cleon, etc.: Please stop You might need to recheck your criteria on Beltran. Take another look at those numbers: #1: a little short, but he ranks much higher than you think as a Met. Better Mets career than Piazza, certainly. #2: yes #3: yes I'm not sure I'd retire Beltran's number either but he's a very close call.
  3. Gwreck
    Retiring so many numbers dilutes the significance. The Mets' Hall of Fame is for Doc and Darryl and Koosman. Retired numbers should be strictly limited to individuals who make the Baseball Hall of Fame as a Met. You could maybe make an exception for a beloved player who played an entire career with the team.
  4. Gwreck
    For Doc and Darryl, next year. (Gwreck take: this is not needed).
  5. Gwreck
    Don't forget the DUI. Class guy all around
  6. Gwreck
    First walk-off balk since DJ Carrasco in 2011? Third base umpire John Tumpane is the same guy who called 3 balks in one inning against the Marlins last September.
  7. Gwreck
    This sucks.
  8. Gwreck
    =bmfc1 post_id=129786 time=1687715586 user_id=73] The starting pitching isn't going to improve as Peterson is starting on Tuesday. He was awful for the Mets, he's been awful for the Syracuse Mets but the timing works for him to start. Timing over quality.
  9. Gwreck
    I got a 0.02% one today and feeling pretty proud, notgonnalie.
  10. Gwreck
    This is my new favorite website (after the CPF). https://www.immaculategrid.com/https://www.immaculategrid.com/
  11. Gwreck
    Edgy MD wrote: Well, your point seemed to say that there wasn't any trade market. Beyond that, "robust" is an ambiguous and relative term. I think, if the Mets want to deal, precedent suggests that they can find a partner for many or most of them. Frequently, those deals may yield little besides clearing a roster spot for another player, but if that's the way forward they want to take, it's certainly a possible one. I think we may be talking past each other. I think we agree that of course they “could” make a deal for one of those players, but it's not likely to be a good deal, and it's also unclear what better alternative exists if a Marte/Canha/Escobar/Vogelbach gets removed from the team.
  12. Gwreck
    I think the overall point holds. There can't be a robust trade market for the players on that list except Robertson. As tonight showed, the issue isn't the offense. It's the 4.94 ERA from their starting pitchers (25th in MLB).
  13. Gwreck
    Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: =Gwreck post_id=129154 time=1687179289 user_id=56] What are you tearing down? Verlander, Scherzer, and Senga aren't going anywhere. Neither are Nimmo, Lindor, or Alonso. I'm in favor of getting rid of Carrasco and Megill but who do you use in their stead? You could probably trade Baty or Alvarez but do you really want to do that? Robertson, Ottavino, Escobar, Pham, Vogelbach, Narvaez, Canha, Marte
  14. Gwreck
    What are you tearing down? Verlander, Scherzer, and Senga aren't going anywhere. Neither are Nimmo, Lindor, or Alonso. I'm in favor of getting rid of Carrasco and Megill but who do you use in their stead? You could probably trade Baty or Alvarez but do you really want to do that?
  15. Gwreck
    It's all about the pitching. Yes, several offensive players are underperforming but without competent pitching it's not getting better. There have been 7 losses alone this month during which the Mets scored 4 runs or more. To fix this season: they need 3 competent starting pitchers. They currently have one (Senga). If Verlander and Scherzer can pitch somewhere close to what they're capable of the season might be salvegable. I'm fully in favor of releasing Carlos Carrasco. Maybe Lucchesi is worth another try?
  16. Gwreck
    They had Vientos as well. Even if Vogelbach wasn't available, Buck made the wrong call.
  17. Gwreck
    Sounds like they can't do that. Will Sammon of the Athletic reported that Smith's spot counts as one of the maximum 13 pitchers that can be on the active roster.
  18. Gwreck
    Top 8, down 1 run, leadoff batter in the 9 hole, rightly reliever with traditional splits and Buck had: -Vientos (as scheduled) -Vogelbach (problematic, but he does still walk a lot, and down 1 run a leadoff walk isn't a bad thing) -Escobar -Marte And instead of any of them, he goes with Guillorme? He's not making this any easier with dumb moves like that.
  19. Gwreck
    Not sure I knew that Roger had a kid in the majors and that said offspring was with the Phillies. Hope he has a terrible game.
  20. Gwreck
    =TransMonk post_id=126192 time=1684708954 user_id=71] Not a fan of black jersey Sunday nights. I'll be glad to see the camo go, too.
  21. Gwreck
    Odd call to pull Scherzer at 86 pitches on doubleheader day. Also odd to go Raley for only 9 pitches. Very aggressive baserunning all around. Not just on Sanchez getting thrown out at the plate, and McNeil out (after replay) stretching for a double, but also Pete going first to third on a single to short center. I do like the aggressiveness, but combined with Marte getting picked off first, 3 outs on the basepaths is a lot.
  22. Gwreck
    Postponed to Sunday at 1:40 PM.
  23. Gwreck
    This will be the second surgery for Rocker since the 2021 draft (he also had shoulder surgery in September 2021).
  24. Gwreck
    Edgy MD wrote: But anybody who didn't see Matt Harvey flaming out young wasn't looking. Tim Lincecum, Madison Bumgarner, and José Fernández were just as electric as young pitchers as Harvey was — the former two emerging a few years earlier, and the last about the same time — and none of them are likely to get any Hall of Fame support either. There's a pretty wide gulf there between “flaming out young” and “Hall of Fame,” no? Also, when you say “anyone who didn't see Matt Harvey flaming out young wasn't looking” - do you mean not recognizing it as a possibility, or not recognizing it as a fait accompli? I think we all knew by August 2013 (when he needed his first major surgery) that “flaming out young” was a possibility, but the idea that it would necessarily happen is altogether different.
  25. Gwreck
    I think it's an interesting discussion point: do they have too many relievers on the roster? I'd probably go that route too, although I could be talked into cutting Escobar.
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