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He doesn't have a World Championship on his resumé, which has to hurt his chances. But he was the best Mets GM since Minaya's first two seasons, by a very wide margin, so I'm rooting for him. Realistically, I think the "Hall of Very Good" description is apt.

This would not be a good thing for me to open during work hours.

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So Peralta is coming in to tonight's game with a 1.08 ERA and a 5.73 xFIP for the postseason. His 3.4% HR/flyball rate, and even more so his 96.8% strand rate, are ludicrously unsustainable. But if he sustains it for one more game, he gets called clutch and somebody gives him five years and $200M.

You could also make the argument that the Rays and the Brewers have the two most analytics-minded front offices in baseball.

Hi everybody, once again our ottoneu league has an opening, and once again I'm announcing it here first. You will be inheriting a team that was competitive up to the last day of the season, so don't be concerned about spending a season or two rebuilding. Please DM me if you have interest.

If the Dodgers lose to the Brewers, the World Series will have two small-market, low-budget teams just before the league tries to make the argument that small-market, low-budget teams can't compete so we need to punish the players for accepting the contracts that were offered them and to punish the fans for, um, something. So yeah, go Brewers.

No love for Chase Utley? Sheesh.

The Soto deal showed he'd could go out and get the best guy available, and the player option was written in a way that ensures Soto stays.

Ewing is not the first rookie to get overeager on breaking pitches after hammering a few that hung, and he won't be the last. It's a process. But considering he was not on anybody's radar for making the team this year, and especially considering all the other things that had to go wrong first, the good with him greatly outweighs the bad.

Probably not a major injury for Soto on the HBP, but I have a feeling his season might be over.

Mauricio hits another one, this time righthanded and to the opposite field. There is nothing wrong with Mauricio that wouldn't be fixed by staying healthy and getting regular at bats.

So there I was, thinking that Ewing needs to get better at knowing what pitches to take, and he gets a fat one on 0-2. And then Mauricio just destroys the first pitch he gets.

Nuñez really looks all the way back.

I would like to see Tong finish well. The Mets took a gamble adjusting his mechanics and the short-term results were predictably not good, but going into the offseason thinking the Mets did right by him just might do more than anything else to give me optimism.