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  1. smg58
    He wasn't, up until this season. I'm not really sure what happened, but obviously the talent is still there. Hopefully he's turned a corner.
  2. smg58
    I've never seen Misiorowski pitch, so I'm looking forward to this one.
  3. smg58
    Not that the bit about making HS players ineligible portrays the owners in any more of a sympathetic light. Is minor league baseball really a financial drain?
  4. smg58
    I read the original headline and think "MLB wants work stoppage to last until 2032."
  5. smg58
    You have to be in on Skubal. Otherwise, one of Arozarena/Suzuki and one of Arraez/Lowe would be nice. Ty France is a relatively under-the-radar play that would help out a lot as well. As for third base? The options are painfully limited, but I wouldn't assume out of hand that a Mauricio/Vientos platoon wouldn't work. I certainly wouldn't pay more for Bichette than any of the free agents I mentioned above.
  6. smg58
    What I get from 1969 and 2015 (twice!) being on this list is that getting no-hit is in no way the mark of a bad team.
  7. smg58
    For all the ink that's been spent discussing personnel decisions, it needs to be said that at no point this season have we had both Lindor and Soto fully healthy at the same time. Lindor very clearly benefited from the time off. Hopefully Soto will as well.
  8. smg58
    A fully healthy Bichette is a good player, but he's not worth remotely close to $42M a year. And the fact that he's struggled in two of the past three seasons would make a longer deal at a somewhat lower salary a bad gamble. If he opts out, spend the money elsewhere.
  9. smg58
    I would argue that the way pitchers are presently handled borders on abuse. But Skenes would have more sympathy if he simply blew his arm out entirely, which suggests that fans don't seem to care.
  10. smg58
    To be fair, I'd have a different attitude toward the situation if the Mets were fighting for a playoff spot. As it stands, I'm not worried about him killing what's already dead, and I think he and the Mets would be better served by him working through this up here.
  11. smg58
    I will go on record as saying that I really enjoy discussing the Mets with all of you here, even when we disagree, and none of you suck. Benge didn't have a whole lot of AAA experience, either, and his season has been one of adjustment and counter-adjustment as well. Hopefully he's cleared his biggest obstacles.
  12. smg58
    This ties in with the discussion we've been having about Ewing in a couple of threads. Even the most promising looking prospects arrive in the majors as works in progress. Kelenic had some exploitable weaknesses when he came up. Again, this is hardly unusual. What makes it so surprising is that somebody with a high level of raw talent who bashed his way through the minors has been so completely unable to adjust, even a little bit. PCA also struggled his first couple of years too. Part of that is because his glove got him to the big leagues before his bat was fully ready. But even last year, he was frigid for most of the second half of the season. There was no guarantee he'd be a sustainably good player, much less MVP caliber within a year. But the talent was always there.
  13. smg58
    One thing that never seems to get addressed when the CBA expires is that the public has no real idea what the books look like for the individual teams. Which teams are genuinely treading water, and which teams could spend a lot more than they are doing? I've always worked under the assumption that the Dodgers were spending sustainably, but do we really know that?
  14. smg58
    From what I'm gathering, what Ewing most needs to do is avoid chasing the breaking pitches down and away. He's hardly unique in that regard, and it's certainly not a shocking issue for somebody who wasn't expected to be here yet. His talent and his rapid advance through the system suggest that he can make the adjustments when he needs to. It's not a guarantee, of course.
  15. smg58
    This ties in well with a thread that was started yesterday. In oldpeoplespeak, pitchers have enough of a book on Ewing to adjust to his weaknesses. This is basically a variant of the "sophomore jinx." Nobody in March was expecting Ewing to contribute meaningfully this season at the top level, and it's forgivable if he's rawer than most rookies. The good news is the holes in Ewing's game look easy to fix, and for better or worse the Mets can afford to give him plenty of time.
  16. smg58
    My impression is that Walter is in a fair amount of trouble, but it's too early to speculate on what it means for the Dodgers. I don't get the sense that the team's finances are on anything less than a solid footing. Ohtani actually has the ability to opt out if Walter is no longer affiliated with the Dodgers -- which is a really odd thing to put in a contract -- but I'm not sure what would stop the Dodgers from simply negotiating a new deal that pays him more money if it comes to that.
  17. smg58
    I'm annoyed by this, because it was clear enough for more than long enough that something was getting in the way of Polanco doing, well, pretty much anything on a baseball field. The guy was in chronic pain and couldn't play through it. But at least the team is acknowledging the obvious and acting in his, and their own, best interests.
  18. smg58
    He began the year in AA, so some sort of market correction was inevitable. I see no reason to be worried long-term.
  19. smg58
    Oh I have no doubt it will all play out poorly. But it's not our problem.
  20. smg58
    Torrens has a .785 OPS against lefties this year, and a .723 OPS against them for his career. That's good enough to make him a must-play with his defensive value. I think holding on to both him and Alvarez was smart.
  21. smg58
    I would argue that 26 seasons of being a good starting pitcher counts for something, even if he was more pretty good than very good for most of them.
  22. smg58
    The Mets are a top 10 defense according to the Fielding Bible, although our backup catcher is responsible for a fair chunk of that. The only noticeable negatives (at least last time I checked) are Alvarez (he's had trouble staying healthy, but I think DHing consistently against lefties will keep him in the lineup and help his bat and glove in the long run), Soto (we read the fine print when we bought him), and Semien (umm, yeah, that kind of flies in the face of why we supposedly got him in the first place).
  23. smg58
    I'm not arguing this point at all. Stearns did not appreciate that Cedric Mullins and Marcus Semien had declining defensive value and were no longer on the good side of average. (And if he is as obsessed with analytics as some of his detractors make him out to be, he would/should have known.) And Baty is not going to become a good outfielder by playing there occasionally. (Plus with Robert healthy and Benge and Ewing established here, there is really no need.)
  24. smg58
    I know Keith has criticized the Mets for taking first base too lightly, and I wouldn't expect anything different from him given that Edgy's description of him is accurate and it's obvious he took an enormous amount of pride in that facet of his game. But moving people around is not unique to us. Bichette was asked to switch positions during the World Series, Edgy mentioned what the Phillies did just to accommodate Luis Arraez, and the Nationals just announced that they are moving C. J. Abrams from shortstop to second base right now, in the heat of a pennant race. I was watching a Mets game that was nationally televised, and Vientos made a bad play at first. The head announcer asked the color commentator if it was reasonable for the Mets to ask Vientos to switch from third to first and expect things to work out. The color commentator was Todd Zeile. Of course fans will hold you to account if you do something risky and it doesn't pan out, especially in New York. But defense didn't put the Mets where they are this season.
  25. smg58
    I kind of feel bad for Polanco because he was broken out of the box. Now maybe somebody should have paid closer attention to the physical, or maybe there was bad luck involved. But I'm not sure he's doing himself or the team any favors by going out there right now. He's nothing close to 100%, and it's far more important that we figure out if he can get to 100% by next spring, or whether he's simply a sunk cost.
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