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McNeil goes 5 for 5.
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Richard's story was a sad one. But for a couple of years he was great, and he seemed to e getting better. He was 10-4 with a 1.90 ERA less than halfway through the 1980 season when the wheels came off.
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Benjamin Grimm wrote: Must be a crappy day to be a Cubs fan. Definitely a sad day -- this is the core of a team that won the Cubs a world championship after more than a century of futility, after all -- but I think it was clear enough for a while that a rebuild was in order and this day was coming.
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It's 2021 and Jacob deGrom still deserves his own thread.
smg58 replied to batmagadanleadoff's topic in New York Mets Talk
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Frayed Knot wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: I also think that the Mets will extend Baez before he hits free agency. Agreed. Don't agree ... certainly not as a pre-planned strategy. I don't agree either. I would really want to see how he plays here before I considered it.
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Baez's glove and versatility (combined, most likely, with McNeil's versatility) makes this a good upgrade, with two caveats: 1. Baez will not find Citi as friendly to his approach as Wrigley Field was. Keep your offensive expectations conservative. 2. If they could have given up less than Crow-Armstrong to get just Baez, adding Trevor Williams was a very bad move.
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Baez plays a lot of positions well, which means we will have options when Lindor comes back. I worry that he's become too one dimensional as a hitter and our park won't reward that. His career year came under Chili Davis's watch. Given the scarcity of good center fielders, I'd have given up somebody other than Armstrong. McNeil is under control for three more seasons and has four game-winning hits this past month. His career OPS+ beats Baez by 30 points. The goal is to win, right?
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Relief pitching is a crap shoot, and the Mets have learned the hard way that aiming high doesn't make it any less of one. The Loup signing looks great right now. The May signing looks kind of meh though. Hand wouldn't have been worth it.
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Or Taijuan Walker.
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Marte is somebody the Mets looked at for a while, so naturally he's now having a career year. Luzardo is a once-elite prospect who's had trouble logging in innings (granted last year was not his fault) and has not looked ready for the show this year. I think it's a great low-risk, high-upside gamble for the Marlins, but it may work out well for the A's too.
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They've brought up on the telecast that he's hitting off-speed pitches at a much worse rate than he did the last two seasons. I guess the question is why. I suppose it's fair to ask if Chili Davis had something to do with it, but I can't imagine the new guy would tell him to change an approach that worked for him. It's possible that he's playing with a nagging injury. It took McNeil half a season to look healthy despite a couple of IL stints, and Conforto's not all the way back yet either, so maybe he's dealing with something that hasn't reached the point of shelving him but it's affected his play. Which is all a long-winded way of saying I have some guesses but no firm answer.
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Edgy MD wrote: Folks won't like it. Adam Wainwright. Write it down. I'd still be OK with it.
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The Mariners are only a game out of a wildcard, Toro is replacement level, and Smith is not exactly a prospect. Why?
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Chase Utley now, Chase Utley forever.
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Pitching has to be a higher priority, but I would at least do a price check on Story.
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Not that I'm complaining about how things worked out for the Mets, but what message are teams sending to their fans if they're too cheap to draft the best player available?
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Given all the injuries, the disappointing hitting, and the duct tape holding the back end of the rotation together, I'm thrilled. The most likely team in the NL East to get hot in the second half is the Mets, and we're already in first. The key is if we get Carrasco and Syndergaard back in time for October. That, and the lineup hitting like they're capable of hitting, would give us a shot against anybody. I haven't been this bullish about the team in a while.
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"The results of the crackdown are also being seen at the plate. Fewer at-bats after two strikes are ending in walks or strikes after June 3, a review of recent data shows, and more than 44 percent of them are ending with contact — up from 40 percent earlier in the season." And what else? Nothing about overall hitting numbers and run production? How much of the drop in offense this year relative to the last couple of years appears to have been restored by cracking down on pitchers using illegal substances? If you can get details on a statistic as specific as this, you can say something about the big picture, right? The absence of this information is, at best, shoddy reporting.
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The Trevor Bauer is a Douchebag Thread
smg58 replied to batmagadanleadoff's topic in New York Mets Talk
=TransMonk post_id=69914 time=1625248391 user_id=71] Outside of deGrom's first-half, not signing Bauer is my favorite part of the 2021 Mets so far. -
His performance since his 2015-16 peek can be described as "better than most people think." His 130 OPS+ puts him in the same offensive category as Arenado, so his present ability to hit should not be in question. The catch is that he will be 36 in December and still has two fairly expensive years, so the Mets need to ask if they can make a comparable upgrade with less commitment of resources. I think a lot will depend on how JD Davis looks once he gets activated.
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The Wilpons could have gotten him for a year when the Braves did, but even that was too much to ask for. His glove is not better than average at this point and his OPS is more low-.800s than low-.900s like in his prime, but that still makes him a valuable player. It's fair to ask if he's valuable enough to take on two more years with a salary above $20M, but I think you have to at least kick the tires.
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It's 2021 and Jacob deGrom still deserves his own thread.
smg58 replied to batmagadanleadoff's topic in New York Mets Talk
I'd have been far more impressed with 230 IP than I am with 100 mph. Now he'll be lucky to get half that. The MVP talk stops now. -
If the starter is pitching well and your pen is thin, asking the starter for six should be a no-brainer. This is real baseball, not Strat-O-Matic. The game came down to a chess match between Familia/Nido and Profar. Profar made it clear on the pitch that made the count 2-2 that he wasn't going to keep biting on the slider, but Familia kept throwing it. They lost the mental game badly there. I didn't understand why Barnes was kept up when Reid-Foley was sent down, and I still don't. I get that you give the benefit of the doubt to the guy who doesn't have options, but who had doubts?
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So the league tolerated steroids for far too long, the parks were mostly made shorter, you have all these rules designed to shorten the game that actually help batters, you have all this talk about launch angles, and we were expecting pitchers to NOT come up with something in response? But the deadened ball is the bigger difference-maker this year. Which is fine, because the three-true-outcome approach was making the game boring (and is what's really behind the longer games) and should not be rewarded. So my response? Enforce honest play, like you should have always been doing, but don't expect the jump in offense to be all that big. And tell people who now have warning-track power but still keep hitting into the shift to try adapting.
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IGT 05/26 - COL @ NYM - Stroman Stroman - Stro! Stro!
smg58 replied to kcmets's topic in Archived Game Threads
I was hoping to reschedule it much later in the season.
