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Just an awful tragedy. I don't know what else to say.
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I'm still trying to figure out what the problem was with Lamar Johnson. Duda totally turned things around on his watch, and d'Arnaud and Niewenhuis started showing signs of life for the first time under his watch as well. Honestly, Hudgens having a job when this guy doesn't strikes me as a miscarriage of justice.
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The fangraphs overall park factor for Citi is 95, but with a 103 for home runs while basically everything else is suppressed relative to the average. In other words, the second set of dimensions produced the polar opposite of the impressions generated by the first set of dimensions, which for some reason have lingered. There doesn't appear to be any evidence that offense increased any due to the change (the old park factor was actually a 96). So I'm not sure what this is supposed to do. Edgy MD wrote: I'm certain it's not a choice undertaken as an alternative to signing better players. It might be seen as an enticement to power hitters, but Ike Davis and Lucas Duda have hit 30 with the new dimensions. And I imagine anybody who's played at Citi knows the second set of dimensions weren't so intimidating.
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The "duh" way of discouraging teams from making qualifying offers to borderline players is to make it clear that your client will take the offer. The irony is that now Drew can probably be had for a song, and might be a bargain for precisely that reason. The other option to consider is that there are a number of elite shortstop prospects (Scounting Book has five in the top ten), and Syndegaard would get us at least most of the way there for any of them.
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Mets � Willets Point wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Ah, they took Petit out! I remember him when he was a wee lad. Petit is an interesting case. Plenty of high-upside, raw talent prospects get it quickly, and plenty fall by the wayside, but I don't know (perhaps it's just perception) of that many players who started playing up to their talent level well after their prospect luster wore off. Of the top of my head, I can think of Carlos Gomez and Brandon Phillips. Can anybody think of others?
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Frayed Knot wrote: Whoa! No way would I be yanking Zimmermann here (2 outs in 9th after a walk). All for trying to paint the corners too carefully against one batter when he was otherwise unhittable. There's definitely a tendency to micromanage in the playoffs, and this one came back to bite the Nats big time.
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Have we forgotten Ike already?
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Is anybody else appalled at the complete lack of class in getting a single then taking a curtain call? There was still most of the game to play! I suppose maybe if you had just clinched a betting title or something, but really, who does that shit?
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I think it's time to call this one. Congrats metsmarathon!
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Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: The way the Braves are falling apart, we're only 2.5 games out of second place. Granted, that speaks more about the division than it does the Mets. But in a looking-for-anything-positive kind of thing, I wouldn't mind that. Right. The Mets can finish in second and can also finish last. It might not make much tangible difference, but psychologically the difference is enormous.
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IGT 9/14/14 WSH @ NYM: It's A Stupid Division Anyway
smg58 replied to G-Fafif's topic in Archived Game Threads
I haven't been following the posts here so much since school started so sorry if this has been discussed, but when is Niewenhuis going to get another start? I would have thought that an .859 OPS would get noticed on this team. -
Broke out of a poorly-timed two week slump with five homers last night. It's on, metsmarathon, it's on!
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LV is also in the playoffs, so there's a reason to keep the 51s roster mostly intact for the time being.
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[fimg=555:74xe6adz]http://legacy.newyorker.com/images/2014/09/01/p465/140901_contest_p465.jpg[/fimg:74xe6adz] "They were attached to my locker with a note that said KNOW YOUR PLACE ROOK!"
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IGT 8/29/14 PHI @ NYM: Right Herrera, Right Now
smg58 replied to G-Fafif's topic in Archived Game Threads
It still might be a good idea to see what Flores can do with an uninterrupted run of starts. I was thinking Herrera is a better bet for 2016 than next year (much less now), but I wouldn't mind being wrong. -
I just hope Terry spoke with d'Arnaud before speaking with the media. Otherwise, with Plawecki knocking on the door, it's worth discussing how to accommodate the both of them.
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If it's compromising his pitching in any way, then there's nothing to be gained by waiting.
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From FanGraphs park factor analysis: before the walls came in: HR 93, TR 109, overall 97 (many other factors contribute to the overall as well) after the walls came in: HR 103, TR89, overall 96 Basically the dimensions change killed triples more than it boosted home runs. The park still favors pitchers on the whole (but never by as much as people have made it out to), but people's assumptions on how the park plays have not changed with the statistics. The analysis does not consider 2014 data yet. And obviously a big part of the drop this year has to do with not having triples hitters in general. (Our pitching staff has given up 9 triples at home and 14 on the road.)
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Suffolk County engaged in a hostile takeover.
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Gwreck wrote: The Red Sox apparently also traded John Lackey today; to the Cardinals. The main piece in return was Allen Craig. I kind of like the Red Sox grabbing major league players on down years. Craig might have been worth a look on our end, but Colon isn't pitching as well as Lackey (nor does he have a contact that pays him 500k in his last year -- I can see why that would be enticing for St. Louis).
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It's very tough to say. Tulo and Cargo have been the subject of rumors for several years, mainly because the Rockies always look like sellers, but they're both under reasonable contracts for quite some time. I'm not sure how dealing either of them would speed up their rebuilding process, but then again they've had both of them long enough that should have a lot more to show for it than they do. I'm not expecting anything, but you absolutely have to ask about Tulowitski -- getting him would make getting Piazza seem underwhelming in comparison.
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Jacob deGrom deserves his own thread because ...
smg58 replied to batmagadanleadoff's topic in New York Mets Talk
DeGrom has certainly earned the right to be part of the rookie discussion. Hamilton has a .717 OPS in a pitchers' park, so while his speed and defense are big plusses, I'm not conceding anything to him in July. -
They're apparently close to trading Huston Street to the Angels, so the pen that starts the series might not be the one that ends it. Street has a 1.09 ERA and a 0.758 WHIP, while Joaquin Benoit backs him up with a 1.86 ERA and a 0.802 WHIP. That one-two punch would be downright frightening on a team that could score runs.
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If anybody asks about how well our pitchers are hitting, just mention DeGrom. Given DeGrom's minor-league track record before this year (live arm, so-so results), I figured he was destined for the pen like Parnell was. I don't mind being wrong sometimes. I'm not panicking about Montero or Syndegaard. The raves about his arm have preceded great results with Syndegaard too, but he's 21 and overcoming some adversity in advance of the call-up won't hurt him. Tejada had a .360 OBP batting almost exclusively 8th in 2011, so this isn't new really. I'd be careful expecting similar results at a different spot in the lineup.
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The nine-month-old son of Brewers shortstop Jean Segura.
