Chad ochoseis

They need to fire Barwis and hire a different team. I hear these guys are looking for work. [youtube:112ea2hi]Pa5mj6ifCz4[/youtube:112ea2hi]

Fun fact - in 413 plate appearances against Teheran over his career, which isn't a small sample size at all, the Mets have hit .197/.273/.284.

Well, this sucks. Management consisted of rest followed by general strengthening exercises as tolerated and a gradual stepwise progression back to throwing. The vast majority of major league pitchers were able to return to pitching at or above the level they were previously playing4, but in many cases tendon avulsion was considered a season ending injury, since they could not return to play for 3 or 4 months7. http://radsource.us/acute-musculotendinous-tears/ Nobody in this forum is an MD, correct? I read this just for kicks and I'm not sure whether to interpret "tendon avulsion" as something that always happens as part of a lat tear (i.e. we're royally screwed) or whether you can have a lat tear without an avulsed tendon, which means that with rest, physical therapy, and good luck, Thor might return to baseball activities other than spitting sunflower seeds in the next month or two (i.e. we're screwed, but maybe it's more just a peasant-type screwing than a royal screwing).

themetfairy wrote: 7 am seems like a really odd time to schedule a MRI. It's not like surgery where a patient has to fast. If it wasn't a medical emergency that required immediate care at the hospital yesterday, why such an ungodly early hour? I'm not reading too much into that. I think all tests tend to get scheduled early. And Sandy is probably even more anxious than we are to see what's up with Syndergaard.

That was a thing of beauty.

Ron, I don't give a damn about the closer's cahnfidence. I'd like to see the Mets win this ballgame.

I like the move. Familia looks awful.

I can't watch this. And I can't look away, either.

Rockin' Doc wrote: I just got in from the local beer garden and tried to tune into the game. MLB has once again decided that I am within the local blackout area for theis game. I'm over 500 miles from freakin' CitiField. That's about being within the Nats' zone, not the Mets', no?

I'm more worried about the dude in Reed's clothes.

Edgy MD wrote: A Boy Named Seo wrote: [Jung]You not being able to find your friend was a personal manifestation of the Mets being completely lost and not being able to call anyone for help[/Jung] [Freud]I'm gonna have to differ with my estimable colleague here. This is textbook sexual insecurity. Couldn't see his cellphone display? If that's not impotence anxiety, then I don't know what.[/Freud] This is fair. I mean, what better symbol of impotence is there than the Mets?

So, in my dreams, I was at CitiField last night watching the Mets and the Braves. I won a raffle that entitled me to one mezzanine level seat (which CF doesn't have, of course) for a future game. I had to wait on line in their customer service office to claim the ticket from some guy in a cowboy hat, and the ticket still cost $20.15 (handling charges). This took until the bottom of the 8th, so I missed most of the actual game, which the Braves won 17-10. After the game, I was waiting in the parking lot for a friend of mine to meet me, and I couldn't find her, and I couldn't call her because it had started to rain and I couldn't see my cell phone display. So even in my dream world, the Mets suck and so does their customer service.

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Edgy MD wrote: deGrom pushed back to Saturday with stiff neck. Harvey to go tonight. http://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/mets-jacob-degrom-start-pushed-back-with-stiff-neck/ Is he available to pinch-hit? He may be needed.

I'm pro shiftbunt. Not all the time - nothing is ever true all the time, except maybe the statement "nothing is ever true all the time". But, throwing out some wild-ass guess numbers here, a great power hitter will homer in about 8% of his at bats (40 HRs in 500 ABs sounds about right for a great power hitter, no?). When the defense virtually concedes the entire left side of the field to a lefty power hitter, it's not unreasonable to assume he should be able to bunt successfully for a hit 60% of the time, I don't think. Hitting into the shift is hard. Let's say, without getting too fine about it, that our hypothetical lefty power hitter will get a base hit 12% of the time when he pulls the ball and it stays in the park. I don't take wOBA as gospel, but let's use it here. You get 0.89 credit for a single under wOBA and 2.10 credit for a home run. So if you accept the assumptions, bunting against the shift will get you (0.6)(0.89) = 0.534 wOBA credits on average. Swinging into the shift will give you (0.08)(2.10) + (0.12)(0.89) = 0.275 wOBA on average. So bunting into the shift looks like a much better strategy. Tons of caveats here. My guess that a bunt against the shift would be successful 60% of the time was a wild guess, and so was the 12% success rate for swinging into the shift. I didn't count the fact that the batter will get some doubles and triples swinging into the shift, too, though those wouldn't affect the numbers all that much. I'm implicitly assuming that the batter is equally likely to walk whether he bunts against the shift or swings into it. And I'm thinking about lefties here - even when there's a "shift" against righties, the first baseman isn't shifting much. And, of course, there are situations where the numbers get thrown out and swinging makes plenty of sense, like when your entire offense is named "Jay Bruce".

Braves-Marlins-Phillies-Marlins-Phillies. Yeah, it's early, and the losses were close, but these are the teams we should be playing .700 against. And putting aside the score, that looked like a bad team on the field yesterday. If the Mets can win the next two against the Phillies and take two out of three from Washington this weekend, that'll turn my frown upside down.

Blevins. Salas. Gilmartin. Smoker. Robles. Edgin. Montero. Reed. A closer. Two righthanded set-up guys. A solid LOOGY. A short guy for when we're behind in Edgin. A somewhat capable long guy in Smoker. A somewhat incapable long guy in Montero. And, in Gilmartin, a lefty who is here to make sure the other guys don't get lonely. And Familia on the way. Do we really need this much bullpen? I saw the need for bringing up Gilmartin after the 16 inning game in Miami on Thursday. But it's Tuesday now. Yesterday was an off-day, and there's another off-day this Monday. Even though the other three games were close, the bullpen wasn't particularly taxed. I get that we can't count on much depth from Wheeler and Harvey. But I'm more concerned about running out of bench players in a close game. Is there any reason not to demote/DFA one of the marginal relievers and promote a position player?

Well, fuck.

Mattingly can take a seat, too. This wasn't even close.

Beautiful. And Flores has really grown up. I don't think he would have made that heads-up running play last season.

Chad Ochoseis wrote: Just tuned in. HEY, STRAILY HAS A NO-HITTER! SHAME IF SOMETHING WOULD HAPPEN TO IT, HUH? You're welcome.

Just tuned in. HEY, STRAILY HAS A NO-HITTER! SHAME IF SOMETHING WOULD HAPPEN TO IT, HUH?

Quick game, no? About an hour and a half and we're already into the 7th.

G-Fafif wrote: With T.J. down for Gilmartin, we have a three-man bench tonight: Yo, Neil, Td'A. So, if I understand the rules for optioning correctly, we can send Gilmartin back down after today's game, but we can't bring TJ back for 10 days. So we might see some Amed Rosario action if we go back to 12 pitchers and a five-man bench tomorrow?

On days when Reyes sits, D'Arnaud may be the fastest guy in the lineup.