batmagadanleadoff

=kcmets post_id=104387 time=1660790669 user_id=53] It's not about you, bighead.

=kcmets post_id=104383 time=1660790264 user_id=53] What is your problem? I didn't say I liked them. I have nothing to with Trump. Don't get your ass all in an uproar with me. Marshmallow can't see your posts so you need to make sport of me? GROW UP!!

=kcmets post_id=104355 time=1660785995 user_id=53] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=104349 time=1660784898 user_id=68] =kcmets post_id=104346 time=1660784609 user_id=53] I don't recall ever caring who won,

=kcmets post_id=104346 time=1660784609 user_id=53] I don't recall ever caring who won,

=seawolf17 post_id=104345 time=1660784309 user_id=91] Hey, I think I rooted for Italy last time. Who gives a crap?

=Marshmallowmilkshake post_id=104335 time=1660782493 user_id=119] =Ceetar post_id=104331 time=1660781426 user_id=102] We'll see the rosters, might be rooting against him, but still fun.

Thrilling. I can't wait.

I lol'ed at "hey, yanks score a run" Is that a plea or an observation?

Edwin Díaz And Francisco Lindor Aren't Busts Anymore — And Neither Are The Mets By Robert O'Connell Aug. 16, 2022, at 6:00 AM Excerpt: The National League East, a toss-up three weeks ago, now has the 75-40 Mets 5.5 games clear of Atlanta; FiveThirtyEight gives them a 95 percent chance of making the division series.1 Among the biggest reasons? That Díaz and shortstop Francisco Lindor — who prior to this season looked like the latest in the franchise's tradition of sunk-cost disappointments — have turned into the cornerstones they were brought on to be. The Mets traded for Díaz before the 2019 season as the headliner in a bizarro blockbuster that also brought Robinson Canó to Queens, and Díaz — who had led baseball with 57 saves in his last year with Seattle — set about stinking up the joint. He blew seven of his 33 save opportunities, and his ERA swelled from 1.96 to 5.59. Across 58 innings, he gave up 15 homers, a pair of them coming during a nightmarish outing in Philadelphia in late June, when the Phillies plated five ninth-inning runs in a walkoff win. “I always try to stay positive,” Díaz told the New York Times a couple days after that loss, whose saving grace was that it came on the road and therefore shielded him from what had become customary home-crowd nastiness. “I've had a couple ups and downs this year.” Over the seasons that followed, Díaz mostly staved off disasters of quite that scale, even if he couldn't regain his perch among baseball's preeminent closers. In the COVID-19-shortened 2020, he managed a 1.75 ERA, with walk-heavy underlying stats that suggested the kindness of sympathetic angels. In 2021, the ERA leveled out at 3.45 and seemed like it would stay about there going forward. Like so many shooting-star relievers, Díaz was able to access his former dominance only occasionally. Read it all at: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/edwin-diaz-and-francisco-lindor-arent-busts-anymore-and-neither-are-the-mets/https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/edwin-diaz-and-francisco-lindor-arent-busts-anymore-and-neither-are-the-mets/

Dodgers' Walker Buehler out for the season.

Have some more deGrom, but with a pairing of Scherzer: Scherzer and deGrom Are Great. But How Great? By Rob Neyer Aug. 15, 2022Updated 9:48 a.m. ET Excerpt: From 2016 to 2019, the National League's four Cy Young Awards all went to Scherzer (then a Washington National) or deGrom (so far, a career Met). From 2016 to 2019, only two N.L. pitchers earned more than 20 wins above replacement: Scherzer (27) and deGrom (24). With Scherzer and deGrom paired together, it's easy to imagine that they'll make a great team only greater. How couldn't they? The last two weeks have given us a glimpse of what they can be, and it has been fairly spectacular. Scherzer and deGrom — in that order, thus far — have started back-to-back games three times, and even with deGrom still building up his endurance, they have mostly lived up to their billing: 37⅓ innings, 25 hits, six earned runs, three walks … and 50 strikeouts. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/sports/baseball/mets-degrom-scherzer.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Sportshttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/sports/baseball/mets-degrom-scherzer.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Sports

Edgy MD wrote: It's been 16 innings, but two of his three starts have been against impressive offensive lineups, and his strikeouts are somehow up from last year (14.3 to 15.1 per nine) and his walks are down (1.1 to 0.5). His strikeout:walk ratio is an unfathomable 28:1. If he was playing in any other league, it would be ridiculous that he hadn't been called up yet. He's a freak. He'll be 35 and he's been in the big leagues for nine seasons, now. He should be slowing down on age alone, and even if he had no major health issues to date. Yet he's throwing harder, more often and he appears to be, at the very least, as unhittable as he was last season when, rate-wise, he was having the best pitching season in the history of baseball. Edgy MD wrote: The only reason his ERA isn't lower is that his one and only walk was followed by his one and only home run allowed. Very small sample. His pitches are harder to hit this year than last. If this holds up, he might make $50M a year in his next contract.

Yeah, I thought of Tommy John right after I posted. He may have been even better after returning. But he definitely wasnt throwing 102MPH heaters or 96MPH wipeout sliders that look just like fastballs coming out, especially if the batter has difficulty picking up the spin. And deGrom might be even better, too. Granted it's only been 16 IP's so far.

Edgy MD wrote: Hey, I believe the abolition movement was instigated by me. Yeah, but you didnt embarrass yourself or insult everybody when your arguments failed to persuade.

For starters, I never ever heard of a pitcher deGrom's age missing a whole calendar year of baseball due to injury and not coming back diminished.

Edgy MD wrote: Well, you're the first person in a long time who wants me to write more, but which statement of mine would you like me to back up or clarify? That's just too casuistic for my debating skills. What debating skills? Like when I thoroughly destroyed you after you twice ambushed and picked fights with me, so in a last ditch effort, you resorted to pulling out your "Do you know who I am?" card, further embarrassing yourself by bragging about once being published, as if that was supposed to earn you a victory in our brouhaha? Or when I mocked your ridiculous question about who's the Mets 8th centerfielder, and you responded by asking the mods to red light that post? Or when your silly idea to abolish the infield fly rule was so thoroughly debunked, you resorted to insulting the entire forum out of frustration by calling us all "hidebound"? And it was revealed that you didn't even have a solid understanding of how the rule even worked in the first place. Some debater.

Edgy MD wrote: Teams get salary relief for suspended players, so in many ways (clearly not all) a PED suspension can be a win for them. Not only that, but the Padres might be looking into whether they can now void Tatis' entire contract.

Edgy MD wrote: Risk aversion is natural. But risk cannot be avoided, only managed. Some degree must be accepted. It's all in the game. This. There's risk in everything. But to say that the Mets were right in not getting Soto or that the Soto acquisition would have been awful because after the Soto trade, Tatis was just suspended is ludicrous. The Yankees have been signing players to long term contracts for decades now, including just past their prime players who'd no doubt be greatly diminished by the end of the contract and they're doing about as well as any team in baseball over the last 30 years, probably better than every other team. If the Mets signed Soto, Cohen's annual liquid net worth would only be $11.970 billion instead of $12 billion.

=roger_that post_id=103723 time=1660407451 user_id=128] I was prepared to walk away from Soto and a lifetime contract, and now I think the Mets did a smart thing in doing so.

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Mets OTD 2022 Roster announced https://metsinsider.mlblogs.com/mets-announce-roster-for-old-timers-day-presented-by-citi-7fffca53653a?gi=82e15ff61ba9https://metsinsider.mlblogs.com/mets-announce-roster-for-old-timers-day-presented-by-citi-7fffca53653a?gi=82e15ff61ba9 Seven Polo Grounds Mets on the list, including, obviously, Ed Kranepool, and Cleon Jones and Steve Dillon, who just squeak in as Polo Groundsers, having made their MLB debuts as September, '63 callups.

=Centerfield post_id=103403 time=1660233350 user_id=65] After that, September looks as soft as a baby's bottom.

Heat Wave by Martha & the Vandellas would be lyric appropriate, today. Off the top of my head, I'd go with Ball and Chain or Summertime by Janis and Big Brother. Or if I wanted to be stylistically apart from my teammates, Summertime, the version on Porgy and Bess by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. But I don't know of any major leaguers my age.

WPA tells about the outcome of events in the context of the game in which they happen. This is perfectly fine and as the stat should be used. But the stat is apportioned to individuals, where, as noted, the batter gets the disproportionate amount of the credit for the value of the event. So, you can look up player WPA and see, for example, that currently, Paul Goldschmidt leads the NL in WPA at 5.3. (Lindor is third at 3.1 and Marte is 5th at 2.6). Because that's how the stat is used, and understood by most fans -- as a tool to measure the value of individual and specific players, not events. https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/2022-batting-leaders.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/2022-batting-leaders.shtml And then I have to hear Gary Cohen drool over the stat. And he's not talking about "events" or "event-driven stats". He's talking about WPA as it's applied to individuals.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=103265 time=1660141779 user_id=68] =Ceetar post_id=103256 time=1660104186 user_id=102] It's not even really a stat. And it's not an individual thing anyway, it's event-driven, and it's a team measurement.