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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: And there are are lot reasons to ask, two of the best players on the team just had a fistfight in the middle of a game. Even that's an understatement. They're all-stars. Fucking all-stars. It's the best middle infield in baseball. And Lindor's on a Hall of Fame trajectory.

dinosaur jesus wrote: What is going on here? The analysts are saying that it's 1968 all over again in baseball this season The numbers, so far, seem to support that. Stark: What we learned in April — offense is at 1968 levels (or worse), but must-watch performances are everywhere Jayson Stark May 3, 2021 Excerpt: It's 1968 again! True confession: I lied about that headline. It's not 1968 again. It's worse. Offenses are actually in much rougher shape than they were then. Um, is that good? The batting average of the entire sport in April — an average compiled by the best collection of athletes ever to play baseball — was .232. That's not just the worst it's been since the Bob Gibson 1.12 ERA/Nobody Can Hit days of 1968. That .232 mark would be the worst ever. Heck, the league average in 1968 was an action-packed .237. Here are other sport-wide offensive numbers from April. If you're squeamish, don't look. It might occur to you that baseball has somehow transformed into a whole sport full of Doug Mirabellis. And you wouldn't be wrong! On-base %: .309, lowest since 1968 Slugging %: .389, lowest since 2014 OPS: .698, lowest since 1989 Hits per game: 7.63, lowest since ever At least the league OPS is almost 60 points higher than it was in 1968, largely because the home run rate is almost double. So the average team is scoring about one more run per game. But even that's misleading because pretty much all of those additional runs come from home runs. Want to guess how often in baseball history we have seen a runs-per-game rate this low (4.25 per team) paired with home run rate this high (1.14 per team per game)? “I'm going to guess never,” said one NL exec who brought this up. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. “Never” would, in fact, be correct. You can feel free to blame launch-angle swing paths, pull-happy hitters and all the batters walking around saying, “Strikeouts are just like any other outs.” But the truth is, that ain't it! “It's the pitching,” said one GM. “Pitching is too good. It's simple. “Name me any innovation or any evolution of the game that's happening right now,” he went on. “Every single one favors the pitchers.” https://theathletic.com/2562755/2021/05/03/stark-what-we-learned-in-april-offense-is-at-1968-levels-or-worse-but-must-watch-performances-are-everywhere/https://theathletic.com/2562755/2021/05/03/stark-what-we-learned-in-april-offense-is-at-1968-levels-or-worse-but-must-watch-performances-are-everywhere/

If he'd said "I'm not talking about that" they would've berated him for not talking, so he tried to talk about the game, and was just brutally disregarded. no respect for any of those assholes. Since when does Rojas get to decide unilaterally what's news and what isn't? And nobody else is allowed to be interested in the tunnel fight because you're not interested in it?

Mets franchise record : 17 men LOB in a 9 inning game.

I didn't know Dom had such a weak throwing arm. I just saw a Card tag from second to third on a fly to regular depth left field. That was pathetic.

=LWFS post_id=63264 time=1620321062 user_id=84] Twitter and speeches at conservative gatherings, obviously. (deGrom was apparently doing wind sprints last night, FWiW.)

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: We are underway. Lindor reached base! Oh. It's an afternoon game? I wouldnt have known from relying on the opening post in this IGT!!!!!!!

Now this is https://twitter.com/timbhealey/status/1390342523122589704?s=20REALLY starting to feel familiar. Carrasco was "pitching to live hitters" and "maybe a week" from coming back, as per, like, five days ago. And isn't Hunter... like, NOT a Met? [bLOCKQUOTE]News: Carlos Carrasco is transferred to the 60-day IL. So he won't be back until the end of the month at the earliest. Righthander Tommy Hunter is called up. Righthander Jordan Yamamoto has been optioned to Triple-A Syracuse.[/bLOCKQUOTE] If Carrasco ... then deGrom? Jeez, I'm gonna hafta send out some thoughts and prayers for deGrom. How does that stuff even work? What's the best way to do that?

Losing is a disease ... as contagious as polio.

Any word on deGrom?

This losing keeps up and Rojas won't make it to the all-star break. And let's not forget that the Mets didn't make last year's playoffs when 135% of all teams qualified.

The day after Jake deGrom is scratched and put on a "no-throw" rest regimen pending further testing, The Athletic runs this piece: How is the Mets' Jacob deGrom throwing this hard and still getting better? ‘I've never seen anything like it' Tim Britton 4h ago 27 Excerpt: Jacob deGrom does not, as far as anyone knows, play the French horn. He pitches with two cleats on, his hat on straight, and with total commitment to his craft. And yet, when Randy Sullivan, founder of the Florida Baseball ARMory, a training facility in Lakeland that works with pitchers on building velocity, watches deGrom, the only person he can think of in his class is a figure from Mets mythology. “Nice coincidence he's with the New York Mets,” Sullivan said. “He's like the April Fool's joke, Sidd Finch.” Over the first five weeks of the season, deGrom has further solidified his title as the best pitcher in baseball. Since 2018, his ERA over 81 starts is 1.99. In five starts this year, he has allowed two earned runs over 35 innings, striking out 59 batters. Three times he's punched out at least 14. “He's a generational pitcher,” Mets pitching coach Jeremy Hefner said. “We're witnessing something that most guys can't do.” “DeGrom's an interesting case,” Alex Caravan, the manager of data science at Driveline Baseball, said this week. “Because there's not really anybody else like deGrom.” What fascinates so many in the sport is not just that deGrom is this good, but also how exactly he has become this good. The right-hander will turn 33 next month, and yet he's throwing harder than he ever has before — harder than any other starting pitcher in baseball. DeGrom is averaging 98.9 miles per hour on his fastball — the fastest by a starter in the pitch tracking era, which dates to 2008. Since he entered the major leagues in 2014 and especially in the last three years, deGrom has methodically added velocity to his fastball better than anyone in baseball. That would be a remarkable development for any pitcher; it's nearly unfathomable for a pitcher after the age of 30. “It's unprecedented,” Caravan said. “At least, I can't think of anybody off top my head that would fit into quite deGrom's magnitude.” Over the last decade, no starter at any age has added more velocity to their fastball over any stretch of time than deGrom has. Caravan cited research done by Jeff Zimmermann at FanGraphs that showed the average pitcher lost 2 mph on his fastball from age 26 to 32. DeGrom gained more than 4 mph during that span of his career. To try to contextualize this, I looked at the top 15 pitchers by wins above replacement, according to FanGraphs, since 2008, which was when Pitch F/X tracking started.... [FIMG=666]https://cdn.theathletic.com/app/uploads/2021/05/05002340/0429-deGrom-Top-15-without-Jake-e1620224663382.jpg[/FIMG] Oh wait, I forgot to include deGrom in that one. Let's see if he stands out. [FIMG=666]https://cdn.theathletic.com/app/uploads/2021/05/05002334/0429-deGrom-Top-15-Velo-e1620224680321.jpg[/FIMG] https://theathletic.com/2556671/2021/05/05/how-is-the-mets-jacob-degrom-throwing-this-hard-and-still-getting-better-ive-never-seen-anything-like-it/https://theathletic.com/2556671/2021/05/05/how-is-the-mets-jacob-degrom-throwing-this-hard-and-still-getting-better-ive-never-seen-anything-like-it/

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Sure seems like he'd be next to pay the price should things not turn around. I dunno if that makes his whacking any more likely, but you know. there are very few jobs like this in the world, it seems like to not have the absolute best guy there is a terrible waste. This is true. But I guess everyone has a different idea of what a manager's role is, so it's hard to judge who is doing a better job than the next guy. To me, a manager should be good at: Like any of that matters. Rojas is a leftover from the Wilpon era, when nobody would wanna work here. The Wilpons would get whatever was left from the bottom of the soup bowl. Like anyone who knew anything about anything would wanna work for Fred and his abusive failson.

Willets Point wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: If I was writing the back page headlines: CHILI TO GO CHILE GONE CARNE I DON'T WANT MY BABY BACK, BABY BACK The Daily News went with "Chili Cooked ".

Why don't the Mets hire someone to give the hitters pointers on pointing to the sky better?

Entering today's games: Francisco Lindor: 77-AB .182/.297/.234 1HR 53-OPS+ Andres Gimenez: 58-AB .190/.242/.362 2HR 68-OPS+ Amed Rosario: 67-AB .179/.257/.299 2HR 57 OPS+

Edgy MD wrote: I think it was defaulting to Stockholm time when you were logged out. I just went under the hood to reconfigure. Please let me know if it's better or worse. Clock fixed! You are the clock king!

Is deGrom pitching tomorrow?

Losing is a disease ... as contagious as bubonic plague., impacting one, but affecting all. Ah! But curable. [media=youtube]=WN-aCYVVtyo[/media] This Donnie Stevenson saga reminds me of the shrink in The Natural who gave the N.Y. Knights a locker room pep talk. I've attached a youtube video of the scene, which doesn't work. Also, the time setting for this forum is four hours off when I'm not logged in. Do I need to adjust a setting or is everybody's forum clock four hours off when they're logged out?

Good. That's time for the mods to get that youtube video to work. Also, why is my forum clock four hours off when I'm not logged in?

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It's only one month of baseball but still, this team is unwatchable, even when deGrom pitches.

Edgy MD wrote: Stop trolling, please. The day you ever take my side on this crap will be a record setter. Monkeys will fly out my ass. Where were you when he started?

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=62499 time=1619724336 user_id=68] =Ceetar post_id=62496 time=1619723745 user_id=102] no way the Mets didn't benefit from that for years/decades. If they'd pulled it out in '06-'08, or even in '00 maybe, you'd kind of forgive '10-'13.

=Ceetar post_id=62496 time=1619723745 user_id=102] no way the Mets didn't benefit from that for years/decades. If they'd pulled it out in '06-'08, or even in '00 maybe, you'd kind of forgive '10-'13.