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Trying to guess who might've been at that 300 table. There are 24 total 300 game winners-- many long gone. Five 300 game winners were Seaver's contemporaries: Carlton, Ryan, Niekro, Perry and Sutton. Seaver, Ryan and Koosman - do they hold the record for most lifetime wins by three teammates? I'm guessing no - because otherwise, I'd hear about it all the time.

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Every baseball player who appeared in an MLB game in 2020 and played for the Mets at any point in his career is in that set.

Edgy MD wrote: I wonder if future cards are going to be unable to use shots from2020, because of the giveaway maskware. I guess that's going to be an editorial decision. If it were up to me, I wouldn't shy away from those "mask" photos. They tell a story about an event that will no doubt, go down as one of the most significant episodes in world history. But mask-wearing has become so politicized and so polarizing -controversial-, I'd guess that Topps will avoid them to "play it safe". Too bad Topps is the only game in town these days. On a related side note, I found it harder than usual to find what I would classify as interesting baseball photos for this year's games. There was no shortage of action shots, but far fewer pre-game shots. I'm sure that this is not a coincidence and likely the result of photographers having less access than usual to the game and the players because of the pandemic. Also, I wonder if only home or local photographers had access to the games. This was a mild bummer for me, because I prefer the posed-style Topps shots for baseball cards over action shots. The poses are warmer and give a sense of intimacy while the action shots, to me, are repetitive.

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[FIMG=555]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EhEqRpwXcAMO2Mp.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=555]https://newyork.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14578484/2020/09/GettyImages-1228304465.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=555]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50389417917_061d8227a8_b.jpg[/FIMG] Are you sure? I'm still not sure, but I'll take your word if you're sure. On the other hand, I can't think of any other 2020 Met that looks even closer to the subject than Gimenez.

That was my guess, but I'm not really convinced. Now I'll have to check and imagine him shaven.

Anybody know who this Met is pictured below? I'm totally stumped. The photo is recent, as evidenced by the Seaver "41" sleeve patch. [FIMG=666]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50389417917_061d8227a8_b.jpg[/FIMG]

Frayed Knot wrote: I ain't buying it. Me neither. And I get extremely wary and suspicious of players who claim they're more effective in this batting slot or pitching that inning. Not that it was Alonso who's asking to bat cleanup.

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Edgy MD wrote: Some of these cards tell me what team a guy plaze for, and others do not. That can be frusterating. The uniform'll tell you what team the player plays for. Here's a few from my all-time favorite baseball card set. There's enough info already there on the cards that I could tell what team Spahn and Vandy and Newhouser play for. See? [FIMG=262]https://images.collectors.com/smrweb/smr0317/1948-Leaf-32-Warren-Spahn-NM-75-50057346_sm.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=450] https://images.collectors.com/smrweb/smr0317/1948-Leaf-53-John-Vandermeer-EXMT-6-12228556_sm.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=262]https://images.collectors.com/smrweb/smr0317/1948-Leaf-98-Hal-Newhouser-VGEX-4-07162395_sm.jpg[/FIMG] Edgy MD wrote: They're a terrific set. Except the Syndergaard caard. Come on with that. This might help: the Syndergaard caard I posted is not a base caard. It's part of a subset within the set. [FIMG=333]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50342816448_b280e7b7ca_h.jpg[/FIMG] Like these: [fimg=333]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50383830243_f63dc26520_h.jpg[/FIMG][fimg=333]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50383817018_9545f97e24_h.jpg[/FIMG] and this one.... [FIMG=333]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50275851762_744d0b6b56_h.jpg[/FIMG] compare that one to deGrom's base card: [FIMG=333]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50384737117_eb685bdf34_h.jpg[/FIMG] I'll take a look at your newfangled Choo Choo lettering suggestion soon. Thanks.

It's a rainout. But if you're jonesing for some Mets action, SNY is re-running, for like the 86th time, the Mets 2015 division clincher. Watch the Mets nail down one of their two first place finishes in 32 seasons.

The letters in "Choo Choo Coleman" look compressed, not pleasing to the eye. [FIMG=300]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50383401261_a8efc4ef1f_h.jpg[/FIMG] This is a very keen observation and I totally agree with you. I've been aware of this issue since I began making these cards and it annoys me as well. I use several formats to display the player's name on this set. Whenever I use that square red box format for the player's name, I often have to compress the player's name to fit it into the square red box. I could fit the name into the box without compressing it by setting the font size to a smaller number, but then the font would be shorter, and I thought that was an even worse option. But compression doesn't work too well with this particular Coca-Cola font because the font is very ornate and intricate and so, I think, the individual letters need some more separation to "breathe". I could've make the red box bigger, but I tried that, and didn't like that look either. The other solution is to only use the square red box format with players whose names have fewer characters -- this way, there wouldn't be a need to compress the font. But I've committed the square red box to the "Classic" subset and so Choo Choo's stuck with that box.

Jayson Stark, who will be voting on the end of the season NL awards, reveals his ballots for The Athletic. https://theathletic.com/2090616/2020/09/25/stark-handing-out-my-2020-awards-from-cy-young-to-cy-yuk-mvp-to-lvp/https://theathletic.com/2090616/2020/09/25/stark-handing-out-my-2020-awards-from-cy-young-to-cy-yuk-mvp-to-lvp/ Stark would give Trevor Bauer his first place vote for this year's Cy Young award but concedes that the category is somewhat muddled and that deGrom could still overtake Bauer on his ballot -- but that deGrom would have to have a spectacular final outing. In the made-up category of LVP or Least Valuable Player, Stark gives the NL award to Yoenis Cespedes. And in the other category Stark makes up, --The Cy Yuk award,-- Steven Matz gets Stark's third place vote.

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When did Diaz switch uniform numbers to 21? And what's Frazier's new number gonna be?

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: deGrom's not gonna win another close race with this club behind him. I know some of you like this race but I hate following the individual awards because you gotta hope the other guys screw up I'm no longer sure what the club has to do with this. Pitcher Wins, thankfully, are pretty much meaningless by now, in Cy voting Otherwise, there's no way deGrom would've won any of his other Cys. Unless you mean defense? Though, granted, deGrom's no longer in the driver's seat. I'm guessing that ERA is the most weighted stat and deGrom probably has to pitch something like 11 innings of no-hit ball in his final start to win the 2020 Cy. But we'll see.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: PS: That darnaud card looks like Freddie Freeman though maybe with darnaud's body Hey Fonebone? Where've you been during this furshlugginer lock-down pandemic? We missed you. And we double checked our source materials and it turns out that you're right. Unless Travis d'Arnaud can be in two different places at the same time, it looks like that pesky Met killer and bona-fide superstar Freddie Freeman peskied his way onto Travis's 2020 Coke card. [FIMG=277]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50355124038_94eaf69af3_h.jpg[/FIMG] Want some definitive proof? Take a look at the uncropped source image below -- specifically, the bottom left of the photo. [FIMG=400]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50380993456_6c6a280e66_k.jpg[/FIMG] Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: If I owned that card would be a rare misprint with big value on the collector's market OK. Wanna talk 2020 Coke card misprints and rarities? Good. "Cause I knew you would. Here's the first AJ Ramos card we made for the Coke set. Ramos was, very briefly, a major league Cub this season -- for like three minutes. [FIMG=333]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50380948841_965fba2552_h.jpg[/FIMG] Shortly after this "Ramos" release, I noticed a name on "Ramos's" glove on the Coke card. I couldn't make out the name but saw that it didn't look anything like "A.J. Ramos". So I googled the Cubs 2020 MLB pitchers list and was able to figure out that the pitcher on the "Ramos" card is Adbert Alzolay. And then, when I set out to make a new Ramos Cubs card, discovered that on the web, there are no images of Ramos as a Cub. So I ended up resorting to some Topps 1970-era chicanery and came up with this Ramos Cubs card, below. Check out the bottom right corner of the card for the telltale homage to old Topps. Now we're talking misprints and rarities. [FIMG=333]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50367158706_5273f60386_h.jpg[/FIMG] Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Chasen and Chirinos cards look best because of the capital C's. Coca-Cola has two capital C's. [FIMG=333]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50381146587_a7ca62d050_b.jpg[/FIMG] Which Chirinos "C" do you like better? [FIMG=333]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50379931148_d28d301ee0_h.jpg[/FIMG][FIMG=333]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50381058621_3ded268db8_h.jpg[/FIMG] Now we're talking rarities. I was hoping that there'd be a 2020 Met with the initials "C.C." so I could capitalize on those differfent capital C's. (Get it? Capitalize? Capital? hoohah!) Anyways, maybe I'll do a Coke classic card of Choo Choo Coleman to get both of those C's in there on the same card. Edgy MD wrote: When you've got Coca-Cola money backing you, you tell the boys in creative to play ball. Greenway Productions and the estate of Lorenzo Semple, Jr. didn't have that kind of juice. Man, Edgy knows exactly how this industry works. Goddamn uptight philistine bean-counters all over my ass. Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: This is such a subtlely designed collection as compared to 2019 Batman cards I almost think Typewriter Chewing Gum Co. had some kind of massive shakeup in creative. Signed, Joe Fonebone I gotta tell you the truth: I absolutely loved those Batman cards. I can't even express how much so. I suppose I realize they're not everyone's cup of tea, but making those cards was extremely pleasurable and satisfying for me. I pretty much stopped posting those cards -- the reason being that about half a year ago, my hard drive crashed. I hadn't backed it up for about six weeks before the crash and everything I did on my PC over those last six weeks was lost. I'm angry with myself for not sufficiently backing it up or even finally buying a new drive or PC because there were obvious signs that my hard drive was failing. And because of this pandemic, I haven't yet set out to fix my drive or to recover the lost data. And here's the thing, over those six weeks, I was in a phase of frenetic Batman card-making, making them at a prolific pace, and producing wild and wilder cards and a good deal of my favorite BatmanMets stuff. For example, I made a 69Mets of Art Shamsky that was my most meta Batman Card ever. I had toyed with the idea of putting Charles Manson in the "says" box of a 1969BAtmanMets card. Manson, without doubt, was one of the biggest stories of 1969. But I couldn't bring myself to celebrate someone so purely evil. And celebrate, I thought, is what I'd clearly be doing by putting Manson on a card. But in the end, I figured that I could channel that newsworthy story without Manson by putting Sharon Tate in the "says" box, instead. Then I made that card around Quentin Tarantino's love letter to 1969 -- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I made an Al Schmelz Batman card. Al Schmelz ferchrissakes -- that might be the wildest, zaniest Batman card of all of them. All lost. I started a new subset of Batman cards code-named "You Look Familiar", a few of which I posted. [FIMG=555]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49723684028_a729788bdc_c.jpg[/FIMG] Those cards focused on Batman actors of recurring characters who'd appeared on other TV shows of that era. And apropos of our forum friend, Zvon, who passed away recently, I decided to make a subset of these cards based on the 60s TV show - The Man from U*N*C*L*E as a friendly gesture to Zvon, who loved that show. (He loved Batman, too and knowing that, I thought of him often whenever I made those Batman cards). I made about five of those Man from U*N*C*L*E cards but never got to show them to Zvon because of my hard drive crash. Now they're lost permanently unless I can recover them in the future. Anyways, I'm ending this post abruptly. I'm running out of gas. See ya' later. Fonebone.

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fWAR 1. Darvish 2.7 2. deGrom 2.6 3. Burnes 2.6 4. Bauer 2.5 5. Lamet 2.3 6. Castillo 2.2 xFIP (FAngraphs) 1. deGrom 2.43 2. Darvish 2.68 3. Nola 2.75 4. Castillo 2.83 5. Burnes 2.90 6. Bauer 3.22 FIP (bRef) 1. Burnes 1.79 2. deGrom 1.99 3. Darvish 2.23 4. Lamet 2.51 5. Castillo 2.73 6. Bauer 2.87 bWAR 1. Fried 2.9 2. Wheeler 2.9 3. Bauer 2.8 4. Senzatela 2.7 5. Freeland 2.6 6. deGrom 2.5 ERA 1. Bauer 1.73 2. Burnes 1.77 3. Lamet 2.07 4. deGrom 2.14 5. Darvish 2.22 6. Fried 2.25 WHIP 1. Bauer 0.795 2. Lamet 0.872 3. deGrom 0.921 4. Burnes 0.946 5. Hendricks 0.996 6. Darvish 1.000 K/9 1. deGrom 13.429 2. Burnes 13.339 3. Scherzer 12.473 4. Bauer 12.329 5. Lamet 12.260 6. Nola 11.970 K's 1. Bauer 100 2. deGrom 94 3. Nola 90 4. Lamet 89 5. Darvish 88 6. Scherzer 85 6. Castillo 85 ADJUSTED ERA+ 1. Bauer 277 2. Burnes 258 3. Fried 213 4. Lamet 207 5. Darvish 201 6. deGrom 198

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=47315 time=1600912662 user_id=68] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=47314 time=1600912330 user_id=68] Root for the Mets to K two more two batters for 12 K's. That'll tie a MLB record for at least 12 K's in eight straight games by a team's pitching staff.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=47314 time=1600912330 user_id=68] Root for the Mets to K two more two batters for 12 K's. That'll tie a MLB record for at least 12 K's in eight straight games by a team's pitching staff.

Root for the Mets to K two more two batters for 12 K's. That'll tie a MLB record for at least 12 K's in eight straight games by a team's pitching staff.

Wow. Alonso's been just brutal this year. All. Year. Long. He's like the bad Dave Kingman at his worst with 30+ hr power* but simply unplayable when he's not hitting homers. And the homers Alonso's hitting aren't even drop-what-you're-doing Kingmanesque tape measure bombs. *adjusted over a full 162 game season.