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Ceetar wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Ashie62 wrote: He'd be 34 2020 will be Yoenis's 35 year old season, the way these things are calculated. And that's if he didn't pull the Cuban baseball scam about lying about his age. Plus he'll have missed most of the last three seasons due to major surgery. That's like 75 in baseball years. this is his age 32 season. he'll be back for the second half of his age 33 season, under contract through his 34th. He literally just hit a home run in the majors, and mashed this year before the aches caught up to him. So he'll be off for roughly a year, I wouldn't expect a huge dropoff. It's a fairly straight-forward surgery, as these things go. Sure. That's if everything goes right and Yoenis and the Mets get the best possible result. Which is what you always take for granted is going to happen. You left out the part where next year, 11 Mets are gonna have the career seasons of their lifetimes.

Ashie62 wrote: He'd be 34 2020 will be Yoenis's 35 year old season, the way these things are calculated. And that's if he didn't pull the Cuban baseball scam about lying about his age. Plus he'll have missed most of the last three seasons due to major surgery. That's like 75 in baseball years.

d'Kong76 wrote: Don't fluffernut it, you labeled the place in advance and you're flat wrong. There's no pro-Wilpon stuff being typed here. Like ever. Oh, okay then. I apologize for imagining things. /rolls eyes till they shoot out of my sockets and land in somebody's soup two counties over.

If the Mets shouldn't be spending at the luxury tax level, then nobody should. Which means that nobody should be signing Stanton or Harper or Machado at market rates. What's the difference where the comment appears? Is that the defense for all these years of insulting Wilpon defending?

2020? He'll be 100 years old by then, coming off major surgery and having missed most of the last three seasons. Put a fork in him is more likely. Eight to ten months means a season and a half. Any second now, I'm gonna read here how great the Wilpons are and some ridiculous idea about how the Mets dont need to spend at luxury tax levels even though they play in the nation's largest market. Money doesn't matter, especially with these genius owners because if anybody can repeat what the Cubs and Astros pulled off, it's obviously Jeff Wilpon. Pivot Jeff, pivot!

https://deadspin.com/you-arent-going-to-believe-this-but-jacob-degrom-pitch-1827828363/amp From Deadspin-- last night was the fifth game deGrom struck out 10 or more batters this season. In those games, deGrom pitched 36.1 innings to a 1.49 ERA with 58 Ks and just 7 walks. The Mets are 1-4 in those games.

smg58 wrote: seawolf17 wrote: Nymr83 wrote: Padres trade reliever Brad Hand to Cleveland for TOP PROSPECT catcher Francisco Mejia. just saying. Hand is under contract for two more years, though. So there's a lot more security for Cleveland in that trade. Plus Cleveland got a second major league reliever (under control for five more years) in that deal as well. But Oakland's suddenly in the playoff hunt. The added revenues the A's will get from a playoff run probably made it worth their while to give the Mets a better prospect. Isn't that precisely what the Mets did when they dealt Michael Fulmer to the Tigers for Yoenis Cespedes, at the time, a two month rental? I think the Mets made a terrible deal, from the fan's perspective. I guess the Wilpons made out with the salary dump, but this is an example where the owners interests aren't perfectly aligned with the fans.

Piling onto your post, I'm always leery of anyone whose facial expression doesn't match his mood. So why is Mr. Met grinning from ear to ear if he's disappointed about the rain-out?

batmagadanleadoff wrote: What's the incubation period for this furshlugginer virus? It'd be par for the course if half the Mets were to come down with this in due time. They'd probably blow past that 1967 record for most Mets in a season in a few days if Noah passed the virus on to his teammates.

What's the incubation period for this furshlugginer virus? It'd be par for the course if half the Mets were to come down with this in due time.

Edgy MD wrote: Some prospect watchers are attributing his breakthrough this year to him using a new bat. That seems dubious on the surface, but there is evidence in support. [fimg=555]http://www.realbats.com/uploads/Image/wonderboy01.jpg[/fimg]

The Mets aren't putting up any more of the team for sale, so they won't be receiving any more money. It's two of the recent investors that are interested in selling their shares. Besides, the Wilpon/Katz group now owns just 51% of the team, after the recent Madoff necessitated selloff.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: LH hitting third baseman Of course. Right handed hitters seem to be an anathema to some of the people who acquire players in this organization. Later this is a dumb comment and not supported by facts. LH hitting third baseman are rare, that's why I pointed it out [fimg=555]https://imagesvc.timeincapp.com/v3/fan/image?url=https://risingapple.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/3/files/2013/05/1975_sspc_mets-300x425.png&c=sc&w=300&h=425[/fimg]

metirish wrote: Keith Law If the New York Mets are just going to trade their most valuable major league assets for salary relief, rather than to try to improve the club, then it's time for MLB to step in and force the Wilpons to sell the team, just as the league did with Frank McCourt and the Dodgers. Trading Jeurys Familia for two fringe-at-best prospects is not how any team, regardless of payroll level, should operate in this environment. For a franchise that operates in the largest market in the league to do this -- and do so ten days before the trade deadline rather than waiting for someone to offer a legitimate return -- is embarrassing for the Mets and for Major League Baseball as a whole. My first instinct was to write pretty much the same post Keirh Law wrote. But I didn't 'cause I figure youse are tired of hearing it from me. Or just tired of me, period. But I've been on to eff Wilpon's scam for about 20 years now.

He was one of the best relievers in baseball over the past four seasons ... probably the best in 2015, when he was ASG snubbed. Made the ASG next year when his own manager was making the selections ... figured he woulda gotten in that game what with Collins ... ah, never mind ... along with those high profile clinchers, gave up a few never to be forgotten post season soul crushing HRs. Probably the Mets best all time righty reliever, like FAFIF implies. Anybody better?

I just know that the second the Mets trade Matz is when he goes Justin Turner and Daniel Murphy and ends up going to the All Star Game a couple of times.

A survey of five baseball writers on NL midseason awards. The panel unanimously votes deGrom the NL Cy Young award winner if the season were to end today. Remarkably, the majority of the panel would also vote deGrom the NL MVP winner. Tremendous analytical progress being that deGrom's on pace to finish the season with not even 10 wins. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/2018-mlb-midseason-awards-mets-jacob-degrom-unanimous-pick-for-the-nl-cy-young-award/

G-Fafif wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: DeGrom and his agent really have no leverage, but the Mets should say that they'd be happy to negotiate with Jacob during the offseason. And then they should do their best to sign him. They have the leverage of "sign us or we walk in two years and you've got a draft pick to look forward to." Saying it out loud two weeks before the deadline raises both the immediacy and the stakes. Perhaps strides can be made toward working something out in the offseason, though that might not satisfy the pitcher, who will be operating with a chip on his shoulder in a Mets uniform. And "partnership" doesn't seem like a benign word to throw around. Of course deGrom has leverage. If deGrom ultimately convinces the Mets that they won't be able to extend deGrom, they'll trade deGrom earlier instead of later because deGrom will return a better package with more years remaining on his contract. If the Mets want to avoid this fate, they might have to extend him earlier than they would have otherwise preferred. This is not empty rhetoric on the agent's part. The only way deGrom has no leverage is if the Mets have already made a firm decision not to extend him. But so long as the Mets are considering extending deGrom somewhere down the line, he has leverage.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: IMO, this is boring. Baseball is not boring. I couldn't give two flying shits about the HR derby.

Nothing 'great' about it or riveting, all six of those things have been said here in our tiny corner of Mets' fandom. Having it culled from under the venerable BP umbrella means nothing and is just as boring as beams and ceilings. People's mileage may vary. Let's Go Yankees *clap* *clap* *clapclapclap* Holy moley, the idiotic and contrived lengths you go to to take a stupid shot at me and then the "beams and ceilings" reference just in case I didn't get it. Beehive. Never learn. YOU: Quite frankly, it wasnt meant that way. ME: Bullshit!

Can the Mets contend in 2019? Read the Baseball Prospectus roundtable discussion, linked below. Some great one-liners. And some highlights: -- they'll contend if they spend money (which they won't) -- Jeff Wilpon is a monster, an asshole, and a douchebag -- innuendo that the Mets should've cut ties with David Wright in 2012 -- the Mets are dumb -- Dom Smith is a sucky bust who can't hit, run or play defense -- Jay Bruce'll still be here in 2019 a year older and a year suckier because the Mets are dumb and cheap and won't recognize suck costs http://mets.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/07/10/bp-mets-roundtable/

And all Jeff Wilpon has to do to be the best executive in MLB is to learn how to pivot. Mr. Bluebird on my shoulder.

I think I'm pretty good at being able to ID a Met from a photo. Better than most. I know Zvon's great at that. I was talking about simply being able to name 2018 Mets. Like Kaczmarski. Who's that? I could name you Moock and Grzenda and Billy Murphy without thinking even though I never saw them play but some fringe Met from two weeks ago, not so sure. On another note, Jose Bautista is one of the most popular 2018 Mets, more than Thor.

I was looking at the UMDB 2018 Mets page and there's no way I could name as many of this year's Mets as 1967 Mets. Not even close. Shows how much attention I've been paying this season.

Matt den Dekker, slated for tonight's starting lineup, will be the 49th Met of the season. And we're not even at the All Star break yet. The record looks like toast. Sigh. I'm gonna miss playing Name the '67 Mets trivia. #wherehaveyougonesandyalomar?