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Michael Conforto Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there What does he care?

Brian Bohanon Died in the church and was buried along with his name Nobody came

I like the meter and rhythm of Damion Easley. Damion Easley Picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been. Lives in a dream. Waits by the window. or Damion Easley Writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear. No one comes near.

Your work ?? Are you on Twitter? That card looks more like Z's work than a Typewriter card though. https://metsfantasycards.blogspot.com/search?q=kinerhttps://metsfantasycards.blogspot.com/search?q=kiner

=stevejrogers post_id=117557 time=1675189571 user_id=57] =metirish post_id=117554 time=1675188315 user_id=72] Your work ?? Are you on Twitter?

=metirish post_id=117554 time=1675188315 user_id=72] Your work ?? Are you on Twitter?

https://twitter.com/Ellenbronx/status/1620312731651026945 Sweet Guess where that custom baseball card came from.

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Lefty Specialist wrote: His name is an anagram for 'Wonder Gang'. ... and also Dong Gnawer.

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Bob Alpacadaca wrote: Hey, Tom Edens was part of that deal, too! I never understood why McDowell was part of that deal. I don't know if they were trying to change the chemistry of the team. I imagine McDowell might have been a little challenging after a while. I don't know at what point Dykstra went from "difficult" to "addition by subtraction difficult." My guess is that it was similar to the Dykstra/Wilson battle. So it turned out Randy Myers won out. ... I dunno. I think that the Mets traded Dykstra for, among other things, several reasons that probably havent still been fully or honestly disclosed. They made some tremendous trades in the 80s but they weren't perfect. For one', they could've had an entire outfield of strong MVP candidates in Dykstra, Straw and Mitchell and thus, might have won more divisions.

=nymr83 post_id=117190 time=1674535602 user_id=54] Juan Samuel was an average at best player who had one good year. Lenny Dykstra was a fucking headcase who was clearly the better player at all times throughout their careers, unless you squinted really hard after the 1987 season, when maybe they looked about the same. The Mets seemingly made the decision that Dykstra had to go, and Samuel was the best they could get in return.

=kcmets post_id=117146 time=1674497481 user_id=53] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=117144 time=1674496405 user_id=68]Samuel had 100 RBI's? Big deal. RBI's are for kids. As for Dykstra's struggles against LHP, that was certainly true early in his career. But by 1988, he was hitting lefties as effectively as he was hitting righties.

=kcmets post_id=117146 time=1674497481 user_id=53] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=117144 time=1674496405 user_id=68]Samuel had 100 RBI's? Big deal. RBI's are for kids. As for Dykstra's struggles against LHP, that was certainly true early in his career. But by 1988, he was hitting lefties as effectively as he was hitting righties.

Among other things, Dykstra, by 1988 or so, was constantly asking to be traded. He wasn't a happy Met insofar as he was being platooned with Mookie Wilson and thought he deserved to be playing every day. Around the time of the Samuel trade, Dykstra came close to being traded for Dale Murphy. Also, his partial 1989 season with the Mets, Dykstra's last as a Met, was in many ways, his best ever. Rate wise, he averaged 1.0 bWAR for every 74 plate appearances, his best rate ever -- even better than what he produced in 1990, his MVP caliber first full season in Philly. Samuel had 100 RBI's? Big deal. RBI's are for kids. As for Dykstra's struggles against LHP, that was certainly true early in his career. But by 1988, he was hitting lefties as effectively as he was hitting righties.

WBC might be the thing for which I have the least shits to give about anything involving MLB players. I don't think I saw more than half an inning of WBC, cumulatively, in my entire lifetime. Single elimnination finals and semis? Really? In a sport already reeking with luck and randomness. And I though MLB playoffs were a degraded and compromised tournament.

What a long-winded pedantic way of simply saying that the end years of a long-term contract might not benefit the team as much as the earlier years of that contract. And that the Mets shouldn't overpay for Alonso. But if they do overpay, well, Cohen could afford it so who knows what's good for the ultra wealthy money-coming-out-the-wazoo New York Mets?' The wealthy teams have been overpaying for superstars for decades and decades. It's the price of buying superstars on the free agent market. A team wants a player's productive early 30s years? It's also gonna have to buy some of that star's less attractive late 30s years. That's what it's gonna cost. The Yankees, as just one example, have been doing this for about thirty years and haven't had a single losing season in all that time. In fact, they have baseball's best overall record in that time. It'd be nice if a team could void a superstar's contract unilaterally as soon as the player sucks -- in other words, whenever the team feels like voiding the contract. Is that what you want? Is that what you think should happen? Because if not, then thanks for mastering the obvious principle that baseball contracts carry risks to both sides. But yeah, we get it: the Mets shouldn't overpay for Alonso -- (whatever overpay actually means to the Mets). And besides, there are significant benefits to signing a star earlier, or as you put it, before it's necessary. The price of signing elite top baseball talent goes up every single season. The price has never gone down. Not once -- not since the dawn of free agency after the '76 season. The price of top baseball talent rises every single year, by at least 10%, usually more than that and some years, much more. Then apply that price hike over the length of a multi-year contract. So it's cheaper to sign a player earlier rather than later. Waiting another year to extend Alonso could cost the Mets thirty or forty million dollars over the life of the new contract, all other things being equal. Plus, this all started when you wrote this: Why? To throw millions of dollars around needlessly and screw themselves if he comes down with a career-ending injury in the next two years? ... which is a wholly different concern from what the length of Alonso's hypothetical new contract should be. Not to mention that Alonso could, just the same, sustain a career ending injury even if he's extended after the 2023 season. Or after the 2024 season. And not to mention that if you're concerned about Alonso sustaining that injury during the period before he would've become a free agent -- well that's insurable. A non-pitcher in his mid 20s with no injury history (I can't recall Alonso ever landing on the IL. Or DL) is insurable.

Bowden: 15 key MLB contract extension candidates to watch before Opening Day Excerpt: Also: https://theathletic.com/4107153/2023/01/20/mlb-contract-extensions-players-2023/

Years ago (about 15), I went to eat somewhere in Queens and on the restaurant's wall of past famous and semi-famous diners, was a framed photograph of Felix Millan. I took a photo of the photo. I'll see if I can find it. The place was an Italian seafood joint, if I remember. OE - Now that I think of it, Milner got to the Mets only one season before Millan (excluding Milner's '71 cup of coffee). Millan got to the majors five years before Milner did. Strange "big brother" dynamics there.

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By the way, Pete Alonso's most similar BBRef comp through his age 27 season is the aforementioned Cecil Fielder. His closest all-time comp is future teammate Shohei Ohtani.

The DH option is huge here. David Ortiz raked until the end of his career. Ortiz was pretty much, exclusively a DH. The Fielders, (Cecil and Prince) were toast by their very early 30s. The Fielders fielded quite a bit, especially the fielding Prince, who was a NLer when his league had no DH. Coincidence? Or did the DH greatly impact these different outcomes? Nobody knows what Alonso's future is. Predicting his future is a guessing game and a luckfest, to a great extent. Like Edgy said in the other thread, there are risks, but also benefits to every baseball contract. Jacob deGrom's new contract also carries risks. And I doubt that deGrom -- a pitcher -- is insurable at this point of his career and with his injury history. This all started when you know who dismissed out of hand extending Alonso without even considering the tremendous upside in this terrible post: Why? To throw millions of dollars around needlessly and screw themselves if he comes down with a career-ending injury in the next two years? It's an uninformed post. The risk of injury in the next two years to a non-pitcher in his 20s is insurable. Procuring insurance in a situation like that one is standard operating procedure in MLB. Throw in Cohen's enormous wealth, and the risk practically disappears. Also, why limit the injury risk to the next two years? An injury can happen at any time. The poster then changed his post 180 degrees, but obviously, only after reading and considering my responses, which he pretended to ignore. Yeah right. He's' probably scrutinizing my posts with a microscope and a fine-toothed comb.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I was expecting rum raisin to adopt the pink and brown scheme of Baskin-Robbins Why? (Beginning in grade school, when I first discovered Baskin & Robbins, and then for at least 10 years, their Pralines and Cream was my favorite ice cream flavor. B&R blew anything Carvel out of the waters. Hadn't heard of Haagen Dazs yet. It probably didn't even exist at that time.)