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Stop what you are doing and watch this video. And then watch it again: One out, top of the ninth, MFYs up by one. [tweet:fkpcfchw] [/tweet:fkpcfchw]

Ashie62 wrote: Kevin McGowan, welcome to the Mets! Big guy 6'5 233 lbs. Are we positive that it wasn't Gsellman?

Herrera does his best to move the game along.

Questions: Is this game being played in slow motion? Why do we care if Hoskins gets his first major league hit? SNY is covering this like he's a Met. Not that it really matters but if the Walker deal was decided upon at around 6 PM last night, why isn't McGowan with the team by now?

smg58 wrote: A player to be named later might mean somebody on the 40 who didn't clear waivers. That would actually be an improvement.Maybe it's Carlos Torres! http://m.brewers.mlb.com/roster/

Good news for Neil: he gets another trip to Pittsburgh this year, September 18-20.

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Frayed Knot wrote: questionable to begin with as medicals often aren't as cut and dried as folks like to think, too big a risk for one team might be quite acceptable to anotherGood point. Teams have trouble dealing with the Orioles because they say that Angelos wants pristine medicals. The MFYs might have used a mere blemish (literally or figuratively) to change their minds and are using the media to blame the Mets and hurt Walker.

We'll be force-fed shots of Jeter in uniform during ST showing young Marlin SS's how to do it the Jeter-way. Harold Reynolds will cackle: "why doesn't he show them the patented Jeter leap and throw?"

Rockin' Doc wrote: Granderson seems like a good guy. He doesn't deserve to serve a second term in the Bronx. And the MFYs don't deserve him. Maybe a return to Chicago?

If the Mets were more interested in $ than prospects then the MFYs could have taken on all of Bruce's salary if they really wanted to make the deal (and keep Bruce away from another WC contender). It's possible that their prospects were better than Ryder Ryan but you need to know your trading partner. Maybe Steinbrenner, Jr. gave Cashman a $ limit or maybe Cashman didn't read Sandy properly. (See, I'm not always on Sandy's case. Most of the time but not here.)

Edgy MD wrote: Man, Céspedes is a complete guess-hitter now, isn't he? Yes. And it sometimes seems like he's a guess-fielder, too. It's sad.

Time for Montero to go.

You wanted to see Dominic Smith tonight? Sandy doesn't give a rat's ass what you want. So once again a 2B is at 3B, a SS is at 2B and a DH is at 1B.

Ceetar wrote: I'm sure the Yankees will beg out and continue believing all their fans were born in 1892. Front page of today's New York Post. Not the back page, and even more important than the words of their guy.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Why is Steven Matz known as RENO? Because it's a gamble every time he pitches.

Fman99 wrote: The only silver lining is that he didn't go to the MFYs. They were the other rumored team to be hot and heavy for JB. But still, yah, color me non impressed. [tweet] [/tweet]

Perhaps you're right. That's what Sandy will tell us tomorrow ("the market was slow for power hitting outfielders and we acquired a live arm with a high strikeout rate"). Or perhaps the Indians were desperate for an OF given Brantley's injury, Bruce has 29 HRs so they wanted him, and Sandy said "give us any POS from your organization so long as we can save money". http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?player_id=656924#/career/R/pitching/2017/ALL

The Wilpons save $4M in salary which might account for the low return. Clearly saving $ is more important than getting help for next year as only 2 of the 5 relievers that they've acquired are close to the majors. Perhaps they'll use the bounty they saved for Duda and Bruce and go for a FA but I doubt it.

Sunday afternoons are for baseball. Sunday nights are for peak TV shows. Sunday night baseball is an abomination.

It starts at the easy to remember time of 8:40 EDT.

Fangraphs projections show that Sandy didn't improve the team this week: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/projecting-all-of-the-prospects-traded-at-the-deadline/ Maybe that's the market, maybe it's what he had to trade, or maybe he sucks at being a GM. Smart guy Jonathan Mayo has the Mets ranks the traded prospects: http://m.mlb.com/news/article/245610190/ranking-prospects-traded-before-the-deadline/ Joel Sherman labels the Mets as "losers" but blames the market: http://nypost.com/2017/07/31/yankees-dodgers-big-winners-at-deadline-but-who-are-the-losers/

From Fangraphs: Callahan, Bautista, and Nogosek, again, are all 22-year-old righties. When Eric examined the system last offseason, they were each included among “other prospects of note.” Callahan is closest to the bigs, having made 22 appearances in Triple-A. He continues to run low contact rates, but he’s in need of further polish around the edges. Bautista is a guy with a big fastball and a developing everything else. To this point he’s issued too many walks in high-A. Nogosek might move quickly, as a recent pick out of U-Oregon, but he has a funnier delivery that’s made him an awful lot more successful against righties than lefties. The majors include any number of relievers who’re far better against righties than lefties, but few of them are pitching critical innings, on account of that exploitability. Out of that group, the Mets could find three new relievers. More likely, they’ll eventually find one, and he might be more of a sixth-inning guy than an eighth-inning weapon. It’s the going rate for a rental, I guess, and Addison Reed was never going to fetch a package like Aroldis Chapman. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-red-sox-now-have-a-second-good-reliever/

But does Addison have an opinion on Dennis Eckersley?

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