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  1. Frayed Knot
    Nice play by Bo-Bo there to end the inning. That one could have gone pear-shaped in a hurry.
  2. Frayed Knot
    1st & 2nd/no outs ... and then nothing leaves the infield [GO - K - K] Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
  3. Frayed Knot
    Also just heard that for the first time. Went to Bucknell and was a 4th round pick from there. First eve ML'er and only the second in organized ball. The first was a guy who pitched briefly for the Phils' rookie league team in Florida before dying of a rare form of cancer at the age of 20. I just looked him up because he had the same last name as a friend of mine who I knew stayed in town but no relation as far as I can tell. Had never before heard of either guy.
  4. Frayed Knot
    It's a baseball issue, one that you brought up. Discussing topics like this is what we do here!! And I'll end it here, but my point is that using a prospects list -- which, at best, is just a snapshot in time and one that had the Mets at or near the top of the entire league just months ago -- as a reason to bury Stearns is using a defective shovel. Then the idea that other teams consistently replace promoted/traded (or failed) prospects with new ones as fast as the old ones age out to dominate these types of lists year in and year out is simply not true.
  5. Frayed Knot
    Then you're succeeding. And whether you are done with Stearns or not doesn't matter, this isn't a defense of Stearns it's a defense of logic. The conclusion that the GM suxx because a snapshot of the moment doesn't have the team on top the prospect list right after using current prospects to fill 2/3 of their ML OF and 2/5 of the starting rotation, essentially all at once, ignores reality.
  6. Frayed Knot
    These lists are a snapshot in time but you're using it to claim,, what exactly?, that the teams with high numbers now dominate these rankings consistently? That must account for all of those Mariners WS titles er, appearances. And if Seattle promoted and/or traded five of their six they'd have five more pop up instantly? So the standard you're going for here is that it wasn't enough that the Mets had basically double their allotment on similar lists this past winter [6 of 100] but what they should have had, y'know, if only they had a competent GM/POBO, was something like 10 or 12 of the top 130 providing us with insta-replacements for each guy moved up. Good, cuz for a moment there I thought you were being unrealistic. btw, the "filling the list year after year" Yanx & Braves right now combine for seven total, more or less an average share though maybe not even that since five of those seven are in the back half of the list and only one in the top 30.
  7. Frayed Knot
    Which ones are those?
  8. Frayed Knot
    These lists ARE the elites of the moment! The Mets started 2026 with SIX players on many of these lists, about twice that as a typical team's share (100 players, 30 teams, do the math). And, btw, does Stearns get any credit for them of only the blame (for promoting them)? Now, when five of them reach the majors or go to other organizations (or both) between about February and May we're pissed off that no new elites have replaced them and it's nearly July already?!?! That's not how this usually works.
  9. Frayed Knot
    Yes, that's how it goes when you trade two top prospects and promote three others within a short span, it depletes the upper tier. Building prospects, especially top tier ones, takes time so more don't just automatically pop up to replace the taken ones like some gumball machine.
  10. Frayed Knot
    0-9 w/RiSP, 7 LOB 1 - 4 in their last five, all four losses by one run.
  11. Frayed Knot
    Major Damage from Vientos or GiDP ?? Or, 'C', None of the Above
  12. Frayed Knot
    I had my hand up for a more high leverage reliever in that spot. Andy Green 1 - Frayed Knot 0
  13. Frayed Knot
    Add two more failures w/RiSP to the ledger. Now 0-for-7: the first five non-leadoff ABs of the game and now the last two.
  14. Frayed Knot
    Straw changes positions and the Mets still find him with the first pitch of the inning. He has, what, about 17 putouts in this game?
  15. Frayed Knot
    That's now 8 steals/6 caught for Ewing
  16. Frayed Knot
    Two outs/nobody on, then an error followed by two walks.
  17. Frayed Knot
    A graphic showing the ongoing streak of 11 straight quality starts for the BoSox. Makes you wonder what color the sky is in a world where that happens for your team.
  18. Frayed Knot
    RPI is Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is, not surprisingly, in Rensellaer, NY (near Albany) You may be thinking of R.I.T, Rochester Institute of Technology
  19. Frayed Knot
    Phils will be hosting the Pirates as the week starts (Cooby will keep us up to date). Also Nats @ Boston; Miami @ Colorado; Braves will host StL (starting Tuesday). Couple of real cold streaks of note: involving guys off to early season MVP discussion. - Atlanta catcher Drake Baldwin since returning from his injury on June 16 is 2-for-43 (and 0 for his last 33) with 1 walk and 20 Ks. His season OPS fell from 934 to 800 over an 11 game span - Yanqui 1B Ben Rice, who put up an 1157 OPS in April and a 948 in May, plummeted to 648 in June. He's still hitting HRs (22 on the year) but his OBA has fallen from 443 to 346 to 286
  20. Frayed Knot
    Texas Rangers DFA Jarred Kelenic Just 10 PAs w/the Rangers: 1 for 8 w/2 BBs and 5 Ks. His numbers in AAA [split between Round Rock (TEX) and Charlotte (CHW)] weren't too bad but it's not like there's a recent track record he can fall back on. Turns 27 in a few weeks.
  21. Frayed Knot
    I'd certainly bet on it being snowier than Toronto sitting there on the south side of the lake.
  22. Frayed Knot
    Just to put last week to bed here, I fell asleep prior to most of the Yanx/Sawx action which involved the Yanx scoring twice in top-9 to tie the game then two more in top-10. But that lead lasted just four batters as Boston in bottom 10 tallied an RBI Single - Double - Sac Fly - RBI Single for a three run 10th and a four game sweep. The series knocked the Yanx out of 1st place but wasn't enough to lift Boston out of 5th.
  23. Frayed Knot
    Alas, Myles Straw, NOT from Wichita.
  24. Frayed Knot
    Benge leading off the 1st with a K is the only out so far that WASN'T w/a RiSP. It's tough to be 0-for-5 w/RiSP after just two innings but this team managed to do so quite easily. FO - FO // FO - PO - FO
  25. Frayed Knot
    Hey, June's not over. We could get the record up to ... never mind
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