Frayed Knot

MFS62 wrote: Stan the Man. Later There ya go!

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Helton? 4th in triples. The still active (and quite young) Dexter Fowler is Rockies all-time club leader ahead of Neifi Perez & Larry Walker. The remaining answer is from a NON-expansion franchise!!

Giancarlo's HR [u:sz595hrw]last night[/u:sz595hrw] was the one that gave him the Marlins lead but it was over Mike Lowell, not Conine. Luis Castillo has the Marlins triples record by a big margin.

Yount is correct!! Plots/Brewers = Robin Yount Royals = George Brett New York/SF Giants = Willie Mays (once we ignore pre-1900 sensation Mike Tiernan who out-tripled Willie 162-139) and one more to go

Frank Robinson - Reds version? -- A guy with half a career as a Cincy Red with more singles or doubles or triples than Pete?!? He didn't out-HR Bench either. Tony Gwynn? -- Has all of SD's marks but HRs which Nate Freakin' Colbert still holds at just 167 (Adrian Gonzalez got traded trailing Colbert by 4)

Luis Gonzalez is a good guess, but again those triples. Stephen drew actually holds the DBacks record there. Schmidt doesn't hold the Philly triples record either (Ed Delahanty), plus he was passed not long ago in doubles by Jimmy Rollins.

Banks leads the Cubs in all but four of those categories (how soon we forget Slammin' Sammy)

Mays is correct for the Giants (although if you include pre-1900 players he loses out on the triples) and George Brett is the Royals champ in all four categories. Not Aaron (Rabbit Maranville had 7 more triples), not Griffey (either one of them), not Teddy boy (it's the triples that usually trip you up), not Ripken

A little thing to jump-start your brains on a Friday morning. This latest hamstring issue could keep Captain Dave from taking over the NYM franchise lead in career HRs this season although, given the length of his contract and all, that he will eventually hit the 22 more he needs to pass Strawberry is in little doubt. Wright already holds the Mets mark for singles and doubles but, alas, is so far behind in triples [in 9th place with 26, far behind Jose's 99] that it's virtually impossible for him to get that record. But can you name the FOUR players who DO hold their franchise's career record for Singles, Doubles, Triples, and Home Runs? These are [u:22v13bho]franchise[/u:22v13bho] records so they include any locations prior to the current ones but include stats only since 1900

Centerfield wrote: Suggested slogan: 2015 Mets. We go deeper. I think any slogan that can be followed up by; 'That's what she said' should be automatically approved.

Harvey - 3.0 Carlyle - 0.5 Familia - 0.3 Duda - 2.0 Granderson - 1.2 Wright - 1.0 d'Arnaud - 1.3 Cuddyer - 0.7

Frayed Knot wrote: ... Unless there is something in the CBA that requires such decisions be based on their best baseball judgment, not economic considerations. But I doubt the CBA does, though, because how could you possible prove intent? Actually I think there IS some language in the CBA about how demotions have to be done for baseball reasons, or at least how they CAN'T be done strictly for manipulation of service time which is certainly what this smells like. But of course you then run into the second part of your statement about how one goes about proving it. One thing that would add to the union's position in any theoretical litigation would be if Bryant is called up exactly on the day that would delay his FA time for an extra year so I'm betting we don't see that. Or maybe we do. Bryant called up to the big club, will make ML debut this afternoon at Wrigley.

Is it my imagination or is that the first time we've hit Dunn, like ever? Either way, Dunn is done now it's time to make Dyson suck

LUCAS DUDA IS A GOLDEN GOD!!

That's allowing ABSURD speculation to over-rule an ump who was 2 feet away with a better angle than any camera did. They SUSPECT that d'Arnaud never applied the tag but there's no way they can KNOW that but decided to go ahead and rule that way anyway.

Fman99 wrote: Replay blows. Too slow, guys. That's part of the problem. If you have to look at it this many times and split so many hairs then there's not enough evidence and you move on. on edit: Gary agreeing with me.

NO WAY is there enough evidence to overturn ... either on the first tag/no-tag or the second one.

I was telling Timmy to hold him up on that one - and with none out and Ozuna's history I'm still not sure that wasn't the right move. But, hey, it worked AND we got an extra base out of it. ** auto spell-check "corrects" Ozuna to ozone.

So it looks as if we're losing the battle of the pulled-in RF fences to date 2-1 For: Murphy Against: Stanton tonight, plus one of Utley's the other day.

BILLY FLOWERS!!!!

On the starting pitching front, we're going to be seeing: - 'Gamblin' Jarred Cosart on Thursday Already discussed somewhat in the IGT thread, Cosart is 14-13, 3.22, 1.35 WHiP over 41 starts in his ML career - ex-MFY David Phelps on Friday Phelps spent the last three seasons flip-flopping between the Yanx pen and their rotation: 87 games, 40 starts. 15-14, 4.21, 1.35. He came with Prado in the previously mentioned Eovaldi trade - Mad Mat Latos on Saturday I've made no secret here of my dislike for Latos. Just gives the impression of being a big, dumb, hot-headed jock who's probably not popular with his teammates either. The 28 y/o ex-Padre/ex-Red has been absolutely bombed in his two Marlins starts so far to the tune of 10 runs (9 earned) on 11 hits & 5 walks in just 4.2 innings. Go get another 'Tat' you overgrown, Nazi Youth-looking freak. - and 'Seawolf' Tom Koehler on Sunday Koehler's now in his 4th season w/the Marlins: 16-22, 4.09, 1.32 The former Stonybrook hurler pitched twice against the Braves this season, winning once and losing once, with about the same mediocre line in each: 2 runs over 5-6 innings We manage to miss, despite this being a four-game series: Dan Haren (who pitched on Wednesday), Henderson Alvarez who was placed on the DL several days back, and of course Jose Fernandez whose ETA from TJ surgery is probably around mid-season.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Why does every home game IGT say "Home Opener"? How many home openers are there? Y'know how boxing not only added weight classes by tacking on 'Junior' or 'Super' onto each existing one (plus inventing some entire new ones - 'Cruiserweight' anyone?) but also had the competing alphabet soup of [crossout]corrupt thugs[/crossout] regulating bodies each declare their own king so that every third bout could be labeled as some sort of 'CHAMPIONSHIP' bout? ... well that's what we're doing here. If we do it creatively we hope to able to string this run of 'Opening Events' until sometime into mid-May so as to fool the masses into thinking they're buying into something special and increase our kickback cut of the gate receipts.

In CF for Miami is Marcell Ozuna who has burned us in the past both offensively and defensively. Still just 24 y/o despite beginning his 3rd year in MLB, the Dominican import rung up 54 XBHs in his only full season in 2014 [.269/.317/.455] Off to a slow start this season: 6/28 with 1 2B

Just pointing out that it would be nice to get to a time when the top ten CF HR hitters are players who actually call CitiField their home park.

1. Wright 46 2. Duda 36 3. Davis 30 4. Murphy 20 5. Pagan 15 6. Beltran 14 T7. Hairston 13 T7. Reyes 13 Adam LaRoche -- 13 Chase Utley -- 11 9. Bay 10 10. Francoeur 9