Frayed Knot

Lagares apparently isn't near ready.

Niese - 4.3 Familia - 0.8 Edgin - 0.1 Mejia - 0.4 Eveland - 0.3 Germen - 0.6 Murphy - 1.0 Abreu - 0.5

seawolf17 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: And we K-Rod and his big nasty wad of chaw in the bottom of the inning. And nobody to pinch-hit for the pitcher. deGrom, no? Yeah, but we're out of pitchers too, cuz it don't look like Torres is going to finish this inning.

Can't get 16 hits over 31 innings as a team and expect to win all that often.

Scooter Gennett has hit like 76 foul balls in this series

See what can happen when you have hitters that can actually get a ball out of the infield?

There is no Next. Every position player who's in this game is finishing this game.

If/Then statement: IF the Mets have RiSP THEN the batter won't get the ball out of the infield.

Wheeler running. deGrom being saved for a PH situation.

Runners need to be wary of line-drives. NO DOUBLE PLAYS!!!!!!

CAN WE MAKE CONTACT?!?!????

Was it over when the Germen shut down the Brewers?

Only Angel Hernandez can screw up a rain delay.

Even our quick games aren't quick.

14 hits over 25 innings for the Mets this series.

1-1 games are supposed to be fast. We've just be conditioned lately to think anything under 3:00 is unusual.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I missed the Metly run, and the box score confuses. What happened to get Murph 'round the bags, 'zactly? Hard liner to CF which Gomez tried to shoestring but fanned on. Was lucky at that point to hold him to only a triple (single + 2B E to be precise) Abreu then hit a Sac Fly to LF on the next pitch.

Another Arizona SS has poked his head into the trade rumors -- Nick Ahmed, 24 y/o, currently at AAA Reno hitting to the tune of .304/.385/.401 http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=ahmed-000nic The caution here would be that those numbers are a serious jump from not just last season but from any of his 2+ years of minor league ball, something which could be attributable to the hitting environment of the PCL in general and Reno in particular. Also not a lot of power there although is described as "an elite defender" by the likes of Ken Rosenthal who is reporting that "multiple teams" have contacted the Snakes about his availability. The other DBacks' SS previously mentioned as being available (as reprinted and updated from page 1 of this thread) Didi Gregorius - Ariz http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gregodi01.shtml -- Mariekson Julius Gregorius, LHB, 23 y/o from Amsterdam in the Netherlands, was originally Reds property before being dealt to the Snakes a year ago in a three-way deal that docked the SS Choo in the river city. But the DBacks have other options at SS (see: Owings, Chris) and may be willing to deal. Hit decently for a rookie though no RoY votes; reportedly a good glove; and although I had thought he had good legs he�s has never been a base-stealer at any level. The MLBN crew thinks he�s a likely NYM target (for whatever that's worth). Recalled to MLB last week (6 for 20 so far) after hitting .310/.387/.447 in 226 AAA ABs Chris Owings - Arizona http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/owingch01.shtml -- A 22 y/o 41st overall draft pick out of HS in South Carolina got his ML cuppa late this season. Minor league numbers are good but mainly in hitting environments (Cal Lg + AAA Reno) and much less so in between at sea-level AA Mobile. It�s his presence that reportedly makes Gregorius available so I�m guessing they like the glove a whole lot. #3 DBacks prospect (and top position player) this winter according to BA. Snakes have been active so far this winter and just dealt their next best prospect, 3B Matt Davidson, to the White Sox for closer Addison Reed. .270/.309/.431 in 204 ABs w/Arizona in 2014 btw, a bit early to draw any conclusions, but Stephen Drew = 1 single in 14 ABs since his return to Boston

Eveland - 1.2 Edgin - 0.2 Torres - 0.4 Granderson - 4.0 Murphy - 1.7

Colon - 3.1 Familia - 1.7 Murphy - 1.4 Recker - 1.2 Duda - 1.4 CYoung - 1.2

Keith Hernandez: a HEWJ Elvin Bishop fan. Never would have guessed. Keith described Bishop, playing at his northern CA HS senior party, as part of "a local band". But I always thought of Bishop as a southerner, so I looked it up. Turns out he's from Everywhere Man! Wiki-P: Bishop was born in Glendale, California, and grew up on a farm near Elliott, Iowa. His family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when Bishop was ten. There he attended Will Rogers High School, winning a full scholarship to the University of Chicago as a National Merit Scholar finalist. He moved to Chicago in 1960 to attend the university, where he majored in physics. In 1963, he met harmonica player Paul Butterfield in the neighborhood of Hyde Park and joined Butterfield's blues band, with whom he remained for five years. Their third album, The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw, takes its name from Bishop's nickname.[1] In 1968 he went solo and formed the Elvin Bishop Group, also performing with Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper on their album titled The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper. The group signed with Fillmore Records (presumably in the SF area), which was owned by Bill Graham, who also owned the Fillmore music venues. What's a HEWJ? Francesa would pronounce it YUGE

I'd feel a lot better about our chances to tack on some runs if Wright had actually gotten a ball out of the infield in his last 35 or so ABs

Mets � Willets Point wrote: That's one way to make up for the fielding flub. If that were Jeter he'd be credited with flubbing the ball on purpose so as to bait the runner into an out.

The game the Brewers are playing tonight is exactly the type of game we've been losing this season - the only difference being that they didn't score all their runs in the 1st inning. It'd be really nice if we could pull one of these out after giving away so many of them lately.

deGrom getting both lucky & unlucky tonight.