Frayed Knot
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Oh sure, I get why it's happening. But, in any universe, five teams in five seasons which contain three (and possibly four) batting crowns is remarkable.
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Things have already been testy between Harper and Dombrowski at least twice in this calendar year. I wonder if Bryce is on board with this or whether they even ran it by him first.
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The Tiggers are trying to replicate their 2024 stretch drive where they were heavy sellers at the deadline and then went 34 - 19 in Aug & Sep to make the playoffs and win a round before going out 3G to 2 in the ALDS round. But dealing a reigning 2x CY AND a former 1/1 draft pick in the same weekend deserves special recognition.
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Evaluating the Mets Deadline Deals
Frayed Knot replied to Benjamin Grimm's topic in New York Mets Talk
The only guys dealt away who qualify as 'under control' are Weaver (one year) and Brazoban (three more). With both I suspect their justification is: a) selling high. Relievers are notoriously tough to rely on from year to year. And while Brazzy's resume is unusually short for a 36 y/o, this was, by far, the best year of his career. ERA ('22 - '25): 3.73; ERA in '26: 2.56; WHIP ('22-'25): 1.33; WHIP in '26: 1.006 ... And I KNOW few if any of you/us or NYM fans in general, were sayin 'Oh good, it's Brazoban coming in form the pen' prior to this season. b) he'll be 37 y/o next season Weaver is younger and even better but rewind all the way back to 2023 and you'll see Luke Weaver traded twice in season due at least in part to the 6.40 ERA and 1.58 WHIP he pitched to that year. So the 'selling high' and unpredictability things again. Raley, Taylor, Holmes (player option), Peralta were all free to leave in seven weeks time. -
Clay Holmes AND Tyrone Taylor to the Cubs
Frayed Knot replied to Frayed Knot's topic in New York Mets Talk
Listed in BB-Ref at 5' 11" / 150 On the other hand I seem to remember Ronny Mauricio being listed at about 170 at a similar age. Now at 21 y/o this kid is unlikely to get any taller but Mauricio is certainly a lot thicker than when I saw him play a game in A-ball a bunch of years back. -
Jefferson Rojas (SS/3B) is the return.
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Mets also kicked in a lot of money. You wouldn't normally think that would be necessary given Weaver's season, but it sounds like it was a combo of being the Pirates as the partner and the Mets hunting for the prospect they wanted and being willing to pay for it.
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The Luis Arraez tour of North American cities continues. 2019 - 2022: Minneapolis 2023: Miami 2024: Miami & San Diego 2025: San Diego 2026: San Francisco & Philadelphia Five cities in the last five seasons. Amazing for a guy with his kind of bat-to-ball skills.
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Houston gets Dalton Varsho form Toronto. The Astros were said to be looking for a LF (they've used 14 apparently this season) so I was thinking Tyrone Taylor ... but I guess not now.
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Evaluating the Mets Deadline Deals
Frayed Knot replied to Benjamin Grimm's topic in New York Mets Talk
2027 is a player option year for Holmes. Perhaps mgmt doesn't like how the winds are blowing on that front. -
Adley Rutschman, the former 1/1 draft pick (2019) is a good player but also one who failed to match the expectations of many. His offense, and maybe not coincidentally, his games played totals have fallen virtually every year since his rookie campaign in 2022 [OPS+ = 131, 128, 105, 90, 115] and with just 157 games played total for '25 & '26. He's also currently on the IL Apparently the consensus is that the BoSox gave up A LOT for less than a year and half of the 128 y/o Rutschman.
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Not surprising that it comes for the guy who was the most attractive of the NYM trade bait crew.
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To nix a deal where?
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And just to brighten everyone's day, the Braves have "checked in" on Jacob deGrom (acc to NY Post's Jon Hey Man!). Heyman adds that it's "unclear whether the Rangers would move him" but that they're "listening on everyone". Losing three straight this past weekend to the cross-state Astros dropped them 2.5 out of 1st place in ALW (and two games below .500) which possibly makes them listen more closely. Just in case you've lost track, JdG turned 38 in June, is signed for 2027 and there's a mutual option for 2028 ('terms of option unknown' sez BB-Ref) when he'd turn 40 just prior to mid-season. In 21 starts this year JdG is 7 - 7 w/a 3.96 ERA (by far the highest of his career) and a 1.14 WHIP. This follows seasons of 6, 3, and 30 starts since signing with Texas in the winter of '22 - '23
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Oh Huascar, Huascar, Huascar!
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Catcher Ben Rortvedt traded to Dodgers
Frayed Knot replied to Cowtipper's topic in New York Mets Talk
I'm thinking this signals that the Will Smith injury isn't healing itself anytime soon. Dalton Rushing has done a great job in Smith's stead but now, just like the Stillwater band's manager needed a manager, the backup C needs a backup C. -
The Red Sox were 21 - 4 in July, the best month in franchise history. That's a long history but it's tough to do any better than that. They're also 1 - 0 in August and are on the SNB game in Dodger Stadium trying for a three-game sweep (won 9-4 & 3-2 so far). And they jumped out to a 2 - 0 lead in top 1. Yanx took 2 of 3 from the Cubs to go 4-3 on their week-long tour of Chicago. I was so hoping for an 0-7 trip. Cubs were almost as bad with runners on in today's 2-1 loss as the Mets were this afternoon.
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The Nats, who aren't in fire sale mode as they still have WC hopes, dealt offense for badly needed pitching by sending power lefty 1B/DH Luis Garcia (Jr. - his father Luis Sr. got 9 ABs for the Tigers in 1999) to the Bronx in exchange for four pitchers, several of whom already have ML experience. I'm not sure that these quantity over quality deals work out very often for the club receiving the multiples but I guess the Nats figure that his gives them strength in numbers at least for the short team. Garcia is 26 although already in his 7th ML season and will be under NYY control through next season. Not sure how many 1B/DH/corner OF types this gives the Yanx (Stanton/Goldschmidt/Bird/Garcia/Jones - plus Judge and Bellinger eat up some DH time if/when they get back from the IL) but they've rarely gone wrong stocking up on LH sluggers (Garcia currently has 23 HR and leads the NL in Slg Avg)
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He could have been more aggressive with his hold, but it was always going to be a hold. The throw was always going into 2nd. It was released prior to Robert reaching 3rd and prior to him putting on the breaks. So even if he was being sent the entire time and never broke stride he's not coming close to scoring. And, yes, the 2nd baseman was looking at the lead runner as he was receiving the throw. I'll revise my claim to 'out by 30 ft' rather than 45, but aren't going any lower than that. That's a 'no send' in just about any situation but with no outs it would have been an especially terrible move to wave him.
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I would be in favor of instantly banning all patent medicine commercials from TV
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The Marlins waited until the first pitch they saw to drive a runner in from 2nd.
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Five straight outs w/RiSP with only one ball leaving the infield (short CF). And now six straight. 0-for-11 overall.
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Because?
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The odds were against them the whole time.
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And even if Robert kept running he'd have been about 10 ft past 3B when the ball arrived at 2nd. The defense then either ignores Young and throws home (Robert out by 45 ft) or tags Young and then throws home. With no one out at the time that would have been the boneheaded move of the week, maybe the month.
