Frayed Knot

That's right, I scooped DiComo by two minutes. Suck on it, Beat Boy.

The thing is, the rain hitting the Atlanta area today isn't even Helene rain. She's still hanging out near western Cuba. This is just something coming through from west to east. Thursday and especially Friday is when Helene is likely to be over Georgia. Braves have a home game every day through Sunday so this is going to throw a wrench into both series and both involve playoff teams (KCR).

Can't get top notch analysis like that just anywhere!!

I wasn't really assessing much beyond my side comment that I think clubs are whiffing on fewer picks now than they were then*. Mostly I was just noting the oddities I found: - that Brett & Schmidt were b-t-b picks - that nearly half of the first 48 picks never played a day in the majors - that of the position players who did go on to lengthy careers, half (3 of 6) wound up in the HoF - and that NYM 1st pick Rich Puig and his 10 AB ML career was sandwiched between Jim Rice and Frank Tanana * Just to pick a random year of 2011 for comparison, 40 of the first 48 picks made it to 'The Show' including each of the first 29 picks, while 40 years earlier 21 of the first 48 never made it including 9 of the top 29 The Mets did considerably better too with Nimmo (13th) and Michael Fulmer (44th)

Padres clinch at least a WC spot and draw a game closer to the Dodgers by beating LAD 4-2 thanks mainly to a game-ending 5-4-3 triple play!!

The good news is that there appears to be a 'window' for getting this game in before le deluge. The bad news is that window means starting the game NOW!!!! (6:47 EDT) Game Time: whenever Game date: whenever Starters: one for each side, subject to change Lindor?: maybe

Most innings pitched this year: 204-2/3 - Seth Lugo Whoda thunk it?

11 - 0

7 - 0 Giants in the top of the 3rd in Phoenix

7 - 0 Giants in the top of the 3rd in Phoenix

And the game ends on the 15th* pop-up of the game by the Mets. * or somewhere around there

Let's go Giants!!!!

Just over 40,000 in Atlanta tonight. The Mets were well under that for the three weekday games vs Washington last week [22K, 25K, 34K] and also for the Thursday game v Philly [36K] but then topped 40K for the Fri thru Sun games [41K, 44K, 43K]

=whippoorwill post_id=171669 time=1727226418 user_id=79] =kcmets post_id=171664 time=1727225728 user_id=53] Fuck QUIKRETE, and all who use it.

We're not hitting this guy very Schwell this year. The adage about how if you're not going to hit, and not going to pitch, and not going to field, you might as well do them all at the same time, ... well ya hate to use that line at this time of year.

The Royals are currently on a seven game losing streak They've managed to tumble from the brink of the AL Central lead (1.5 back on Aug 29) to the brink of being eliminated. They're scoreless so far in the 6th in Washington

Howie talking about potentially getting the game in tomorrow (vs Sale) and then having to finish the series on Monday ... vs Sale!!!

Rain scheduled to start tomorrow morning in Atlanta and last until at least Friday. For the first half of Wednesday it probably won't be steady but getting worse as the day goes on. Thursday it's just going to plain rain all day.

I think the Braves have hit like 45 foul balls so far tonight.

Semi-related stuff: updates on the casino/entertainment proposals https://nypost.com/2024/09/24/us-news/fresh-detailed-images-show-proposed-lavish-citi-field-casino-and-park/https://nypost.com/2024/09/24/us-news/fresh-detailed-images-show-proposed-lavish-citi-field-casino-and-park/

In the next 36 hours? I'm going with ... doubtful.

While looking up something else I wound up on the 1971 MLB draft page over at BB-Ref I've long thought (or at least hoped) that teams are getting better at drafting as the years go by and the '71 draft certainly makes a case that they have. 48 players were drafted in the first two rounds (24 teams x 2) and a stunning 21 of them never saw a day in the majors. Of the ones that did, four went on to play at least 1,000 ML Games, although if we want to be kind two others came close. The good news is that, of those four w/1,000 games, three went on to the HoF: - 15th overall pick from a SC HS, Jim Rice Now here's the part that threw me, with consecutive picks in the 2nd round: - George Brett 2/5 (29th overall) HS SS from California - Mike Schmidt (2/6 30th), also a SS, Ohio University The other 1,000 game player: SS Craig Reynolds, 1,491 G, 22nd pick Pirates, had himself a nice 15 year career, mostly with Houston And the two that just missed: SS Tom Veryzer, 996 G, 11th pick, Tigers, 12 ML seasons; 3B Ron Jackson, 904 G, 37th pick Angels (10 yrs) So while the top of that draft was excellent, most of the rest whiffed a lot. That some won't make from early rounds it is still the case but not at rates approaching half the picks. A couple didn't sign, but the others all topped out somewhere in the minors. The two NYM picks: 2B Rich Puig, 14th overall (right after Frank Tanana, right before Rice) from famed Hillsborough HS in Tampa; 4 ML games, 10 ABs, 0 hits and 2B James Kidder, 38th overall, from HS in San Antonio, Peaked by getting into 43 games with Tidewater in 1976. Never made the majors. btw, the Royals 1st round pick that year, RHP Roy Branch, appeared in four ML games, all with Seattle the Phillies 1st round pick was RHP Roy Branch. He managed 182 ML games w/13 starts but none for the Phils.

So the Red Sox won on Monday and the Tigers beat the Rays in the moved-up game earlier today [likely CY winner Tarik Skubal: 7 IP, 0 R, 2 hits] So heading into tonight it's: BAL +4.0 DET +0.5 KCR —— MIN -1.0 SEA -2.0 BOS -3.5 TBR -4.5 Orioles: @NYY x 3, @MIN x 3 Royals: @WAS x 3; @ATL x 3 Twins: Marlins x 3; Orioles x 3 Tigers: Rays x [CROSSOUT]3[/CROSSOUT] 2; White Sox x 3 Mariners: @HOU x 3; A's x 3 Red Sox: @TOR x [CROSSOUT]3[/CROSSOUT] 2; Rays x 3 Rays: @DET x [CROSSOUT]3[/CROSSOUT] 2; @BOS x 3

If so that means he's going to hit right against a righty tonight.

That might be the smartest option. Not the favorite option necessarily, but the one with the best chance of getting in two uninterrupted games.