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Schaefer POTG 6/27/06 - Red Sox 9, Mets 4
Frayed Knot replied to Gwreck's topic in New York Mets Talk
Bell - 1.4 Beltran - 1.5 Delgado - 1.2 Marrero - 1.0 LoDuca - 0.7 -
Posada was headed back to the plate from that conference before Guidry even reached the mound. He let the pitching coach and the infielders straighten things out. Farnsworth has been pretty lousy lately (including tonight). Probably not a good idea to start butting heads with your catcher/friend of the captain. Braves win 5-2 after the Skanks got a decent outing from Jaret Wright.
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Even semi-blowouts can turn on a handful of ABs or plays made/not made: - Varitek getting the 2-strike/2-out hit w/the bags loaded in the 1st - Wright & Nady & Wodward NOT getting hits in same/similar spots - Milledge mis-playing the potential inning-ending Manny fly after we pitched around Papi - Sending Reyes on the short single ... which fortunately was bad only for to-night and not two-months Those ABs were all 1 & 2 run turn-arounds just on their own and who knows what else they lead to. Change the result a couple of those (yeah if my aunt had balls ... ) and it's a completely different game.
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From espn.com: Longtime ESPN Baseball analyst Peter Gammons is out of surgery and resting in intensive care after undergoing an operation to treat an aneurysm in his brain Tuesday. Gammons suffered the aneurysm Tuesday morning near his home on Cape Cod, Mass. He was airlifted to a Boston hospital, where the surgery was performed. I was just reading (somewhere) that he's got an album coming out of cover songs, sung by him accompanied by various others from both within the music and sports arenas.
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Johnny Dickshot wrote: Very good. But not as great as I'd been lead to believe by many. My thoughts exactly. I saw it once a long time ago so I probably should give it another look one of these days -- but I just don't remember it in the glowing 'among-the-best-ever' tones that many people use.
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Plus there are unconfirmed reports that many of the paper ballots tested positive for 'Iron City Beer'
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Not to start prematurely ennumerating domestic fowl while still in their incubating stage - but this season has such a weird feeling to it. After 5 years of hoping to simply be in the fight, which was preceded by several where seemingly every game for months had such live-or-die implications, to now where virtually everyone (and not just NYM fans) has declared the race over in June. I mean 99.5 Freakin Percent! The leads in the divisions right now are: 2.5, 2.0, 1.5, 1.5, 0.5, .... and 12
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"I'm glad that both Reyes and Wright were still Mets property when he departed" FWIW, Phillips claimed recently that he used to get all kinds of trade offers for Reyes back in the day. Plus he did draft Wright after he was passed on 37 times. Not to suggest that I disagree he was often quick to trade prospects - although that's also not such a bad thing. Ideally you'd like to use the farm system to get what you need on the big league level while protecting the gems. The trick, of course, is deciding who those gems are and I think part of the problem with someone like Jason Bay is that if they're not designated early on as one of the "chosen few" then they tend to be treated as if painlessly disposable. High draft picks and big bonus kids tend to get all the attention even as others may be developing better right under your nose.
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The Enemy of Our Enemy is Our Friend
Frayed Knot replied to Willets Point's topic in New York Mets Talk
Really fun fact: While we can root for the Yanx to fare poorly in their mid-week series because the Braves are no threat to us at this point, MFY fans HAVE TO pull for us because they're lagging behind Boston. -
AL continues to smack the NL around. Yanx beat Braves Tiggers over Astros seriously, I just used a racist word when I really meant "Guardians" beating sliding Cardinals Only the Marlins hold up their end by beating the DRays Several other games still in progress. And Oregon State wins the College World Series over UNC!!
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metirish wrote: Trading for Mike Hampton was a decent move,and not signing him to a crazy deal was smater. Not that they didn't try.
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Bay might also be a case where a more Sabermetric view of prospects might have helped. I think sometimes prospects who are NOT labeled as hot property early on are treated as second-class talent from then on unless they really break through. Bay, though slightly old for some of his levels, had some decent numbers in the minors and a closer scrutiny might have led to his being kept even without eye-popping "tools".
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Billy (Benitez/Looper?) Wagner Deathwatch
Frayed Knot replied to nymr83's topic in New York Mets Talk
Tad Iguchi is an interesting comparison with Kaz because they're both middle infielders. I heard Bobby Valentine over this past winter say that there was [u:de2f68488a]absolutely no question[/u:de2f68488a] that Kaz Matsui was the better player when both played in Japan. It wasn't even close. Shit does - and will continue to - happen. btw, the ChiSox hit Grand Salamis in all 3 games against the Astros. -
Billy (Benitez/Looper?) Wagner Deathwatch
Frayed Knot replied to nymr83's topic in New York Mets Talk
Two things are different for Billy Wags this year: 1) WALKS (duh): 17 so far this year. 20 all of last season which is about what his full-season avg has been over the years 2) Many more ground balls. His GB/FB ratio is usually around even. Now he's better than 2:1 GB/FB Other than that, most other peripherals are around the same. - His K/9 are actually UP slightly from last year. - HRs (3) are about on pace for his usual 6-8 - Hits/9 is around his career norms. - ERA isn't so bad (2.5 or so) and that tends to flucuate over the years and isn't really all that telling for short (or even tall) relievers anyway Correcting #1 above is obviously the key. #2 is puzzling mainly because it's so different from his past, but not necc something that need to be "fixed" -
Steve Somers must have been on.
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Once we break for the ASG, we have just 3 games over the next 8 days - Ugh! (Mon thru Mon) OFF - OFF - OFF - OFF - Cubs - Cubs - Cubs - OFF Good for rotation ... bad for fans.
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I pronounced the Tigers to be a bunch of paper Tigers after watching them lose 7 of 10 to the Skanks, BSox & CSox but they're proving me wrong. Up to that point they had the look of a team which was picking on all the weak kids (lots of Royals games and hardly anyone over .500) before getting their asses kicked once the big boys got home from school: bad 'D', pitchers who couldn't find the zone, etc. Yeah they got a break in getting the Cards when they're slumping and the pitiful Cubs this week but they're kicking NL butts during interleague. They've got 13 left with the ChiSox in the second half who they've lost 5 of 6 to so far. Throw in the streaking Twins and it certainly looks like the WC will come out of the Central this year removing that constant safety net that the Yanx & Sawx have been playing with seemingly forever.
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I'm CAHNFIDENT that the Braves are far enough behind that I can tempt fate and fuck with the BB-Gods by rooting for them for 3 days. My #1 goal is having the Mets finish in first place. #2 is watching the Yanquis crumble in a sea of anarchy and humiliation.
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Good contact, IMO. He's got great hand/eye coordination, so centering on better pitches - as a result of being agressive when he's ahead in the count - has resulted in better (more level) swings hence more line drives. That's why I picked today's 1st inning HR as an example. He smoked that bad boy.
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An oddity to this season is that, for the first time in a long time, Braves games are of little interest. Whether I was on them because there was a direct NYM/Atl pennant ract, or just following them because they were always so damn good, I had become accustomed to having a interest on the outcomes of their games - especially since they're on TV here more often than any other team outside of the two locals. Not that I want to sound like I'm complaining too loud, but they're just plain boring right now. But at least they're far enough behind where I can root for them as the play the MFYs this week.
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Not saying he should swing for the fences, at least not indiscriminately. But what he's doing now that he hasn't done in the past is "zoning" on pitches when the count is in his favor - or even just neutral counts. In the past it wasn't so much that he swung at too many balls, it was that he went after virtually any pitch which was in or near the strike zone; iow, he was swinging at strikes, but they were pitcher's strikes. Given the choice - when ahead 2-0 in the count - between selectively choosing a pitch and going after it agressively, or automatically taking the pitch because the walk is the ultimate aim, I'll choose the latter more often than not with a speedy/contact hitter. The key, of course, is the discipline to pick out a particular type/location of pitch and spitting on anything else that doesn't fit the criteria. That is what he's developing and it will, in turn, lead to more walks as a matter of course because pitchers have to be much more careful with a dangerous hitter.
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The Reyes HR leading off the game is a great example of why "plate discipline" or "working the count" means so much more than just talking walks. Sometimes it means taking pitches just out of the zone to get yourself ahead in the count and then smacking the snot out of a 2-0 fastball when the pitcher realizes he better start throwing strikes. Reyes will never walk a lot, but planting the idea in the pitchers head that he's at risk of walking him is going to be a fierce weapon in and of itself. Walks for him (and for most) should be a by-product of the process, not the aim.
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Golden Humber fills our eyes ...
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Reyes - 2.5 Beltran - 2.1 Trachsel - 1.5 Bradford - 1.0 Heilman - 0.4 Wagner - 0.4 Valentin - 1.0 Castro - 1.1
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I think I may have reversed Nady & Castro if for no other reason than to keep Ramon from clogging up the bases in front of Jose if they both get on. (am no longer Vince Coleman)
