Frayed Knot

Fullname: Davidjohn Patrick Herz And he does look like Jesse Plemmons ... at least he did prior to Plemmons swallowing Danny DeVito

Whenever there's a 1st round pick question I tend to forget that it doesn't have to be a 1st round pick of the team shown, only that he was a 1st round pick of someone but then played for the team listed at some point. I could have given some better answers had I remembered that. LAD/BAL - Boog Powell (I remember being at a NYM/LAD game at Shea when Boog was a PH at the end of his career ... and looked to be 400 lbs) BAL/C - Andy Etchebarren (can't pass on a name like that) BAL/1stR - Jackson Holliday (not surprisingly that one was a 28% guess) TBR/LAD - Tyler Glasgow TBR/C - Travis d'Arnaud (he was there for like a week) TBR/1stR - Evan Longoria (38%) LAD/MIN - Ken Landreaux MIN/C - Butch Wynegar MIN/1stR - Byron Buxton (18%) Score = 129

You mean just because they held leads of 1-0, 3-1, 7-4, and then 8-5 going into the 9th inning and ended it at 8-7 with the tying and winning runs on base?

Cartoons, where fewer illogical things occur than in late-inning NYM games.

The game wound up with a total of an even dozen strike-outs ... but only the last one mattered.

Even the wins aren't easy!

Can they hit AT LEAST ONE of these grounders at someone?!?!!?

SSDD Same shit, different day

Fasten 'em!!

Rosario looked lost in space on that high hard one from Dr Smith.

Edgy MD wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: =whippoorwill post_id=157691 time=1717460807 user_id=79] Did you know that Leslie Gore's brother wrote the soundtrack for Fame? Who's Leslie Gore? It's cooby's turn to cry.

This game has just 8 total strike outs (4 each) in the bottom of the 7th (41 total outs so far).

Frayed Knot wrote: Mets have ruined Gore's lead and he'll cry if he wants to Did you know that Leslie Gore's brother wrote the soundtrack for Fame? Who's Leslie Gore?

I've been wanting to say how his performance has been deteriorating for a while and picked this thread. But the larger point remains: that with 155 games as a Met under his belt Ottavino has pitched to a 3.01 ERA, a 1.12 WHIP, 6.9 H/9, 10.4 K/9, 3.2 BB/9, and 1.0 HR/9 ... and keep in mind that this rough month means that his numbers have just inflated to those levels. If this is your definition of a reliever who's "not dependable", who needs to be chained to the bench in any game with a lead or is tied, and gets compared to someone you use only after "giving up", then we might as well pre-reject any reliever they come up with because 80-90% of them are going to fall short. What it sounds like is that you long ago chose him as your designated whipping boy and are jumping on this recent stretch as a way to claim that the 9.28 ERA we saw in May -- not his career norms, not the above stats, and not the 1.69 ERA in April -- is the real him and you saw it coming all along. His performance doesn't merit anything close to that assessment, recent weeks notwithstanding.

Mets have ruined Gore's lead and he'll cry if he wants to

That was a three-run overturned call.

Hopefully it's not just another sleepy dusty delta day for the club.

My recollections: Fans in general, and probably the baseball media as well, were a lot less informed on prospects in those days and even less so on those hoping to one day become prospects. Strawberry was different. In large part for us it was because the Mets had the top pick that year. Another was the headline ready name, but a big chunk was that he was simply more highly touted than an amateur usually merits. I remember one team with a high pick saying that if they had picks 2 thru 5 they'd trade them all for that year's #1 and that's virtually never the case in baseball drafts. The statement was probably hyperbole but it made the point about what most of the baseball world thought of him. I don't think he ever wasn't going to be the top choice. I don't remember hearing a thing about Billy Beane. I tend to think that the story about the Mets going with him instead has gained legs over the years and what might have been a discussion at some point in the months leading up to the draft has grown into a kind of 'It almost happened!" horror story plot in recent years.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=157590 time=1717383024 user_id=68] I didn't see anybody complaining about Mendoza using four different relievers to get through the four innings comprising innings number five through eight.

Even if a pitcher were to consider the likelihood a gaining 'Ws' as an incentive, in order to shun the Mets they'd have to believe that the organization conducts restraining starters' decisions as some sort of strategy or policy. But y'know what's the biggest factor in limiting NYM starter wins? NYM starters. Going 80+ pitches in four innings while serving up multiple early HRs for example.

If you keep looking for the reliever who might not have it that day you're bound to find one sooner or later. The previous three had all done quite nicely. The good news from the offense is that today it was them bunching their hits with two outs for multiple runs. The bad news is that they had no hits in the two innings prior to that and just one in the six subsequent frames. In fact, DJ Stewart's (rather soft) single was the only ball they got out of the infield!!! after JD's triple in the 3rd. 3rd: DJ's K w/JD on 3rd 4th: BB, IF PO, GiDP 5th: GO, GO, K 6th: GO, K, 1B, K 7th: GO, GO, GO 8th: K, K, K 9th: IF PO, K, Foul IF PO

Frayed Knot wrote: Picking out designated villains for the last month is a fool's exercise. I've been saying that since they got him f rom the MFYs, and wasn't thrilled when they re-signed him - he's not dependable. The subject was the rough month of May both in the games they won and in the ones they lost. You boiled it down to Diaz (if only he was right) and Ottavino (if only he was elsewhere). You know who else was responsible? The offense, the defense, the starters, and all the rest of the bullpen as well. So I'll repeat, picking out designated villains is a fool's errand and particularly when you do so in advance. Ottavino, like almost everyone else in the pen, had a terrific April and a lousy May. He also has a 14 year track record of being pretty darn good (a lifetime 3.48 ERA) including a 3.00 ERA/1.12 WHiP in two plus seasons as a Met even with the recent blowups. If you think this all makes him the equivalent of a "give up" pitcher who should never be used except as mop-up duty during blowouts then you simply haven't been paying attention and sound more like you're hunting ammo so as to prove your long ago animus towards him correct whether it fits the facts or not. And nice work linking him to a guy no one heard of with pieces of six seasons six decades ago for three teams including the Milwaukee Fucking Braves. Yeah, good comp.

Picking out designated villains for the last month is a fool's exercise.

Deciding not to wait for the June Swoon this year, the Mets had a 9-19 May Decay. And while we all know about the load of gut punch losses, it's not like the wins were void of drama. Or, as in the words of the great English Philosopher Richard Starkey: Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues, and you know it don't come easy'[/i] The nine wins for the just completed month. May 2: Cubs 6 - Mets 7 (11) After a scoreless 10th, Cubs double in a run with the first batter of the 11th but add no more off Broadway Danny Young. In the bottom half, Bader gets hit by the first pitch then Lindor ends it with a 2R double May 6: Mets 4 - Cards 3 Cards score 3 in the 6th to tie the game, then Nimmo HR's in top 7. Diekman (1-hit), Ottavino (1 hit), and Diaz (perfect) close out the game. May 7: Mets 7 - Cards 5 Mets lead by three heading into bottom 9. But Otto gives up HR, 1B, BB before K'ing Goldschmidt and Burleson with tying runs on and winning runs at the plate. May 12: Braves 3 - Mets 4 Braves take a one run lead in the 8th but here Nimmo hits a 2R walk-off in front of a national audience on SNB May 16: Mets 6 - Phils 5 (11) Mets/Diaz blow a one run 9th inning lead. A scoreless 10th is followed by a 2R NYM 11th. Diekman allows the free runner to score before K'ing Schwarber to end the game w/runners on 2nd & 3rd May 19: Mets 7 - Marlins 3 Mets pad a 1-run lead with 3 in top 9. Reed Garrett gets an uneventful close May 26: Giants 3 - Mets 4 Down 3-1 heading into the 9th. A 2R Bader double is followed by a walk-off RBI single from Narvaez May 30: DBacks 2 - Mets 3 JD's HR breaks a 2-2 tie with one out in the 8th. Reed Garrett closes it out. May 31: DBacks 9 - Mets 10 What looked like a cruiser ends with the tying run on base following two ARZ HRs So while the frustration level was high as a substantial numbers of May's losses were winnable, eight of the nine wins were easily losable. And even the four run win was a one run lead as the 9th opened. - Two games went 11 innings. - There was a two-run 9th inning walk-off win, a three-run walk-off 9th inning win, and an 11th inning one-run walk-off - Every road win (except the 7-3 MIA win) ended with the tying and/or winning runs on base or at bat, and even two of the home wins ended that way as well.

Frayed Knot wrote: All six DBack runs scored after two outs. All four NYM ABs w/RiSP resulted in bupkis. And all five NYM hits have come with empty bases