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  1. Frayed Knot
    Pop Quiz, Hotshot Q: How many NYM baserunners got erased on the base paths in this game? A: Most of them
  2. Frayed Knot
    Another non-error that hits a fielder in his glove. Young at 1B in this case. And of course the error results in multiple two out runs. Two so far, and who knows how many more. btw, I have a theory I can't possibly prove. But it's one of those "it seems like" situations that is contributing to the 'everything going wrong' '26 NYM season. So it goes like this: every ball the Mets hit off a fielder, particularly come-backers, ricochet either back to the pitcher or to another fielder for an out. Yet hits banking off NYM pitchers or fielders always go for hits. Can't prove a bit of that, but I'm convinced it's true. Braves have five hits thru two innings tonight: two off NYM fielders and one bloop.
  3. Frayed Knot
    Who is Bichette's ABS advisor ... Vientos? That was one of the worst challenges to date. But Benge just went oppo as I was typing so all is right with the world again.
  4. Frayed Knot
    We're not the only ones finishing up a 'wrap-around' series as the Phils and Royals had a day game today which consisted of the Royals slapping a 15 - 1 pasting on the Phightins. The Royals scored in every (eight) inning starting with six in the 1st -- off Christopher Sanchez! -- then scored 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, and 2. In all, 9 runs on 12 hits in 3.1 on Sanchez's tab. KC took two of three -- the series was Sat - Sun - Mon as there was a soccer game on Friday) and it was a day game today since the Royals have to get their asses to NYC tonight in prep for their Tues thru Thurs series in Queens. Big series of the week is the four game set in Tampa where the struggling Yanx [1 - 9 over their last 10, 2 - 14 in last 16] try to close the gap which has grown to 4.0 G recently. Braves go to Pittsburgh after this. Phils to Cincy. Marlins host the Mariners while the Nats welcome the Astros
  5. Frayed Knot
    Weaver's not in a situation where his contract/age/performance etc. makes his a guy whom you NEED to deal. But if someone is going to overwhelm the crap out of you with an offer then you're going to listen. The Padres last year, smelling opportunity, traded four bodies, one of them a top-10 overall prospect, to the A's for reliever Mason Miller. That prospect, Leo De Vries, is a SS putting up an 800 OPS in AA despite not turning 20 until after the season is over. And while Miller has been great for SD -- how does 0.90 ERA; 0.80 WHIP; 3.6 H/9; 16.8 K/9 over 57 appearances sound? -- he alone wasn't enough to keep the Pads from losing in the WC round [2-1 to CHC] in '25 or from going through an 8-game losing streak (ended yesterday) or being below .500 this year [44 - 45]. Weaver's been great. but he'll also appear in about 65 of so innings/games this year so there's only so much one reliever can do. And the same qualities that make him valuable to us in '27 also make him valuable to someone else. It pays to see how far a team will take that gamble.
  6. Frayed Knot
    Praying, begging, hoping, ... one of those.
  7. Frayed Knot
    Oh, and Vientos needs to be banned from making any ABS challenges for at least the next six months.
  8. Frayed Knot
    How badly are things going for the Yanx lately? Well 1-9 over the last ten games to start with ... but that's not even the worst of it. The real barometer is them losing two of three to the TWINS!!!, a team they usually beat while using only six players in the field and by naming the assistant equipment manager as that day's starter. Not only that but the scores of the two losses (Sat & Sun) were a combined 17 - 5 [11-4 and 6-1]. And now the Rays and Nats, both on the road, are on tap for them this coming week.
  9. Frayed Knot
    And, y'see, we don't just mis-play pop-ups, that would be too pedestrian. We wait until there are two outs and the bases loaded to mis-play our pop-ups. Then we need to make sure the ball bounces away from either player so that the runner from 1st, the one who was just jogging until the comedy routine started, can come all the way around to score on a play that wasn't even close. I've never seen a team where so many different things go wrong Every. Fucking. Day!
  10. Frayed Knot
    Nice call Vientos, down by 5, two innings left, no reason to save a challenge.
  11. Frayed Knot
    Well, that inning was ... something, although I'm not sure what.
  12. Frayed Knot
    It's just a shame that Lindor and Soto are contractually obligated to never get hits in the same inning.
  13. Frayed Knot
    Because there's no such thing as an error anymore. Braves have eleven hits in this series (should be ten except that there's no such thing as an error anymore) and six of them are HRs
  14. Frayed Knot
    Two on/none out: Pop-out, Pop-out, GO In contrast with one on/two outs = 5 runs
  15. Frayed Knot
    Three GiDP possibilities in a four inning span and only an error prevents it from happening. otoh, the inning isn't over yet.
  16. Frayed Knot
    Two outs, runner on 1st = 5 runs. And there were two 0 -2 counts in between. And Manaea needs over 70 pitches in the 3rd inning. And, btw, the Mets have out-hit the Braves in the series so far but have been out-scored 10 - 3
  17. Frayed Knot
    Took us three innings but we finally figured out how to Not hit into a GiDP ... go out meekly 1 -2 -3
  18. Frayed Knot
    Braves had five hits ... four of them HRs
  19. Frayed Knot
    Good thing we left ourselves with no margin for error.
  20. Frayed Knot
    Well that pretty settles that. Not that we were going to come back from a two run deficit but three makes it a statistical impossibility.
  21. Frayed Knot
    Streak broken!!!! We now actually have two outs to work with to get a runner in rather than a zero margin for error. Well NOW we don't have it any longer ... but it was there for an instant.
  22. Frayed Knot
    Young has two 3 - 1 putout flips to Senga and hasn't broken him once.
  23. Frayed Knot
    And now seven innings
  24. Frayed Knot
    And now six straight innings.
  25. Frayed Knot
    Thru 5 innings the first two Mets in each inning have made outs ... except for the Matt Olson error which came with one out so there they tried to make the first two outs of the frame but the Braves wouldn't let them. The Soto HR followed.
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