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  1. Frayed Knot
    Oh Huascar, Huascar, Huascar!
  2. Frayed Knot
    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.
  3. Frayed Knot
    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.
  4. Frayed Knot
    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)
  5. Frayed Knot
    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.
  6. Frayed Knot
    I would be in favor of instantly banning all patent medicine commercials from TV
  7. Frayed Knot
    The Marlins waited until the first pitch they saw to drive a runner in from 2nd.
  8. Frayed Knot
    Five straight outs w/RiSP with only one ball leaving the infield (short CF). And now six straight. 0-for-11 overall.
  9. Frayed Knot
    Because?
  10. Frayed Knot
    The odds were against them the whole time.
  11. Frayed Knot
    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.
  12. Frayed Knot
    If you were a 3rd base coach you'd set MLB records for getting guys thrown out on the base paths.
  13. Frayed Knot
    2nd and 3rd/no outs, Alcantara out of the game. Mets have an outside shot at scoring a run here. Not on the first AB mind you, but before the inning is out.
  14. Frayed Knot
    So Peralta coming off a good year with a full season of team control was worth a better package of prospects as compared to being dealt in the midst of the worst season of his career and with only two months before he could be a FA? Got it!
  15. Frayed Knot
    But do you like is less with Taylor at the plate or Robert?
  16. Frayed Knot
    And Gary Gill Hill is fun to say!
  17. Frayed Knot
    I don't mind Robert Stack starting so much, it's the guys behind him that worry me. Oh wait, Robert Stock? ... Nevermind.
  18. Frayed Knot
    River Ryan is an odd choice in that he turns 28 in a few weeks and has appeared in just 8 games over the past two years. Made his ML debut in August of 24 but then missed the rest of that season and all of '25 after pitching just four times so I'mmassuming TJS. Has thrown 8 mostly mediocre games this year at AAA Okkky City but folks must see potential in him now that the surgery & rehab is behind him. Because he was on the LAD roster when he got hurt he got ML service time for all of '25 so the Tigers will assume five years of control rather than six. Zyhir Hope (I thought River and Zyhir were Joaquin Phoenix's brothers but there's much I'm confused about these days) is a 21 y/o L/L OF w/power currently putting up a 900 OPS while living on Tulsa Time in the AA Texas League. The Tigers may use him for a playoff push this year and is probably a decent bet to be in Detroit's OF full time by some point in '27
  19. Frayed Knot
    Prior to this season, Pete Crow-Armstrong had a walk rate of 4.9% over his two+ year ML career. This season it's 11.3% (ML avg = 8.9%). Not coincidentally his OPS+ has risen from 88 in 2024 over 410 PA, to 115 ('25/647), to 152 this year (484 PA). Kind of stunning to see that kind of dramatic transformation in such a short time from a young player (PC-A still just 24 y/o). In the 1st inning vs the Yanx today, PC-A walked leading off, went to 2nd on a WP, took 3rd on a GO, and came home on another WP. 1 - 0 Cubs and the ball never left the IF
  20. Frayed Knot
    btw, Murph is getting good at this announcing thing.
  21. Frayed Knot
    We just got Lake Bachar'd. Which, I suppose, is better than getting Ricki Lake'd, but not by much.
  22. Frayed Knot
    Great to see the team playing in a manner worthy of the '86 '66 & '76 Mets
  23. Frayed Knot
    At last year's trading deadline the Yanx dealt away four minor leaguers to the Giants for reliever Camilo Doval. But after Doval's contributions turned out to be not quite what the Bombers expected, today they spun him off to the Pirates for two prospects despite Doval not being eligible for FA-gency until after the 2027 season. In 66 appearances for NYY over the '25 & '26 seasons Doval pitched to a 4.63 / 1.47 [ERA/WHIP] (vs 3.29 / 1.26 w/SFG in parts of five seasons) and just two saves.
  24. Frayed Knot
    I've learned today that AMEX is an official partner of Olivia Rodrigo. Of course I'm probably one of the last people on the planet to know that, but at least I know it now and so can be accepted by hip society going forward.
  25. Frayed Knot
    A bases-empty 0-2 count w/two outs challenge.
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