Frayed Knot
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That the Bay Area was unable to support two baseball teams was an assumed 'fact' by many during the '70s so there almost seemed to be an ongoing contest to see who could move which team first and which other city would give them the best deal. IIRC, at least A reason, if not The reason, the Trop Dome in St. Pete, FL was built was as a lure to one or the other.
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=Centerfield post_id=146170 time=1706718605 user_id=65] I wonder how much wins/prospects affect the value of a franchise.
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Still has to go through all the approval stuff via finances and MLB, but CEO John Angelos has agreed to sell to a group headed by Baltimore native David Rubenstein for a reported $1.725 billion. John Angelos assumed running the club in 2020 taking over for his now 94 y/o father Peter. Coming off a 101-win season with a low payroll, young stars already on the field with more seemingly on their way, plus a new recently negotiated 30-year lease at Camden Yards, it sounds like a good time for the Angelos clan to 'sell high'.
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As happens on most days when I remember to play I.G., an obvious answer, in this case Soto, doesn't occur to me. So I guessed that SDP was one of Gary Carter's post-NYM teams for the WAS(MTL)/SDP answer. Nope! And I also couldn't remember Edwin Jackson's name (which was a correct SDP/WAS answer) even though I could picture him. These are several of the reasons why I complete approximately .0007% of these correctly.
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Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think this is good news. It's at least a mediocre one.
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Puma: Mets pitching is totally 👌
Frayed Knot replied to Johnny Lunchbucket's topic in New York Mets Talk
I bet they're all in the best shape of their lives too!! -
Baseball Prospectus NYM Top Ten: 1 - Jett Williams 2 - Drew Gilbert 3 - Luisangel Acuna 4 - Ryan Clifford 5 - Cristian Scott RHP 6 - Marco Vargas - IF 7 Jeremy Rodriguez - SS 8 Ronny Mauricio - IF 9 - Colin Houck - IF 10 - Mike Vasil - RHP iow, basically the same top half as mlb.com
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1 - Jackson Holliday, SS/2B, Baltimore [Drafted 2022 1st Round/1st Pick] 2 - Jackson Chourio, OF, Brewers [int'l Signing Jan 2021] 3 - Paul Skenes, RHP. Pirates [Drafted 2023 1/1] 4 - Junior Caminero, 3B/SS, Rays [int'l Signing July 2019] 5 - Evan Carter, OF, Rangers [Drafted 2/50 2020] 6 - Wyatt Langford, OF, Rangers [Drafted 1/4 2023] 7 - Dylan Crews, OF, Nationals [Drafted 1/2 2023] 8 - Ethan Salas, C, Padres [int'l Signing Jan 2023] 9 - Colson Montgomery, SS, White Sox [Drafted 1/22 2021] 10 - Walker Jenkins, OF, Twins [Drafted 1/5 2023] ...... 45 - Jett Williams, SS/OF [ETA 2025] Drafted 2022 1/14 53 - Drew Gilbert, OF [2024] Drafted (by Houston) 2022 1/28 66 - Luisangel Acuna, SS/2B [2024] Int'l Signing July 2018 (Tex) 97 - Ryan Clifford, OF/1B [2026] Drafted 2022 (Hou) 11/343 Short write-ups included https://www.mlb.com/news/top-100-prospects-list-mlb-pipeline-preseason-2024?t=mlb-pipeline-coveragehttps://www.mlb.com/news/top-100-prospects-list-mlb-pipeline-preseason-2024?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage
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Weisman was more of a post-game celebratory Slurpee kind of guy.
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I went Timo Perez for that one.
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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: We should totally sign Kershaw Still effective when he can make his starts, but an avg of 22 GS/125 IP over the last three seasons and a total of 2 starts/5.1 IP (and 9 ER) in the post-season despite all those LAD games Turns 36 during ST
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I don't think it is either, although whether it is or isn't has little to do with the topic on which this thread is based. This is not about whether Pete is on the team this season as much as it is what are the owner's and POBO's plans for the long term of a 1B/DH/Slugger who is eligible to be a FA in nine months and will turn 30 in ten.
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Yup. Those two categories have traditionally been linked most of the time.
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And it did get a Best Pic nod so it's not like a total snub. But, yeah, when the female director and female lead get passed over but the male supporting doesn't it raiseds eyebrows. #oscarssomale
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Had a nice run of sub-3% answers going ... and then I guessed that Tony Conigliaro had a 6 WAR season on his resume. Nope! I find a way to fuck up this game almost every time.
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My predictions were all wrong: I had Beltran instead of Beltre, Hank Bauer instead of Joe Mauer, and Bill Melton rather than Todd Helton. That was just poor preperation on my part.
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When did the Mets draft Flavor Flav?
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=MFS62 post_id=145529 time=1705847289 user_id=60] I noticed something when reading articles about him. They refer to him as either Bud or Derrel McKinley, never just Derrel. I thought the use of the middle name was either a Southern thing or reserved for serial killers. He was neither, and it wasn't as though we would have confused him with another Derrel Harrelson.
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Pujols OPS/OPS+ @ age 29 = 1101 / 189 at age 37: 672 / 80 So a loss of 429 OPS points or from a hitter 89% better than league average to one 20% below Cabrera @ 29 = 999 / 164 at age 37 (a partial season) = 746 / 104. His full seasons at 36 & 38 were 744 / 97 and 701 / 95 The lesson being that of course Pete can be a DH at that age. He can be one now but his position is hardly the point. It's that even if he agrees to only an eight-year deal what the team (and fans) should expect is a significant diminishment in his offense over the length of the deal. Plus he's not starting at as high a level as Pujols or Miggy--or Howard or Judge or Freddie for that matter, a quintet with eight MVPs among them. Pete's best OPS+ to date is 147 and that was his rookie season. Pujols never had an OPS under 150 for the first ten seasons of his career. Miggy was north of 150 in 10 of his first 13 seasons with two of the three 'under' years coming prior to him being old enough to buy booze.
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Now go look at the drop off in the production from Pujols and Cabrera between their age 29 and 37 seasons.
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=whippoorwill post_id=145527 time=1705846051 user_id=79] Edgys description of Buddy as gaunt and skinny is spot on. I'll bet he didn't weigh 150
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Joel Sherman takes on the Pete Alonso Conundrum. He doesn't call it that (perhaps because my pending copyright of the phrase would cost him plenty if he tried) but he does take on the whole sentiment vs practical angle for a new POBO and new-ish owner, the projected dollar/year projections, and comps from Freddie to Pujols/Miggy, and even Aaron Judge. Good reading. https://nypost.com/2024/01/20/sports/mets-stuck-in-pete-alonso-contract-limbo-ahead-of-walk-year/
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Very good book from a handful of years ago. Haven't gotten around yet to the movie, the 3-1/2 hour running time being one of the obstacles. It's funny, I have no problem sitting through a lengthy movie in a theater (providing it's a good flick of course), most recently I wasn't the slightest bit antsy during the 3:01 OPPENHEIMER. Yet I find that I possess less and less patience in recent years for watching even standard length movies at home. Too many distractions and too easy to take them, I guess, so I often break up the viewing over two or more sessions. Not an ideal way to watch one I realize.
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WFUV's Don McGee closed his 1/13 show with Barbra Streisand singing 'My Buddy' and with a recording of the 1969 NYM chorus's recording of 'The Green Grass of Shea'. Don is also enough of a NYM fan to remember Murph calling out Darrel McKinley Harrison
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Josh Hader, five years, Houston.
