Frayed Knot

Wasn't the prettiest game in the world. But I'll take an ugly 1-0 over a pretty 0-1.

1294 -- Tobias Myers

Ok Carson, you can stay another day.

Y'mean just because it's north of two hours just to get through five frames?

Bases loaded for Soto w/one out. This AB can turn a game quickly.

And he's still only halfway to Judge's K total from last night.

OK, I don't even remember this Yohan Ramírez guy from 2024 (all five games from him), but he came up with Seattle in '20 & '21, then played for: - 3 teams in '22: SEA, CLE, PIT - 2 teams in '23: PIT, CHW - 4 teams in '24: NYM (3 games), BAL (5 games), NYM (2 games), LAD, BOS (1 game) Then spent all of '25 on his second go-around with the Pirates Talk about: Have gun will travel

Yeah, he either doesn't have the voice for this work or lacks the confidence to use it.

Peralta has done a good job of crawling from the wreckage after his second time getting nicked by Lowe.

Harsh ... but funny!

Was north of 40 pitches for just two outs.

I was just about to chime in with 'I don't think we're going to see Skenes come out for inning #2' ... and he doesn't even finish #1

Day Off - Check 2 hour bike ride this morning - Check Couple of burgers plus fries getting ready to go - Check So I don't know about the rest of you but I'm all set!!

So, in last night's MLB opener, Yanqui SS Jose Cabellaro becomes the first ML player to challenge a B/S call via the ABS system ... and he lost!! He thought it was up and in but it caught the corner. Worse than that he blew one of the two Yanx' challenges in a totally low leverage situation: top 4th, no one on, none out (first pitch of the inning in fact) Yanx leading 5-0. Yanx went on to a 7-0 win so no big deal in the end. But those kind of selfish checks are going be a problem now and then and it'll bite some team in the ass before long, which is part of what the challenge system good. On the other hand, his head tap meant his helmet was immediately whisked away for authentication by the BB HoF ... so he's got that going for him. Now he and first-DH Ron Bloomberg can hang out together as charter members of the Yanquis-only weird rules lounge and have a few pops.

Reordering the list by the percentage of HRs each hit off the Mets shows this, although an asterisk should go to Soto since he hit 43 of his 244 as a Met so his 19 of 201 would move him up to 9.45% so between Acuna and Hoskins.

I think we still need the last few answers here. Preferably from the guy who actually knows them.

The Rangers today told a pitcher he made the team in the middle of a spring training AB. Manager came out and the kid probably thinks he's getting pulled, but after a few words the pitcher and all the infielders who joined the conference are suddenly smiling and he got a great reception in the dugout at the end of the inning. There was a similar film clip to Benge's from a couple years ago when Mariners star Julio Rodriguez, just 21 y/o and a Dominican Republic native, was called into the managers office and told not only that he made the team but that the club had already put his parents (never been to the U.S. IIRC) on a plane and set them up with hotel reservations so they would be there to see him on O.D.

Number retirement ceremony to follow shortly afterward. OK, OK, I'll leave this topic alone for a while.

Re: your bio line - the CPF was founded in 2001. It was during the 9/11 delayed World Series (which did the then unimaginable when the later games slid into November) when several still-here bodies decided that we should just transform our 'escape' forum into our full-time forum . November 1st 2001 has ever since been the CPF's unofficial/official launch date. Oh, and I think you misspelled your Twitter handle.

It was several days ago. It's part of a league-wide concept where one spring training game for each club features lineups of only young players vs each other. 'Spring Breakout' games is what they're calling them. But with Benge, Tong, Ewing, etc still in big league camp and McLean with WBC, it was mostly lower level players for the Mets with none of their top players participating.

In addition to that, the second game of the season for Angels @ Astros and Guardians @ Mariners [Friday] will be Apple+ exclusives.

OK, never really a NYM at the higher levels, but Jerred Kelenic will NOT make the White Sox opening day roster, something that sounds like it's akin to being left out of the 3rd grade classroom picture. * I don't Think we have an active one of these threads

Still kind of trying to figure that out myself.

The cartilage 'discs' between each vertebrae get pounded thinner by our daily walking and other activities. They then return to normal as we sleep but just 1/16th of an inch thinner per disc can add up to a full inch reduction in height from AM to PM. At some point they stop bouncing back as readily which is why (well, one reason anyway) we also get shorter as we age. Well if they didn't, then surely the clubs would think of ways to give their hitter smaller strike zones. So if Aaron Judge is suddenly listed at 6' 1" we'll know something is rotten and not only in Denmark.

No, not the Seinfeldian definition of shrinkage*, but actual physical height shrinkage due to the debut -- Opens This Week at a ballpark near you!! -- of the Automatic Ball/Strike system (ABS). So since the size of home plate never changes (even when the other three bases grew a few years back) the tricky part of balls and strikes has long been the upper and lower limits. ABS 'solves' this by placing those limits at fixed percentages of each player's height. To do this, of course, you need a uniform way of measuring everyone and that's where there's a new sheriff in town since, obviously, individual teams can't be trusted to be their own arbiters. The new process run by MLB has strict guidelines: no shoes, no hats, knees exposed, heels together, back against the wall, no slouching. Players are even required to be measured between 10 AM and noon on their scheduled day so as to rule out any normal shrinkage during the day (you are shorter at night than in the morning). So meet the initial poster boy for all this: infielder Gavin Lux and note the difference between his 2025 Cincinnati Reds official bio and his new one with Tampa Bay Severals other players have dropped multiple inches as well. * As far as I know, MLB does not measure this particular part of the anatomy although it wouldn't surprise me if this is an actual, though rarely talked about, part of the NFL combine.