Frayed Knot

Has anyone seen actual evidence of this blister?

Yeah, I'm out for this one as well. Maybe tomorrow I'll give it a go.

Andy Pages, who was benched during the playoffs last year for offensive ineptitude, is basically leading the majors in every offensive category so far this season. Let's put it this way: he's currently out-WAR'ing Ohtani. And Miguel Rojas, along with Hyeseong Kim, are not only replacing Mookie Bettes at SS while he's injured, but they're also out-performing him ... by a lot!!

And if this shit doesn't straighten itself out there's a chance 'Mendy' doesn't survive the year. But it's not happening tonight kids.

If it makes anyone feel better the Yanx have now also lost five straight as they got swept over the weekend by Tampa. Today they got a 2R 9th inning HR from Judge which was enough to lose the game by one. So tonight is the first NBC Sunday Night GotW (the first two weeks they farmed it out to their 'PEACOCK' channel). And 1/2 inning in it's apparent their plan is to have as many people saying as many words as possible. So if you're one of those hoping for many even a 1/4 second of air in between lots of verbiage ... you're going to be disappointed. Cleveland and Atlanta are tonight's combatants and so It's the p-b-p guy (?) plus ex Indian/Guardian Corey Kluber, ex-Brave Andruw Jones (who set the record for 'ummmmms' in one paragraph in top-1) in the booth with ex-Indian/Guardian C.C Sabathia in a raised chair somewhere near one of the dugouts because of course you need a fourth competing voice. Not sure if the plan is to have a revolving set of ex-players in the booth depending on which teams are playing that night or if there will actually be a set crew. Couldn't tell you as I'm currently watching the game muted while I listen to music (right now George is singing 'Within You and Without You').

The larger point is that if some guy(s) has a bad two week stretch in mid-season it's barely noticed because that slump (or hot streak for that matter) is mixed in with the other 2-3-4 hundred ABs so the overall numbers are only slightly dented. But when those dozen+ games are out there all naked by themselves it looks particularly, and often misleadingly, ugly, btw, there are a lot of other guys than just the ones listed above [prolly 3x as many] I was just picking out the more 'name' players. All this doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned about it all, but the idea that the manager needs to have his plane ticket confiscated before the second road trip of the year or that this is proof that the PoBo, especially one with a lengthy track record of success, needs to be dumped 1/10th of the way into a season (and less than 1/2 of the way into his contract) because some [not Robert, not Peralta, not Williams] of this winter's acquisitions are off to slow starts (as are some of the holdovers).

Sitting, as all catchers do and as he will probably twice a week. Get used to it. And Torrens had one of the hits and was robbed of a second.

Off to sub-600 OPS this season (games thru Sat 4/11): Trea Turner (591), Ketel Marte, Geraldo Perdomo, Austin Riley, Pete Crow-Armstrong, Salvador Perez, Cal Raleigh, Byron Buxton, Jarren Duran, Pete Alonso, Dansby Swanson, Masyn Winn, Julio Rodriguez, Jake Croenworth, Jazz Chisholm, Bryson Stott, Alec Bohm, Vinnie Pasquentino, Michael Busch, Nolan Arenado, Trevor Story, Josh Naylor (287) It's early folks.

So a lineup of the same guys, only in a different order, would have squeezed a better result out of four singles and a walk?

Am I correct in thinking that we do NOT currently have access to the CPF archives?

And, as noted at the top of the broadcast, All-Mushtache All-Star infielder Phil Garner has passed on. He, like Lopes, is also a former manager and a member of the 200+ SB club.

And Peralta winds up out-lasting Civale (by one out). That didn't look like it would be the case for much of this game but, in fairness to Freddy, a big chunk of his pitch load was from that one (2nd) inning.

Thru 5 innings: Peralta = 88 pitches; Civale = 61 (or six innings worth vs a typical four innings)

Nice work by Peralta to dance out of trouble ... but 45 pitches thru 2 is hardly ideal. It took him 101 just to get thru 4-2/3 in his last game.

I've only caught a few scattered innings of the Yanx/Rays series in Tampa this weekend so it took me a while before it hit me that the Rays are back in Tropicana Field after spending all of 2025 at George M Steinbrenner filed on the Tampa side of the bay after a tropical storm damaged the structure and shredded the roof. And it looked like the roof was back in the brief glimpses I did get. Or maybe it's just a big Hefty bag they stretched over it temporarily.

So Keith is saying that Kurtz's (hitting) methods are ... unsound.

The topic being discussed was whether multiple coast-to-coast trips in a short span of time was a factor in an athletes performance. Bringing up the old saw about money for a kids game is hardly the point. Probably drunk, dead, or dead drunk. Maybe all three.

Seems like an odd spot to make notice of Browning Nagle's death, but OK.

The Mets four out of their first five road trips (one already done) this season will involve trips into the Pacific and/or Mountain time zones and none will have a day off leading into them. However each will be preceded by a day game leading into a night game so more of a buffer there, plus going east to west is the easier adjustment. There Will be a day off following each west coast swing since that's the tougher turn-around. I believe that one is mandated by the basic agreement.

Ummm, perhaps we can introduce you to the other 4/12 IGT currently located about a Hal-dozen posts below this one.

I've seen this commercial but have yet to hear it since I usually mute the TV sound between innings and when that ad is on there's certainly nothing on the screen that makes me want to hear what's being said. I can't say it looks like the MAGA-iest commercial ever but only because it's got a long way to go before even coming close to several for Dodge/RAM trucks.

That's because, after the mutually agreed upon early scrapping of their previous contract which included Sunday Night Baseball, MLB and the four letter turned around to strike a new agreement to become streaming partners. Now customers who may be casual fans of baseball but not enough of one to subscribe to MLB.TV can stream games through any Disney package which includes ESPN+. This gives MLB & ESPN incentive to cross-promote on the streaming end while still leaving ESPN free to (mostly)* ignore baseball on their main channel. * ESPN will still run the occasional game over their regular cable channel including this Wednesday's (Jackie Robinson Day) NYM/LAD matchup

Since Kimbrel is a likely future HoF'er and has now appeared in a NYM uniform, how soon until they retire his number?

Freddie Peralta [3 G; 1-0; 4.80; 1.13 WHIP] faces (RH)Aaron Civale [2 G; 1-0; 2.70; 1.10 WHIP]

Met bats in the 9th inning off Medina were not a bit funky but they were cold.