Frayed Knot

With 20 games remaining, the stats have pretty much stabilized themselves at right around the league average. ERALg AVGDiffERA+RA/GNL RankStarter ERARel ERABAA-A Thru 20 Games5.614.28-1.33726.3515th5.565.91.280 Games 21-403.27——————3.50——————.215 Thru 40 Games4.424.31-0.11884.9310th4.294.75.248 Games 41-605.17——————5.15——————.283 Thru 60 Games4.664.34-0.32865.0012th4.405.19.260 Games 61-805.04——————5.25——————.255 Thru 80 Games4.754.38-0.37865.1313th4.405.44.259 Games 81-1004.30——————4.50——————.247 Thru 100 Games4.664.40-0.26894.9712th4.285.28.256 Games 101-1243.47——————3.79——————.244 Thru 124 Games4.404.45+0.05954.737th3.985.21.254 Games 125-1424.41——————4.35——————.244 Thru 142 Games4.424.43+0.01934.738th3.995.22.254

That's the thing, it's not like the BoSox were unfamiliar with his M.O. or unwilling to meet his spending commitments.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=21345 time=1568058297 user_id=68] Old friend Wilmer Flores has five homers in his last 15 games.

We last saw these guys in the series that spanned May 31-June 2 with the DBacks taking 2 of 3 out in the desert and quite possibly past your bedtime. - Wheeler went 7 and picked up the win in Game #1 as 2-out/8th-inning RBI hits by JD Davis & Carlos Gomez erased a 3-4 deficit. Lugo & Gsellman closed it out. - Game #2 saw deGrom get a 4-0 lead, but the pen (Familia & Gsellman) coughed it up in the 8th and the Snakes won it in the 11th off Bashlor - Matz got drubbed in Game #3 while something named Merrill Kelly stifled us on 6 hits. DBacks are a weird bunch. An 87-win team last year, first they deal off their best player in Paul Goldschmidt. Then this year they were one game under .500 at the trade deadline when they dealt off their best pitcher in Zach Greinke and have been 8 games over .500 since. And I bet you'd have trouble naming their top WAR guys this season. Tops is Ketel Marte, the CF/2B/wherever player with the near 1000 OPS who Gary has been raving about for weeks now, so you might have guessed him. Second is the now departed Greinke. The remainder of their top eight goes like this: SS Nick Ahmed; 3B (or maybe drug kingpin) Eduardo Escobar; 1B Christian Walker (better OPS than Goldschmidt); C Carson Kelly; LF David Peralta (though IL'd right now); LHP Robbie Ray who was the guy supposed to be dealt at the deadline and the hurler we'll see in the final game. Arizona is 4th in NL at scoring runs (5.15/G), 6th best at preventing them (4.58) This series is merely the biggest one of the year as it's almost certainly the knock-out blow for whichever squad loses twice or thrice or ... We'll see: Monday 7:10 - deGrom vs Merrill Kelly [10-13, 4.69, 1.35] we failed to hit him last time and, with JdG on the mound again, why should this time be any different? Tuesday 7:10 - Wheeler vs Zac Gallen [acquired from Marlins at deadline, 2.25 ERA in 6 starts], and I'm assuming it's pronounced as Gallon because they list his nickname as 'Milkman' Wednesday 7:10 - Matz vs Robbie Ray [12-7, 4.03, 1.31] Thursday 1:10 - Stroman vs TBD

Red Sox to team President Dave Dombrowski: "Hey thanks for the three straight playoff seasons including last year's World Series. But we're not going to win it this year and, besides, Sunday night's loss makes us 5-13 vs the Yanx this year, so ... You're Fired!!" DD was hired starting with the 2016 season. This was the fourth season of his five year contract. The team was operating with no official GM. A trio of assistants will run the team for the present.

Frayed Knot wrote: Eight years younger, under team control for another year, an ERA a half run lower for his career and a full run lower for this season at the time of the deals. Do you really think this requires further explanation? Then let him start pitching like it. Fine. But that Stroman's 2019 ERA jumped from 2.96 before the trade (and 3.91 for his career) to 5.05 since the deal is hardly an evaluation mistake by the GM.

This is all going to make the 16-4 closing run even more stunning.

In addition to that being the longest (9 inning) game in NYM history*, it may also have been the unclutchiest one. 14 hits (including 2 HRs) plus 7 walks plus a HBP has to add up to more than 7 runs. We gotta quit getting the leadoff guy(s) on so often ... it's killing our whole offense. It particularly suxx when you're allowing the other side 10 runs on a lot fewer baserunners (13 + 4 + 0) On PH'ing for Syndergaard: After being handed a 3-run lead, Syndy proceeded to give it all back and more by the 5th. Of the last 14 batters he faced in the game he coughed up 5 runs while getting 9 outs, but 2 of those outs were the pitcher, one was a run-scoring Sac Fly, and another was on the base-paths (so more like 5 of 15 hitters faced). If you don't want to be PH'd for than a) pitch better, and don't K in 3/4 of your ABs and/or bunt into DPs. I had no problem with Mickey's thought process although I might have gone with someone other than Frazier. On Mickey's choice to IW Andrew Knapp on the other hand, a .200 hitting backup catcher and the #8 hitter, I saw, and still see, absolutely no upside in that, even without Harper on the bench. *I watched via tape delay so got to skip all the commercials and it STILL took forever!

Eight years younger, under team control for another year, an ERA a half run lower for his career and a full run lower for this season at the time of the deals. Do you really think this requires further explanation?

Gary mentioned 'winning 3 of 4' last night as probably the minimum pace they'd need to maintain - and that sounds about right. 16-5 to close it out from here would leave them at 88-74, maybe enough to sneak in. Normally the 5-3 during this current WAS & PHI run (damn that blown 6-run lead!!) would be seen as a positive stretch but, between the earlier six game (ATL/CHI) losing streak and of course the whole mid-season debacle, simply winning series just isn't good enough these days.

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Edgy MD wrote: Lowrie action!! I feel like we should nickname him 'Nessie'. Like the Loch Ness monster, I've heard he existed but have never seen proof of it.

"Oil Can ... Oil Can"

=bmfc1 post_id=21229 time=1567898311 user_id=73] This could be a quick evening of Mets baseball.

Was wondering earlier today how many of my neighbors heard my cry of 'YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING KIDDING ME!!' via my wide open windows at approximately 10:15 last night, a phrase uttered prior to Realmuto's ball even landing.

=G-Fafif post_id=21216 time=1567885201 user_id=55] Rosario SS Alonso 1B McNeil 2B

Great, I'll finally find out what he looks like. For all I know he could have been the guy I was stuck on an elevator with for five hours last week. * I wasn't really stuck on an elevator last week

^ | | | That's pretty cool. Meanwhile tonight, the Cubs lost (to Milwaukee), the Nats lost, the Cards lost, while the DBacks are winning (7-5 in Cincy, in the 8th). Oh yeah, and the Fillies lost.

And we could have told you Vincent, this game was never meant for anything as wild as you.

And we could have told you Vincent, this game was never meant for anything as wild as you.

No one else IN EITHER LEAGUE do I want up right here.

Edgy MD wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: =41Forever post_id=21163 time=1567822624 user_id=69]How many blown saves is this? Almost all of them. From Joel Sherman just earlier today: The 2.29 HR/9 IP (prior to tonight's) are by far the most in Mets history for a reliever — Josh Smoker was at 1.60 in 2017. Diaz had permitted [CROSSOUT]13 in 51 innings.[/CROSSOUT] 14 in 52 innings. In massive home run years from 1999-2002, Mariano Rivera surrendered 14 in 271 ¹/₃ innings. Dave Hillman 1962 gave up five homers in 15 2/3 innings. I'm guessing he didn't qualify.

Somebody needs to be a hero here and none of this will matter.

=41Forever post_id=21163 time=1567822624 user_id=69]How many blown saves is this?