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TWiB Notes -- Week of Mar 25 thru Mar 29
Frayed Knot replied to Frayed Knot's topic in New York Mets Talk
The Giants have hosted the Yanx for their first two games and will go into tomorrow's game still looking for their first run scored. Shut out 7-0 on Wednesday and now 3-0 today on a whopping four total hits. -
As I mentioned in another thread about Hack Wilson.
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TWiB Notes -- Week of Mar 25 thru Mar 29
Frayed Knot replied to Frayed Knot's topic in New York Mets Talk
90 year old!! Sandy Koufax is in the stands for LAD opening day game. He looks every one of his 65 years old. On the NL East front, the Phils and Nats both won so we're tied with them. The Braves and Marlins are two of the six teams that don't start their seasons until Friday. -
So this place doesn't seem to have any kind of search feature (unless I'm missing it). The old place had one where one could enter, say, 'Sandy Koufax' into the search bar that would scan all the threads within whatever sub-forum you're in (the Baseball Forum for instance) and quickly find the Koufax-centric thread we had six months or a year (of nine yers) ago
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Former Mets who are still free agents
Frayed Knot replied to Cowtipper's topic in New York Mets Talk
Agreed. Pham turned 38 a few weeks back so he's unlikely to get a guaranteed job anywhere. But he seems to have a knack for getting hits when needed so as a fill-in/PH/DH/sub you could do worse. -
THOUGHTS ON THE GAME!!!! (don't worry, I'm not going to do a list of ten). Yeah, we got a bit lucky both with several cheap hits and the two botched hit to Cruz in CF ... but they also had a bunch of good ABs: - Bichette's Sac Fly that got us back in the game after Pitt's two run 1st came after being down 0-2 and fighting off a bunch of stuff. And the cheap hits were the result of getting wood to ball rather than flailing away. - Lindor, leading off the game, could have challenged the 3-0 count (and likely would have won it) but wound up walking anyway while costing Skenes another 3 or 4 pitches. Smart (non) call by Lindy IMO. - Soto (of course) and Luis Robert (Louie Bobby?) had a great 1st inning ABs and just about everybody (except Benge) in that 1st inning fouled off a ton of pitches to run that pitch count up. So while it's easy to say that that inning wasn't Skenes's fault, it also was not Not his fault either. So while it's too early to call anything we saw today part of some kind of trend, it was nice to see regardless.
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Those percentages, btw, are 27% of your height for the lower limit of your zone and 53.5% (not 53%, 53.5 !!) for the upper. Considering how general and fluid the definition of the zone has been over the years it's certainly a change to see things written out so specifically. So if you want to discover your personal strike zone and you have a tape measure handy ... go nuts! My lower limit is right across my patella bones (knee caps) with the upper surprisingly below where I thought, essentially right at the waist button of my jeans, considerably lower than I assumed it would be.
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Wasn't the prettiest game in the world. But I'll take an ugly 1-0 over a pretty 0-1.
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1294 -- Tobias Myers
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Ok Carson, you can stay another day.
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Y'mean just because it's north of two hours just to get through five frames?
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Bases loaded for Soto w/one out. This AB can turn a game quickly.
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And he's still only halfway to Judge's K total from last night.
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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
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Yeah, he either doesn't have the voice for this work or lacks the confidence to use it.
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Peralta has done a good job of crawling from the wreckage after his second time getting nicked by Lowe.
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Harsh ... but funny!
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Was north of 40 pitches for just two outs.
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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
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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!!
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TWiB Notes -- Week of Mar 25 thru Mar 29
Frayed Knot replied to Frayed Knot's topic in New York Mets Talk
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.
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I think we still need the last few answers here. Preferably from the guy who actually knows them.
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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.
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Number retirement ceremony to follow shortly afterward. OK, OK, I'll leave this topic alone for a while.
