Frayed Knot

Well everybody is day-to-day technically. He hit the ground hard Saturday night, sat today as a result of that and the old DGANT. He'll likely be in tomorrow. Or maybe not, who knows. But players are going to get hurt, it happens.

41Forever wrote: It seems like he's been on the shelf a third of the time he's been here. When he's on, we all know he's a monster. But he can't seem to stay on the field. It's right about two weeks shy of two years since the deal that brought him here and since then he's played 233 games as a Met. And while that's less than the 300+ that you'd want out of nearly two complete seasons, most of what he's missed is due to the injury that caused him to miss 37 straight games this year. Other than that, there's been one other DL stint and that was the bare minimum of 14 games missed in 2016. Today was a day off on account of his ugly dive Saturday plus maybe the day game, to read much beyond that is an over reaction. And while he has been here he's putting up a .282/.346/.545 line (better than his overall career rates) with 57 HRs and 110 XBH in what has been essentially 1.5 seasons. If you want to rue what we got out of that deal and everything that comes with it be my guest, but I won't be joining you.

41Forever wrote: I'd forgotten that Robles was in Vegas. Hopefully he got some rest from Terry's overuse. He's been worse in Vegas than he was in New York. I have no idea what his problems were but overuse wasn't it.

The AL East would be much further out of the Yanx hands if the fucking BoSox didn't suck so much. The only way to let the Yanx back in the race was to lose 3 of 4 to them in Fenway to kick off the second half and that's exactly what they're in danger of doing if they don't win tonight's back half of the DH The Sawx are now 2-6 vs MFY this year and have scored a total of 13 runs in those eight games. And the only reason the record isn't 1-7 is that they were lucky to get a win on Friday night when their 9th inning "rally" consisted of being handed two runs despite not getting a ball out of the infield. Oh and they've now been shut out by the Yanx in 22 straight innings. The night game tonight is Tanaka who has sucked all year and David Price for the BoSox who suxxx whenever he sees Yanqui pinstripes.

Curtis was a watcher on the wall there.

Thanks to Duda & Cabrera the Mets line score is no longer unsullied and, like Jon Snow, you only think they're dead.

As mentioned during the broadcast on Sunday, the Nats moved to shore up their bullpen by getting relievers Sean Doolittle and Ryan Madson from Oakland in exchange for relieverBlake Treinan plus two minor leaguers. First of all: How many deals is that over the last five years or so between Washington and Oakland?!!? It's like Billy Beane's side job is filling whatever holes the Nats develop each year. Doolittle, a lefty, was an All-Star when he was the Oakland closer in 2014 but has pitched only 73 innings over the 2-1/2 seasons since. He missed the month of May this year. Madison you'll all remember from his days as the Phils' set-up man. But then he was out of baseball entirely from 2012-2014 only to return and pitch as well as ever beginning again in 2015 -- first with the Royals and then Oakland -- with ERAs around 2.50 and WHIPs near 1.00 while pitching 60-65 innings/season despite now being 36 y/o Treinen was a guy the Nats were counting on to be good but he never got there and only got worse this season despite his vaunted "stuff". The minor leaguers are the Washington 2nd and 3rd round picks from 2016, both HS picks who are still in the low minors.

Yanx score 3 in top 16 and then the Sox go quietly (as they've done since scoring in the 3rd) so 4-1 Yanx is your final ... pending the result of the protest!!!! And, btw, guess which teams have to play two on Sunday including the 8PM ESPN game? Sox stay home to play their next series while the Yanx head to Minnesota for a night game on Monday. Welcome back from the break boys.

Necessary move or not, it worked as Blevins made those lefties look silly (at least the ones he didn't plunk).

Another ridiculous game in Fenway - now tied 1-1 heading for the 14th Sale had a two-hitter and a 1-0 lead the whole way but then Kimbrel served up a tater to Holliday leading off the 9th. The big play was a non-interference call which prevented a GiDP in the Yanqui 11th causing the Sox to lodge a protest after around 1/2 hour of discussions, arguments, and at least two different umpire trips to headphone land.

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Nymr83 wrote: Dallas wins twitter. He's got a lot of free time now.

Matz is now all by his lonesome on this staff.

KIMBREL!!!! [fimg=450:223xed8y]https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/scrubs/images/e/e9/3x8_The_Fugitive.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20161001223017[/fimg:223xed8y] And now the Red Sox, who had a challenge disallowed in the 8th, challenge another one in the 9th and lose that one too. So apparently there's a limit except when there's no limit. I wonder how many more they get?

It was a weird game in that the Yanx starter sucked (gone after 4 w/100+ pitches) but the Sox left a ton of chances go by and should have been up by more. Then they blew their early 3-0 lead while the Yanx middle relievers totally shut them down: 4 IP, 2 Hits, [u:713q64y2]9 Ks[/u:713q64y2] But of course once the 9th inning hits you're required by law to go to your closer and the Sox proceeded to score twice off of Chapman without ever getting the ball out of the infield: Infield Single -- Infield Single (could have been an error) -- Double Steal -- E-4 on the easiest bouncer ever (scores one) -- Intentional Walk to load bases -- [u:713q64y2]UN[/u:713q64y2]intentional Walk ... game over. Chris Sale moving them down this afternoon: 1-0 Sox, bottom 7, 12 Ks

5th starter Joe Ross to have TJ surgery Ross has a decent record this year but pretty bad peripherals so it's not like they have to replace a main cog here. Jacob Turner (2) and AJ Cole (1) are the only starters other than the main five to have started games for the Nats this year.

The downside to prospects ... sometimes they don't turn out to be what you think they're going to. So after coming out with their mid-season Top-50 list, BP goes back in time and does their Top-50 All-Time Bust List from the 'draft era' of MLB They admit up front that such a list is far from complete and that those listed were necessarily the worst players as some -- Gregg Jefferies -- went on to have nice careers, but rather they're trying to identify the gap between the final payoff as compared to what the hype was at the time and maybe figure out where it all went wrong. There are four NYMs in there. Well five really, but one kind of has an asterisk attached. On the other hand, four of the top (meaning worst) five were MFY prospects. And to think, it was just yesterday when I was talking about the Michael Pineda/Jesus Montero deal.

BA, in their write-up for #6 on this week's 'Hot Sheet': Since [Chris] Flexen was promoted to Double-A, all he’s done is allow one run or less in four of his first six starts while posting a 43-to-4 strikeout-to-walk ratio. Read more at http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/prospect-hot-sheet-july-14/#DVfzSOadHgaz7lvh.99

So just how dominant has Judge been? We were talking in the ASG thread about the odds of him coming at least slightly back down to earth. This piece agrees although he'd almost have to come down considering what a ridiculous outlier he's been so far this season.

And the Red Sox score twice in the 9th capped by a walk-off walk off Chapman !!!!

Our IGT'ing is still on break.

Both the Mets & Yanx games are in the top of the 5th as they approach the two-hour mark. At least our game has a partial excuse on account of there being ten runs scored. Sox are up a mere 3-1 in Boston as the Yanx bat in top 5. I've only seen a handful of batters in that game but I believe Gary Sanchez has already made 67 trips to the mound.

Tack-on boys, tack-on. A five run lead ain't nuthin 'gainst these Rockheads.

This injury almost certainly ends the MFY career of Pineda as he was due to qualify for FA-gency this winter anyway. It also essentially pulls the curtain down on one of the great 'challenge' trades of young players in recent memory: The January 2012 deal sent Pineda from Seattle to the Yanx for Jesus Montero. Montero had 61 ML ABs w/the Yanx at that point and was in the process of being named one of the Top-Ten prospects in all of baseball for the third consecutive year. He was nominally a catcher but was likely to be moved elsewhere while the one thing everyone "knew" is that he was going to hit. Pineda had a full rookie season in 2011 where he was an All-Star and placed 5th for AL RoY The Mariners appeared to have the initial edge in the challenge as Pineda missed all of 2012 and much of 2013 with injuries, and while Montero didn't set the Pacific northwest on fire in year one out west, he at least showed some power in his 2012 season. But after that he flat out stunk: he never learned to walk, they were forced to move him out from behind the plate; he ran into discipline and suspension problems, and mainly the one thing everyone counted on as a given flopped as well as he amassed a paltry .217/..255/.374 line from 2013-2015 . That was all when he wasn't being exiled to the minors which is where he currently sits in the Baltimore system. Pineda, while mostly mediocre and with an embarrassing pine tar incident on his record, at least gave the Yanx steady work starting with year three after the deal (76 starts for 2015 - 2017) even if it never matched the promise he showed as a 22 y/o rookie with Seattle.. So the boys on the Bronx side of the deal have to be labeled as the 'winners' here even if ultimately the BIG deal was much closer to a dud.

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