Frayed Knot

For Bruce to play any deeper there (the Stanton fly out) he would have needed a ticket.

Yelich - Stanton - Bour in bottom 16

Gwreck wrote: deGrom is a curious choice as first PH from the pitching staff. Might have gone with Syndergaard instead. Syndergaard starts tomorrow (aka: later today), he might not be at the park by this point.

I was nervous there for a moment thinking that maybe Nick Wittgren was Swedish for Rick Camp

It's midnight in Manhattan, this is no time to get cute.

Smoker is smoking in front of the smoke show. Terry's going to have to ride that horse til it drops.

Edgy MD wrote: Maybe T.J. came out of the game because the Mets had knocked out the starter early and the Marlins had no lefties in the pen. So you might as well get as many swings for Duda against righties as possible. I suggested that a while back. Do you supposed Rene Rivera has any secondary pitches that might be effective for an inning or two? oe: Nope, he's playing 1B instead.

Nice to see Reed get though that inning on just 8 pitches. He'll have to face the big boyz in the 11th, possibly to close out a win.

Nice game for d'Arnaud, just a few games after someone here was calling for him to be d'FA

Salas (Solace) might be our MVR so far this season.

Mr. Phelps self-destructed.

Looks like Yoenis is just going to have to hit a couple more tonight.

Edgy MD wrote: T.J.?! Probably was just to get Duda in now that they lefty starter is out and the Marlins have no LHRs to bring in later. Plus, with two Ks and 2 near-errors, it's not like TJR was exactly covering himself in glory tonight.

Zvon wrote: Gsellman at 69 pitches in the 4th. But right about half of those bullets were spent in the 1st. Since then he's been uber-efficient.

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That stat Gary quoted a few minutes ago, about Wilmer having 13 HRs in his last 110 ABs vs LHPs So given a hypothetical full season (let's say 550 ABs just to make the math easy) where he faces only LHPs, that's a pace for 65 homers

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Maybe I'll just read a book instead. Even the Book of Love* isn't as good as that comeback. * Who wrote that anyway?

Ashie62 wrote: Can't help but to wonder who our #6 starter is. Well, if you consider that Matz, Gsellman, and Lugo are, in some order, 5, 6, and 7, what you're really looking for is who #8 is. And your answer is probably Montero

7 runs* (so far) in an inning and a half on essentially one hard-hit ball (Ozuna's obviously). Scoring that Yelich grounder as a hit -- Awful!! -- makes all the runs against Gsellman earned. Flip the scoring and they all become UN-eraned. TJ not exactly making the most of his first start. Could have had two errors and then K's with the bases-loaded on 3 pitches. * oe: 8th run scores while I'm hitting 'Submit'

I remember being a passenger on that Brad Emaus bandwagon. But not only was he unable to hold onto the NYM starting job beyond mid-April, he never again played in the majors after that brief stint; out of the game as a 26 y/o.

For China this time (his parents country) after playing in previous WBCs for his own native Panama.

It could be worse, the Mets could still be connected to AAA New Orleans where someone had the great idea of changing the Zephyrs to ... the [u:3817zkzx]Baby Cakes[/u:3817zkzx] I think that even in New Orleans, which tends to do silly on a daily basis, this is considered really silly. The N.O. players are probably really embarrassed and keep getting picked on by other AAA players and having their lunch money stolen on account of their unis. [fimg=400:3817zkzx]http://www.milb.com/images/5/0/2/208985502/logos_rccihoah.jpg[/fimg:3817zkzx]

Series preview/KTE for Four-Game Series April 13-16 The only real change since we last played these guys way back four days ago is that they've put SS Adeiny Hechavarria on the DL (he sat the final game of the earlier series) and replaced him with J.T. Riddle. Riddle got his first ML hit on Wednesday night, a check-swing grounder down the third base line which was so slow that, if this were a fishing contest, he'd be required to throw it back. THU Apr 13 - 7:10 Robert Gsellman vs Wei-Yin Chen Chen held us to 1 run on 7 hits over 6 innings in last week’s game FRI Apr 14 - 7:10 Noah Syndergaard vs Adam Conley 1 run on 1 hit over 5 IP was our total off Conley SAT Apr 15 - 7:10 Jacob deGrom vs Edinson Volquez 5 runs on 7 hits thru 6 IP SUN Apr 16 - 1:10 (an actual day game!! -- only the 2nd one of the season and of course it comes in the one NL East city where you don't need day games in April) Matt Harvey vs Dan Straily Straily is the one guy we didn’t see last week. He was briefly a fan fave as a rookie in Oakland (2012) but since then has bounced around with short stints with the Cubs, Astros, Reds before being dealt to the Marlins this winter. Faced him once as a Cub (Aug 16th, 2014) and whacked him for 4 runs over 5 innings in a 7-3 NYM win. That we're playing seven games in ten days vs Miami and yet somehow Don't get to fatten up the ERA of the criminally under-educated Tom Kohler [2-8, 4.36 in 18 starts career] seems so unlikely that it must have been rigged by the league for some reason.

Yeah, I started thinking about this during our last series and am leaning this way too. Even though his last two seasons were just the 2nd & 3rd in his career, Yelich's better BA/OBA edge brought his RC/27 nearly to Stanton's level (6.04 vs 6.33) while being available some 40% more (1,060 ABs vs 690) Then thrown in better runner & fielder, a closing of the gap in power which is GS's obvious big strength, with a feeling that Yelich may be, like say Murphy or young Edgardo, that type of opposite field hitter finding his power stroke as he matures.

Marlins Question of the day in advance of our second series with them. You're being offered your choice of either Giancarlo Stanton or Christian Yelich for the next five seasons. For purposes of this exercise let's ignore current contract and service time status -- I'm the agent for both and am offering you either/or for the exact same five-year deal -- and that yours is a generic team so who you've currently got on your roster doesn't influence the choice. But you do have to take them at their current ages, conditions, and with all their real or perceived strengths and weaknesses. Yelich: Age 25 (26 in Dec); 6' 3"/195; BL/TR; coming off a .298/.376/.483 season. Plays both LF & CF; above average runner. Debuted mid-season 2013; Full-time player by '14; 2016 was his first double-digit (21) HR year. 19th in 2016 MVP Stanton: Age 27 (28 in Nov); 6' 6"/245; BR/TR; .240/.326/.489 in 2016. Decent glove but probably wouldn't want him in CF, better arm than CY. Debut in June 2010; Full-time by 2011 but played 140+ games only twice since (2011 & 2014). Never fewer than 24 HRs even in partial seasons, three times 34 or more. 2nd in 2014 MVP Who ya' going for?