Frayed Knot
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Turned out to be a good move to hold Crawford, but you had to hold him there either way. He would have been dead. Smoltz talked early on about how good Japan's infield defense is, but both USA runs have come via infield mishaps. I gotta admit, I had to look up who US reliever Nate Jones was (ChiSox reliever since 2012)
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41Forever wrote: They haven't had a rainout in LA in 17 years! Freakin' climate change!!!
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Edgy MD wrote: What does he look like to you? Like a guy who sucks up to the established boys by shrink-wrapping the car of the minor league player, OF Kevin Kaczmarski, who parked in deGrom's parking spot. [fimg=350]http://mlb.mlb.com/assets/images/8/0/6/220165806/cuts/plastic_car_cdupsmdx_8s7kvtbt.jpg[/fimg]
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The Yanx expect SS Didi Gregorius, who injured his shoulder while playing for the Netherlands team in the WBC, to not only miss opening day but be sidelined until some time in May.
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From Sports Illustrated They suggest taking the Mets for 'Over' CHICAGO CUBS96.5CLEVELAND93.5LOS ANGELES NL92.5BOSTON91.5NEW YORK METS90.5WASHINGTON90.5ST LOUIS88.5HOUSTON87.5SAN FRANCISCO87.5PITTSBURGH85.5SEATTLE85.5TEXAS85.5TORONTO85.5BALTIMORE84.5DETROIT84.5NEW YORK AL83.5KANSAS CITY81.5COLORADO80.5LOS ANGELES AL76.5MIAMI76.5TAMPA BAY75.5CINCINNATI73.5PHILADELPHIA72.5ARIZONA71.5CHICAGO WS71.5MILWAUKEE71.5MINNESOTA70.5OAKLAND66.5SAN DIEGO64.5
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So the legal system has run its course, we're within two weeks of the opening of the season, the DR has been eliminated from the WBC, and we still don't have a decision from the commish's office on what, if any, suspension JF is going to be hit with to start the year.
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#7 = Tom Gorman
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Frayed Knot wrote: Which will this game see more of tonight? - replay reviews - mound meetings - Dutch runners thrown out on the basepaths The final answer to this one is almost certainly Mound Meetings (at one point there was a mid-AB pitching change on a 1-1 count for no apparent reason) although 'C' gave it a run for its money. In addition to their base-running follies of the early innings, the Netherlands managed to hit into four inning-ending GiDPs most notably to end the 8th, 9th, and 11th innings. That'll leave a mark in a close game! Both teams started the 11th inning off with a sac bunt to move the auto-runners up to 2nd & 3rd. Then both defenses IW'd the next hitter to load the bases and set up the force. Netherlands grounded into the inning-ending DP in the top half of the inning. PR got a game-winning Sac-Fly after their IW in the bottom half.
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I stayed awake for about 3 innings. Fuck the left coast start times on a weeknight. What are you complaining about? It was over (slightly) before 2:00 AM! Although if it wasn't for the 'runners on' rule starting in the 11th inning, who knows when (or even if) it would have actually ended. I bailed after six.
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So do they get a refund on those tickets if he does real well and gets promoted to PSL in mid-season? Or if he plays so poorly that that he's back to the SEC Network before all of those games come up on the schedule?
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Which will this game see more of tonight? - replay reviews - mound meetings - Dutch runners thrown out on the basepaths
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Edgy MD wrote: I really don't know what the call should be. Which means it shouldn't be changed. Well, let's spend 20 minutes reviewing this play, and then make up for it with an automatic no-pitch walk next week. I like how Smoltz & Vasgerian mentioned the mound conversations, ten for the two teams combined while still in just the 4th inning (and it's a large part of why they're just in top 5th two hours into the game). Loved it also how Vasgerian mentioned how last week's PR/DR game had more mound meetings than any game "since Jorge Posada was still playing". And, as I'm typing, Molina goes out to the mound again.
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Dutch: weirdly aggressive on the basepaths, making two costly outs there in the first before a Wlad Balentien 2-run longball. That was such a ridiculous top of the 1st. The Nets got a single, a HBP, another single, then a HR in consecutive ABs and yet only wound up with 2 runs on account of twice getting their asses picked of bases by Yadier throwing behind runners.
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Sure, but any attendance spike most directly helps the owner of the team which, in this case, is not the Wilpons. Ya know who else is going to like this placement? The other Sally Lg owners: Two visits (six games) by T.T. coming to play YOUR _____________, get your tickets before they sell out!!!!
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Edgy MD wrote: And on that note, Newsday hits with a quote from Alderson that T is indeed opening in Columbia. By placing him between the Rookie level teams and Port St Lucie, this at least partially kills those theories that this is all an attendance ploy for one of the Wilpon-owned minor league squads.
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We Are, In Fact, Eating More Beats 2017
Frayed Knot replied to G-Fafif's topic in New York Mets Talk
A small item in one of the papers recently said that WFAN is likely to be cutting back on travel assignments for their longtime NYM reporter Ed Coleman (and also Sweeny Murti on the NYY side). Nothing seems to be definite yet but speculation is that neither is going to be on road trips anywhere west of the Mississippi this year. -
Edgy MD wrote: METS LOSE! BUT THEY SAVE FACE! Just not with faces that anyone would recognize.
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Once We Were Kings: Continuing Careers of Ex-Mets in 2017
Frayed Knot replied to Edgy MD's topic in New York Mets Talk
Josh Thole, trying to hook on with Arizona, is possibly looking at surgery and a season-long recovery from it due to a severely torn hamstring. He's going to get a second opinion before deciding on anything, although I suspect that second opinion will likely tell him that he'll need to hit better regardless of how long it takes his hammy to recover. -
Edgy MD wrote: A two-run McCutcheon double puts the US up 6-3 and I'm hitting the sack. I didn't last even that long, but that's what tends to happen when a late-starting game is past the 3-hour mark by the time you hit the 7th inning. Did watch the replay of the late innings this morning. US hangs on to the 6-3 win, will face Japan on Tuesday while Puerto Rico faces them Dutch folks on Monday. Championship on Wednesday. All remaining games in Dodger Stadium, all at 9 PM EDT That HR Jones stole was headed for about 'Row E' in RCF Stanton's HR earlier in the game might still be going if it hadn't run into that brick building behind the LF wall.
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Edgy MD wrote: This is a minor disaster. Gsellman up with a runner on third and two outs and goes down attempting to bunt three times. Yeah, that was supposed to be fixed by now. During one of the earlier games they were talking about how much he was looking forward to swinging the bat this year.
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So the final game of the 2nd round comes down to the US v DR in a winner-advances/loser-goes-home game, just what those running this tourney must have been hoping for ... and it's being staged at 10:00 at night for those on the east coast. I guess they're doing the separate admissions thing and figure that they need time to empty, then clean, then re-fill the stadium. The PR/Venz game goes off at 3:30 EDT which they couldn't make much earlier seeing as how that's 12:30 local time.
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It's a bit odd in that it's been the one-dimensional sluggers who seem to be the guys taking deals on a short-term basis right now (Encarnacion, Trumbo, etc.) Meanwhile Kevin Keirmeier just got a long-term $50+ million dollar deal from TBR, well short of his FA years, on the basis of his outstanding CF defense despite sporting just a low-700s OPS for his career. Not that I expect that Pagan would get a L-T deal at his age, but it does surprise me that a versatile player like him is out in the cold two weeks before the season opens.
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I hadn't realized that Angel Pagan's deal with SFG had run out and he is, at the moment anyway, unattached with any ML team. Turns 36 at mid-season but certainly didn't have a bad season in 2016: .277/.331/.418 // 750 w/39 XBH in 500 ABs Seems to me that a switch-hitter with his speed and glove (although I don't think he's the fielder he used to be) would be at least semi-valuable somewhere.
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One day you're getting no-hit thru 7, the next you're putting up two touchdowns (w/PATs) by the end of the 3rd. 'I tell ya, you just can't explain baseball Suzyn'
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Ceetar wrote: I'd prefer he not lead off because of his OBP but he checks too many of the boxes for Terry to not do it. Although it's not like anyone else on this squad is busting the OBP-a-thon meter either. It would be fine with me if he didn't lead off, but there's also no other obvious answer.
