Frayed Knot

Frayed Knot wrote: Damn, a walk ... that kills the inning!! Yup!

Damn, a walk ... that kills the inning!!

At least he didn't get called in to pitch. The Padres used two position player pitchers (Chritian Betancourt, Alexi Amarista) in the same game whilst getting blown out by the Mariners Tuesday night. I guess that's one of the privileges of being a 1st round draft pick.

d'Kong76 wrote: So if this goes into extras and god forbid Con4to K's again, does he get a platinum sombrero? And six is titanium.

Suddenly the moniker Con4to takes on a whole new meaning today. I'm not sure he's even seen more than 12 pitches in those 4 ABs/Ks

And just to switch it up this inning, we waste an opportunity that started with a one-out instead of the leadoff variety.

Mets putting on a clinic here at how to waste 4 leadoff walks in 5 innings: follow them up with hard-hit grounders right at infielders for easy GiDPs

soupcan wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: We have some people here who I believe are vastly over-rating Dilson Herrera's value. Yes, it's far-fetched. Not I. It was just a thought as to why a seemingly logical player move was not being made. I guess I just don't see it as the slam-dunk logical move as other seem to - at least not unless a decision is made to put Wright on the DL and, even then, I don't think they're going to start shifting players around the infield just to give Dilson an everyday job. And if it's just for a bench role then they've already called up the guy (Kelly) who switch-hits and was hitting .400 in AAA rather than Herrera who's at .270

This started out as a clean game and a quick one. Now it's neither.

Chad Ochoseis wrote: Oh, I recall. But I've lost track of how many days until his next one. Slated to start Friday apparently (Thursday's an off-day).

Chad Ochoseis wrote: I'm following along on gameday. Syndergaard out of the bullpen? If you recall, he threw fewer than his normal compliment of pitches in his last start.

We have some people here who I believe are vastly over-rating Dilson Herrera's value. Yes, it's far-fetched.

It's what I do.

Utley's lifetime numbers against the Mets aren't all that far off from his overall career norms: more power vs NYM but the BA & OBA about the same [.282/.376/.528 vs .281/.365/.477] Put another way, 15% of his HRs and about 12% of his doubles came against the Mets in 11% of his PAs

Ceetar wrote: soupcan wrote: Do you think not calling Herrera up may have something to do with management wanting to keep him from arbitration/free agency as long as possible? Basically not giving him the MLB time he needs to get to those milestones? seems unlikely he's good enough for that to matter. I think they don't want to call him up in advance of the big U.S. vs Columbia match which kicks off the Copa America on Friday night because, should the USA lose, the Columbian born Dilson could be selected as the target of rioting fans' derision. But seriously folks ... No, I don't think his FA/arb thresholds are of any consideration. He already has about 2/3 of a season's worth of ML service time under his belt from his call-ups in 2014 & '15 so in order for his specific call-up date to matter they'd have to hold him off until sometime in mid/late August (IOW, keep him under 1/3 of a season this year) in order to delay his FA eligibility to 2022 instead of '21, and even that's assuming that he stays up for good once called up, hardly a given at this point.

Centerfield wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Loney should be activated by Tuesday with either Campbell or Kelly banished back to Vegas - unless Dabid gets DL'd by then in which case they both stay although they'd start a whole lot less so at least there's that. Unless of course CF gets his wet dream and they send down one of them for Dilson Herrera but I'm not sure they're going to do that unless they intend to start him regularly. I doubt it though right? I'm thinking David gets DL'ed, Wilmer becomes the everyday 3B, and Loney more or less the everyday 1B. With Campbell & Kelly as all-around IF back-ups, yes. I don't think they're bringing Herrera up unless it's to play more or less everyday and, with Wilmer newly back and Loney freshly in, those two are going to get their chances now while Walker at 2nd falls into the 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' category.

cooby wrote: Wow. BREAKING: Giants OF Melky Cabrera suspended 50 games without pay after testing positive for Testosterone, a performance-enhancing substance. Is this true or false? I headed to my one fantasy team to drop him but I see no news of this It's a years-old tweet that got picked up and re-circulated without thought, a fact which becomes obvious when you realize that Cabrera is no longer even on the Giants but, in fact, currently plays for the White Sox and was on the field against the Mets this very afternoon.

Some of the body language from Rivera when Harvey was in there was almost comical to watch. He was fist-pumping, hand-waving, and just generally pumping and exhorting the Harvelous one while trying to will him to his first good outing of the year. You can't figure Rivera is long for this roster if/when both d'Arnaud & Plawecki are actually ever healthy at the same time. But having a top-notch defensive catcher and pitcher-handler is a cool and comforting luxury, a position that's probably been the biggest casualty of the numbers game in this era of expanded bullpens.

7:10 first pitch -- Mat Latos (6-1; 4.06) vs Steven Matz With so much wrapped up in the Nats & Dodgers series that preceded this one, we didn't get a chance to discuss the Sox much. They started out as the talk of baseball in some circles because they were threatening to make the Cubs not even the best team in their own town and sparked talk of a WSWS: a Windy Sity World Series. But then their 17-8 April has become a 10-17 May and they've dropped behind both the Royals and Indians in the AL Central with the Tigers hot on their tails. Latos, like his team, was also a lot better in April than he's been in May. ER by game start in April = 0, 1, 0, 1, 4 ER by game start in May = 4, 5, 5, 3, [u:2qyf0ov9]17[/u:2qyf0ov9]. OK that last one isn't real, I'm just anticipating that that's what we'll score in this one. He's also a bit of a hot-headed asshole whom I've disliked since shortly after he came up. And apparently I'm not the only one as the Sox are his 6th team in 8 seasons including his 5th just since 2014 (Cincy, Miami, both LA clubs, and now Chicago). He won a grand total of 9 games for four team across 2014-15 which not only explains the frequent travel but I like to think is also at least partially due to his team playing shitty behind him because he was forever getting pissed at them whenever someone would make an error or when a call wouldn't go his way. Oh yeah and he has lots of stupid tattoos which look even more ridiculous when your skin tone is about half a shade darker than albino. Steven Matz, on the other hand, doesn't suck, nor is he an asshole. Loney should be activated by Tuesday with either Campbell or Kelly banished back to Vegas - unless Dabid gets DL'd by then in which case they both stay although they'd start a whole lot less so at least there's that. Unless of course CF gets his wet dream and they send down one of them for Dilson Herrera but I'm not sure they're going to do that unless they intend to start him regularly.

Frayed Knot wrote: OK, another 8-pitch perfect inning from Reed. Considering that, plus how bad Familia's been lately, how much Familia threw last night, and that the pitcher's slot isn't likely to come up in this inning ... I'd send Reed back out there for the 9th/save. And it looks like that's exactly what Terry will NOT do.

OK, another 8-pitch perfect inning from Reed. Considering that, plus how bad Familia's been lately, how much Familia threw last night, and that the pitcher's slot isn't likely to come up in this inning ... I'd send Reed back out there for the 9th/save.

Wow. BREAKING: Giants OF Melky Cabrera suspended 50 games without pay after testing positive for Testosterone, a performance-enhancing substance. There seems to have been a time-shift here. As was mentioned on twitter. I have no idea what's going on there. I figured MLB was a reliable source. That's why one needs to think first before simply re-tweeting previous twits. A quick glance at that should have indicated the age of that tweet because Cabrera isn't on the Giants because he's on the field right in front of us!!

I would have gone to Conforto there. The Sox have 3 LHRs in their pen so, on the idea that you're 'saving' Conforto for later when there's not a lefty on the mound, there almost certainly will be one on the mound the second Conforto was announced into the game.

Zvon wrote: Wow. BREAKING: Giants OF Melky Cabrera suspended 50 games without pay after testing positive for Testosterone, a performance-enhancing substance. There seems to have been a time-shift here.

bmfc1 wrote: How many outs will Terry waste before he realizes that Harvey is a horrible bunter? He figures it's better than a GiDP