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So we've had two ML debuts in the last week-plus and we've made them face first Scherzer (Reynolds) and now Strasburg (Kelly).
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Benjamin Grimm wrote: Wait, so he's playing for a Padres farm team, but he can opt for free agency? The Mets can just sign him, without having to send any players or money to San Diego? The opt-out probably states something along the lines of if he's not called up to the Padres big club by a certain date (June 1st?) then he can opt out of his deal and then, yes, he would in effect by a FA with no compensation due to SD Loney never turned out to be the player I though he was going to when he first showed up with the Dodgers. But as a stop-gap it's not a bad move [.291/.337/.393 from 2013-15 w/TB, 26 HRs over 1,500 ABs] and, if nothing else, he's a terrific fielder and still just turned 32 y/o a few weeks back. Coincidentally, James Loney is the target comp many use for Dom Smith: good glove, average-hitting 1B with less HR power than typical of that position.
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Centerfield wrote: Is Eric Campbell seriously hitting 6th? Well, when you consider that #7-9 are: the catcher with a 573 career OPS (compared to Campbell's 635), the 28 y/o making his ML debut, and the pitcher, it's not like there are a lot of great choices for 6th
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Edgy MD wrote: Votto is off to an horrific start, but his contract goes for another eight years. On the other hand, as time passes, it might start to seem more reasonable. Eight years for a guy who will be 33 y/o before the first of those eight even starts makes him a no-go for me. Even if the Phils pick up 75%, Howard remains untouchable? At .156/.226/.359 ... ummm, yeah.
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Centerfield wrote: 2. That guy that used to be in Pittsburgh that hits HR's but strikes out a lot. Forgot his name and where he ended up. He was non-tendered. Pedro Alvarez. Finally signed in March to be the DH in Baltimore where he's playing part-time (100 ABs, mostly vs RHPs) and hitting .191 w/2 HRs
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Friday is the earliest he can come off the DL and it is expected that he'll be ready to go by then. So we get to muddle along with Campbell/Kelly for tonight and tomorrow, then take things from there.
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Wilmer's going to get the majority of the time, and that should start as soon as Friday. So we'll patch through with Campbell/Kelly for the next two games at which point one will be sent back (and it pretty much doesn't matter which). Or they could send both back and call Dilson up. That would allow Walker to play the all-purpose IF guy, swapping at 1st with Wilmer, at 3rd with Wright, and with Herrera at 2nd. I'm not against Conforto trying his hand at 1st also but I don't see that as anything more than an occasional thing.
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Colon has been battling some back soreness as well, something which explains his passive approach at the plate last night. �I thought it wasn�t worth it to swing,� Colon said. �I swing at the balls pretty hard and I thought, �Not worth making my back worse,� so I told their catcher from the beginning, �Just throw it right down the middle, [i�m] not swinging.�
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Tough weekend for injuries even in the non-Duda category. - Tampa's super-CF Kevin Kiermaier has a busted hand (sliding catch), is having surgery Tuesday, and will miss 8-10 weeks - Alex Gordon goes on KC's DL. Broken wrist, at least 3-4 weeks for a team that was struggling with him - Texas put both Shin-Soo Choo on the DL (hammy) and Drew Stubbs on their DL Also, and stop me if you've heard this before, Josh Hamilton is having knee surgery and will miss the entire 2016 season (he had yet to play this year)
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There's an old joke about books like that: My book was a million seller, they printed a million copies and most of them are sitting in my cellar.
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batmagadanleadoff wrote: This is what I kinda thought was going on. If Wright is making less overall contact -- and he undoubtedly is -- but hitting the ball harder, then he's likely being more selective. Probably with pitches at and near the edges of the plate that he recognizes that he can no longer hit -- at least not as good as he used to. On those pitches, he's just letting them go by, hoping to get the ball instead of strike call. That selectivity would also explain the increased pct of K's-looking. My only gripe with the piece is that BP (as BP tends to do) is taking a small sample size and acting as if they now know the set pattern for the remainder of his career. Maybe that will be it, but that's a big assumption to make based on just 26 games - the number that Davey had played up to the point of the article. And it's not like his K-rate hasn't fluctuated before.
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Phils lose, Marlins win, Braves off (and also irrelevant).
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Gary brings up the first booth mention (that I've heard anyway) of Ron's recent child.
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themetfairy wrote: Bullshit - he was off the bag! That was one of those calls that shouldn't have been overturned if originally called out or if originally called safe. But MLB has decided that it's terribly important to "correct" calls that were razor-thin one way or the other with somewhat educated guesswork which may or may not be as accurate as what they started with.
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d'Kong76 wrote: I'd think a broken back will take more than 4-6 weeks to heal. [fimg=400]http://application.denofgeek.com/princess%20bride.jpg[/fimg] It's only mostly broken.
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As long as it's not [u:12wcx1sl]R[/u:12wcx1sl] Kelly I suppose we're all right. Ty Kelly: SW/R; 6' 0", 180 lbs 27 y/o (28 in July) from Stockton, CA by way of UC Davis Drafted 13th round, Baltimore Orioles 2009 Been in the orgs of Balt, Sea, StL, Toronto and now the Mets including parts of five different seasons at AAA Career AAA stats = .280/.382/.382 w/24 HRs across 1,175 ABs Has started just 3 games at 1B (all this week?) in 8 seasons. Mostly 2B & 3B with assorted OF time as well.
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This inning at least partially making up for that 0-3 w/RiSP debacle in the 1st inning. And they continue to pile on.
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Change to strike zone, intentional walks
Frayed Knot replied to Benjamin Grimm's topic in New York Mets Talk
"Didn't MLB enact a rule recently about how much time the batter has to step into the batter's box?" -- Not a specific time, but a mandate that he not step out each time, etc. "And is MLB [crossout]they[/crossout] actually enforcing that rule?" -- Of course not, which is at least part of the reason that this season's games have given back four of the celebrated seven minutes they knocked off of games from 2014. I'm convinced that the biggest problem with the pace of game is more in attitude rather than rule changes. Maybe the actual time limits they've put into minor league games (complete with time clock enforcement techniques) will breed a generation of major leaguers who don't come up with the intricate step-out/glove-adjusting routines that the current crop takes as a divine right that, if forced to abandon, would screw up their entire career. -
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (I always have to look up his name to remember the proper order and placement of the names and hyphen) as Phillipe Petit during the French street performer's planning and eventual execution of his 1974 wire-walk across the two World Trade Center towers. Regardless of the quality of the movie as a whole -- kind of cartoonish characters at times including JG-L's French accent (though the actor can and does speak the language) and heavy use of quite obvious CGI -- the scenes of the stunt itself are sweat-inducing scary/cool. Maybe it's just because I'm not great with heights -- not a basket case but let's just say that I was never the first kid up the tree as a youth -- but I spent the walking scenes of the movie with a towel next to me in order to keep my dripping palms from starting a minor flood despite sitting on a very stable couch at the time.
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Oh all of these guys are big* -- even the non-tall ones (Robles, Bastardo) are pretty thick -- so you'd certainly suspect that the table next to you is something other than the accounting department's monthly dinner meeting. But I was just talking about facial recognition devoid of context as, if Familia was in the bathroom at the time, I'd be totally clueless. * Reed = 6'4" / 230 Blevins = 6'6" / 190 Robles = 5'11" / 185 (I'd have guessed bigger) Henderson = 6'5" / 220 Verrett = 6'2" / 190 Bastardo = 5'11" / 205 Familia = 6'3" / 240
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Change to strike zone, intentional walks
Frayed Knot replied to Benjamin Grimm's topic in New York Mets Talk
Not sure that I buy the reasoning behind tweaking the strike zone. "the change is a reaction to a trend by umpires to call strikes on an increasing number of pitches below the knees." says the article, but then several of the opinions offered after that were vague on whether they thought it would accomplish what they intend. And as big a proponent as I've been about getting rid of the dead time in the game, I've never seen the 'automatic' IW as the place to do it, or that the IW is even dead time to begin with. -
Because bullpen guys tend to remain mostly anonymous on account of them appearing in short shifts, going days without appearing at all, and dropping on or off the roster so frequently, if I happened to be seated at the adjacent table to that crew, or even the waiter who was serving that table, with the exception of Familia, I'd probably be totally ignorant to who they were.
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I'm assuming the two baldies are bullpen catchers? Other than that, we've got Familia & Ricky Bones seated. Then from the left that should be Robles, Verrett, Henderson, ?, Reed, Warthen, Blevins, Bastardo, ?
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Just 1 Homerun so far, but his overall numbers are climbing after a slow 2016 start: .289/.361/.416 in 167 PAs with 14 of his 43 hits for XB (10 doubles, 3 triples, 1 HR) (I just wanted to try out the kaboom feature)
