Edgy MD

Threw three pitches on August 25 to walk away with his first pitching victory as a big-leaguer since 2018, as the Mets dug out of a 3-0 hole to score 13 unanswered runs against the first-place Phils, starting a three-game sweep. It was the game that, if the Mets make anything of this season, will be remembered as the turning point. Not the sort of figure I would have DFA'd.

Transactions, 9/3/2025 [table][tr][th]Direction[/th][td90]GOING[/td90][/tr] [tr][th]Transaction [/th][td90]Claimed off Waivers by SEA[/td90][/tr] [tr][th]Position Group [/th][th]Relief Pitchers[/th][/tr] [tr][th][/th][td90][fimg=90]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/d_people:generic:headshot:67:current.png/w_213,q_auto:best/v1/people/620454/headshot/67/current[/fimg][/td90][/tr] [tr][th]Name [/th][td90]José Castillo [fimg=50]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/venezuelan-flag-small.png[/fimg][/td90][/tr] [tr][th]DoB[/th][td90]1996-01-10[/td90][/tr] [tr][th]B/T[/th][td90]L/L[/td90][/tr] [tr][th]High Level[/th][td90]MLB (2025)[/td90][/tr][/table] This one probably didn't have to happen. He threw two innings in 19-9 win, so it isn't like the pen was gassed and they needed a new arm.

No, I am not sick. You flatter yourself.

José Castillo has been claimed off waivers by the Seattle Mariners. Should he appear for them, it will be his third MLB team this season.

95. And I put forth Sproat the GOAT for a dumb nickname.

Word. All starters falter. Nice to have talent ripening as veteran starters falter.

Jesse Winker has been shut down, which I guess possibly ends his season.

Carlos Mendoza seems heavily fixated on the concept of "chasing the win." The notion, which has been in baseball forever, but without a name, basically equates to deploying your best pitching resources in a game in which you are trailing. The phrase was used by Buck Showalter a lot, but Mendoza seems pretty obsessed with it. Jerry Manuel was a guy who chased the win. He lamented his lack of an "eighth-inning guy," but would use his next-best reliever in any game from being down two in the late innings to being up four, in fighting to win every day. He didn't really lack an eight-inning guy, so much as he continually burned out the one he had. So as things often go, in realizing that destruction of that behavior, many baseball minds have over-corrected. Mendoza kind of obsesses on the subject. Gary mentioned two weeks ago that they discuss it regularly, and he asked Gary, "Down one in the seventh? Do I chase the win there?" Apparently, he is leaning toward no. He saw his team being down one in the bottom of the seventh as a time not to chase, but try to get his valued-but-going-bad reliever right. What he failed to appreciate was that, with the bullpen rested in a blowout the day before, and not needed for a travel day the day after, that yes, of course you chase the win. You can't use your best players every night, but still, you have to manage with the realization that somewhere for some fan of the team whose name you wear on your chest, this is the first game they will ever see. And for another fan, this is the last game they will ever see. And also, the team consciously and unconsciously takes messages from that sort of managing, and starts performing accordingly. Also, there is all sorts of middle ground between firing all of your guns at once and surrendering. When you have an eight-man bullpen, there is all sorts of middle ground between going to your most effective pitcher and going to your most faltering. You've gotta have Wa.

Every team has guys who rotate between the majors and minors. Every one.

They had a lot of opportunities — 13 baserunners — but Starling Marte kept coming up empty. Either that, or Nimmo would smash something that somehow found a glove. Marte still has something to give this team, but he has to be deployed more judiciously.

Soto just got as bad a called strike call as the Mets have gotten all year.

Nimmo is your tying run. Vientos is your go-ahead. GO!

Alonso is your tying run. Nimmo is the go-ahead.

Soto is your tying run in the ninth. Alonso is your go-ahead run.

Going with Marte ag'in'. At least he took one.

No. It is really weird how we are being asked to treat it as an established fact that Helsley's issue is tipping. Maybe he just isn't throwing good pitches.

Tiger closer unavailable today. Helsley has to keep that as relevant as possible.

That Marte at-bat had Opportunity for Jared Young written all over it, durn it.

Snorkelson going down on the bases is the Mets' secret weapon today.

Yabbut, it beats primetime on a Sunday. Anyhow, [FIMG=80]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/35/9e/14/359e14bb27e83ed42382f2bd707aaff4.jpg[/FIMG] looks sharp.

Hey, I missed a run!

Well. damned if it didn't pay off.

Tigers fishing for catcher's interference again?

It's all good ... unless they lose. Both teams giving up a run on the basepaths.

McNeil is suddenly looking to left field again the last two days.