Edgy MD

The Rangers are afraid of other Rangers.

Gosh, giftiest RBI of Soto's career.

Nimmo taking the early lead in The Battle of Vengeance.

Two solid blasts in the first got run down by the Texas outfield. This Langford guy, who made one of those catches, got sent down swinging along with Seagar to start off against Manaea. I can't even see the stadium and it seems to make for a boring setting for baseball. STRIKE THREE ON YOUNG!

Are Jerry Manuel and Andy now the only Met managers who interimed their way into the full-time job? Westrum took over mid-season, but I feel like he got the job on the spot. Harrelson, too.

Holy smokes, right? I guess his disinterest was more about being disinterested until the right terms came along.

Guess I'm gonna miss homer #300.

Sorry, I took a temporary telemarketing gig and the team was offering a sweet bonus if I reached my quota. Had I known that was you, I'd have blown you up front and then told you about the Thursday family combo package.

My issue with Williams was not signing him, but riding him out there in the ninth chance after chance after chance, with so many other veteran relievers having great seasons, every lead they had was managed around getting the ball to Williams in the ninth. Any manager who stops with the VIP treatment for his alleged closer is going to get so many smooches from me. I don't think everything went wrong, though. Certainly many or most of the short-term moves did.

Blackburn stunk in 2025, but he had only one appearance for the Mets after June 28. The guys starting down the stretch were McLean/Holmes/Sproat/Manaea/Peterson/Tong. The first two were good, the last two were very bad, and the guy in the middle was pretty bad too. The guy who got too much patience was probably Peterson. Somebody should have replaced him but Sproat and McLean were already up, getting nine starts and two relief appearances between them in September. Maybe they should have been more aggressive in calling people up in August, but August to me was more about the deadline trades being one clunker after another.

I don't remember this. I do remember accusations here that calling up Tong and was a desperation move that damaged him.

I tend to think Greenie is going back to the front office, and I tend to think he'll get that GM role. The dismissal of the notion of a GM, I think, has not been about "it's never gonna happen," so much as "it'll happen when it happens, so don't ask me about it." I'll be happy if they add a bunting coach.

It's going to take an Alamo full of hits down in Texas for Carson Benge to catch Projected Hubie, but AJ Ewing has a damn good chance of catching Real-World Hubie. And the more things that are about Hubie Brooks as the season winds down, the better. # SEASON ROOKIE HITS PROJECTION 1 1981 Hubie Brooks 169.7 PROJECTION 2 2026 Carson Benge 163.0 1 2026 👑Carson Benge👑 157 2 2019 Pete Alonso 155 3 2003 Ty Wigginton 146 4 1963 Ron Hunt 145 5 2000 Jay Payton 142 6 2010 Ike Davis 138 PROJECTION 3 1981 Mookie Wilson 137.3 7 1966 Cleon Jones 136 8 1977 Lee Mazzilli 134 9 1989 Gregg Jefferies 131 10 1996 Rey Ordóñez 129 11 2004 Kazuo Matsui 125 12 2003 Jason Phillips 120 13 2011 Justin Turner 113 PROJECTION 4 2026 AJ Ewing 111.1 14 1981 Hubie Brooks 110 15 1983 Darryl Strawberry 108 T16 2026 AJ Ewing 107 T16 2001 Tsuyoshi Shinjo 107 PROJECTION 5 1995 Edgardo Alfonzo 104.6 18 1977 Steve Henderson 104 19 1962 Jim Hickman 96 20 2013 Juan Lagares 95 T21 1995 Edgardo Alfonzo 93 T21 2014 Travis d'Arnaud 93 23 1982 Ron Gardenhire 92 T24 1965 Ron Swoboda 91 T24 1986 Kevin Mitchell 91 PROJECTION 6 1972 John Milner 89.3 26 1981 Mookie Wilson 89 PROJECTION 7 1995 Carl Everett 88.9 27 2011 Lucas Duda 88 T28 1962 Rod Kanehl 87 T28 1969 Wayne Garrett 87 T28 1988 Kevin Elster 87 31 1972 John Milner 86 32 2003 Jose Reyes 84 PROJECTION 8 2020 Andres Gimenez 83.7 T33 1996 Alex Ochoa 83 T33 2004 Mike Fitzgerald 83 35 1976 Bruce Boisclair 82 36 2023 Francisco Alvarez 80

Boogers.

Win it for Howie!

Let's get Warren to the plate this inning!

And a three-run triple equals blerb.

Senga is a rough poor-condition pitcher, I tend to think.

Gosh, Soto.

Fair enough. And as he singles to right, the slow field is working for the Mets left and right.

Brett Baty batting for Luis Torrens means the Mets lose the DH with no outs in the seventh.

Chased.

It'd be very cool if they want to chase Sánchez here.

Mets on board. It's a good thing the grounds crew cleaned up the ground in the second deck.

Benge added to his hit total. Not much more to recommend it so far, but they're trying to get the field back. Ron Darling just described his ex-wife as "my lady."