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When you review a player's game logs on Baseball-Reference, you can scroll to a date and get the player's career statistics up to and including that date. So I go to the day before the first anniversary of the player's promotion, and BOOM! chaka-laka-laka ... It isn't enough just to waste time on the Mets. You've got to COMMIT.

I have five large bet on El Diario this year. I also have a side bet that says ceetar won't approve.

The Baseball Cube. BOOM! http://thebaseballcube.com/extra/places/region.asp?ID=DEhttp://thebaseballcube.com/extra/places/region.asp?ID=DE

Suspicious shit coming together. Skaggs' abuse was an open secret. Five other players were identified as abusing opiates. Six players were questioned. Skaggs died on July first. Harvey was released on July 21. Harvey and Skaggs were lockermates. Etc. Nothing solid, but man.

=kcmets post_id=24579 time=1571308277 user_id=53] Just as an example, how does one fill a roster under your parameters with players from Guam when only one player from Guam played MLB ball in 2019? I didn't check MiLB, but my guess is we'd still fall quite short.

I'll tell you what: I took the easiest, with the California team, so I'll do the 64th-seed from the U.S. Merchant Marines, too. Because that's how much I care about you.

If you get brought up mid-season, you don't get the chance to have a full rookie season measured against the league or against history, but the next year your rookie eligibility is spent. So here's the rookie years of such persons in Metdom, if you measure their rookie season as beginning the day they come up and ending a calendar year later. Jeff McNeil, =#FF8000]July 24, 2018—July 23, 2019 [th]G [/th][th]PA [/th][th]AB [/th][th]R [/th][th]H [/th][th]2B [/th][th]3B [/th][th]HR [/th][th]RBI [/th][th]BB [/th][th]IBB [/th][th]SO [/th][th]HBP [/th][th]SH [/th][th]SF [/th][th]GDP [/th][th]SB [/th][th]CS [/th][th]BA [/th][th]OBP [/th][th]SLG [/th][th]OPS[/th]1496145588418837712603337219405116.337.393.493.886 That batting average would have led the league in either of the two seasons he straddled there. Rookies who've won a batting average title (at least since 1900) is a two-man club: Tony Oliva and Ichiro Suzuki. His hit total would have been the 11th best in Mets history, and the most for any Mets rookie by 30. His hit-by pitch total would have been the sixth-highest ever garnered by a rookie (but not a Mets record, as Pete Alonso got hit by 21 this season). David Wright, =#FF8000]July 21, 2004—July 20, 2005 [th]G [/th][th]PA [/th][th]AB [/th][th]R [/th][th]H [/th][th]2B [/th][th]3B [/th][th]HR [/th][th]RBI [/th][th]BB [/th][th]IBB [/th][th]SO [/th][th]HBP [/th][th]SH [/th][th]SF [/th][th]GDP [/th][th]SB [/th][th]CS [/th][th]BA [/th][th]OBP [/th][th]SLG [/th][th]OPS[/th]16165358995171402288754010470316144.290.355.508.863 Looks like it wasn't Darryl Strawberry's rookie homer record that Peter Alonso broke, although once we give the same treatment to Strawberry tomorrow, he's probably going to show 30 or more. But look at Sugar's double total! Mets rookie record to this day!

Here's to Alonso and Rosario (after a September preview) starting their rookie seasons on April 1, and not having their freshman Schaeferness forever undermined by a season that's long enough to count as a rookie year, but too short to accumulate significant beer.

You're getting the guy he is.

Yeah, I think the idea would be "What if there was a tournament this offseason?" So Ty Cobb probably wouldn't be much of an asset to the Georgia team.

Mets Willets Point Oct 07 2017 02:04 AM Re: Who will manage the Mets (split from Terry Hot Seat) I think like 90% of a MLB manager's job these days is keeping his players happy and maintaining cordial relations with the media. So basically, no assholes who will fight with their players or fight with the press, and we should be fine. I think we should let Willets pick the next manager.

I'm seeing some social media posts even now calling for Wally Backman. He is the Mets' Donald Trump, in that, for his hardcore supporters, there is no red line that he can cross that will lead them to forsake him.

Retroactive Schaefer Rookies of the Year =#FF8000]Because Retroactive Schaefer is the Best Schaefer 2019: Pete Alonso 2018: Amed Rosario 2017: Robert Gsellman 2016: Steven Matz 2015: Noah Syndergaard 2014: Jacob deGrom 2013: Juan Lagares 2012: Kirk Nieuwenhuis (Harvey was third) 2011: Justin Turner 2010: Ike Davis 2009: Omir F. Santos 2008: Bazooka Joe Smith 2007: Bazooka Joe Smith again! (I think — it was a lousy year for rooks) 2006: John Maine 2005: Victor Diaz There was no Schaefer tabulation here before that, so I'm going to make executive award presentations to David Wright for 2004 and José Reyes for 2003.

[FIMG=500]https://i0.wp.com/www.ecustoms.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/baseball-in-america.jpg?fit=800%2C477&ssl=1[/FIMG] Imagine a baseball tournament. It's a 64-team knockout bracket with each team representing a U.S. state, territory, or armed service division. Eligible to play for the team is any player — major league, minor league, retired, college, schoolboy, AAU — that was born in that state or territory. (We're assuming money and logistics have been sorted out to allow the very best to participate.) The only exceptions are: the Native American team, which would allow any player born on a U.S.-based reservation or holding an American Indian Card (basically, self-identifying Native Americans), and the military teams, which would be open to any player who has served (which unfortunately wouldn't include a whole lot of current pros), provided they didn't receive a dishonorable discharge. Also, students and graduates of the service academy would be eligible for that branch's team. We've got to get 64 teams out there. Teams meet for three-game elimination series, so you'll need your whole pitching staff, and things might get a little wild after the brutal eliminations of the bottom half of the bracket in Round One. The top-ranked California team may look like this: Starting Pitchers (5)[th]Name[/th][th]2019 Affiliation[/th][th]Highest Level[/th][th]Born[/th]Shane BieberCleveland IndiansMLB ASOrangeGerrit ColeHouston AstrosMLB ASNewport BeachLucas GiolitoChicago White SoxMLB ASSanta MonicaCole HamelsChicago CubsMLB ASSan DiegoStephen StrasburgWashington NationalsMLB ASSan DiegoRelief Pitchers (7)[th]Name[/th][th]2019 Affiliation[/th][th]Highest Level[/th][th]Born[/th]Brad BoxbergerKansas City RoyalsMLB ASFullertonZack BrittonNew York YankeesMLB ASPanorama CithTrevor CahillLos Angeles AngelsMLB ASOceansideChris DevenskiHouson AstrosMLB ASSan CerritosSergio RomoMinnesota Twins/Miami MarlinsMLB ASBrawleyTrevor BauerCincinnati RedsMLB ASNorth HollywoodRyan CookSeattle MarinersMLB ASClovisCatchers (2)[th]Name[/th][th]2019 Affiliation[/th][th]Highest Level[/th][th]Born[/th]Jason CastroMinnesota TwinsMLB ASCastro ValleyTravis d'ArnaudNew York Mets/Los Angeles Dodgers/Tampa Bay RaysMLBLong BeachInfielders (6)[th]Name[/th][th]2019 Affiliation[/th][th]Highest Level[/th][th]Born[/th]Nolan ArenadoColorado RockiesMLB ASNewport BeachMatt ChapmanOakland AthleticsMLB ASVictorvilleBrandon CrawfordSan Francisco GiantsMLB ASMountain ViewFreddie FreemanAtlanta BravesMLB ASFountain ValleyD.J. LeMahieuNew York YankeesMLB ASVisaliaEvan LongoriaSan Francisco GiantsMLB ASDowneyDustin PedroiaBoston Red SoxMLB ASWoodlandOutfielders (5)[th]Name[/th][th]2019 Affiliation[/th][th]Highest Level[/th][th]Born[/th]Ryan BraunMilwaukee BrewersMLB ASMission HillsAdam JonesArizona DiamondbacksMLB ASSan DiegoAaron JudgeNew York YankeesMLB ASLindenJeff McNeilNew York MetsMLB ASSanta BarbaraJoc PedersonLos Angeles DodgersMLB ASPalo Alto Manager Torey Lovullo is a lucky man. Because California is California, that's a team of all current big leaguers, all of whom have at least one All-Star Game behind them, most with more than one. The only exception there is Travis d'Arnaud, but I bet if I looked hard enough I could find another active All-Star catcher from the Golden State. Also, some dudes (Trevor Bauer, I'm looking your way) may have an All-Star pedigree but are coming off a crap season. But that's my first pass. Here's the seeding. Pick a team and make us a 25-man roster for that team. [TABLE][TR][TD]1) California 2) Florida 3) Texas 4) Georgia 5) Illinois 6) New York 7) Pennsylvania 8) Ohio[/TD][TD]9) Tennessee 10) North Carolina 11) Puerto Rico 12) New Jersey 13) Virginia 14) Indiana 15) Washington 16) Alabama[/TD][TD]17) Missouri 18) South Carolina 19) Massachusetts 20) Arizona 21) Oklahoma 22) Louisiana 23) Kentucky 24) Michigan[/TD][TD]25) Nevada 26) Mississippi 27) Maryland 28) Oregon 29) Connecticut 30) Colorado 31) Iowa 32) Minnesota[/TD]

While the geometric perspective of that frame is a little off, Eric Reaves drew an interesting crowd there. The shifty bank robber and the Chinese rabbi seem to be having a particularly furtive conversation. He could have moved the word balloon to the top right, so we can see the heads of Mr. Guitar Guy and Ms. Long-Sleeved Shift Dress.

If there was a Schaefer Rookie of the Month, Alonso would have swept the year.

Did anybody answer the bell?

That HOME RUN LEADERS card kills it. I always noted which players looked like two heads on one torso in those cards, and Suarez and Bellinger keep that tradition alive. Longer-haired deGrom is welcome, despite its anachronism. Fatter, sleepier Dom Smith, not so much.

Yeah, we both spotted him. Mike Peters. The front man seemed like he was doing a version of Keith Richards that was older and crustier and of later vintage than the Johnny Depp version.

Twins catcher Jason Castro is from Castro Valley High School in Castro Valley, California.

We bailed on this early. This band lacked a Jynnky, or anybody you felt you could get behind. Disappointing, because it's a cool concept, but the writing doesn't take it anyplace interesting. Sort of like this song of theirs that's supposed to be great is a good idea, but the lyrics aren't there.

Look at that BAbip difference! Some might try to tell you that the first half number wasn't sustainable anyhow. But I have my issues with BAbip theory.

Consider the following two part-time players: [th][/th][th]G[/th][th]GS[/th][th]PA[/th][th]AB[/th][th]R[/th][th]H[/th][th]2B[/th][th]3B[/th][th]HR[/th][th]RBI[/th][th]SB[/th][th]CS[/th][th]BB[/th][th]SO[/th][th]BA[/th][th]OBP[/th][th]SLG[/th][th]OPS[/th][th]TB[/th][th]GDP[/th][th]HBP[/th][th]SH[/th][th]SF[/th][th]IBB[/th][th]ROE[/th][th]BAbip[/th]Player One766931828941101231736351838.349.409.509.9171473110022.385Player Two575424922142611501639211737.276.353.561.9141242100103.266 Considering that you're not dopes, I'm going to guess most of you have all figured out that these aren't part-time players at all, but that both players are Jeff McNeil in 2019 — the first-half version and the second-half version. In a strange turn of events, in the midst of an all-star year in his first full season, and while pursuing a batting title, McNeil became a recognizably different player — going from the epitome of the contact guy, a guy who defended the plate like a hockey goalie, spraying his deflections all over the field, to a guy who sits on the low and inside pitch, looking to drop the barrel head and pull the ball for power. If becoming the second guy meant sacrificing his prodigious plate coverage, he was seemingly willing to trade that for the increased power in his suddenly loopier swing. Amazingly, the overall level of his effectiveness, at least as suggested by his OPS, was virtually the same, even as he got there completely differently, turning from Ichiro to Robin Ventura. He got a noticeably better walk rate in the second half to go with the increased strikeouts, but his eye-raising HbP number actually went up a tick. Counter to what your intuition might suggest, he stayed out of double plays in both halves, and his strikeout rate didn't go up that much, from .119 to .149. That difference is real, but not crippling. Not immediately, anyhow. It's hardly outlandish to suggest that his changed profile was a product of him adjusting to the adjustments pitchers and defenses were making on him. And maybe the pendulum swings back next season toward the first-half player. Or maybe he even adjusts again and becomes still another type of hitter. But the question to you today is ... if he can only be one of those players above going forward, which would you like it to be? [FIMG=400]http://content.sny.tv/assets/images/4/3/8/306369438/cuts/750x422/cut.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=338]https://i0.wp.com/www.cbs17.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2019/09/095166ce9a7d458c8f55511cf2502dcf.jpg?resize=2560%2C1440&ssl=1[/FIMG] The difference between first-half Jeff McNeil and second-half Jeff McNeil in a nutshell.

I would love to coach if I could pre-pick a bunch of already-successful players — including the about-to-be two-time defending Cy Young Award winner — to surround myself with and make myself look genius. Who are you, Pat Riley?

Mets who served during The Korean War: Ed Bouchee, U.S.A. Eddie Bressoud Ed Charles Harry Chiti Roger Craig Willie Mays Vinegar Bend Mizell Herb Moford Joe Pignatano Norm Sherry Dick Stuart Tom Sturdivant Sammy Taylor, U.S.N. Execs include: Lou Gorman Whitey Herzog Harry Minor Of those, Bressoud, Craig, Herzog, Mays, Piggy, and Sherry remain to share the tale. Anchors aweigh, Sammy Taylor.