Edgy MD

One, anyhow.

=Fman99 post_id=21644 time=1568252474 user_id=86] Pete's moustache kicks ass. He looks like he's going to go out after the game and smash 70's porn puss with big unshaven moofs.

Edgy MD wrote: Do you think they don't feel Lowrie is safe to put on defense? This would have been the game to do it. Put him at third and Frazier at first. They could also put Davis at first.

Is this the first 9/11 in which MLB forsook the league-wide goofy-design patriotizm hats?

Do you think they don't feel Lowrie is safe to put on defense? This would have been the game to do it. Put him at third and Frazier at first.

It's an unfair world. Sure he can. I tend to wait until the seventh inning to pull the starter in games like this, but 109 pitches wasn't going to get him sent out again. We may see Diaz tonight also.

Alonso's missing a heck of a game. I think the guy may need a blow. Get him out of this game, anyhow.

Marlins tie it up with the Brews!

Tony Danza in the house.

I was thinking that they should have sent Alonso home on McNeil's double. There are two outs. Then I realized the team was up 7-0, and you play station-to-station in such situations. Then I realized it was 2019, and they should have sent Alonso home.

My Todd is red hot! Your Todd ain't diddley-squat!

dinosaur jesus wrote: Pete's taking a big hit for his defense. If you gave him Ike's defensive numbers, I suspect he'd be into Koosman/Matlack/Seaver territory on Baseball Reference and a solid second on FanGraphs. And if you made him a shortstop who fielded like Ordonez and ran like Esix Snead, I guess it wouldn't even be a contest. What, you're not going to let him pitch every fifth day?

It's weird to see Frazier and Laggy in the same lineup. Rare day off for Conforto.

I've got to think that was a light issue. It probably peaked in the lights and hung up there for a moment.

Yeah, purple and gold isn't so great for hiding in shadows, but the TV show had it right. Like Donnie Osmond, Prince, and Magic Johnson, Barbara Gordon belongs in purple. https://womenyoushouldknow.net/50-years-the-evolution-of-batgirls-costume-1966-2016/[fimg=600]https://womenyoushouldknow.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Evolution-of-Batgirl-Infographic-cropped.jpg[/fimg]

Here's a phun phact: The race for Outstanding Mets Rookie of 2019 might have already been unknowingly secured in game four, the moment Alonso hit his first homer — a go-ahead ninth-inning jobbie against Miami's Drew Steckenrider. fWAR by Mets Rookies in 2019 1) Peter Alonso: 4.6 2) Walker Lockett: 0.2 t-3) Chris Mazza: 0.1 t-3) Luis Guillorme: 0.1 t-5) Brooks Pounders: 0.0 t-5) Sam Haggerty: 0.0 t-7) Daniel Zamora: -0.1 t-7) Ryan O'Rourke: -0.1 t-7) Stephen Nogosek: -0.1 t-10) Jacob Rhame: -0.2 t-10) Tim Peterson: -0.2 12) Tomas Nido: -0.4 13) Tyler Bashlor: -0.6 14) Drew Gagnon: -0.8

Gagnon is interesting, because he had a terrific season in the minors this year but was ass awful in the big leagues. That's even more true of Stephen Nogosek, who isn't currently with the team.

I don't know. You're copping out of the ranking a bit there. I should have made it one per floor. The back end is where it gets interesting, because someday soon, the manager will have to call on one of those blokes to save the day. I'm inordinately interested in how deployment is going to play out going forward, with backs to the wall. I'm not saying that Justin Wilson move last night was wrong (heck, it worked out), but it sure was surprising. You really don't let Brad Brach on the elevator at all?

So they are on the ground floor in front of the elevators. Where is Lugo? 85?

Frayed Knot wrote: Robbie Ray [12-7; 4.03; 1.32] faces off against Steven Matz in the hottest lefty-on-lefty rivalry short of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in a loser-leaves-town steel cage match (I'm betting she kicks his ass) Maybe I'm making too much of his Brooklyn roots, but Bernie Sanders strikes me as a guy who campaigns relatively clean but fights extra dirty.

=G-Fafif post_id=21544 time=1568226183 user_id=55] Jim kind of smushed together the trade and the following season, and Willie's nickname isn't “Say Hey, Let's Fact Check”.

"They're DEAD LAST. From what you came from, now you're in a ... your team is DEAD LAST!" At the time of the trade, the Mets were in first place in the East, and the Giants in last place in the West. Breuer needs to be sent to Mets jail.

The below guys currently represent the relief pitchers on the Mets' active roster. To any semi-observant viewer, Seth Lugo is the top-ranked pitcher, by the manager, based on his usage patterns, and by probably by anyone else. But it's not always clear how management would rank the remaining guys, how much faith the guys who have been failing still retain, how much faith the guys who might have succeeded once or twice have gained. So, here is your assignment. Rank the Mets relievers as you see them, not necessarily based on their 2019 performance to date, but on how you would deploy them tonight if you were in charge (and everybody had equal rest and you don't know if lefties or righties are coming up and blah-blah-blah). But let this ranking be done in the form of floor assignments on the Empire State Building. There are 102 stories. Jesse Orosco 1983 is up there on the 102nd floor and Manny Acosta 2012 is down on the bottom. In the lobby. On what floor would you place each reliever, starting with the highest? Because there's so many in the pen and so much failure going around, it's hard to make distinctions. But distinctions must be made. Luis Avilan Tyler Bashlor Brad Brach Edwin Diaz Jeurys Familia Drew Gagnon Walker Lockett Seth Lugo Chris Mazza Paul Sewald Justin Wilson Daniel Zamora [FIMG=600]https://aws-tiqets-cdn.imgix.net/images/content/1e74453a4d2c45f9becb39add27f2dff.jpg?auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=python-1.1.2&q=25&s=b720cbf5ab86e1786ee7bd2a6b4f26be&w=400&h=320&dpr=2.625[/FIMG]

I like that Batgirl's proposed sketch is pretty much what came to pass, except for the handbag.

As historic and ground-breaking and ball-busting a rookie season Pete Alonso has had, neither Fangraphs nor Baseball-Reference consider it, or even project it, to be the best rookie season in franchise history. The two measurements, each based on proprietary data, come to (in some cases, wildly) divergent conclusions, which can undermine the claims of either or both that this measurement represents some sort of bottom line. (FanGraphs gives Travis d'Arnaud a lauditory 2.8 WAR his rookie season, while Baseball-Reference shames him with a 0.3.) Below are the top ten Mets rookies through history ranked by both criteria. In parentheses is their finish in that year's Rookie of the Year balloting. (It's worth noting that voters are historically more forgiving of partial seasons in the Rookie of the Year competition than in other awards.) I guess the best news is knowing that the 1962 Mets had a rookie sensation and didn't even know it. Mets Rookies Ranked by fWAR 1) Dwight Gooden (1984): 8.3 (1st) 2) Jon Matlack (1972): 4.9 (1st) * 3) =#0000FF]Peter Alonso (2019): 4.6 (??) 4) Al Jackson (1962): 4.0 (—) t-5) Jerry Koosman (1968): 3.6 (2nd) t-5) Jacob deGrom (2014): 3.6 (1st) 7) Tom Seaver (1967): 3.3 (1st) 8) Jae Seo (2003): 3.2 (—) t-9) Ike Davis (2010): 2.9 (7th) t-9) Noah Syndergaard (2015): 2.9 (4th) ... 17) Hubie Brooks (2015): 2.4 (3rd) ** * For the strike-shortened season of 1972, John Matlack's team played only 156 games. His fWAR figure extrapolated to 162 games is 5.1, which would not change his ranking of second. ** For the strike-shortened season of 1981, Hubie Brooks' team played only 103 games. His fWAR figure extrapolated to 162 games is 3.8, which would rank him fifth. Mets Rookies Ranked by bWAR 1) Jerry Koosman (1968): 6.3 (2nd) 2) Jon Matlack (1972): 6.1 (1st) * 3) Tom Seaver (1967): 6.0 (1st) 4) Dwight Gooden (1984): 5.5 (1st) 5) =#0000FF]Peter Alonso (2019): 4.8 (??) t-6) Jae Seo (2003): 3.3 (—) t-6) Ike Davis (2010): 3.3 (7th) 8) Jacob deGrom (2014): 3.1 (1st) 9) Al Jackson (1962): 2.9 (—) 10) Darryl Strawberry (19833): 2.8 (1st) ... 12) Hubie Brooks (2015): 2.6 (3rd) ** * For the strike-shortened season of 1972, John Matlack's team played only 156 games. His bWAR figure extrapolated to 162 games is 6.3, which would tie him for first. ** For the strike-shortened season of 1981, Hubie Brooks' team played only 103 games. His bWAR figure extrapolated to 162 games is 4.1, which would rank him sixth.