Edgy MD

Welcome aboard to Christian indeed. But I was really hoping there was going to be an MLB series in Cairo in 2027.

Are you in homerun territory? Because after the LWFS family recovered the Alvarez homer, I think our group is kinda hot right now.

Ms. Edgy said the same thing.

If there is a trash heap, then we are all trash-heap finds. The wheels fall off of all of us in due time. I disagree with there being any pattern of success rate of relievers who previously played in another organization that distinguishes them from relievers originally signed by the Mets. If anything, they deploy the former first, because they are more willing to dispose of them while they endeavor to protect the latter during their option years. Most teams do this. But please mark me down as a guy who didn't think the team would get worse after dealing off their best veteran bullpen pieces at the deadline.

Hey, the Mets aren't long-ago eliminated. Well, now they are eliminated.

Pete Alonso rolled into town looking to set a mark, and he may end up losing one before the series is over. Both Benge and Ewing are hot on the heels of a Rookie of the Year Award winner. # SEASON ROOKIE HITS PROJECTION 1 1981 Hubie Brooks 169.7 PROJECTION 2 2026 Carson Benge 160.9 1 2019 Pete Alonso 155 2 2026 Carson Benge 149 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 14 1981 Hubie Brooks 110 15 1983 Darryl Strawberry 108 16 2001 Tsuyoshi Shinjo 107 PROJECTION 4 2026 AJ Ewing 106.9 PROJECTION 5 1995 Edgardo Alfonzo 104.6 17 1977 Steve Henderson 104 18 2026 AJ Ewing 99 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

An unusual skin tone, but hey, it's not since Piazza have we had a guy with the combination of poise and style that says, "Bring on the media, I'm ready."

BOOOOO-ALTIMORE!!!

GO, LINDOR!!

Senga ain't gonna set himself up to be rooted against by his home crowd.

Speaking of Oriole lefthanders, the ninth inning is brought to you by Ross Grimley and the beautiful creation of a mane that he wore under his cap.

Generally, it's the less creative "Wolfy," but there is definitely is a modest movement for "Tungsten" or "Tungsten Arm" among the fans.

Disappointed we didn't see Benge break for second in that inning.

Cheetah Chrome, the world looks to you.

Gunnar Henderson — his 108th career homer!

That's a long time to have an ugly first line of one's obituary pre-written. Fortunately for him, the fans saw Grant as the master of that trade, and McDonald as the guy stuck with the bag. Native New York guy — from Staten Island with a detour through Fordham University. He was in the same class as Captain Kangaroo!

FUN FACT: The Fielding Bible reports six left field guys with lower defensive runs saved (or higher defensive runs surrendered) numbers than Soto. Three of them have played far more innings, and one (Jose Fermin) just has an arm that no manager wants to see throwing a baseball.

Today's a very strandy day. It may be a fan appreciation thing. Like the first 1,000 fans through the gate get a stranded baserunner, while supplies last.

It would sure get Gary Carter off the hook.

There was Piazza as a Padre, and then there's ... umm ... . I think that's all I got. I imagine there were some spots in the early sixties that folks were kinda semi-actively rooting for Willie Mays, but that's certainly not something I can testify to. Maybe they were rooting for Seaver to hit a homer when he came back to Shea as a Red.

Sorry. When peoples are talking to me, I post dumb stuff. I'm sitting here rooting for Ewing to beat both Lindor and Alonso to 300 homers.

Howie Rose on the air mistakenly calling Joe Torre the manager during Lee Mazzilli's rookie year.

Good on them early-bird fans. "It better be electric. I hope people go crazy for him. He deserves it." — Francisco Lindor.