Edgy MD

Centerfield wrote: Love to hear the pitch on Blevins. LEFTY AVAILABLE. ALREADY PITCHED A SEASON'S WORTH IN 4 MONTHS BUT I'M SURE HE'S GOT SOMETHING LEFT IN THE TANK. JUST DON'T TALK TO THE MFY'S ABOUT PEDRO FELICIANO. TOP 5 PROSPECT OBO. With any luck, it'll be the Yankees making the best bid.

And he pops out to right. Mets 0-2 in the Vulgar Mister Met Era.

Mets down 2-1. Two out, bottom of the ninth, Walker on first, Duda at the plate.

Get Dick Scott a win!

We are on the board with a Kaboomatron by Flores.

That was a labored way to strike out the side.

It's on the front page of CNN.

Man, I could go for a plate of Cecchini and a chilled glass of Nimmo about now.

So, this is our seventh game against the Brewers. Eric Thames: the real deal or a flash in the pan?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: F that. How awesome would it be if he sacrificed his whole career in pursuit of this goofy statistical oddity. Have you considered a career in ... prophecy?

Reyes is the one playing for his MetLife, not Cabrera.

Ceetar wrote: Edgy MD wrote: You're deliberately missing both my point and his. no, I'm just making a different point. While ignoring and changing the position of the person you disagree with. I get it. You don't care that stats get bolluxed up.

Curtis Granderson wakes up this morning at .201 achieving (and hopefully completing) a long and winding exit from Interstate Limbo. Unfortunately, José Reyes replaces him on that lost highway, having fallen to .197. Matt Reynolds (.190) is riding shotgun in that car, while Kevin Plawecki (.125) bounces around in the way way back. Ty Kelly has achieved exit velocity as a Phillie, raising his average to .217 between the two teams.

You're deliberately missing both my point and his.

I tried to get Mister for a party nine or 10 years back. The date didn't work out because the Mets were in town. "So, there's only one costume?" I naïvely asked. "There's only one Mister Met," I was firmly told. I felt simultaneously taken to school and delighted. Delighted that the organization cared about risk management and quality control in exactly the department where they should care. Or did.

"End Cabrera Misery and Call up Rosario" — Kevin Kernan

I blame the "Brwers."

It was more than noise in the Ruth case above, for instance. In a long career, any one play may have a relatively innocuous effect on the stat line, but we try to score those plays right. Take Number Three above. A walkoff grand slam instead of a one-run single, in the post-season? That could be the difference in a guy's Hall of Fame case.

d'Arnaud caught 12 innings last night and took a bat to the head. We've seen Rivera's ceiling, and I'm sure the situation is meant to evolve toward d'Arnaud getting 80% of the starts, barring injury, but it was probably never going to happen right away.

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In theory, yeah. I guess the scorer felt it was OK to award the batter as many bases as the winning runner took to score.

Ceetar wrote: And official scorers award sacrifices for bunt-outs. And a flare that just happens to land behind the second baseman playing in is scored the same as a scorcher off the wall that careens right to the fielder. And a pitcher's ERA and FIP go down when Endy leaps over the fence to steal a home run. Few stats tell the whole story. These can be dealt with differently. But they are not what I'm speaking of. Nor did I write that any particular stats "tell the whole story."

batmagadanleadoff wrote: If it ain't one ex-Met. it's another. [fimg=555]https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4221/34735449812_8ea9e39903_z.jpg[/fimg] It's amazing that not that long ago, in the great scheme of things, Murphy and Turner were two halves of a Mets' second base platoon.

Player One comes up with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 12th inning, and rips a ball into the gap. As it skips to the wall, the defense puts their heads down as the offense celebrates the win. Player Two also comes up with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 12th inning, and hits a high deep fly. Realizing that there is no way he can throw a tagging runner out from that distance, the outfielder, after making an initial break for the ball, pulls into a jog and turns toward the dugout as the ball falls gently on the edge of the warning track, easily catchable, but ignored in futility, as the offense celebrates the win. Player Three also comes up with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 12th inning, and hits a long ball into the rain and over the fence. As the winning run scores, his teammates mob him on the basepaths between first and second, not allowing him to complete the circuit around the bases that his hit seemingly entitled him to. If not for the defensive indifference and (in the last case) offensive interference caused by the singular nature of walkoffs, these players would have achieved a double (with two or three RBI), a run scoring sacrifice fly, and a grand slam, respectively. Instead, they all get credited with a one-run single. In other sports, players are expected to modestly play out the game after the result has become a fait accompli. It's probably not too much to ask for the offense and defense to at least complete the play at hand, but that's never been the reality in baseball, and in the face of this long-standing culture, would probably seem at least somewhat farcical if they were asked to do it now, at least initially. But I wonder if maybe the official scorer couldn't be empowered to score the play as it most likely would have turned out had the defense not folded or the offense not interfered. Baseball's story is largely told through stats. And walkoffs bollux up stats.

I thought it was Deolis.