Edgy MD

Two-headed Gil Hodges: at least a little disturbing.

If the rotation holds as it's currently going, you'll get Bowman/Peavey/Ynoa/Lara. You'll miss Steven Matz.

Lewin lept out of his chair over that one.

We have a new Jake Monster.

We may need another shortstop after all.

Whoop. We be whiffin'.

Steve Henderson.

Len Randle would be another.

d ' A r n a u d e G r o m That's the intersection of what you watch the Mets for.

Ashie62 wrote: Eric Young Jr., lf Daniel Murphy, 2b David Wright, 3b Lucas Duda, 1b Bobby Abreu, dh Travis d'Arnaud, c Kirk Nieuwenhuis, rf Juan Lagares, cf Ruben Tejada, ss Granderson is Grandersick and CY is coming up with a barking calf. That knocks two guys off of our five-man bench, and the DH knocks a third down. We don't need to pinch-hit for any pitchers, but we're left with Campbell and Recker.

deGrom gets over on the Mariners tonight and he may pitch his way into the Rookie of the Year conversation, which had been looking like a one-man party for Sliding Billy Hamilton.

Got to hand it to Harvey. I thought this thread was gonna be a lot more active.

I don't think so. There's a philosophy in baseball that the difference between the Major Leaguer and the guy who does fine in the minors but can't crack the bigs isn't one of of physical talent but of the discipline to execute. (This assumes that DtE isn't in itself a physical talent, but perhaps a mental/emotional one.) The notion goes that while there are supremely gifted MLBers who eclipse everybody else in talent, the majority simply do things "right" 99% of the time, while the AAAA-er does things right 90% of the time. Now, a philosophy is just a philosophy, but it gets spouted a lot, as arbitrary as those numbers may seem. Suffice to say that two Mets pitchers looked uncomfortably out of place fielding balls on a big league mound.

Tough break for A-Rod.

Chase Headley, coming to the Bronnix.

TransMonk wrote: I agree with JCL. And Johnny C. Johnson is right about Howard Johnson being right! I was highly distressed about Josh Edigin's explanation of "That's the way I fall off the mound." No matter what your motion, every pitcher is responsible for getting his back foot forward to square his hips and bring his body and into fielding position. If you can't do it, and you're late, and the ball gets by you a little and you've got to do some weird move like pivot on your back foot and turn your back to the hitter on a tapper, that's just not an option. A ball hit that softly and you still can't get into position? Because only being able to field balls hit to the third-base side of the rubber, because that's just the way you fall, is not acceptable. That's the sort of execution failure you risk when you come to depend on AAAA types on your roster, but it's also the type of execution failures Terry and his staff have to answer for. How strange that Terry came to the team with a rep of a heartles and stern taskmaster, and he has actually come to seem ineffectual in this regard. And yeah, this post speaks more to the night before last, but still. Advancing stray runners is execution, too.

A lot of solid pitching that the team is running into, and you've got to play clean ball and execute when you run into that. You just can't waste your few opportunities. At least in theory. Last night, it was... you just can't waste your many opportunities, which are available to you every inning. I'm wondering if The Pitchers-Fall-Down Game will become etched in history.

That dude balked the last 8 pitches he threw.

OK, keep hitting eggs to Cano. We've got that working for us.

Doug Edgy callin' a wide plate tonight.

There's the leadoff hit. Let's build on it a little. Or a lot.

We've had the runners on all night. Can't get the big hit.

Ruben starts it off. Tying run on deck.

OK, time to build off of a good half inning on defense.

That's one tough-to-impress guy sitting behind the wall.