Edgy MD

Andres Torres.

Jesse 'Rosco.

Lannan officially makes the club.

Cory Mazzillioni finishes todays game with the loss and a triceps injury.

Staffing the shortstop position for the final inning of today's game --- Eric Young, Jr. Centerfield, please step forward and claim your prize.

Here's a good question --- is Dickey done? Like Go to Hell, Mike Piazza, this could be one of those sports-themed movies that gets scrapped during development due to the subject's rapid decline.

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There goes my top ranking.

That should set Buzz Bissinger up in ostrich-feather jackets for a while.

Yeah, I'm missing Shaun Marcum on a daily basis.

Ryan Thompson

Jeff Kent

Joe Hognatano. OE: Nope. The 1962 Giants won the pennant, not the World Series.

That Wolf story was a heckuva yarn, huh? Still, I bet he takes a long look for starting opportunities before taking a bullpen job.

Sounds about right. Possibly Mejia?

Sheesh, if that doesn't sound like symbolic nomenclature, I don't know what. Tanner Schleppers, the talented but privileged and therefore lazy middle-of-the-rotation starter who can never get over the hump because of dumb mistakes, who speaks of lessons learned from his many comeuppances, but never quite embodies these lessons and remains a mid-to-backender. Tanner Schleppers.

Fortune Magazine ranks the world's greatest leaders. 1. Pope Francis, Catholic Pontiff, Vatican by way of Argentina 2. Angela Merkel, Chancelloress, Germany 3. Alan Mulally, CEO, Ford Moters, United States 4. Warren Buffett, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway, United States 5. Bill Clinton, Founder, The Clinton Foundation, United States 6. Aung San Suu Kyi, Chair, National League for Democracy, UK by way of Myanmar 7. Gen. Joe Dunford, Commander, U.S. Forces, Afghanistan, United States 8. Bono Vox, Lead singer, U2, Republic of Ireland 9. Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, Buddhist leader, India by way of Tibet 10. Jeff Bezos, Annoying CEO, Amazon.com, United States [bigpurple:26l3uc5a]11. Derek Sanderson Jeter, Shortstop and Captain, New York Yankees, United States[/bigpurple:26l3uc5a] Wouldn't you feel stupid to be #12?

That was sort of meant to be implied. Get it? Take the rest of the week off? Wocka-wocka?

TransMonk wrote: The message is simple: You have to be a supporting actor at Citi, not a star of the City; a dispenser of high fives, not a staple of Page Six. That's two turns of phrase and a plug for his employers in one sentence for Sherman. He should pat himself on the back and take the rest of the week off.

The legend of St. Lucie physicals continues, huh?

Tweets coming down that his fastball is sitting at 89-90. That's not a good seat.

"A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters" --- Early Wynn "I have pitched only one beanball in my life and always regretted that. I made up my mind that I will never throw another." --- Walter Johnson

Natera gets replaced in Bingo by former B-Met Luis Rivera, who had been scheduled to return to Kingsport this season, so bully on him, and it keeps the team's Luis factor intact. Natera also came to the big leagues from Kingsport to Bingo to Flusihng, so it's not such a dead end as all that.

Won't be able to be a Vegan this summer, as he'll be recovering from open heart surgery. I can't visit ESPN at work so I can't read the article, so I know not how grave his condition is nor who the Mets have lined up as a replacement.

TheOldMole wrote: The rap on Flores isn't that he's prone to making a lot of stupid plays, it's that he doesn't have the range for shortstop. So what does that mean? That he fails to get to one hit per game that a shortstop with greater range would get to? That's a lot. That he fails to get to one hit every three games that a shortstop with greater range would get to? That's a trade-off you might make for a guy who hits forty points higher than the guy with range. This is a simple but I think a very illuminating framing of the issue, even as it ignores important stuff like extra base power and walks. Shortstops are often singles hitters, but overlooked is that fact that, as important as they are on defense, they are even more typically singles defenders. I would estimate that 19 out of 20 balls that a shortstop could possibly make a play on but fails to are singles --- the lone exception being the popup down the leftfield line that falls for a double if the shortstop cannot race in between the third baseman and the leftfielder. The importance of outfield defense has long (and I think unjustly) been downplayed relative to infield defense. The first data-intestive list I saw of the top defensive season from all players included just one season by an outfielder (Dave Parker, in the glory of his arm). But I think what had previously been under-appreciated is that while the outfielder might get fewer overall chances and fewer marginal chances, his failures lead to doubles and triples. I think the appreciation for this fact is growing, and certainly seems to be growing in Metsylvania, as the team went out and custom built their outfield defense this offseason, but seem willing to downgrade at first (potentially from Davis to Duda), potentially downgrade at short (potentially from Tejada to some combination that may include Flores), and stay fair to middling at second with Murph. Gutsy and fascinating.