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Thirdbasemen have indeed outhit their shortstop siblings traditionally, but that's been less pronounced over the last generations, and suddenly last year, shortstops passed the thirdbasemen like the latter were standing still. [th]YEAR[/th][th]3b OPS[/th][th]3b fWAR[/th][th]ss OPS[/th][th]ss fWAR[/th] [th]2002[/th].74563.5.72067.4 [th]2003[/th].74557.9.71964.1 [th]2004[/th].79787.0.73066.0 [th]2005[/th].77481.5.71869.2 [th]2006[/th].80590.1.74068.8 [th]2007[/th].78483.6.73873.0 [th]2008[/th].77280.1.71862.1 [th]2009[/th].75769.3.72165.6 [th]2010[/th].74270.7.69364.6 [th]2011[/th].70754.8.69773.9 [th]2012[/th].75481.5.68861.7 [th]2013[/th].73577.3.68163.4 [th]2014[/th].71573.8.67873.0 [th]2015[/th].75590.4.68861.8 [th]2016[/th].77692.8.72575.4 [th]2017[/th].77682.5.73474.5 [th]2018[/th].76490.8.73389.3 [th]2019[/th].79892.1.77296.7 [th]2020[/th].75531.9.74836.7 [th]2021[/th].74176.1.73693.8 [th]2022[/th].72588.2.69290.1 [th]2023[/th].71963.2.71381.2 [th]2024[/th].70167.0.728108.0 Obviously, fWAR is less relevant, because that includes defense, but the pattern is notable, with shorties outplaying the hot corner seven years in a row, after thirdbasemen led 14 years out of 15 https://metsrostercentral.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/screen-shot-2024-12-08-at-4.57.38-pm.png> https://metsrostercentral.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/screen-shot-2024-12-08-at-4.58.01-pm.png>

The Giants have been left at the ball a lot in recent offseasons. I imagine that might make them overagressive early this year.

KNOCK YOUR SOX OFF has a butt. Vote for KNOCK YOUR SOX OFF. Although I swear, I feel like the uniform fonts are still somehow shrinking on months-old photos.

I can't imagine that he's in any hurry to wrap things up if five teams are still in active pursuit.

I don't know if Pegg worked on the script at all, but some of the better stuff in here came not out of his mouth, but out of Bell's — frequently incidental dialogue that you barely pick up as two characters talk over each other. It's surprising to see him exercise such self-restraint and let somebody else steal the scenes.

That really is the nut of the avocado. Lugo spent most of his Mets career punished for being good in the pen. He was more valuable for the Royals last season than anybody not named Lindor was for the Mets. If they have the means to identify and poach and deploy the next Seth Lugo, underutilized in somebody else's bullpen, instead of being so risk-averse that he gets poached out of theirs, they'd be fools not to try. If the fallback strategy is that he effectively fills a Clay Holmes-like role in their bullpen, that's a win too.

Part of the reason it doesn't particularly work is that it didn't actually come on the day they honored Gooden, so the notion that 16 runs is somehow poetically appropriate is really forced, and really starts unraveling as you wrestle with the clash between the main photo featuring a road uni and the inset featuring a homie. Got my vote anyhow because BLASTOFF! doesn't hang together either, and seems like a waste of a lot of black ink. That inset photo is mostly blank space and I imagine that they tried to use it as the main photo so they could put text and other elements in between the two streams of fireworks, but they just couldn't make it work.

Transactions, 4/17/2024 [table][tr][th]Direction[/th][td90]GOING[/td90][/tr] [tr][th]Transaction [/th][td90]Signed Away by Mexico City (Mexican League), 2024-04-17.[/td90][/tr] [tr][th]Position Group [/th][th]Starting Pitcher[/th][/tr] [tr][th][/th][td60][fimg=60]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto/w_180/v1/people/676019/headshot/milb/current[/fimg][/td60][/tr] [tr][th]Name [/th][td60]Oscar Rojas [fimg=30]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/mexican-flag-small.png[/fimg][/td60][/tr] [tr][th]DoB[/th][td60]1999-05-05[/td60][/tr] [tr][th]B/T[/th][td60]R/R[/td60][/tr] [tr][th]High Level[/th][td90]AA (2024)[/td90][/tr][/table] We imagine thousands are asking where Oscar Rojas ended up. The 2022 Binghamton Rumble Pony missed 2023 and has been both wintering and summering in Mexico since. Transactions, 12/4/2024 [table][tr][th]Direction[/th][td90]GOING[/td90][/tr] [tr][th]Transaction [/th][td90]Signed Away by SAC[/td90][/tr] [tr][th]Position Group [/th][th]Starting Pitchers[/th][/tr] [tr][th][/th][td60][fimg=90]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/d_people:generic:headshot:67:current.png/w_213,q_auto:best/v1/people/622663/headshot/67/current[/fimg][/td60][/tr] [tr][th]Name [/th][td60]Luís Severino [fimg=50]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dominican-republic-flag-small.png[/fimg][/td60][/tr] [tr][th]DoB[/th][td60]1994-02-20[/td60][/tr] [tr][th]B/T[/th][td60]R/R[/td60][/tr] [tr][th]High Level[/th][td90]AA (2024)[/td90][/tr][/table] Luis Severino expressed a personal desire to save the Mets midseason in 2024 when he observed that any trade-off at the deadline would likely include him and he lives in New York, has for a while, and doesn't want to leave. I guess now we can add an -ish in there. Got to be maddening to surviving A's fans, though.

Something that more or less stood out in a week of training camp stories can look pretty silly posed alongside hot, sexy mid-season game drama.

The workloads of current times undercuts the argument, but 2024 may have granted the Mets two of the top one-year starting pitchers in their history. Bumps Jeff D'Amico down, under any circumstances.

Steppenwolf vocalist John Kay and guitarist/"BtBW" composer Dennis Edmonton (aka Mars Bonfire) are still among the living and litigious. They have that Canadian longevity thing going for them.

Some Yankee wrote: You're afraid to face us. Luis Severino wrote: I'm not afraid. Right now you only have two hitters.

Look at the Athletics throwing money around. I remember Game Two of the NLCS. In the second inning, the Mets opened up the offense, laying out five runs, featuring a Mark Vientos grand slam. He gets back to the dugout and poses for the required OMG! photo, and Ben Grimm notices that Severino ain't there. Whatever mojo you may or may not have believed was linked to the OMG! prop and the accompanying poses, Severino had been at the center of it — the "lead hype man," according to Gwreck above. Now, at perhaps the OMG!-iest point in the season, he was absent. He had clearly been sent to New York to prepare for Game Three, and that made all the sense in the world, until you spotted his absence in that moment. Even more than any un-necessary messing with the karma, it had absented him from any psychological boost he might get from being with his teammates during their 7-3 road beatdown of the eventual champions. Or maybe it meant nothing. Probably it meant nothing. But that's not what I was thinking as the Dodgers turned Game Three into an absolute punking of an 8-0 victory, from which they never looked back on the road to their championship.

Today is the anniversary-ish of David Wright signing his megadeal.

I propose the Denny's Rule: Free passes every time up if it's your birthday.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: How is "starting strong" getting any votes? They are both Sevvy covers-- one is a March spring training game, the other a clutch in-season CG. One has a good pun the other isn't even clever. One photo captures an emotion the other doesn't. What am I missing? These are typically my feelings about most Newsday back page covers. Some people just go nuts for those springtime blue jerseys and orange caps, I guess.

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I was OK with a million throws to first. It was all part of the drama. A pitcher has two opponents to worry about — the batter and the runner. He throws over a few times, gets booed by the crowd, and now he has three opponents on his mind. If he's actually worried about he runner, and is throwing over in earnest, and the runner steals anyhow, an extra psychological edge is gained by the runner. If the runner is nailed, he gets an extra psychological boost, A similar game goes down with the batter. If he's lobbing it over to stall or keep the batter guessing, and he gives up a hit to the batter, that's an extra psychological blow. If he gets the batter after that bullshit cat-and-mouse game, that's and extra boost for him, and the batter now has a bee in his bonnet. Any problems I had with the effect upon the pace of the game, it's better when the fans and the players in the dugout express that by riding the pitcher, not by instituting a rule against him. That the limit on throws over and the clock are now two new excuses for even shorter workdays for starting pitchers are more of those unintended consequences that such rules create. And the league is trying to engineer even more odd rules to combat that, instead of looking back at the situations they have created that has caused these super-short starting efforts.

Seventeen was in circulation for eight years after Eight hung up its cleats. It last saw active duty on the back of Fernando Tatis in 2010.

Boooo! Somebody else got Juan Soto!! Yaaay! We got Trevor Bauer!!

Well, you got me there. He reportedly took away the role of Vientos, but the absence from the roster was, indeed, in addition to losing that role, rather than a matter of cause and effect. My apologies for the misinformation.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=180246 time=1733340439 user_id=68]And they can say whatever they want after the fact to rationalize the number retirement.

It seems highly unlikely that the Mets would have retired 24 for Mays if he hadn't played for them, as the gesture was widely reported as a sort of a reciprocal one offered by Joan Payson as part of her sell for convincing Mays to agree to the trade that brought him to the Mets.

=Centerfield post_id=180228 time=1733336715 user_id=65]Rule I Despise And I Can't Even Believe Is Being Considered and Makes Me Want to Murder the Commissioner *Golden At-bat