Edgy MD

Well Ford Frick this game.

We're burning our last infielder here, peeps.

Well, this day will not be forever known as Maton Wednesday.

Man, stay with the pitcher who got the job done on 11 pitches last inning.

We have a brand new ball game.

You know Bader will be replacing Marte on defense next inning, but I like that he doesn't get pinch-run for. Even with Bader's greater speed, Marte's the better baserunner.

Brews trying to get another inning out of [FIMG=200]https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjE3NTM3MTU5NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwOTA4NTY2MjE@._V1_.jpg[/FIMG].

If Ryne Stanek keeps pitching like this, he may be able to quit dealing meth completely.

I just don't know how Diaz' arm can be expected to respond after throwing sixty pitches on Sunday and Monday. I'm sure he'll have some pitches in it, but I'd sure like to give him a margin for error.

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR0zY10UpmY1jUxhw06rfg-AfQmvlb-x6DB9lcaj6Srrp3hvixeKhjUf3ZdH4WEjK10OhWcsYnOW6m95QTxD0egZvEkYqIHRaJ34OBx_-8> on for the Crew.

Edgy MD wrote: I BELIEVE in Garrett. Not so keen on the team controlling the running game, though. Wow. My lack of faith disturbs me.

I BELIEVE in Garrett. Not so keen on the team controlling the running game, though.

2023 DHs: .220 / .312 / .403 // .715 in 578 PA | OPS+: 97 2024 DHs: .232 / .332 / .399 // .731 in 604 PA | OPS+: 102

Mets should play back here. Giving up a run shouldn't be the difference maker. They're into the pen and can well yet tack on. OE: Sac fly moots the point.

It may be a good move to switch him back to the two-hole. Walking is his most effective tool right now.

Mama Megill approves.

Damn, these wild-card-series exits can sure be anticlimactic.

=ashie62 post_id=173439 time=1727913041 user_id=90] You have to keep Pete in the lineup but dear Lord

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Did they just play Diaz's entrance song? Apparently, athletes don't get exclusives on music trax.

Mostly the same lineup they sent up against Montas last week, except then they used Winker in right instead of Marte.

Edgy MD wrote: They flipped a not-yet-appeared guy that was half the return on Eduardo Escobar into two big-league players, so I'm guessing they're willing to go deeper into their future talent pool. pivot pivot PIVOT!!! This could obviously still break a number of ways, but that "not-yet-appeared guy" was Coleman Crow, who still hasn't appeared for the Brewers after missing 2024 following UCL surgery. He's scheduled to play for Milwaukee in the AFL this autumn. Meanwhile, the two "big-league players" were Adrian Houser, who was pretty valuable for a month in there when they found a role that suited him, and Tyrone Taylor, who's been pretty valuable for most of the season and isn't done contributing. Stearns has cashed in a few times with players from his old organization.

Certainly Stanek indeed. Using the trade deadline to get multiple career guys who could help around the margins and possibly step up to fill bigger needs as they appeared — rather than dropping hot prospects for name-brand guys who you put a huge amount of chips on sure got treated as low-rent thinking by Stearns, but I think it has really played well no matter how far the Mets go. It may not give you much of a chance to catch lightning in a bottle like Céspedes, but you don't necessarily need that. It gets quality out of quantity, doesn't upset the team dynamic at crunch time, and doesn't leave you spending the next two seasons despairing over the talent you lost.

Mendoza also probably had a better sense of whether the Brewers had a righthanded replacement ready. One advantage to the old four-pitch intentional walk is that it helped buy time for relievers to warm up. The intentional walk seems to be far less used these days than a generation or two ago. Just being handed one feels a lot more like a surrender than it used to. The message of an intentional walk used to be "Man, they really feel like the guy on deck stinks compared to the guy at the plate." Now it feels like "Man, they really feel like their pitcher stinks." I'm jumping from thought to thought, but I think the story of Mendoza's season is how he kept guys active and involved when they were pretty bad and still tried to keep looking for situations where they could help the team in the right situation, and eventually they became guys who were able to step up in any range of situations. Lindor, Martinez, Nimmo McNeil, Bader, Álvarez — all of them and others had periods this year where they have looked utterly clueless, and all of them have had periods where they were the only guy you wanted up with the game on the line. Pitchers too. The team has gotten through some dark valleys with guy after guy that eventually became the guy whose shoulders they stood on.

I keep thinking about that triple. Why was Frelick so far off the line that it took him forever to track that ball down? I was thinking that it was a standup double and it might be risky to send Alonso home from first, but Pete scored easily and Winker had enough to time to jaw at Adames as he rounded second. I guess part of it is that Frelick is still smarting from crashing into the window in the padding last week, but he had a long way to go.

=metirish post_id=173350 time=1727876803 user_id=72] I would love nothing more than beating the MFY , not sure i could tolerate losing though MLB would love nothing more than LA V NYY