Edgy MD

My PetCo Memories (and Probably Most Other MetFolks') 1. Bartolo's homer 2. The Cameron-Beltran collision in 2005 3. Wright's barehand grab i seem to remember Pedro Martinez working late into a game there with a no-hitter going. But I may be conflating, because I remember Gerald Willliams in the outfield, which suggests that it was during that 2005 post-collision period when both Beltran and Cameroonie were out.

Not like McNermal to swing and miss at two fastballs in the zone.

This is beautiful. No throw strikes, no win game.

Or not.

Delayed steal of home is the way to go here.

Mets should invite Bartolo as a special guest whenever they're at PetCo.

Alfaro is looking like Aquaman.

The odd thing to me is the tacit suggestion that ... the current uniforms don't connect these teams to their cities?

When asked about McNeil coming out of the game on Saturday night, Bucko said something very Buck-like along the lines of "Jeff needed to be sitting close to us at that time." Buck can be puckishly coy and pregnant with meaning at the same time, and so turning the silly back on himself saves face for the player even as he's getting a slap. Yesterday was a lefty too, and Buck's got the luxury of three starters bouncing between second and left. So McNeil can get sat down, get a dose of medicine, and it isn't glaringly obvious, becoming the narrative of the game and seed material for column inches.

Extra-inning baseball is awesome. Unless Jerry Manuel is managing.

Three guys banged up in that lineup. I was surprised to see Nimmux finish the game yesterday and am at least as surprised to see him back in the lineup this evening.

This trip is looking like a West Coast tour of alternative uniforms. Angels to debut City Connect jerseys Saturday evening against the Mets.

J.D. Davis, breaking the first base seal on his season. [TABLE][TR][TH][/TH][TH][FIMG=250]https://cdn.freebiesupply.com/images/large/2x/new-york-mets-logo-transparent.png[/FIMG][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH][FIMG=250]https://i0.wp.com/thegamehaus.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Padres.png?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1[/FIMG][/TH][TH][/TH][/TR] [TR][TH]#[/TH][TH]Player[/TH][TH]Pos.[/TH][TH]#[/TH][TH]Player[/TH][TH]Pos.[/TH][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FF5910]1[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Brandon Nimmo (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]cf[/TD][TD]=#FFC425]1[/TD][TD]=#2F241D]Jurickson Profar (S)[/TD][TD]=#FFC425]lf[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FF5910]2[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Starling Marte (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]rf[/TD][TD]=#FFC425]2[/TD][TD]=#2F241D]Jake Cronenworth (L)[/TD][TD]=#FFC425]2b[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FF5910]3[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Francisco Lindor (S)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]ss[/TD][TD]=#FFC425]3[/TD][TD]=#2F241D]Manny Machado (R)[/TD][TD]=#FFC425]3b[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FF5910]4[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Pete Alonso (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]dh[/TD][TD]=#FFC425]4[/TD][TD]=#2F241D]Luke Voit (R)[/TD][TD]=#FFC425]dh[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FF5910]5[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Mark Cahna (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]lf[/TD][TD]=#FFC425]5[/TD][TD]=#2F241D]Eric Hosmer (L)[/TD][TD]=#FFC425]1b[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FF5910]6[/TD][TD]=#002D72]J.D. Davis (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]1b[/TD][TD]=#FFC425]6[/TD][TD]=#2F241D]Ha-Seong Kim (R)[/TD][TD]=#FFC425]ss[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FF5910]7[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Eduardo Escobar (S)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]3b[/TD][TD]=#FFC425]7[/TD][TD]=#2F241D]Nomar Mazara (L)[/TD][TD]=#FFC425]rf[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FF5910]8[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Jeff McNeil (L)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]2b[/TD][TD]=#FFC425]8[/TD][TD]=#2F241D]Jorge Alfaro (R)[/TD][TD]=#FFC425]c[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FF5910]9[/TD][TD]=#002D72]Tomás Nido (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]c[/TD][TD]=#FFC425]9[/TD][TD]=#2F241D]Trent Grisham (L)[/TD][TD]=#FFC425]cf[/TD][/TR] [TR][TH][/TH][TH]Pitcher[/TH][TH][/TH][TH][/TH][TH]Pitcher[/TH][TH][/TH][/TR] [TR][TD]=#FF5910][/TD][TD]=#002D72]Carlos Carrasco (R)[/TD][TD]=#FF5910]sp[/TD][TD]=#FFC425][/TD][TD]=#2F241D]Blake Snell (L)[/TD][TD]=#FFC425]sp[/TD][/TR][/TABLE]

Tylor Megill threw 3 2/3 innings in his lone rehab appearance for Binghamton, and is now heading out west to be evaluated as to whether he should be activated.

The IF rule makes sense. Why do you think it was instituted? Because fielders would intentionally drop fly balls to get double plays. The runner has no shot at breaking it up, since they had to stay near their base. So it led to automatic double plays in IF situations. Too easy for the defense. The rule was instituted in the name of fairness. I know why the infield fly was instituted. As written earlier, I disagree that runners have no shot at breaking up the double play in such situations, and certainly disagree that turning a popup into a double-play would be automatic. What's automatic is declaring a hitter out when the ball has been put into play and nobody yet has fielded it. As also stated earlier, I think what's unfair is that batters who hit grounders with men on base are exposed to the risk of two outs while batters who hit less well-struck popups with runners on base are not. There's no evidence for or against such plays being too easy for the defense, or the runners having no chance, because the rule has been in place a good long while. And how easy "too easy" might be is a deeper discussion still. But an experimental withdrawing of the rule in a minor league or a fall or winter league could certainly give us some information. It's not something that keeps me up at night or anything, but it came up.

Transactions, 6/2/2022 [td90]Direction[/td90][td90]COMING[/td90][td90]Transaction[/td90][td90]Signed away from TEX[/td90][th]Position Group[/th][th]=#00BF00] Catcher[/th][td90][/td90][td90][fimg=90]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto/w_180/v1/people/672280/headshot/milb/current[/fimg][/td90][td90]Name[/td90][td90]Brady Smith [fimg=50]https://thecranepool.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/US-flag.png[/fimg][/td90][td90]DoB[/td90][td90]11/18/98[/td90][td90]B/T[/td90][td90]R/R[/td90][td90]High Level[/td90][td90]A+ (2021)[/td90] After season-ending shoulder surgery for St. Lucie catcher Drake Osborn, the Mets looked to shore up the catching position, and pounced on Brady shortly after his release by Texas. Brady. Smith. Drake. Osborn. That's four last names. If you want your kid to be a Florida State League catcher, a last-name-first-name is the way to go. Transactions, 6/4/2022 [td90]Direction[/td90][td90]COMING[/td90][td90]Transaction[/td90][td90]Assigned to St. Lucie[/td90][th]Position Group[/th][th]=#00BF00] Catcher[/th][td90][/td90][td90][fimg=90]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto/w_180/v1/people/672280/headshot/milb/current[/fimg][/td90][td90]Name[/td90][td90]Brady Smith [fimg=50]https://thecranepool.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/US-flag.png[/fimg][/td90][td90]DoB[/td90][td90]11/18/98[/td90][td90]B/T[/td90][td90]R/R[/td90][td90]High Level[/td90][td90]A+ (2021)[/td90] Unsuprisingly, Brady gets assigned to St. Lucie, where they are in first and rapidly pulling away from the field. He joins Vincent Perozo and José Rivera on the team's catching staff. He has been a defense-first guy going back to his days in the SEC.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=95023 time=1654543057 user_id=68] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=95021 time=1654542811 user_id=68] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=95018 time=1654542319 user_id=68] I follow seawolf perfectly.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=95017 time=1654542236 user_id=68]This doesnt sound right. One extra DP could easily be the tipping point. One extra DP could have huge consequences. Teams rarely have more than one big inning in a game, if even that. But that one big inning usually decides the game.

Tagging up isn't no-action baseball. A batter hitting the ball in the air and being called out without the fielders having to make a play is no-action baseball.

I dinna follow.

And that just makes me want to extend the games to 11 innings. Ravech is Binghamton grad of 1990, so vtmet and MFS62's daughter probably know him and can reach out to him. Keith is Keith, but announcers complaining about game length is a bad look.

Edgy MD wrote: I feel healthily certain that triple plays would not become routine. How often does the rule come into play now? Once every four games? And teams are turning over triple plays every four games? Or every week? Or every month? Once every four game or every week or every month would not be routine. But none of that would happen as such. Beyond the infrequency of the rule's application, it's there more to prevent double plays than triple plays, and there are already multiple double-plays per game, so one more every four games would not be a radical change statistically. The infield fly rule comes into play with one out or no out — more frequently, in fact, with one out. Less than (and probably significantly less than) one in four IFR applications are even be in circumstances where a triple play is even logically possible. And if it does so occur, the combination of all those things to make it possible, along with the providentially perfect placement of where the ball comes down, the perfect non-verbal coordination by the defense, clean dextrous execution by the defense, and failure to anticipate and read what they are up to by the offense, would still make it damn rare. I suspect that we'd more typically to see a ball thrown away by a team attempting a triple play, than we'd see actual triple plays, along with groaning fans crying, "Why didn't you just catch it?!" The elimination of the infield fly rule would not reduce offense significantly. It would reduce no-action baseball.

I oppose offsides rules (in ice hockey and fútbol particularly) as well. You or I may turn our noses up at the selfishness of goalhanging, but it strikes me as a legitimate life choice. If somebody wants to play the heel and ignore the selfless duties of defending in exchange for the glory-hogging of scoring, it's the tradeoff he or she chooses, and presumably the one his or her coach allows. What's the problem?

I feel healthily certain that triple plays would not become routine. How often does the rule come into play now? Once every four games?

It helps you appreciate the grit that got the Mets through the last two days. A punch in the face from reality is waiting for everybody. The ones who take that punch and keep their feet, or keep going forward, are the survivors. But Anaheim and the Mets were in a similar place two weeks back and as sobering as it is to see a peer fall, it's gratifying to remain on the move following this series. Trying not to feel good in seeing Stroman and Syndergaard take the pricks. That's no way to be cool. But man.