Edgy MD

Of course The Skipper had a name, Gary. Jonas Grumby. Guh! (And Jeffrey Maier didn't catch the ball!)

McCann is ... looking un-good. He got two nice pitches to hit there.

Bunt for hits. All. Day. Long.

Man, I'd've put Crawford on there. You've got to at least pitch around him.

Uh, thanks, Giants.

The hit and run (still legal!) gives the Giants the lead at 2-1.

We don't need the bases closer together. We just need Marte to do the do.

I like the nuance thought you've put into your argument, but I'm kind of having trouble trying to suss out on which side of the argument you're coming down.

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Kapler and Showalter playing Lineup Chicken!!

Two of the top teams in baseball so far. The Mets 7-3 has been awfully close to 10-0. I'm guessing that the Mets are holding off on their lineup until they discover if they can activate Nimmo and Canha, and perhaps the Giants are responding in kind.

Motorola US needs to fix their Twitter handle before getting on the Padres uniform. I was trying to figure out if Motorolaus was some sort of German syndicate.

Edgy MD wrote: What do you think about trying to remake Jacob deGrom as a closer? I'm trying to fighte out your top post. Convert Jake to a closer mainly to help the Mets, or mainly to get Jake into the Hall? Well, the idea is hopefully to get the best career value out of him and effect both outcomes.

What do you think about trying to remake Jacob deGrom as a closer?

=whippoorwill post_id=89716 time=1650386255 user_id=79] I like NYM and NYY. PGH for Pittsburgh. PHI for Phillies.

He was prescribed four weeks of rest, so I assume he doesn't get to start dialing until that magic number has been reached.

That'd be nice.

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I think he's in his own league and I hope he's able to stay healthy for another 15 years because if he can do that, I think he'll be the best ever. And here I am hoping that he'll find a way to get healthy for one year.

Oh, yeah, I don't know what THE answer is, but this is AN answer that worked in the two cited cases. Beyond that, the role of a starter gets smaller every day, with no risk reduction that I can see, so I'm not sure it's an established fact that the greater path to riches lies along that road.

As I walk the dogs in the rain, i wonder what happens when Jacob deGrom returns from his four weeks of rest. Of course, I know the answer at some level, and that's that we won't know until perhaps three or more weeks after that, as deGrom cycles up to competitive status, by doing minor league starts at one or more level, and then gradually being stretched through abbreviated big league starts. That's a best case scenario, and even if they get him restored to something like full capacity, it's still going to be with kid gloves. He won't see the fifth inning or beyond until ... mid-June? And it would be a stunning exception if he gets two outs into the seventh any time this season — a season which, lest it be overlooked, could well be his last as a Met. What I'm getting at is that we have a Hall-of-Fame talent in our grasp, pitching at a staggeringly consistent Hall-of-Fame level even when not 100%, but frustratingly unable to stay on the field. He considers his goal to be beyond the Hall of Fame, but to reach inner-circle Hall of Fame status. His own words. Not mine But reality is in front of us, and the reality is that his late arrival, injuries, kid gloves policies, bullpen failures, and offensive ineptitiude on the days he pitches have conspired him to put him behind the eight-ball — years behind the eight-ball. He may want to be an inner-circle Hall of Fame, but it would take a heckuva turn of fortune to achieve 200 wins, and even the idea of 100 wins currently feels like a hit-or-miss prospect. Fitty-fitty. I dunno. But what I do know if you've got a starting pitcher who is pitching at an elite level, but only giving you 77 innings per season, you can maximize this by making him a closer. He's got the wicked fastball-slider package of a top closer, his ridiculously consistency could turn out to be a terrifying asset out of the pen, and his 77 innings might net him 45 saves per year rather than eight wins. It's madness. It's insane. My fingers hate me for typing it. Managing to compiling totals is against my DNA. But the Mets' closer is also in the last year of his contract, and deGrom may well provide more chills over a longer time as a closer unleashed than as a starter in bubble wrap. And I've already just lived through the long slow death of David Wright's career, so I may be averse to seeing another Hall-of-Fame trajectory explode mid-flight. I should be beaten up for even suggesting it, but up in Cooperstown, there are two relief pitchers that show it can work. It has to be something that can be talked about, right? And maybe instead of deGrom Day being something that happens every five days (if we're lucky) and always ends by the sixth inning, followed by three innings of agita, it can be something that can happen on any day, with your confidence growing from the sixth inning on, knowing that they won't deploy him until they gotta. And he gets to walk off the field smiling after shaking his catcher's hand, rather than sitting in the dugout, shitting his way through the last three innings, worrying about his efforts going for naught. Again. And again, that's pretty much a best-case scenario. I dunno. If it isn't time to talk about it, it may be soon. [fimg=622]https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/Jacob-deGrom-celebrates-after-Fridays-Mets-win..jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024[/fimg]

I can start another thread. I totally can.

But we continue to routinely deploy them for ever-shorter workdays, helping their ERA look more glossy but rendering it ever less effective. That's my concern, anyputz.

The standard codes to me are what bbrdotcom uses. No? Maybe, but baseballreference uses "TBR" and ESPN uses "TB" and the fascists are never going to be able to take over this country if we can't sort that out.

I think BLT was something like a scoreboard abbreviation you might see in the time of the Baltimore Colts.