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  1. Lefty Specialist
    Bregman 3b/Vientos 1b > Vientos 3b/Alonso 1b. Now, Uncle Steve could just say 'screw it' and sign them both, rotating them through the DH slot.
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    That wouldn't be terrible, and the threat of Bregman might also entice Pete into something a little more team-friendly both in length and $.
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    Wow. Way too young at 65. Cause was complications from pneumonia, which leads to vaccination questions.
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    I'd take a .825 OPS from Soto when he's 37.
  5. Lefty Specialist
    He could buy an island and stash his hookers there. Just don't pull a Wander Franco. (or a Jeffrey Epstein.)
  6. Lefty Specialist
    Hafta think it's some combination of Siri/Taylor for the time being.
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    Marte is the most expendable of expendables right now. It's Monopoly money with Uncle Steve. Boy, it's nice to have a really, really rich owner. Still need a rotation and a bullpen though, because Soto can't do it all by himself.
  8. Lefty Specialist
    Can't believe the Blue Jays are hanging around at these levels.
  9. Lefty Specialist
    The Mets better have a 6-man rotation in case this doesn't work out.
  10. Lefty Specialist
    Benjamin Grimm wrote: I thought this was a new thread and expected bad news when I opened it. Yeah, my heart stopped for a second.
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    Edgy MD wrote: 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. Mike Hampton enters the chat.
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    Better at masking.
  13. Lefty Specialist
    Hope Stearns knows something we don't, because on the surface this is a questionable move. Montas isn't that good.
  14. Lefty Specialist
    Frayed Knot wrote: =metirish post_id=177988 time=1730413804 user_id=72]... because he obviously knows pitching And makes sure you know it after each and every pitch. I liked Smoltz when he first started out, but one of two things seems to happen with network analysts: - the show's producers, who tend to hate dead air, encourage the on air talent to use up every micro-second they can between each play or even each pitch - they hear/read some good reviews about themselves and figure that if they talk twice as much the praise will be twice as much I suspect it's more the former than the latter but there's nothing saying that both couldn't be true. Often less is more but the TV world doesn't seem to believe in that. btw, these same scenarios can also be applied to Tony Romo.
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    Serious overpay by LA, which has all the other FA pitchers and their agents salivating. Snell won't be worth anywhere near this, and is guaranteed to be injured at least 4 times during the contract.
  16. Lefty Specialist
    Only one of these is a first-timer, and yes it's Ichiro.
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    Benjamin Grimm wrote: Yeah, and frankly, I don't see what a GM would do, other then run out to pick up David Stearns' lunch orders. George Costanza knows where you can get a good calzone.
  18. Lefty Specialist
    We need a choice of 'All of the above'. Boy, there have been a lot of dipshits running this team.
  19. Lefty Specialist
    I'd like him but he'll be very expensive and has a recent injury history.
  20. Lefty Specialist
    Only if they throw Ketel Marte into the deal.
  21. Lefty Specialist
    Pass. This has the makings of a classic overpay.
  22. Lefty Specialist
    Dodgers beat the Mets in 6. They beat the Yanx in 5. And the Mets didn't have a horrible choke job anywhere along the way.
  23. Lefty Specialist
    I think one of the differences with the new regime is that it is willing to move on from players when it stopped working. The old regime, I suspect, would have stuck with the Joey Wendells and Adrian Housers all year. I don't think that's luck, but rather good general managing. This is exactly right. In the past, those guys who sucked would have been run out there again and again and our season would have gone right into the tank. Part of it would have been from being stubborn. From wanting to be right. "Joey Wendle is a former All-Star. We've just got to get him going". But most of it would have been the money they made. Narvaez, Houser, Diekman, Wendle, and Nido combined to make over $20M. Can you imagine the Wilpons eating that money? This x 1000. It's good to be rid of the Wilpons.
  24. Lefty Specialist
    Some guys had split seasons. McNeil was horrible at the start, was good at the end. Lindor was awful for 6 weeks, then was all-world. JD Martinez was great for about 6 weeks, then tanked. The pitching in general was bad for two months, then straightened out. And that's a big reason why they went from one of the worst teams to one of the best. Pitchers going longer meant you were using less of a bad bullpen. I don't think it was luck per se as much as it was a number of factors coming together at once in Late May/Early June.
  25. Lefty Specialist
    Nice to see FFF torture somebody besides the Mets.
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