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i feel like the dodgers shoudl lean HARD into the hollywood motif! even if you're not gonna throw some dodgers letters on hollywood hill (or whatever its called) have some damned art deco theme, golden age of hollywood, walk of fame, searchlights and gala opening details. GLAMOUR, FAME, MOVIE STARS!!!! los FUCKING angeles, damnit! not some swoopy bullshit space-x logo thing.

Lefty Specialist wrote: I have a novel theory: the shift. Or more properly, the end of the shift. He had a knack for hitting against the shift for lefties, hitting balls that would have been outs if they were playing straight-up. Well, now they 're playing straight up and he hasn't adjusted. Just my .02. he should just, like, keep hitting it to the left side, no?

lindor is our best player. 4th best SS in the league per fWAR, at 2.2 just a shade behind adames at 2.3, with elly de la soul at 2.6 and mookie at 3.5 nimmo, per fWAR, is the 3rd best OF in the league at 1.5, with tatis at 2.1 and profar at 2.4. severino sits at 19th best pitcher, with 1.1 fWAR. he's sandwiched between mitch keller and jared jones.

he's collapsing! i predicted it long ago! players like him always collapse! cut him now!

murphy had clearly figured something out and was on the cusp of putting it into play his last year as a met. in fact, if his babip hadn't been in the 270s instead of the 320-330 range it usually was at for his career, it might've been more noticeable. but his approach had changed and it was paying dividends. to the extent that he saw with washington? no, that was a little unexpected. but he was becoming a better more powerful hitter in front of our eyes. mcneil has good bat-to-ball skills. seems like a garbage approach. he's pulling the ball more than he used to, which seems like a terrible idea for him. his k rate is where it always been, he's just putting the ball into play poorly, and often. you'd think it's fixable, to an extent.

Now I'm very curious if there's some data hiding out there on catcher glove locationing

That was all on bbref. I thought they might have it, and was very happy to find that it was not yet behind any pay walls.

last year, the walk rates weren't too far off; in fact narvaez was better than nido. 3.50 to 3.88 BB/9, and 3.92 for alvy. the higher home run rate for nido was still there though, 1.75 HR/9 vs 1.25 for narvaez and a nice 1.06 for alvarez.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/split.cgi?t=p&team=NYM&year=2024https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/split.cgi?t=p&team=NYM&year=2024 about 75% down the page you'll see team pitcher splits per catcher. in 14 games pitched to alvarez, mets pitchers had a 2.14 ERA. that was earlier in the season. mets pitchers allowed 49 walks to 122 strikeouts, with a 3.87 BB/9 and a 9.72 K/9 in 24 games to narvaez, and 163 innings, mets pitchers have thrown 89 walks to 161 strikes, out of 727 plate appearances, with a 4.91 BB/9 and a 8.89 K/9 in 22 games to nido, and 163.1 innings, mets pitchers have allowed 75 walks to 153 strikeouts, out of 702 plate appearances, with a 4.14 BB/9 and a 8.43 K/9 Narvaez and Nido are definitely doing very different things back there, too, as with Narvaes, mets pitchers have hit 17 batters to Nido's 7 and alvarez' 4. it's not ALL roses for Nido, as while he doesn't seem to call for, or frame, nearly as many walks, mets pitchers have allowed 22 homers with him behind to 8 with Narvaez. 8 with Alvarez, too. This is probably why Nido sees his pitchers have a 4.90 ERA compared to 4.58 with Narvaez. hits 146/148 doubles 35/33 and triples 3/1 are otherwise nearly the same for each. is it small sample size? aliens? swamp gas? is nido's target too high, and narvaez' too low? i have no fucking clue. but they're both doing different things, and getting very different results. and maybe, just maybe, they could each move a little more towards the other in their style and technique... and hopefully get the best of both worlds somehow. or maybe just a little bit less of the special kind of suck they bring to the yard. yeah, that would be nice, wouldn't it?

at this point in the 2023 season, the walk rate for all of the MLB was 3.39 BB/9 with a 8.73 K/9 at this point in the 2024 season, the walk rate for all of the MLB is 3.23 BB/9 with a 8.49 K/9 as a team, the mets at this point in 2023 had a 3.78 BB/9 with a 8.46 K/9 as a team the mets in 2024 have a 4.38 - YIKES - BB/9 with a 8.93 K/9... that's 0.3 BB/9 worse than the next worst team the Rockies. that's pretty terrible. other than the walks, our staff numbers look pretty great. very high strikeouts, lowest hr/9 and hr/fb rates in the league, best soft contact percentage. part of that is probably because we're throwing so many pitches out of the zone that the opposing batters just aren't getting good hits off them. another curious stat, the relveance of which i'm uncertain of, is that our staff has one of the lowest contact rates on swings inside the zone - meaning we generate swing and miss on pitches in the strike zone more than nearly any other team. but our contact rate outside the zone is middle of the pack. maybe we're just surprising hitters when we manage to throw a damn strike. who knows. you mention pitch framing. i wonder if that could be it. i wonder if our catchers just don't put up a good target to begin with...?

boy, y'know, you never know how good you are at filling out a lineup card until you have to do it in the big leagues. talking like dude just fell offa turnip truck and landed the manager's job. for fuck's sake.

=Cowtipper post_id=155329 time=1715712556 user_id=166] Maybe Mendoza is just a bad manager. Maybe they need to stop hiring guys off the street with no managerial experience. The last time they hired a guy with actual experience, he led them to a 101-win season. And the last time before that, he led them to the World Series in 2015.

=metsmarathon post_id=155326 time=1715712227 user_id=83] oh look, a perfect game. i should watch it on gamecast.

oh look, a perfect game. i should watch it on gamecast.

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=155313 time=1715710664 user_id=68] Pete Alonso hit precisely 21 doubles last year. That's not an estimate and there's no margin of error in that stat.

=Cowtipper post_id=155298 time=1715706604 user_id=166] Also I called the collapse of deGrom long before anyone else did.

that used to be a thing that existed, didn't it?

jeff reardon? he's got that hockey guy kinda look.

2 is rodney mccray

shouldnt they be giving him a super-swell RADIO? or are they admitting that whatever follows him will be even more unlistenable?

I really like these. Yeah, fine, my ideal design would be more purple, more unisphere, but this is still darned good looking! Oe: it occurs to me that subway lines as racing stripes woulda been fire. But still, these are very nice.

holy fuck. yeah, a million-billion-infinity-times what edgy said. you can slice and dice my arm open and gimme with mix-and-matched ligaments and tendons and a year of PT a billion times over instead of knee replacements that wear out fast on my broken, battered body, with a heaping spponful of CTE to boot. hell, skip the TJS and you can live a happy life like it ne'er happened. maybe your shoulder is a bit tender down the road? that's not so bad compared to decartilaged knees grinding on each other for every painful step you take over the last 60 years of your life.

I'm hoping he doesn't morph into a fat vogelbach

davis gives better insurance at the hot corner than anything we have, and should be fairly cheap. we don't gotta give him what he lost from the giants, afterall, though i expect it to be close. and if anything were to happen to pete, he could presumably cross the infield and not be an outright disaster. martinez is a primary dh, who can kinda play in the outfield, where we have a bunch of much better gloves already. and, well, he's not exactly good out there. he's never played first in the majors, and really only serves to keep the lesser of vientos or baty out of the dh. if we were really in the hunt this season, and martinez' bat would put us over the top, or inch us closer even, i'd say go get him. but since we're definitely not doing that, davis makes a hell of a lot of sense. unless you really truly believe that vientos can get the dh job done, and keep the job moving forward, along with baty at 3b. bring him in. build a three-headed, two position monster, and play the hot hands. it affords you the luxury, too, of not overplaying a kid when they slump. and also lets you rest them as needed without decline in the lineup.

3. david wright.