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This team *may* lose every game the rest of the season.

I mean, nobody thinks there's some sort of weird organizational bias against righthanded outfielders that has lasted through decades of different management teams. But it's an observation.

I TOLD THEM TO RELEASE THE WHOLE TEAM AND START OVER WHY DID THEY NOT LISTEN TO ME FFS

We've had our share of hotshot RH OF prospects fizzle out, though. Mets RH OFs who fit the first four parts of your qualification: Travis Taijeron (52 AB in 2017) Juan Lagares (the best of this lot) Nick Evans (386 AB from 2008-11) Carlos Gomez (all his good years were elsewhere) Lastings Milledge (meh) Prentice Redman (23 AB in 2003) Alex Escobar (2001) Benny Agbayani (similar to Lagares) Jay Payton (similar to Benny and Lagares) Alex Ochoa (1995-97) Butch Huskey (miscast as an OF) I kind of gave up after that.

Interesting. 30. White Sox .195 - Murakami has a 117 OPS+, but everyone else is horrid. The "team leader" is Chase Meidroth at .222. 29. Reds .200 - Sal Stewart is at .303/.413/.682 and Elly is at .267/.345/.547, but other than that? Yikes. Ke'Bryan Hayes is 3 for 47. 28. Mariners .209 - Brendan Donovan, Luke Raley, and Randy Arozarena are carrying them. Josh Naylor has the worst "qualified" BA in the majors at .118. 27. MFYs .214 - HAH! Ben Rice has been hot, Judge has hit homers but done little else. 26. Mets .220 Honorable mention to the Giants, whose .286 OBP is the only one worse than ours because they don't walk at all.

I remember in May 2026 when the Nats will DFA him and we'll claim him back.

"Ahem. You rang?"

There's only one correct answer, and you all know it.

If they don't score like 20 runs off Ohtani in the first inning today, just release everyone and start over in Chicago Friday night.

I agree, but weirdly, ninth is where he's most productive, and by a LOT. I don't know how much of that is someone like Lindor hitting behind him. I Split G GS PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB ROE BAbip tOPS+ Batting 1st 1 0 2 2 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 3.000 4.000 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 909 Batting 2nd 16 16 73 65 13 13 2 0 5 11 0 0 8 16 .200 .288 .462 .749 30 3 0 0 0 0 0 .182 99 Batting 3rd 5 4 16 16 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 .188 .188 .188 .375 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 .375 4 Batting 4th 5 5 22 20 1 5 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 3 .250 .318 .350 .668 7 2 0 0 0 0 0 .294 83 Batting 5th 25 21 96 84 10 18 6 0 2 10 0 0 11 33 .214 .302 .357 .659 30 3 0 0 1 0 0 .320 79 Batting 6th 41 34 137 121 16 26 7 0 4 17 2 0 14 36 .215 .307 .372 .678 45 4 2 0 0 0 1 .272 84 Batting 7th 73 65 260 234 27 49 8 2 13 33 0 0 23 74 .209 .285 .427 .712 100 8 2 0 1 0 1 .243 90 Batting 8th 74 67 262 242 33 60 4 1 14 45 0 0 15 63 .248 .299 .446 .745 108 5 3 0 1 0 3 .277 99 Batting 9th 79 59 239 207 30 55 10 0 13 28 1 1 25 49 .266 .361 .502 .864 104 6 6 0 0 0 3 .290 131 Notable, though, that he doesn't have any RBIs from the 9 spot, because our 6-8 spots are usually ass.

The Metiest thing of all would be to absolutely light up Yamamoto and Ohtani these next two nights.

1298 Craig Kimbrel

Well, this is one way to force us all to use Dark Mode!

I like the Royals one a lot, and I'd like it more if it had a stylized KC instead of the stylized R.

A turkey.

You know, in the Season Predictions thread I was going to say "Benge is hitting .113 on May 1 and everyone is panicked." YA GOTTA BELIEVE. Let him cook.

Lopes was the starting second baseman on the All-Mustache Team during the Heyday of Baseball Mustaches. That's saying something.

How the hell did I shut down my computer at 1-0, and sit down in my car and it's 5-0? Send Peterson to St. Lucie.

Sorry I totally missed FK's post. RMPL. I'll take the Cubs next weekend, then.

I'll take the Insert City Here A's this weekend.

Brenly has to be one. A few thoughts from the Arizona game notes file: DBacks have been okay, all things considered. We've both given up only 19 ER so far. Former Mets coming home: James McCann (0-0, 45.00 ERA in one inning pitched, plus he also serves as their backup catcher) Paul Sewald (0-1, 4.50, three saves) Surprise! Nolan Arenado is a DBack. So is Carlos Santana across the diamond. They're both old and terrible now. Corbin Carroll is the only guy in the lineup you really worry about these days. DBacks won 2 of 3 at Citi last year. Weds: Ryne Nelson (0-1, 5.79) vs Peterson Thurs: Eduardo Rodriguez, their ace (0.00) vs McLean Gallen has held the Mets to a .188 average, which is the best among all active starting pitchers vs the Mets since 2019.

I thought they should have done that with 42 rather than retiring it sport-wide. Players should be honored with it as a tribute for their work.

Oh, yes! I loved the KTEs.

NIschwitz is an interesting character too. His baseball coaching HOF page says he "ended his career as a player and coach with the New York Mets," but I don't see verification of that anywhere, and he's not listed on any Mets coaching list that I can find. He spent 30 years coaching Wright State's baseball team, which is quite a tenure.

As many of you know, I'm still very much a baseball card junkie, and I recently picked up two cards from the 1981 TCMA "The 60s" set of two guys I'd never even heard of: Ronnie Paul (left) and Don Wilkinson (right). Weird that in 1981 they thought enough of their careers to include them as Mets in a set that included plenty of actual Mets. Paul was drafted by the Mets in the second round in June 1966 and went 17-4, 1.84 in A-ball in 1967 but never made it past AAA. Wilkinson spent most of his career in the Angels system, was drafted in the Rule V draft by the Mets for 1967, but didn't break camp with the team and was sent back to California. Also had decent AAA numbers, but never made it to the bigs. (The back of Wilkinson's card says he "signed with the Mets in 1964," but that does not appear to be the case.) Also in this set as a Met is Ron Nischwitz, who actually pitched for Detroit and Cleveland but is for some reason has a Met photo on the front despite being listed as a Tiger on the back. Cards are neat.