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Plawecki coming back will help. As will Frazier, who was very good. Let's hope for no set backs. Gonzalez will better, as the peripherals are there, or Dom Smith will help. (stop playing Bruce so much and get more Nimmo) You gotta hope Rosario shows some of that prospect shine soon, even if it's not by walking, at least by making better contact. When Frazier is back you might have to consider working Flores in more (and Cabrera at SS?), though Flores isn't great. Vargas isn't good, but he's not bad either. Matz and Wheeler are competitive for the most part. The pitching looks worse than it is because of the Vargas disaster so far and Harvey. Really it's been the offense. They'll be better though, but it sucks that they squandered the bad start. On the other hand, they went/are going through these struggles and are still above .500 and within striking distance of the Nats. The Nats are flawed, especially where depth is concerned. Scherzer is awesome and probably has been underrated and remarkably healthy. I think they could use a better infield bench guy than Reyes, but I think the writings on the wall for Reyes and he'll go away soon. Or he'll wake up and have a second half like last year? There is a lot of time left. But they're definitely squandering some opportunities here, and it's time to get back to playing above average baseball.

Jaime Garcia vs Thor expect Flores to get a start against the lefty. Jaime is a league average pitcher off to a bad start. walks are up. Mets should probably look to be patient. (hey, Amed..) Time to rattle off some wins.

Edgy MD wrote: Sure, hard to read anything conclusive, but ceetar seems to be writing above as if he was pitching against the Reds, not for them. I mixed up my points in an effort not to spend too many bytes on pitchers and teams that I don't really care about. I just he's still useful for the Reds because the Reds are bad and can't pitch and need any glimmer they can find.

Matt Harvey impressed in his Reds debut, pitching four scoreless innings against the Dodgers. Harvey, who was on a pitch count since he's being transitioned back to the rotation, allowed just one hit, walked none and struck out two while throwing 55 pitches. He was the Reds pitcher deserving of the win tonight -- and he left with a 5-0 lead, but since MLB won't update an archaic rule, the victory was credited to Austin Brice, who allowed one run in 1 2/3 innings in relief. May 12 - 2:04 AM - RotoWorld he impressed? he was exactly the same guy that got DFA, the Reds just suck.

RealityChuck wrote: Nowhere near a bust. Degrom -- star Syndergaard -- star Wheeler -- jury still out, but probably a successful career. Matz -- jury still out. Depends on if he can stay healthy. Harvey -- Big success at first, though looking like a bust right now. So four out of five ain't bad. If you got what you got out of Harvey from every top pitching prospect, you're ahead of the game. that's a win. Matt's 2013-2015 was worth more fWAR than Generation K combined in their entire extended careers.

duan wrote: Not that it's any of my business, and obviously the way they spend chunks of time on the road makes it somewhat less of an issue they aren't there anyway so what difference does it make - and the 'everyday grind' also makes it different, but I always find it weird that 'most of the time' baseball players seem to live somewhere other then the city they play in. I can easily imagine that if my partner/wife was 8 months pregnant and she was a 4 hour flight away I'd find it fairly unsettling and that I might play at a sub-optimal level. It'd be like a footballer playing for Man City and his wife living in Istanbul. Definitely in football one of the big things that clubs try and make happen after a transfer is 'getting the player out of a hotel and into a home'. I don't know Bruce or Blevins situation but it's entirely possible said spouses have lives in respective places that aren't their husband's temporary homes.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm not sure I see a reduced freedom here, unless it's the freedom to fly a drone over a crowded space. Shouldn't you also have the freedom to prevent a drone from flying over your property? If there was some strange drone flying over my house I would like to have the right to snag it and bring it down. who says you own the airspace above your house? And how high? But that's basically it, this is a power play by the rich to control that avenue. the article is full of suggestions of the reduced freedom, such as the idea that you would be able to track/target your neighbors drone over his own house. Or the government tracking your drone while you're flying it recreationally, just in case you might decide to fly it elsewhere. And not just track, but perhaps intercept not just the drone but the communication. Maybe you're just flying near Citi Field taking pictures of Mets fans with a nice backdrop but this is talking about empowering them to literally snoop on those photos.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Centerfield wrote: Jake Arrieta is 3-1 with a 3.15 ERA and a 1.07 WHIP. I would guess he has about a 40% chance of throwing a no-hitter Friday. And a 0% chance of pitching for the Mets, whose owners are both broke and miserly. as well as 28 other teams, who also identified a huge disconnect being red flags and price. Arrieta is ripe for a 8 run 2.1 IP game. His peripherals are worrying.

I just object to reducing freedoms based on some sort of perceived fear, especially at the outset.

41Forever wrote: Ceetar wrote: Oh good, government empowering rich people to destroy citizens private property in the name of 'safety'. I thought it was government working with experts to develop technology so authorities can protect us from people using drones to hurt a stadium full of people. Why bother when they can just walk up with a legal assault rifle and blow them all away anyway?

Centerfield wrote: Jake Arrieta is 3-1 with a 3.15 ERA and a 1.07 WHIP. I would guess he has about a 40% chance of throwing a no-hitter Friday. He won't even have 3 no-hit innings. Mets are resting their 5th best OF for their best. Should help.

Dan McLaughlin wrote that? he's garbage, don't read that. no one speaks for my enjoyment or misery as a fan, that's personal.

Oh good, government empowering rich people to destroy citizens private property in the name of 'safety'.

Centerfield wrote: I would love for this to be true. And this is what I told him during his entire childhood. Wait until next year. Wait until the rebuild is done. But let's face it. This is never going to happen. Not on any sustained level. The process is wrong. Unless there is a wholesale change in philosophy, there will never, ever be a 5 year stretch where the Mets outperform the Yankees. Well, do you mean every year or as an aggregate? because damn, the Mets have had more success over the last 5 years. both made playoffs twice. Mets won two series to their one. Mets went to the World Series, with a real shot to win it. If the Mets do in fact go farther in the playoffs this year than them, you could extend to more than 5 years. But whatever, it's not about RINGZ! baseball is a social thing. Right now he's, presumably, having fun with you on your Mets outings, watching the games. There might come a time when all his friends want to go to Yankee stadium and he wants to not be a grouch about it. Maybe that's okay. That's not his collection of little league Like, forced narratives aside, real talk, Yankees fans and Mets fans are roughly the same people, to like, the 99th %tile. It's hard being so invested in something outside your control, but like, that's kinda life too.

Just make sure you he's not being a jerk about in in August when the Yankees are 3 games out of a wild card and the Mets just crushed the Nationals to take a 4 game lead in the division, what goes around comes around.

Frayed Knot wrote: bmfc1 wrote: do the players have a choice to go back to New York so they can have two nights in their own bed (or a favored bed) rather two nights at the Hampton Inn or do they have to stay together? I suspect they're required to travel together but, once in Philly, I doubt there's anyone stopping them from either renting a car or having the WAG pick them up and drive up the NJT for a day and a half before turning back around. iow, I think MLB has put their 'bed check' days behind them. But if one of them wanted to fly directly to NYC he'd probably need permission and a good reason behind it, and then he'd have to pay for it himself. I think Harvey has proved they aren't required to travel together. I don't know what typical offday protocol is on road cities. Do they have workouts?cages?etc? Phillies are playing at 1 though, so probably not. Plus they do have to be at the park at like..9? on Friday so unless they're a guy with a party Wednesday night in NYC they're probably just going to Philly.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm hoping that after the game, Vargas will have a lower ERA than Castillo. If Vargas throws a complete game shutout, and the Mets score 3 in the first and Castillo is lifted without an out, they'll be tied at 7.89. If we get a slightly more likely 6 scoreless from Vargas, that's 9.57. Castillo would need like 11 runs in 1IP. Or 10 runs in 0 IP, but that means Vargas would have to get a hit.

I want them to give away something fairly cheap to dedicated fans that have been there 6 times, presumably spending a ton of money. Given the "lets out into the gift shop" part, it's almost a given that just directing more traffic into the HoF earns them money, well more than they'd give away, especially if/when they sponsor the whole competition.

G-Fafif wrote: It's a very nice if small space and it is imbued with a foundational Metsian vibe. It just needs more -- more stuff, more thought, more dynamism. It's charming if you visit it once. It's relentlessly disappointing if you come back year after year. yeah. I haven't come back year after year. Lately that's been because of kids, but even when I was still sneaking off to games alone occasionally the best I'd do is give it a walkthrough if I had a few moments and was going in that way. They should probably just gamify it. Rotating monthly exhibits, even if it's only one display case. Get a stamp/pin/token/baseball/something every month. Trade it in on the last homestand or in the offseason at the gift shop for a prize(package) a signed ball that fits the yearly theme. Maybe each month you highlight a 3Bman or something so at the end of the year you get a ball signed by like Ed Charles, Wayne Garrett, Hubie Brooks, Howard Johnson, Robin Ventura, David Wright and Todd Frazier or something like that. It's a unique grouping of signatures. Of course with a hashtag. Then you'd get constant social media presence of people instagramming their stamped card #MetsHOF and it'd get some visibility. I dunno, just a thought. They should really just hire someone to actually think about these things from that point of view. Of course, this is frequently the Mets problem, they throw a random answer at a problem rather than just dedicating resources and manpower to actually finding a good solution.

to be fair I don't think there's 100+ year old Met relics hiding in someone's storage unit from when they cleaned out grannies house but didn't go through. They should definitely be cycling through some more stuff though. And definitely should have at least one employee who's got "maintain/update/brand/tweet about" the museum as their primary job description.

Looks like she's doing, so far, mostly what Alexa Datt (now working directly for MLB) and Brandon and those other people pretty much did/do (are they still around?) just less tethered to SNY/the broadcast.

I mean, he always probably wasn't on the plane to SD and was on a separate plane to LA. No one thought it was to see the Tar Pits.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: It's also possible that both accounts can be true. As I understand how this works, someone can be sober at one point and then, later, be drunk. truly? I'm going to need to do some research.

This thing says the Mets traveled from STL to San Diego, not LAX. So if that's correct, first pitch on get-away day in STL was 12:17 local time and time of game was 4 hours, 11 minutes. They prob don't get out of STL til 6pm at the earliest. Flight from STL to SD is 4 hours, so they arrive, say 8, 8:30, local time after gaining 2 hours. If he gets a car right away and has zero traffic, he arrives in Beverly Hills around 11pm. Matt Harvey, folks. they're just citing the schedule. We don't know if the Mets had a layover in LAX, or if Harvey simply took a different flight, as he's done before.

Edgy MD wrote: Matt Ehalt has a source. [tweet]https://twitter.com/MattEhalt/status/991369310626091008[/tweet] Didn't Cespedes vow it'd be three days, and today is day two? so like, is it really faster unless he's starting tonight?