Ceetar

Edgy MD wrote: Welcome back, man. Thanks..but.. couldn't one of you have watered my plants?

Warthen's successor, should he leave soon, is pretty obviously Viola. I think a lot of it depends if these guys go out high or low.

DateTuesday, May 23, 2017 Start Time7:10et (local) VenueCiti Field SeriesGame #1 of a 3-game series Average Temp73° (based on last ten years) [u:38fktddc]San Diego Padres [/u:38fktddc] Record 15-26 Manager Andy Green Game # 48 On This Date 19-26 Standing 5th (10.5 GB) [u:38fktddc]New York Mets[/u:38fktddc] Record 16-22 Manager Terry Collins Game # 45 On This Date 20-20 Standing 2nd (9.0 GB) [u:38fktddc]Season Series[/u:38fktddc] 2017 0-0 2016 NYM over SDP 4-3 2015 SDP over NYM 4-2 All-time SDP leads 241-235 Matt Harvey, RHP vs Jhoulys Chacin, RHP (Side note: Jhoulys isn't actually his name, a cat walked on the keyboard when they were entering it) SNY Radio 710 WOR, or 104.3 HD2

Edgy MD wrote: And then Confy makes a catch leaning over the tarp. I'm working with the radio, so I don't know, but I've seen enough of 2017 Céspedes to get the idea that he wouldn't be close enough to pick up the ball and toss it to the crowd. I mean, I think he might still be gunshy from messing himself up on a catch at/in the wall in 2015.

Lefty Specialist wrote: Ugh. No expectations for this weekend at all. They're hurt and those who aren't hurt are playing poorly. from the Nationals perspective or the Mets?

G-Fafif wrote: Jose has popped up eight times since last night. Someone better than me should video edit his AB to put him on a golf course with a golf club. It looks like a good swing.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Do we have a date on which Wright's assignment to the 60-day is effective? It could be back-dated to March, which would still make him eligible to return in May (if he's healthy, natch) but if it's effective yesterday then we definitely can't see him until late June, at the earliest. it's something like 9 days backwards before the season. so probably Memorial Day? But that's irrelevant. He's not working to come back yet or they wouldn't(couldn't) have put him on the 60day.

Frayed Knot wrote: The latest story has it that, rather than being rivals, the Jeter & Jeb groups are now joining forces in an attempt to become the next Marlins owner(s). Earlier stories had them as two of three groups trying to be the buyer. The third, now second, group remains anonymous thus far. Marlins are trying real hard to pick someone I'll hate MORE than current ownership.

cooby wrote: Conshohocken now showing up in my suggested articles Good place to get beer distro from Philly for things like Deschutes. Also pretty close to Tired Hands brewing company.

soupcan wrote: Ceetar wrote: 1.5 back of the Nats. play 3 against them this weekend, just as the Mets are getting hot again. The Mets are hot? they typically get hot after they get cold, as is the cyclically nature of things.

You could try just fouling everything off until they walk you too [youtube:paud9xeo]http://tv.pacificleague.jp/vod/pc/topics/sns/11006[/youtube:paud9xeo]

seawolf17 wrote: metirish wrote: What is this the booth mentioning several times about an MLB wide trend to hit the ball in the air now? Saw it in an article yesterday about Bryce Harper's hot start; apparently, that's what Daniel Murphy did last season that caused his stock to skyrocket. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9e0764ee7d254437b8a7179e4843fd6e/baseballs-new-trend-saying-no-ground-balls Basically, the best way to beat the shift is to hit it over it.

Centerfield wrote: You don't even have to bunt. You can just, like, try to take one the other way with 2 strikes. Which is kinda good hitting anyway no? turns out hitting ain't easy. What you're asking is that they adjust their approach every so slightly on a per pitch basis and wait a fractional second longer to swing. Oops, you waited TWO fractions of a second and now struck out.

Mets BABIP is way low, fwiw. (and Nationals lead the league) these things will level out. Although maybe not as fast if Duda's out for any length of time. Walker and Granderson seem to be the big culprits of the bad luck, I've definitely seen them drive the ball some, and it be right at people. Reyes too, but his low BABIP is likely a result of garbage soft contact and not bad luck, but he'll break out of that too, though he's not an OBP guy he won't be this bad. Again, big drop off if d'Arnaud is out for any length of time unless Plawecki has started to figure it out. Hey, Wright's about to start throwing! That could help.

Rockin' Doc wrote: Ceetar wrote: Ashie62 wrote: I am repeating myself but Bartolo Colon might have fit nicely these days and/or if more arms suffer. Luckily it's usually not hard to find a Bartolo Colon type when you need one. Rather late to the party tonight. Reading through the thread, but I couldn't let this pass without comment. Not hard to find a Bartolo Colon type? Are you kidding me? The man is a one of a kind original. Besides that, he was dependable and durable. He is the kind of bullpen arm the Mets need. He can fill in as a spot starter, long man when a starter faulters, or the inning eater in those long extra inning affairs. Glad to see the Mets (Bruce) pulled this one out. Meh, Bartolo has a 4.24 ERA this season, his age 44 season. He's only reliable until he's not. He pitched well for the Mets over the three years, giving them some value, pitching right about league average. That's fine, that's good. (That's also what everyone bitched about when we got it from Mike Pelfrey), but you can find that if you suddenly need it. You might even be able to find _Colon_ again should you need him, if it's two months from now and the Braves are looking to promote a starter from the minors anyway. He's just roster filler for them.

1.5 back of the Nats. play 3 against them this weekend, just as the Mets are getting hot again.

d'Kong76 wrote: So how do you share a tweet so it looks like it's coming from Twitter and not just 'borrow' an image from a Twitter page? [tweet]https://twitter.com/Mets/status/854773857403547650[/tweet]

Speaking of Odubel Herrera. you might have heard this on the Effectively Wild Podcast if you listen.. he's slow. 31.9 seconds between pitches is molasses. (average is 24) it's like 6 seconds longer than last year where he was warned, warned, fined, negotiated the fine into a warning. He saw 25 pitches last night. That's about 12 minutes. That's more than 3 minutes more than the average batter. http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat≶=all&qual=0&type=15&season=2017&month=0&season1=2017&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&sort=11,d

Ashie62 wrote: I am repeating myself but Bartolo Colon might have fit nicely these days and/or if more arms suffer. Luckily it's usually not hard to find a Bartolo Colon type when you need one.

The crux of it all though, if you can't muster someone better than Montero has pitched, might as well be TJ Rivera. Maybe he can do both. THAT seems to be at least entering the mindset of teams. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bethach01.shtml http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lorenmi01.shtml

Lefty Specialist wrote: Starters are doing fine, up to a point. And that point is so early in the game that the bullpen is getting stretched until it breaks. If Gsellman pitches 5 innings and gives up one run but throws 100 pitches, he will have failed. bullpen pitched 4 scoreless yesterday. if the bats hit, 5IP is fine.

Frayed Knot wrote: When Duda got on as the winning run in bottom 9 last night w/one out there was essentially no one to PR for him -- Lagares & Granderson had already been used, leaving just Wilmer and R. Rivera. That's an example of a by-product of a shorter bench. Modern rosters rarely have room for a speed guy. Duda's not _that_ slow either, but you could always use deGrom. I don't think I'd try to steal with just 1 out, but sure, it's another small tick in favor of 5 men on the bench. A very small tick though, because you've just removed probably your second best hitter in favor of a Quad-A type guy if they _don't_ score there.

Centerfield wrote: Gavin Cecchinin: .865 OPS, 4 2B's, 2 HR's. I know, it's Vegas, but it's still baseball. 13.5% BB rate and a sub 10 K rate? Niiice. Of course that OPS is like..45th in the league.

Centerfield wrote: Yes, but going to the same relievers every night, relatively early, leads to them getting gassed. And then it has immediate effects. One could say that the whole Miami series was messed up by over-used relievers. And the last guy on the bench argument can't be dismissed by four AB's. Countless times a lefty-righty matchup is not exploited because we are running out of guys. Look, I'm not disagreeing with you. I just don't think it's as one-sided as you are proposing. oh, definitely, the gassing is a concern, but it strengthens my point I think. You need MORE relievers you can trust. And maybe after a long game is when you push the starter more, though granted it's early and April and maybe not as wise as doing that in June. Maybe it's not that as one-sided as I think, but you gotta have quality platoon guys for that and it's rare too. But our lineup is lefty-heavy perhaps. we've got one of each on the bench for the OF and a righty (or switch if it's Reyes on the bench) IFer. Plus Rene Rivera I guess. I don't think we're losing the matchup battle that much. I mean, we're mostly talking about TJ Rivera here, and he's a rightly and so is Lagares and Flores so it's not like that'd be resolved if he was here instead of the worst Sewall/Gilmartin/Montero. Benjamin Grimm wrote: The way I look at it, if you use five pitchers in a game instead of two, you have three more guys who might potentially be having a bad day. And that one bad inning that you get from that pitcher could cost you the game. If a pitcher is doing well, and hasn't thrown too many pitches, keep him in. Ride him as long as you can. Maybe, but there's really no good way to know if the 'next' inning from the pitcher you keep in is going to be the bad one over a fresh one from a reliever. And the data suggests a reliever first time through the order is better than a starter the third time through. (and relievers a second time are terrible) Sure, it's a balancing act.

I wasn't happy the Mets signed Reyes and wouldn't be pissed if they cut him loose now, but I'd probably give him another couple dozen PA (though, maybe not in a row) to legitimatize the sample. Play Flores more, always against lefties at this point, and maybe more. If Reyes hasn't picked it up and someone else is forcing the issue? DFA easy.