Ceetar
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The Mets have no depth, so absolutely if you can get someone better than Trevor Williams, or at this point maybe even on par with Williams, you do it for a guy with no real future with the team who also isn't very good. But that's just it. He's not particularly good, and I don't think you're fooling anyone on a few BABIP enhanced short season samples from 2019-2020. He's only generally used in a platoon split already, including those two seasons. He plays a good defensive 1B, so I guess there's a chance a team needs a good backup guy there and also a lefty bat, but even so you're probably not getting much for him. Maybe if you find a contract that's unpalatable that someone wants to dump? But with a big lead and the Mets holding serve so far with some reinforcements coming back at some point, it seems unlikely the Mets have the appetite to spend in this situation.
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doesn't mean much, but Smith hasn't been particularly good either. The Mets still need another bat.
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Fox. but no Joe Buck! Joe Davis and John Smoltz on the call. -
also the 7 doesn't run express towards Manhattan before the game does it?
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Yes. I agree with all of that analysis. I'm not saying that Lindor is awful. And he had an awesome April where he ranked top 10 in several categories. I just didnt get the sense that he'd rank so high in offensive bWAR. How's "formulaic "? Do you like that word better than "objective"? yeah, maybe. objective makes it sound so final to me. It's a tool for understanding what's happening on the field, but not so much the final word on it. A lot of it's the positional adjustment, the wRC+ ranking shows that he's not really creating runs at the 8th best rate, even accounting for park factors and the like. It's something I've been curious about actually, do SS/CF show up higher early on, before the less premium positions have a time to make up for the positional adjustments with more dingers? or does it round out?
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He's been really good. I dunno, I've been eyeballing him this season and I read that and thought "yeah, that sounds about right". I wouldn't call bWAR objective though. for one, with straight bWAR Lindor is 31st. He's been dinged a little on defense this year (something that seems true too). by offensive bWAR he is 8th, but tied with McNeil and C.J. Cron. it's really more of an estimate though, the 1.5 of Freeman at 15th is roughly the same. He's 22nd in fWAR (all MLB), fangraphs a little more forgiving of his defense. That takes into account position and baserunning and everything though. He's 59th of 168 qualified batters in wRC+, or run creation. Which is still pretty good, but he doesn't get the premium defensive position adjustment there.
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that's fine, it's the nonsense about Atlanta and the fake trip to the stadium "years ago" and "we didn't even watch the game" and the inferring that they only have chicken nuggets that annoys me. Just write "just a quick subway ride from the game" without the fiction. btw, Junction is 1.3 miles along Roosevelt avenue. 79th street is nearly double that. It's a stretch to use the Mets as a lede to talk about food at 79th and Roosevelt.
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because none of the nonsense mets hooks make any sense, as I explained. I'm sure they do better around Mets games, but much better than say, 7pm on a non game day? I dunno. They're too far for Citi to be a stadium-driven location. Their business is not based on the Mets in anyway, their just happen to be communities of people nearby, and it's accessible, thanks to population density and decent mass transit. None of these businesses go under of the Mets stop playing baseball, that's my point. You can write about food in queens without a lie about the food at Citi, the affordability of Mets games, or the Atlanta team. because as MFS said, you can take one subway stop the OTHER way and find great food. You could take it 3 stops and find great food. or 7.
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=batmagadanleadoff post_id=93499 time=1653499390 user_id=68] Cant find a more appropriate thread for this item and didn't wanna start a brand new one just for this. Francisco Lindor ranks in the top 10 (8th) this season in offensive bWAR (NL). How is that possible?
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Queens has good food and the times is ON IT. The 7 train runs 24/7, you can eat along it even when the Mets aren't playing. I strongly believe that baseball is the kind of sport that you don't need to know much about in order to enjoy it. Long before the Atlanta Braves were the 2021 World Series champions, my Georgia-born friends and I would shell out $10 to watch them play the Mets at Citi Field in Queens. (Most of that time was spent just chatting and occasionally watching the action.) Mets games are a relatively affordable form of New York City entertainment This is SEO clickbait. 'baseball' '2021 World Series' 'Atlanta' 'Mets' 'Citi Field' 'affordable' 'entertainment'. this has nothing to do with the Mets, this is just garbage journalism desperately trying to boost it's visibility. (I've got $50 says this guy once went to a game at Shea with his friends, and vaguely remembers it) that food looks good though.
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you can use the SNY app to watch the Mets in...get this..Queens of all places! this is revolutionary!
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Threading In The Game 5/24 @SFG
Ceetar replied to Johnny Lunchbucket's topic in Archived Game Threads
=Fman99 post_id=93369 time=1653443434 user_id=86] Speaking of Giants, these uniforms are a giant mess. Looks like the color of a salmon's asshole. -
It's nice to drift off and not wake in a panic that the Mets blew a game.
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Harvey is/was a junkie. He is a victim of the same crime baseball is punishing him for. There was seemingly no malicious intent. Whatever else i might think about Harvey as a person, I don't think less of him for his struggles with drugs, I feel for him. Bauer, on the other hand, has been an unrepentant asshole and harasser of women for many years. He's a bad character, and not one MLB need associate themselves with. And that's the BEST case scenario for his image. Three different women have come forward (Some of who did not officially, legally, press charges, but spoke to MLB) to assert that Bauer went above and beyond the concept of consent. He should be in jail, he's one of the few actual people you might say is _actually_ a danger to society and should be locked up. I can't think of any good reason to doubt that he deserves at least what MLB gave him.
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You've heard of innocent until proven guilty right? Until you're tried and convicted of a crime, you have not committed a felony. Matt Harvey is not a felon. Any archaic voter suppression, or other, laws that apply to felons do not apply to him. But this is a 'private' company. I'm just saying MLB choosing to punish him looks a like like they're putting on a tough on drugs act. I don't give a crap about the other asshole. Someone says he was a rapist, certainly fits his profile. Maybe he was only 90% as bad as it seems? big whoop, screw him.
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I initially was confused, but it didn't take much to realize that derisively referring to someone by a famous person of that race is hella not cool. When Tim made the Jackie Robinson comparison it was from a place where he was one of only 72 black major league players and he was being suspended for playing with passion, getting plunked for it and then using the N word. He was the only black player on the White Sox at the time as well. There was context about race to why he said it. It's pretty much exactly the same as saying "all lives matter" when black people talk about police murder. Anderson talking about racial inequality and Donaldson is basically like "okay Jackie" and rolling his eyes. It's dismissive and cruel. It's possible to act in a racist manner without actively thinking "oh fuck him, he's black". It's the very act of trivializing it and mocking it that's problematic here. He's clear that he's not saying it as a compliment. It's derisive.
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https://theathletic.com/3329129/2022/05/23/the-2022-giants-roster-isnt-built-for-quick-fixes/https://theathletic.com/3329129/2022/05/23/the-2022-giants-roster-isnt-built-for-quick-fixes/
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because no one cares about that asshole rapist (I'm not giving him the benefit of the doubt, given his history. I don't know why anyone would. Believe women.) and serial harasser. We're talking about Harvey. Harvey was given immunity to testify. Hence, no felony. He's hardly the only one guilty, and he's hardly the one person to provide drugs to someone else in MLB. By strict rule, they had cause to suspend him, but just like the courts, it wouldn't have been out of the question for MLB to let Harvey skate on that one for helping to find the 'real culprit' of the incident. But by suspending a player they get to act tough, and pretend they're addressing a rampant issue that they're actually ignoring. It's not like Harvey was some sort of drug dealing crime lord here, he was a fellow junkie.
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well, racist bench-jockeying where you mock black guys and generalize them for being black.
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Donaldson only gets 1-game, appealing... ..after his Covid stint.
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Trevor Williams? this is gonna be classic Coors slug fest looks like.
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Bauer's a rapist and was already a serial harasser. No need to waste time thinking about that scumbag. Harvey seems to be taking the fall here for a lot of people here, not least of which is the current Mets GM. I'd imagine MLB considers this issue "over" despite the very clear rampant issue across the sport. Seems like Harvey might've been a little too candid, though granted he was under oath. Maybe it's true none of the other guys ever handed skaggs a pill, but it still feels like Harvey is far from the villain (well, second villain) of the story. But apparently his minor league games will count towards his suspension, and it's not like post-injury he's a good major league pitcher anymore anyway, so he'll take his time and be back and this will be behind him. Unless Terry Collins wants to air some more dirty laundry of his anyway.
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better percentage than Cohen. I don't know why you are always taking shots at Cohen. A couple stumbles out of the gate, but he seems to be getting it right since the bumpy start. because he's a scumbag, still employs sexual harasser(s) and the people that hired him despite pretending to fix it. Because he basically punted 2021 for 'value', meddles too much, and let some of my favorite players leaves despite the team desperately needing them. I don't know what he's "getting right"? throwing a lot of money at a few players?
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better percentage than Cohen.
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I assume it'll be a patch right? I haven't gotten a new jersey in ages, though I don't have a strong enough attachment to anyone right now.
