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=seawolf17 post_id=4960 time=1553530867 user_id=91] =Ceetar post_id=4954 time=1553529635 user_id=102]Too honest? Makes the Mets uncomfortable? fuck 'em. I have no sympathy for management when the workers voice dissatisfaction with the schedule when asked.

I mean, players should maybe have some say over where they're pimped out. If a bunch of them are sitting around the clubhouse grousing about having to take along bus trip across the state and then have a workout in a city 200 miles from home and 400 miles from their next game, *shrug* Too honest? Makes the Mets uncomfortable? fuck 'em. I have no sympathy for management when the workers voice dissatisfaction with the schedule when asked.

91-71. division winners by 4 games. They win the World Series in 5, scoring two early off of Matt Harvey and Diaz striking out Shohei Ohtani to end it.

He's totally right on this. They should've tried to line up two games at least, like they did in Vegas last/previous years. That seemed silly too, but at least it's an extension of the "practice" that Spring Training is.

Isn't he basically Vargas already and trending down? The Yankees already have their an injury, so there's presumably a potential role.

Trout has more career WAR than Harper and Machado combined.

Okay, picked up a Twitter rando, but he's a Mets fan so there's that.

Well the contesting is pretty obvious, and I don't give a crap who writes the headline for you. It's attached to your writing. Take it up with your boss if you're being misconstrued. They might not have been the division favorite even if they invested 600 million. Certainly not if they only sign one. Spoiler alert, no one fucking cares about building a juggernaut. The 'stay relevant, stay profitable, be in the mix' is pretty much the mantra of every team. Again, the Cubs and the Yankees are both having the exact same arguments about Harper and Machado. Not saying there's nothing there, and the Wilpons have plenty of problems, but they've been better than most in compensating players the last few years. They could've spent more. Sure. They could've said "deal with it" to one of their starters and signed another one and made someone go to the bullpen. (they still can, and they still can a month from now) But none of those names you list there are superstars. some of them are very average, trending down, or outright bad. Do what the top teams are doing? is that the Padres and Phillies? They're nowhere near top teams.

it took you like three paragraphs of caveats to even attempt to quantify it. Payroll is not a 1 to 1 relationship with wins, especially year to year, and the Mets did quite a bit to address holes. Machado over Lowrie only really makes them about a win or two better, depending on your projections. I have no idea what 538's ELO is, but it seems like all hte projections systems project them somewhere in the mid-high 80s. Also most of them have the Nats around 90 to, so 'virtual necessity to win division' is pushing it. If you swap out Lowrie and Lagares/Davis/whoever for Machado AND Harper, it's still not a given they're projected above the Nationals.

[quote=seawolf17 post_id=4348 time=1552657471 user_id=91] [quote="Frayed Knot" post_id=4304 time=1552589284 user_id=75] Yeah, I was just thinking about how David Wright had a better 2018 than deGrom [/quote] I'm sure David appreciates the Lifetime Achievement vote, but honestly... [/quote] he deserves it dammit. But if you think it's against the spirit you can move him to the other side of the list. his presence on it is non-negotiable.

I'm finding no-one, even with the team sitting out for anyone to claim. I think, if no one does claim it before the draft, that I'll just release all his players and we'll roll with 11.

i know there's stats on how many pitchers pitches to fewer than three batters, but how many of those did so by closing out an inning? how many got pulled, mid inning, before facing three batters? i'm just curious how often the rule would have actually affected managerial strategy outcomes in the past season.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Let's say Bryce Harper is at bat with two outs and two runners on base. Do you bring in a lefty to pitch to him, knowing that he's followed in the lineup by two right-handed hitters? Absolutely. The inning ends, and that means you get a new pitcher if you want one. you don't though. You keep the lefty in, because you can now pull him whenever. If he walks the first righty the next inning, then you make another pitching change. Resulting in, of course, a SECOND mid-inning pitching change. Same if it's 2-out, no one on, batter in front Harper. You bring in the lefty. Either he gets the righty out, and can face Harper the next inning and be removed after (PITCHING CHANGE) or he let's that guy on base and faces Harper with only 1 on, but two outs. Maybe you don't do that in a 1 run game, but it'll be common enough. Sure, there's some different strategy to it. But you're also taking some away.

The Mets could've done a lot better this off-season. They didn't sign Machado or Harper. They DID sign one of the best catchers available, and actually offered one of the others a better contract than he got. They DID acquire one of the best relievers in baseball, and brought back another top flight one. They DID acquire two excellent infielders. Lowrie was near tops in WAR last year. Cano is second behind only Altuve the last three years. Lowrie isn't as good as Machado, but he's really really good. He was better than Harper last year for example. They've got Pete Alonso, highly touted prospect, waiting in the wings. McNeil looked very promising, but they didn't just say "well, he showed up he can have the job". They've got him for depth, even if they play him out of position in the meantime. They've got one of the best rotations in baseball. This is a good team. This is potentially a great team. This isn't "defend the Mets at any cost" this is realistic valuation of what the Mets have. And it's good.

There were only ( with some error bars) 2.1 IP that would've been prevented by position players last year, and they were with 6 run leads. The 'two-way' player thing makes no sense. There's literally no difference from a two-way player and a pitcher.

1 David Wright 2 Jacob deGrom 3 Brandon Nimmo 4 Zack Wheeler 5 Noah Syndergaard 6 Michael Conforto 7 Jeff McNeil 8 Asdrubal Cabrera 9 Todd Frazier 10 Amed Rosario 11 Seth Lugo 12 Jeurys Familia 13 Steven Matz 14 Yoenis Cespedes 15 Kevin Plawecki 16 Devin Mesoraco 17 Juan Lagares 18 Wilmer Flores 19 Jose Bautista 20 Jason Vargas 21 Drew Smith 22 Daniel Zamora 23 Robert Gsellman 24 Jay Bruce 25 Austin Jackson 26 Scott Copeland 27 Paul Sewald 28 Eric Hanhold 29 Jerry Blevins 30 Matt Harvey

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=4314 time=1552593130 user_id=68] =batmagadanleadoff post_id=4313 time=1552592980 user_id=68] The 26 man roster was long overdue. Expanded reliever use had shrunk MLB benches to about four players. Ridiculous.

If the point was they tried 'insufficiently hard' they failed. Just normal spring #content filler schadenfruede about how they didn't sign the guys _I_ thought they _had_ to sign. If they sign Harper instead of the Phillies, they've got a leg up on the Phillies and Braves but still trail the Nationals in most projections. They certainly aren't "running away" with it. It's hard to take the "should've signed both Machado and Harper" arguments that seriously when, yes of course they should've tried to land one of them, but it's the exact same argument Yankees fans are having, who are in a very similar situation (thought a much bigger WC cushion given how crappy the AL is) just not filtered through the #LOLMets lens.

Yes, and if they lost just an average amount of playing time to injuries and everyone only plays to projections they'll also win the division, provided one of the other teams doesn't have everything go exactly right. If I took every season in the last thirty years that started with this much talent, and had to settle with a random result from those season, we'd probably end up at least reasonably happy.

fuck the last thirty seasons. That's exactly my point, if you could learn to read. It's about 2019. And It's not about 2019 in the context of a quote from 15 years ago. and yes, the Mets didn't sign Harper AND Machado, the only thing they could've even conceivably done that would've possibly (and probably not) made them clear favorites in the division. Sure, the team with one of the best rotations in the game today that DID sign and trade for some talented hitters is definitely one we should be sour on. For sure. One that has a very talented prospect that's going to be up in two weeks, and a very talented outfielder that'll likely be back sometime for the stretch run. Never mind the ability to acquire someone else between now and then to fill any holes that may or may not arise. Sniffing distance of the luxury tax? I mean, yes, I think the Mets should spend more. But spotrac has them as 7th in baseball, and tops in the division so let's not pretend they're pinching pennies and stealing money here. At least not _more_ than the other 28 teams. (no one's touching the Marlins in this regard)

well gee, how can I resist the call of an article that's mostly self-referential links and harping on a one-off quote someone made FIFTEEN years ago.

her career line at Stanford was a .416. Let's see if any Met can hit above it.

Well, the insights are part of what got the writer signed by the Rays, so no more of that from him coming. The second year stuff makes sense, though I don't know how it jibes with getting a new GM this year too. But the Mets didn't really bring in many pitchers either. I wonder how much of that philosophy was preached to the minor leaguers.

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