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Centerfield wrote: Ceetar wrote: home has to present lineup card first, then the visitor. but the umpire doesn't give the copies to the other side until after verifying them. So if this is the case, you could publicly announce Steven Matz as your game 2 starter, have him throw in the bullpen, post the lineup on twitter, then submit a lineup card with Noah Syndergaard and the other team would be stuck. Yes? yup. It'd be especially easy in the playoffs these days, because teams are squeezing every ounce of advantage they can, so even Syndergaard would probably only really pitch twice through the order, and you could still presumably use Matz that day. That would probably be the trick. Announce Thor-Matz to see if they'll put in their lefties, and then switch 'em. Let Matz start with the platoon advantage and leave him in to see if you get the opposition to put in their righty guys, probably in that key spot in the 5th or 6th, and then BOOM go to Thor.

Centerfield wrote: Does anyone know the rule on starting pitchers? Is there a minimum they have to throw? I feel like Counsell may have just opened up a can of worms here. What's to stop a manager from publicly announcing that Steven Matz is your starter, then submit a lineup card with Zack Wheeler. Or to submit Matz in your lineup card, then say he got hurt jogging out to the mound and start Wheeler in his place. (Wheeler having warmed up in secret) Does one team have to submit a lineup card and commit before another? (f) The pitcher named in the batting order handed the umpire-inchief, as provided in Rules 4.02(a) and 4.02(, shall pitch to the first batter or any substitute batter until such batter is put out or reaches first base. home has to present lineup card first, then the visitor. but the umpire doesn't give the copies to the other side until after verifying them. You'd burn Matz in that situation, which is probably fine, but given rotations you're not fooling anyone with that. If you've got six guys you could presumably start Matz for one batter and sub in deGrom who was scheduled for tomorrow.

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MFS62 wrote: Ceetar wrote: There are others, i think they're doing more this week and I can't tell if the rumors of a "candidate we don't know" were subsequently leaked or not. The free agent fishing season starts when the World Series ends. They can't do diddley squat (no pictures of Bo Diddley, please) without a GM. They'd better make a decision quickly, or it will be an off season of frustration as free agents sign elsewhere. Later 7 days after the WS actually. They've got people to reach out. It's not like Machado's going to sign instantly, especially not if the Mets reach out and express potential interest. bidding wars and all that.

People are talking about the plane of the fence, i.e. Only the barest fraction of an inch of lacing on the ball or Bett's glove needs to cross the front plane of the fence. I'm not sure that's what the rule says though. It's literally one sentence "No interference shall be allowed when a fielder reaches over a fence, railing, rope or into a stand to catch a ball." Like, if Betts glove was flat on the fence, open, half over, and the ball comes straight down on the fair side, never crossing the fence, and a fan bats the glove away, is that interference? is that 'reaching over the fence'? I'm pretty sure Betts reached over the fence. At least above the fence. I guess maybe pretty sure isn't enough to overturn. As far as the fans go though, that's the right move. You don't reach over, but you CANNOT let Betts make a catch in the stands. I guess maybe the best move is to 'take one for the team' and put your back up against the fence? Clearly not 'over' and when the ball hits you it's a HR.

I dunno, seems clearly over the fence to me. I don't know how you can call that interference.

smg58 wrote: He's somebody I've always felt kind of bad for. But like I said in the other thread, I'd need a reason to think he can stay healthy. Otherwise, you're asking a team who last two seasons can be summed up as "one injury after another" to make a big splash by signing somebody whose whole career can be summed up as "one injury after another." Well, to be clear, I don't want Ryu to big the 'big splash'. ATM they technically have (At least) 5 starters. If we could find a reason why he, or anyone really (Hi Big League Advance) could stay healthy, we'd be ahead of the game. Pencil him in for 90 innings and hope for more.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Would you trade Matz for Gray? Just a brain exercise more than anything. I mean, there's a service time calculation I'm probably overlooking but I might They're more similar than I thought. Matz walks a few less, and strikes out a few more. That's valuable. His ERA is a bit lower but some of the more advanced measures are close. Fastball velocity is about the same (though the Yankees are slider-happy and afraid of Fastballs, so he hasn't been throwing it, which may be inflating his number this year?) but pound for pound I'd still keep the younger lefty.

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There's the risk-reward aspect to it. This especially applies to slow jogs to first rather than just stopping. Like, maybe the SS air-mails it, but then you're safe even if you're jogging. Basically, do you really think the number of extra bases you might get from hustling is greater than the value you might lose due to wear and tear and fatigue and possible injury of running 100% every single time you make contact? Many people don't. I feel like there's a bigger complain for guys running 90% on two hoppers to short that get beat by a stride or two. I don't know that speed actually creates that much forced errors, but I bet if you're not a prototypical 'fast guy' you could steal a few extra bases by hustling. Someone of modest speed busting it down the line on a grounder to short where the fielder might think he has time. Of course, I've also been thinking they should move the bases to like 92 feet and the mound back another foot or two.

https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=14444&position=P Not the picture of durability, but is very good when he's healthy. Had a groin thing this year that had him miss a lot of time, though he still got up to 2.0 fWAR. His Tommy John was 15 years ago. Next season is his age 32 season. It might be the way to go. Instead of trying to find a 4th? Ace, just find a few guys that are excellent, even if you'll only get like 80 IP a piece from them.

How about Ryu? I'll spin it off I guess.

Centerfield wrote: Wait, don't get me wrong. I would still support the move. And ultimately the Mets need someone like him (if not specifically him). In fact, they might need a couple of hims. But I'm just saying be wary of signing him and then penciling him down for top 5 in MVP voting. He, like any other player, comes with his downsides, warts, or whatever you might want to call it. Well yeah, true of virtually everyone. But I just wanted to present some evidence as to why 2017 was more of a fluke average season than an example of why he might not be a top player.

d'Kong76 wrote: Ceetar wrote: 444,470,453 in distance. He can get it out. That's a shot, like three times around the globe! yeah but he stood at home plate watching it the whole time so now we can't sign him.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: My radical plan for the Mets is to get stupid on the starting pitching front, and specifically not go after a No. 4 or 5 but a No. 1 or 2. That's why I wanted Darvish and Ohtani last offseason. I don't think Eovaldi is it though. Doesn't quite have a great K rate, though his BB one is pretty good. Oddly he's throwing his hardest right now as he ever has. That, coupled with the new cutter and split finger he's throwing might account for his success this year. But lose a tick off that, and/or let other teams catch up to his new pitches and I'd be worried he'll return to being mostly ordinary and Vargas-y.

There was nothing 'non-hustle' about Carlos Beltran. .265 BABIP in 2017, and he still was above average and a contributor. I'm not particularly worried. His Hard Hit % in 2017 was top 2% in the league. Top 5% this year. He smashes the ball. HARD. Maybe it's more doubles and less home runs in a bigger park, but he hits the damn ball hard, and he doesn't strike out a ton. He had the 15th farthest HR in 2017 and the 65th this year and 2016. 444,470,453 in distance. He can get it out. Oh, and he's 26. He could get an 8 year deal and still basically be in his prime at the end of it. I hate that he's this type of player (there are other issues) saw this elsewhere: He also punched Yordano Ventura in the face piece, took out Dustin Pedroia (that slide was clean, IMO), hit Derek Norris with his backswings, cried when Josh Donaldson “swiped” at him with a tag...and probably more that I’ve forgotten. He strikes me as a AJ Pierzynski type, that guy who you like to play with but hate to play against, because he’s a butthole. The Mets need him. he's a great fit. It'd be a bad blow if he went to Philly or Atlanta.

41Forever wrote: Here's the Jeter-fied new logo. There's no word on whether the jerseys will read "Marlin2" of course the Marlin is humping the M. probably giving it herpes too.

41Forever wrote: Derek Jeter, working to make the Marlins experience as exciting as his post-game quotes. fwiw, they are (and I'm not crediting minority owner guy just because he's previously famous and likes to be in the spotlight) doing some fan engagement stuff that does seem fun. [tweet] [/tweet] That's really cool.

Sorry, I crossed more broadly into the steroid thing at large, hence A-Rod. I just see it as an example of the league abusing authority and makes me slightly sympathetic of guys that fight back, lie, etc. But then I expect that of all the players anyway. TransMonk wrote: But Braun lied. Intentionally. To the fans that supported him and hailed him as a hero. Even at my most cynical, that is a mortal sin. But the Brewers fans cheer him. I've spent a lot of time around Brewers fans and they very rarely bring it up...almost like it never happened. I mean, that's a fine stance. I get it, I just don't think of players as 'heroes'. I don't really put much stock into what they say and do off the field. Sure, there's some cool added value for guys like David Wright, but for most of 'em, whatever. They're almost uniformly douchy type-A alpha males assholes. Just talk about baseball and I don't need to hear about your love for the Village cheeseshop. Didn't Mets fans pretty universally get behind Bartolo Colon? We mostly ignored the Johan Santana incident. Plenty of people are fine with Reyes and even Familia who maybe was 'less guilty'? Not going to throw too many stones at Brewers fans for getting over the Braun thing, who only really hurt the team via missing games/suspension and even that was carefully timed so it didn't bleed into the following season. Cheering Hader's return is hard to swallow though. I get once he's back and playing and making outs, fine, you cheer the positive result, but this was more than that.

I have very little issue with not tearing down the line on 99.9999% outs. I have more of an issue with assault at second base, but he's still too good to stop me from coveting him.

I said I didn't have time to respond piecemeal. it confuses the point. Everyone was saying the Mets were doing DAvid Wright wrong, despite him saying teh opposite, and saying it literally pained him to stand on the field. So excuse me if I don't treat aggregation of the same story as confirmation of the story. I'm hardly alone in thinking Sherman is a hack. And literally these are the exact same story lines the Giants are having. So it's hard to believe in some LOLMets thing. here, fine. Give me ONE candidate that has been cited as turning down an offer to interview with the Mets (not one that's just no on their radar) that's interviewing for another GM job. Find me the person that's actually saying "I want to be a GM, just not for the Mets" Again, a lot of people running with one or two anon quotes and talking about it does make that quote more true. One of the tricks you can use is to see if they elaborate at all, or they just repeat what was cited. Regardless, nothing about what Sherman wrote means the Mets are doomed or 'doing it wrong', as if a random writer knows what the right way to run a front office is. There's no 'right way' and half the teams in baseball disagree.

okay, buying thing from Biogensis <> taking banned substances. That's all I'm saying. Maybe there's more convincing evidence, which they agreed to keep quiet, but some of the stuff MLB got up to was very shadowy too. Sending people to shake down informants and all that. It was, and remains, a damned witch hunt. They were looking specifically for information to justify suspending A-Rod. Whether or not Braun is an asshole, we've got plenty of those, that's a different issue. The PEDs? fuck it. they're all still using it. they were all using it. Stand up for yourself and fight it. I don't know what the union thought it was protecting by agreeing to this.

yeah but I don't care about either of those things. I don't care that he took steroids, and I don't care that he went full-lawyer on taking down the charges. That's how our legal system 'works'. Of course, MLB is not the law and they suspended him anyway. Especially now year later, I'm not sure why Brewers fans should care that he took a dubious substance that had an unknown effect on his baseball abilities. And I'm always going to side with the players not being able to be arbitrarily suspended for shadowy associations with organizations that MLB doesn't like. It grants them way too much power imo.

I can't go piece by piece with this, it's too much. A lot of what you wrote as 'fact' is mostly meaningless. fact, yes, but like "And Ricciardi and especially Minaya have been feeding candidates for this process." well yeah, that's how it works, you get your employees to feed you names. They've been good names, something he basically 'confirms' with his pupu platter comment (Joel, please eat before you write next time) See, the Giants do the same thing: "While Sabean will be heavily involved in the hiring and interview process, I don’t expect him to have a big role in the front office moving forward." Here, let's take this. Conversely, upon dismissing GM Bobby Evans, Giants president Larry Baer said the team would pursue an analytically strong “Next Gen” GM. It has focused their search in a familiar way; they were run old-school under Evans and Brian Sabean and will go 180 degrees now. This seems a lot more of a hedge to me. Here's the full 'next-gen' quote. "I think we're looking for someone who's sort of a 'next-gen' general manager, if you will. Somebody who's going to be head of baseball ops," Baer said. " ... People will say 'new school vs. old school,' people will say 'analytics vs. scouting,' and I think that the new, next-generation general manager is able to do both, and will bring both." That's 180? I think Sherman should brush up on his math. Read the Giants GM search and it's literally the exact same stuff. It's the same candidates in a lot of cases (though less leaks there). some of the same snubs. From Chris Haft's article, you've even got a LOLGiants fascination with another team Due to Sabean's background in the Yankees' player personnel department, the Giants have long been viewed as a haven for members of that organization seeking a job. The Yankees' lone conceivable candidate for the Giants' opening would be Damon Oppenheimer, New York's vice president and director of amateur scouting. You can find similar quotes about decision making. The new hire would still report to Baer but have autonomy over baseball operations. I'm still trying to get my head around the idea that teams need to hire a president AND a GM for a bigger chain of command but that there are too many people involved in the decisions and it takes too long to get sign off to make them. Also the Giants have already asserted that the manager is returning, and even Evans is just being reassigned within the organization. (Something akin to what Sherman is asserting is bad that Terry Collins can still whisper in Fred's ear or whatever) I mean, if they hire a dud that hate analytics and they don't advance that cause, I'll be pissed for sure, but based on what's out there I'm not particularly worried they're going to hire that Cardinals guy Sherman's Grassy Knolling at this juncture.