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Frayed Knot wrote: You shouldn't have to 'buy tickets'. That's likely an enticement for you now that they've got you there. MLBN should be on your cable package if you have one. MLB.TV is downloaded via the MLB app. You'll need to sign up for it but won't have to pay for this game tonight. Cool. I'm in. Bottom of first.

Frayed Knot wrote: any out of towners without a usual connection. That's me, thanks. It says "buy tickets" now. Does that change at game time?

an uncertain upgrade at a high price. It's obviously a RIGHT NOW!!! move. If it doesn't get the Mets deep into the post-season, it's a bad move, but if Ruf gets hot and wins us a few games we otherwise would have lost and we end up playing in early November, no one remembers or cares. And the difference between Ruf's OPS vs lefties and Davis's this season is on the positive side of "uncertain." No guarantees, but it looks to be as certain as things get in baseball. The age-difference doesn't mean so much these days. Being younger doesn't matter if you have the older one under contract for longer than you have the younger one. Davis is signed through 2025, Ruf through 2024.

It's that tasty .929 career OPS vs. lefties that did it. The Mets were getting tired of waiting for J.D. Davis to get hot. Time's a-wasting.

Y' know, every now and then I think you might like to hear something from us Nice and easy But there's just one thing You see we never ever do nothing Nice and easy We always do it nice and Ruf!

What will it take to land Wilson Contreras at this point? Or is he off the table? What we need most of all is a slugging catcher, much more than bullpen help.

Edgy MD wrote: Seeing has how it's one season, and he managed to play well (excellently) when he was on the field, I'd say "seasons" of "nothing of value" is just bad analysis. Well, we're parsing here, but what I wrote was that "they had (have) a lot of down seasons where they delivered nothing of value," with "they" being Cepeda and Trout collectively, so yes "they" did have more than one down season in their careers after age 23. Now of course you could argue that some of these injury-plagued seasons included periods of excellence--you might even argue that Cepeda's 1965 season (.176/1/5 in 34 ABs) included some bursts of excellence if you were so inclined--but I'll stand by my analysis.

Edgy MD wrote: Mike Trout has had down seasons where he has delivered nothing of value? Well, no fault of his own (injuries) and "nothing of value" is a slight overstatement, but there must be a limit to the value you place on Trout's 2021, when he batted 117 times. 39 hits isn't nothing, true. but that has to count as a disappointing season by any measure.

Like Kramer conceding the contest, it looks like the Mets have dropped out of the Soto sweepstakes: https://twitter.com/TalkinBaseball_/status/1553816739451912196 My question is did Soto ever make sense to you? I know, Cohen has more money than Satan and God combined, and it's not your money, etc. but it seems in addition to bankrupting the farm system (which is arguably worth getting a superstar right now), he wants a contract so huge that giving him anything like the deal he turned down from the Nationals doesn't make much sense, assuming you can sign him to it. So one question is: assume you can't make a deal with him, and he goes FA. How does that work? You've in effect swapped your 3 or 4 best prospects for a few years of Soto and a top draft pick? Is that a good deal? It may be the best deal, better than signing him to a fifteen year deal. His most comparables on BBREF.com include several burnouts, due to career changing injuries: Tony Conigliaro, Orlando Cepeda, Trout, and quite a few others who did not fifteen quality seasons after age 23. Cepeda and Trout did deliver MVP seasons after age 23, but they had (have) a lot of down seasons where they delivered nothing of value too, and even the ones who put in first ballot HoF careers retired well before Soto's 15-year contract would expire. Mantle, for example. (OTOH, you've got Aaron and Frank Robinson on Soto's comparables, too.) The way to look at it if you're for acquiring him is: Yeah, he might well get hurt, blow out a knee, get HBPed into Bolivia but what you're paying a fortune for is the great years before that happens and the chance that it never happens. Everything beyond the next few years is gravy. And I suppose that universal DH makes the prospect of injury that much less severe. So how you feel about dropping out of the Soto contest? Relieved or disappointed?

Yeah, they're pretty bad. And Marlins' games (and ESPN etc.) are all I get down here.

Easy math--after 100 games, we're 63-37. About 101 wins on the season.

Frayed Knot wrote: =roger_that post_id=101657 time=1659293724 user_id=128] I'm not saying to tag, I'm saying to draw a throw. No risk, high payoff if the rushed throw goes wild. Take four running steps to 3B, and see what happens. Standard fundamental of Little Leaguers everywhere. That's an exceptional arm in RF, fake too well and you might find yourself back-picked. Canha was tagged but took mo more than an obligatory step as it was obvious he wasn't going anywhere.

Edgy MD wrote: =roger_that post_id=101645 time=1659291161 user_id=128] Mazeika bunts one to an empty left side--THAT's what I'm talking about! going into the Atlanta series.

=kcmets post_id=101654 time=1659293523 user_id=53] =roger_that post_id=101652 time=1659293235 user_id=128] I do not get why runners on 2nd (like Canha just now) don't try to draw a throw from RF on a deep fly out to Right.

Edgy MD wrote: Another hit getting by Rojas. And hit #12 gets Lopez out of the game. Rojas seems to have an above-league Range Factor/9 consistently over his career, and so far in 2022 it's still above league

I do not get why runners on 2nd (like Canha just now) don't try to draw a throw from RF on a deep fly out to Right.

11 hits off Pablo Lopez, pitching like he doesn't want to leave Miami.

I think they got Vogelbach to make Wayne Kirby look slender.

Mazeika bunts one to an empty left side--THAT's what I'm talking about!

Mets seem to be banging low and away breaking pitches pretty consistently this inning.

Edgy MD wrote: You could always count on Tom Seaver to have a little Niedert on his uniform pants. Funny, but the Miami announcers are pronouncing it "NYD-urt"

I don't know how much you guys get on the SNY feed, or whatever you get in the NYC area these days, but loandepot park is sponsored in part by a local health organization known as "LEON" which has a large "C" shape logo (?) out in front, so I keep getting bombarded by these signs that seem to spell out CLEON. I like being reminded of one of my favorite Mets a few dozen times per game.

Smile on Diaz's face when Wendel fouled his 9th strike off. You know he was going for it.

Bassitt can't find the plate. 3-0, Fish.

Vogelback pops out to short center for out #3, leaving Marte on second and Lindor on first.