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That is too bad. Winker's spirit (to say nothing of his hitting) gave a certain energy to this club. I do hope that something good comes out of this, though, maybe something beneficial to the team in the long run--that is, Baty responding to this opportunity to become the Mets' regular lefthanded DH (and extra middle infielder) with some solid hitting. Call me a cockeyed optimist, but that's exactly what I think will happen.
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By that measure, they should be calling up Jon Singleton who has a .923 OPS this year in Syracuse. Maybe. But Singleton's an old, slow 1B-man, which they really have no use for, who has a significantly worse record than Baty in MLB. Baty has some upside--if he hits (which I'm very hopeful he will) you've got a very useful infielder going forward. If Singleton hits, you've got an old, slow guy who can play 1B and corner OF on the downside of his career. What measure do you think the Mets should be using?
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According to Mendoza, https://www.mlb.com/mets/video/carlos-mendoza-on-jesse-winker-s-injury-5-4-loss Winker looks like an IL situation. Fortunately, the Mets have a left-handed hitter down at Syracuse who's batting .300 with an .864 OPS who has https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=baty--000bre major league experience.
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Looks like some AAA lefties are going to get their shots sooner than we'd thought. Of course, this is why you want to have superfluous players sitting on your bench, in case a team develops a need for one of them as soon as a sudden need of yours (like lefty relievers) presents itself. The question now is which teams have enough good lefty relievers to be able to afford losing one of them in exchange for McNeil, Marte, Baty, etc.? A more radical approach, assuming none of the AAA lefties are acceptable and no meaningful trades present themselves, would be just to go without lefty relievers. Felipe Alou tried an all-righty bullpen one year when he was managing the Expos, as I recall, and did remarkably well with that gamble.
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Are they saying anything different about the nature of his injury now, and his expected return date?
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This https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110308/?ref_=nmbio_mbio is.
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Get a load of the load times.
roger_that replied to batmagadanleadoff's topic in Grand Central Mets Issues & Suggestions
Thanks for trying, Thing. It's a thankless task, but thanks anyway. -
What I particularly like about my suggested lineups (with Alvarez and Torrens each playing quite a bit at C) is the way the whole roster gets to play semi-regularly or regularly. No dead-enders sitting on the bench for weeks at a stretch.
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Can Nimmo do it? I think so.
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My personal preference: Against lefties: Taylor CF Acuna 2B Marte DH Nimmo LF Against Righties: McNeil LF Baty 2B Winker DH Nimmo CF
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Maybe update Pete's FA status?
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I'd wait until much later in the season, for two reasons: we aren't sure about our starting rotation yet (so far it looks purty good, don't it?) and we're not sure how far back Alcantara has come from TJ surgery yet. He ain't gonna cost much more in August than he costs in April.
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Glad Lindor and Soto are not running the team. I would go for a package of young arms, any 3 pitching prospects in the system, plus one position player--Acuna maybe (though I think he has a tremendous upside) or Mauricio or someone of that sort--but not a package of several position players.
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My number one principle is don't trade prospects for pitchers. Very tempting, I know, but a bad enough idea to reject across the board (unless you can get a really ace pitcher for prospects you no longer believe in or who are redundant in your system, and even then I'm only lukewarm on the idea.) The Mets under Stearns seem to have embraced this principle, which is the reason I like the way they think. Pitchers are too dependent on one part of their body to build your club around them--better to strengthen your offense through trades and long-term contracts, and build a staff by signing FA pitchers to short-term deals, plus promoting young pitchers from within your system and/or swapping them out for FA pitchers whose team want to unload the remainder of their contracts. I don't mind swapping young pitchers on the same principle that pitchers always get hurt anyway.
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I thought the Mets were going to be able to trade Canario to a team shy on outfield strength.
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I'm in favor of execution, or at least incarceration, of whoever thought this up.
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Sure. But your reasoning seems a bit odd. Last year, as you vividly remind me, everything did NOT fall into place if for 2 1/2 months they were awful, as they were. But thanks for keeping us grounded here--always interesting to view a different perspective.
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My rating would have been higher if they'd actually signed some decent pitching. Okay, fair enough. I think Manaea's injury is just a few missed starts, and Peterson is due for a big year (to my mind), and the back end of the rotation is decent. When Alvarez comes back, I expect the offense to be very solid, far outweighing any deficiencies in the pitching staff--a lot of 7-5 wins. But yeah, the pitching could be stronger. Reminds me a little of the turn of the century staff--Leiter's ok, nothing great, Reed is unproven, Hampton who knows, Franco makes me nervous, I don't trust Benitez, etc. but they were more than sufficient.
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Question for youse guys predicting the Mets to finish out of first place with fewer than 90 wins: where would your predictions be if the Mets had signed neither Soto nor Alonso? Negative wins? \ 1. What will the Mets' record be? 97-65 2. Predict the NL East standings from 1 to 5: 1 3. Will the Mets make the playoffs (if so, as the division champ or 1st, 2nd, or 3rd WC)? champ 4. If so, how far will they go? All the way 5. Who will be the World Champion? M-E-T-S!!! 6. Number of regular season HRs for Pete Alonso:26 7. Who will be on the cover of the 2025 winner of the Tabloid Cover Derby? Luis Torrens
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Hugo Fuerst.
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I just like hearing Steinbrenner's kid announce in a very longwinded circular way, "My dad was an obnoxious, overbearing dick and we're finally going to abandon one of his guiding principles that cost us many good players and much goodwill over the past five decades."
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Betty is the second-most hateful wife in TV history. (Skyler in Breaking Bad is the champ.) Like Breaking Bad, you root for the guy who is doing all sorts of evil and selfish deeds in every episode. That's the fun of it.
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Rules are too lax. To be really fun, a dark horse should be someone the Mets haven't even signed to a contract yet.
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Hell, I'd pay him $80 myself to stay.
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Well, isn't it true that each voter can vote for no more than ten players? If someone is a big-Hall advocate (I'm not), isn't it perfectly legitimate to assume that certain players will get their 75%, so why not neglect those players in order to include another player who you think is deserving of an HoF vote, if only to keep him on the ballot for another year? This is a justification for gaming the system (another thing I'm not a big fan of) but it's certainly an arguable way to approach a flawed system.
