Cowtipper

He goes from a two-homer game to this: In 55 ABs since his last home run, he's hit .145/.242/.200.

Why are so many former Tampa Bay players so down on Juan Soto? What did he do?

I'm just glad he was able to come back for one last appearance. Over these past few years, we've seen the last of what I consider the old guard slowly retire. At one point, there was Verlander, Scherzer, Kershaw and Greinke, Now there's just Scherzer,, and he might be done after this year, who knows, We might still see 200-win pitchers and never say never about the 300-win pitcher. Gerrit Cole, Chris Sale and Sonny Gray could all make a push for 200, Cole without much challenge and the latter two if they pitch into their 40s. But beyond them, big winners will be rare. No one under the age of 35 has more than 120 wins right now.

Brooks Raley - 38-year-old former Mets pitcher (2023-2026) is 0-2 with an 8.71 ERA in 15 relief appearances for the Phillies since being traded at the deadline. Erasmo Ramirez- 36-year-old former Mets pitcher (2020) was 1-3 with an 11.90 ERA in 10 games (7 starts) for the Rockies Triple-A club, 0-1 with an 8.25 ERA in 3 starts for the Algodoneros de Union Laguna in Mexico and 0-4 with an 8.49 ERA in 11 relief appearances for the independent Gary SouthShore RailCats in 2026. Yohan Ramirez - 31-year-old former Mets pitcher (2024) is 7-4 with a 2.90 ERA in 65 games (1 start) for the Pirates. In 83 2/3 innings, he has 99 Ks. Sean Reid-Foley - 31-year-old former Mets pitcher (2021-2024) was 0-1 with a 15.43 ERA in 3 relief appearances for Jalisco in Mexico. Jack Reinheimer - 34-year-old former Mets utilityman (2018) hit .263/.356/.403 with 12 home runs, 59 RBI and 34 steals in 116 games for the indy Gastonia Ghost Peppers. Denyi Reyes - 29-year-old former Mets pitcher (2023) is 5-4 with a 2.66 ERA in 15 starts for the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions of the CPBL. Pablo Reyes - 33-year-old former Mets infielder (2024) hit .331/.420/.497 with 10 home runs, 64 RBI and 21 steals in 100 games between the Padres and Angels Triple-A teams. Luis Robert Jr. - 29-year-old former Mets outfielder (2026) hit .182/.250/.545 in 11 at-bats for the Orioles after being taken off waivers by Baltimore. He's now on the 10-day IL. Hansel Robles - 36-year-old former Mets pitcher (2015-2018) was 3-5 with a 6.00 ERA in 36 relief appearances between two Mexican League teams. In 30 innings, he had 39 Ks.

He last appeared in a game on 9/13. Guys I'd rather see on the roster than Cristian Pache: Ryan Clifford D'Andre Smith Jose Ramos Kevin Parada Nick Lorusso Jacob Reimer Chris Suero We know what Cristian Pache is at the big league level. This is his 6th season. He owns a career 45 OPS+. Horrible. We don't know what any of those kids are at the big league level. This is the time and environment to be figuring that out.

Well, Peterson's gone, Senga's been a mediocre reliever (5.34 ERA since transitioning into the role) and Manaea, well he's been actually pretty solid. Not great, but solid. Since early May, his ERA is 4.27. He's walked just 33 in 122 1/3 innings. He allowed just 116 hits. The longball's been a bit of a problem, but outside of that, I can't say I'm unimpressed, based on what I thought the year was gonna be for him.

There was, in the Mets’ house, a quiet rearrangement of the living and the dead—a shifting of names that, though recorded in the sterile language of transactions, possessed something of the solemnity of a midnight burial. Christopher Rochin was released from the DSL, his brief passage through the organization ending without ceremony. At Syracuse, Guillo Zuñiga and Zack Short emerged from the seven-day injured list, returning once more to the roster as if summoned from some temporary exile. Yet the more curious disturbance occurred in New York. The Mets, having claimed the left-handed Philip Abner from the San Francisco Giants, consigned him to the minors almost as soon as his name had crossed their threshold. In the same breath, Xzavion Curry was designated for assignment, his place within the organization suddenly suspended in that peculiar limbo where a player's fate is neither settled nor entirely his own. Thus, in the waning days of September, the Mets' roster became a chamber of revolving doors—some men returning from absence, another arriving only to disappear below, and still another left waiting in the darkness for word of what would become of him.

Legendary Mets catcher Chance Sisco has retired.

Don Cooper died. https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/white-sox-pitching-coach-don-cooper-dies/ Who was Don Cooper? Don Cooper entered baseball not as a chosen hero, but as a man determined to make something of the abilities he possessed. Born in New York City in 1956, he was selected by the Yankees in the 17th round of the 1978 draft and began his professional career in the minor leagues, where he immediately demonstrated his potential by throwing a no-hitter. He eventually reached the major leagues with the Twins, Blue Jays, and Yankees, but greatness as a player eluded him. In 44 games, he went 1–6 with a 5.27 ERA. The conventional measure of success had given its verdict—and Cooper refused to accept it as the measure of his life. When one path closed, Cooper did not surrender his purpose; he changed its form. Beginning as a minor-league pitching coach in the White Sox organization in 1988, he steadily rose through the system until becoming the club's major-league pitching coach in 2002. There he found the field on which his abilities could achieve their fullest expression: not pitching, but teaching. He devoted himself to transforming young pitchers into better versions of themselves, treating their development not as an obligation but as a creative act. His philosophy was simple: he loved being part of young people's lives and helping them achieve the dreams they were dreaming about. The results became his proof. Cooper remained the White Sox pitching coach for 18 seasons, helping guide the organization through its 2005 championship season, when its staff posted a 2.55 ERA during an 11–1 postseason run and threw four consecutive complete games in the American League Championship Series. Under his instruction, Mark Buehrle and Philip Humber threw perfect games, while Lucas Giolito threw a no-hitter. Cooper briefly served as interim manager in 2011, going 1–1, but his true legacy remained on the pitching staff, where his influence accumulated quietly over decades. In 2020, after 32 seasons with the organization, he was dismissed along with manager Rick Renteria. Cooper died at his home in Brentwood, Tennessee, on September 22, 2026, at age 70. His playing statistics were modest, and his managerial career lasted only two games; yet those numbers describe only the man who stood on the mound, not the man he ultimately became. He discovered that a person's worth need not be measured by how much glory he personally receives, but by what he is capable of creating through his own effort. Cooper's greatest work was therefore not the career he failed to have as a star pitcher, but the careers he helped create for others. He entered baseball seeking his own place in it; he found that place by making himself indispensable to the success of other men.

I was thinking, because of his pedigree and how highly he was touted, someone would've signed him for 2026. Alas, it wasn't meant to be.

You don't hear much about this guy, but he's moving up the ranks and is still only 20 years old. For St. Lucie this year, he hit .238/.340/.367 with 11 home runs and 57 RBI in 104 games.

Vasil is still with the White Sox, but he was hurt all year. He's recovering from Tommy John surgery.

Kellum's found a home in indy ball, hitting .326/.447/.512 with 14 homers and 77 RBI in 86 games for the Schaumburg Boomers of the Frontier League in 2026.

Well, I just post the same thing I posted in the other Sproat thread: In his first year away from New York, Sproat went 3-7 with a 5.57 ERA in 22 games (19 starts) for the Brewers. He averaged more than a strikeout per inning. At Triple-A, he was 0-2 with a 5.64 ERA in 8 games (4 starts).

What is this fixation on keeping and doing something with Vientos? The dude will be 27 next year. It'll be his 6th season. He's 1,300 at-bats into his career and has a .235 average and .288 OBP to show for it. He averages 38 walks and 164 Ks per 162 games. He can't field worth a lick. I mean even when he was a prospect he was never even a Baseball America Top 100 prospect. Baty, Alvarez and Mauricio all were, multiple times. He's just not that good. Time to say adios.

Pache was called up on August 4. They've played about 44 games since August 4. He's appeared in 14 games and had 8 at-bats for the club in that span. Surely in this lost season, they don't really need a specialist for pinch running or defense. Surely they could by trialing a young fella. Surely they could be giving a career minor leaguer his shot at glory. But there's ol' Cristian Pache, taking up a spot on the roster. He reminds me of Ben Gamel in 2024. On the roster for what seemed like forever, but almost never used.

Herb Hutson died. https://foxandweeks.com/obituaries/o/11456/George-Herbert-Hutson Who was Herb Hutson? Herb Hutson spent only one season in the major leagues, twenty games in a Chicago Cubs uniform in 1974, and yet those twenty games contained the thing every ballplayer spends his life chasing: proof that, for a little while, he belonged. A Georgia Southern pitcher drafted by Baltimore and later taken by the Cubs in the Rule 5 draft, Hutson worked his way through the minors, once leading the Southern League in shutouts, until one April afternoon he walked onto a major-league mound against Philadelphia. He was 24. By September, it was over. Hutson finished 0–2 with a 3.45 ERA and 22 strikeouts, numbers that say something and almost nothing. Arm trouble would end his playing career at 26, sending him home to Savannah, where he became a pitching coach, a husband, a father, and a man whose baseball life continued long after the uniform was gone. He and Janet were married for 55 years. In 1986, his hometown baseball community put him in its hall of fame. There are thousands of men who played in the major leagues, and there are thousands more who nearly did. Hutson occupied that narrow country between the two: a man who made it, if only briefly. His name remains in the record books beside twenty games from 1974, but behind those numbers was a lifetime of buses, minor-league towns, sore arms, hopes, disappointments, and one unforgettable fact—that for one season, Herb Hutson was a major-league pitcher.

September 22, 2026. The summer was dying in the lights of Citi Field, and the Mets were rearranging the pieces for one last September dream. Devin Williams came walking back from the injured list, while Christian Scott took his place among the wounded. Andy Green, once merely temporary, was suddenly permanent—a three-year promise beneath the autumn sky. And somewhere beyond the dugout, the front office began whispering a new name: Derek Falvey. The season was ending, but baseball, as it always does, was already becoming tomorrow.

The White Sox?!?!?!? The same team that lost 121 games two years ago and 102 last year? Wow, never would've expected that one. Also crazy that the Rangers could make it. They're at exactly .500 right now and, more astonishingly, are first in the division.

Hey, there's six games left in the season. If the Mets win all of them, then by winning percentage Andy Green will technically be the fifth-most successful manager in Mets history.

He actually strikes me as a manager. He has the vibe. Both Mendoza and Rojas were a little too laid-back or milquetoast.

In addition, I too also approve, as well.

Astoundingly, he's still going (and struggling). Splitting 2026 between the Rangers and Marlins systems, he went a combined 1-0 with an 8.04 ERA in 29 relief appearances across four stops. His WHIP was over 2. The Marlins must still see something in him, because they haven't cut ties with him yet.

Stuart's technically still active, but spent all of 2026 on the injured list.

He spent 2026 with Hanshin's minor league team, hitting .190/.259/.327 with 4 home runs and 17 RBI in 63 games.