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He has been hot lately for sure. Getting him straight up for JBJ was a coup. The crew's offense is only the long ball. It can work over 162 games but when you need 2 or 3 runs to close out a playoff game, the pitching will usually prevail against that type of free swinging approach. It did last year vs Atlanta. McNeil's punch to right late in tonight's game.... that's what wins tight games in Oct.
This is the first time I've seen Diaz pitch this season. He blew 'em away. Lemahieu doesn't usually look that bad on swings, but he was completely overmatched. Given Kelenic's career arc to date, maybe Brodie was shrewder than ya thought.
I love the bottom of the Mets line up. McNeil and Guillorme both know how to hit, especially with 2 strikes. A bit like Lux in LA. Turning the line up over is something that doesn't happen much in the MLB. Certainly not in Milwaukee.
Bond' s numbers don't seem humanly possible, unless.....
Sounds like it's time to ditch solar and drill some more coal. Can't be having those damn panels competing with green house gasses in the race to annually top global weather events and "natural" disasters.
I'll take Chapman. Happily. One truism in NY is that you're only as good as your last appearance. Within the last year, this board would have dumped Boonie, Stanton, Gleyber, Hicks and plenty of others. And let's not talk pitching! And when Gallo was traded to the Bronx? Remember the euphoria? Pretty sure they were measuring up his plaque for Cooperstown!
There is a certain Yanks fan element that loves failure, that is secretly hoping Gallo strikes out every at bat and that Chapman can't find the plate. Players would know this and it must get under their skin.
Mets and Brewers both up 1.5 in their divisions. I like my 1.5 much more than yours!
Vogelbeef definitely can help with the post game buffet table clean up. Look, he was cheap. He won't get many hacks in, but when you need that sac fly late....
And hope it's not Chapman out there in the 10th with the series on the line!
I think Dusty is a much better shot caller than Boonestrap. Come October, I'll trust Dusty much more.
Nice preview of the AL pennant series tonight in Houston.
New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom, sidelined since spring training, pushes back his simulated game
NEW YORK -- New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom pushed back a simulated game scheduled for Tuesday after experiencing muscle soreness in his right shoulder.
New York said deGrom's soreness was mild, and the right-hander's live batting practice was delayed to Thursday "out of an abundance of caution."
The two-time Cy Young Award winner has been sidelined since spring training with a stress reaction in his right scapula.
I saw that. Who's going to trade for a guy who won't play for $440 million? Only team I can think of that makes such blunderhead moves is the Angels. And they already have one of those guys in the outfield.
Devin Williams jobbed out of an all-star selection. The guy has been lights out this season, better than most closers as he often comes in with runners on base and virtually none of them score. 3rd in the league in BB/K ratio behind Diaz and Hader. 1.77 ERA.
MLB prefers Cronenworth's .240 average and 9 HRs. Espinal????
Hader shelllllled in SF. ERA now 4.50.
Don't know what's happened to the guy but the Crew has to win every game they lead in the 9th.
Tons of easy, dumb money still out there protecting fingers from the falling knife. Hard to make any call with confidence on the direction of the market, but the trend suggests we won't be posting new highs in the major indices anytime soon.
But you kept him off the field in Fenway, which is all that really mattered with that signing.
Castillo with a fine audition tonight in the Bronx. Loasiga could have benefited from another trip to an AAA mound before having to face the cincy buzzsaw!
At least Cash knows it when he's made a huge mistake. Huge shot at redemption here, all around.
Ellsbury still cashing checks?
CASHman goes hard to secure the missing link to a Yank's WS championship! Tyler Wade, baby! Judge better not falter in the 2nd half.
Can't argue with your assessment of the beloved Brew crew. They are a shadow of what they were offensively, and that wasn't much. The expectations were for a lot of guys to step up and that hasn't happened. Renfroe was a great pick up for JBJ, but he's been injured. And while McCutchen's been decent, if that's the best you can muster, you're in trouble.
Sadly, when it comes to the deadline, the Brewers will miss out on the A tier players. Last year they had a deal in place for Scherzer, but he vetoed it.
Much less. And lots more options on the table. Mets are in a great spot coming into the trade deadline. Their needs are known and fillable.
You and 15 other GM's! The list of quality starting pitchers who you'd want to give the ball to in an October elimination game is mighty short, and with Severino leaving his Yanks start early, I'm agreeing with your earlier post about the Yanks pitching waaaay over their heads so far. Nasty Nestor is looking more like Messy Nestor. Point is the Yanks might be right at the head of the Castillo, Montas trade talks.
Baltimore should stay the course. No adding, no subtracting for at least another month. A hot streak can turn to a deep slide tomorrow for teams like Balty, who have no proven ace in the rotation. They could really use John Means now.
I wouldn't be rushing to do anything yet except let the team and the fans enjoy it. Now if they were in the central divisions of either league, I might think differently, but not with the AL East. Too many big dogs.
DFA Gallo and be done with it. He has no future in the Bronx. Maybe they're just waiting to trade for his replacement before cutting him loose.
I think if Max stays healthy and Degrom is 80% of what he was before all of these injuries, the Mets are much better than the Braves. D matters bigtime in the post season.
And yes, Diaz looks less and less like the guy who played his part in costing Brodie his job. At the end of the day, all closers get whacked. Mariano gave in up to Arizona in the 2001 series, Chapman has gotten punished repeatedly...who can forget the weird smile after Altuve's hit...Kenley got rocked on a trashcan slider in the 2017 WS and last year Hader gave it up to Freddy. But you gotta trust someone and Diaz has shown this season that he's worthy of the chance. He might turn into Byung-Hyun Kim in October, but you won't know til you get there.
Love to see the Orioles playing decent ball. It's been a long road back from the Glenn Davis contract of franchise death. Teams like the Orioles and Pirates are fun to watch, which is more than I can say for quite a few teams this year. And I'd put Milwaukee on that list.
Nice series win for the Metties, sparked by the Scherzer boost. Definitely needed to take a bit of steam out of the Braves. Brewers benefit big from the Cards blowing a 6-0 lead at home against the Dodger$. Hader looking a bit more like E Diaz over the past few weeks.
Max was incredible. Big October statement there. And Diaz with 3 k's in the 9th...All the sudden kelenic isn't looking like such a loss.
McNeil and Marte won't matter against the Braves, looking at how the Mets played the fish. Scherzer and Degrom.... that's the difference.
Hard to accept you could drop a 10.5 game lead by the break, but it speaks to how good the Braves are this season. On the other hand, you might be up 5 or better at the break but you'll need to break the Atlanta swagger.
You were twirling cartwheels when the Mets inked McCann....all that $$ you saved not chasing Realmuto! So he's had a couple of bad years. Could happen to anyone.
You'll be doing quite well to see the Stros in the post season. A WC slot looks more and more likely for the Mets IMO. And you've played well, but at this point, Atlanta is a better team. I don't see many matchups where the Mets are stronger, excepting first base. And Olson is no slouch. At every other roster spot 1-9, bullpen and rotation, the Braves are flat out better or it's a negligible difference.
I think that now you're seeing what the Braves have that the Mets lack, which is depth. Atlanta has lost some pretty big pieces - Acuna, Albies and Kenley to name 3, but they're still putting up the W's.
In all fairness, the Mets probably overachieved at the start of the season and the Braves certainly were slow out of the blocks.
We're basically at the halfway mark and you've gotten fewer than 50 innings from your 2 big shooters, whose injuries are not the type that time alone automatically fixes. It's a bit of a fantasy to think they'll both be 100% this season, but hey, dreams are coming true in Houston every time Verlander takes the mound, so I guess you never know.
Brewers lose Houser to injury. Elbow issues, which don't sound good at all. Woodruff was awesome coming back from the DL the other day, but we're dipping pretty deep into the minor league pitching pool this season. Thank god for the NL Central.
Gallo? Joey Gallo? Dude's due for a huuuuuge 2nd half. Can't DFA a guy with that kind of power. And the defence! Never, ever forget the defence!
Awful quiet here today. Did the Yankees play?
What a great AB! He absolutely roped that pitch. Should add that it was all made possible by Gallo staying out of the double play. Awesome strategy by Boonie to let Joey hit!
Maybe in the interest of speeding up the game, Boonie could just put up 3 fingers when Gallo is announced to indicate an auto K.
What a crushing shot that was! Good thing you have Gallo to kill the fervour!
Alvarez is the apex predator in baseball today. There's him and Judge followed by the rest. Right field in Yankee stadium suits Alvaraez's swing perfectly....but with his power, so did dead center in old Tiger stadium.
That was a rope!
Plus he'll look good in a Texas uniform.
"In my career, I am way past arguing or fighting for a role, whether I’m the closer. I’ve already gone through that to earn a closer role."
Read: got a ring, got a pile of cash, don't give a rat's anymore.