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My main point is that the Mets have much bigger issues than Butto vs Houser. With the biggest payroll in all of baseball, you got problems beyond the question of the 5th pitcher when Harrison Bader is leading your team in hitting. Not saying the Mets can't turn this season around, but they're in serious danger of playing irrelevant baseball in June if they don't pull their thumbs out quick-smart.
The only way Pete stays on this team in 2025 is if they make the playoffs this year. Too many expensive piles of steaming, stinking contracts to time-out or off-load before they can consider signing a .220 slugger for 300 million +.
Your manager is a big problem for me. Might be time to get the shovel and dig up Billy Martin.
It is a bit odd, the Baty/Vientos roster shuffle in NY. At some point those guys have to get the job or be moved on. It's been years since they came up, with too much hype of course, but it's been long enough to work out if and where they fit in the Mets future plans. Sometimes you have to wait a bit for the player to find their confidence and groove. Sometimes you have to let them go and move on to the next guy. That time has passed in Metville for Baty and Vientos IMO. By stringing them along with a rotating door to the minors, they're just delaying the decsion that needs to be made so that the roster can move on.
Stearns' attempted MO is the same as most successful teams in MLB: lock in a core of 4-5 stars and fill in the gaps with farm talent, cheap and aging veterans (Pham is killing it in Chicago) and FAs. IMO problem #1 in NY is that your core isn't getting the job done at all now, which is obvious and which you've detailed in lots of posts. Until problem #1 gets fixed, forget about the other problems. When Tyrone Taylor and Harrison Bader are leading the team in BA, you're not too far removed from the likes of the Angels. It's hard to believe these guys could be this awful, so maybe they'll snap out of it, hopefully before August for the fans sake.
Did I mention it is against the marlins.
Looks like your boys caught the Miami buzzsaw at the wrong time. I haven't seen todays Mets condensed game, but the game I saw a few days ago was pathetic. Defensive blunders, lack of concentration, zero energy and excitement. Losing is one thing- happens to the best teams. Playing consistently shabby baseball though, is inexcusable. I'd rather watch the A's than the Mets right now, but it's close.
Royals and the Brewers are excellent examples of the best in baseball: put a decent team on the field and the fans will turn up. The experience of being at the ballkpark sparks an energy that makes the night out a great time. I used to watch the Expos play in Jarry Park before they died in the cavernous tomb of Olympic Stadium. It was always a lot of fun- good crowds with no massive expectations of winning a world series....just a fun night at the park.
Royals ownership has been a tad cheap in recent years. Hopefully this season's moderate spending increase isn't just a play for public funding for a new stadium. KC fans deserve better.
That's a gift. Clearly the action of a well-raised boy!
At this point there's a lot of teams very happy to have passed on Chapman, Monty and Snell. Maybe Boras actually scored big for them?
Tough call on the Bohm HBP to tie it. Meanwhile Adames gets thrown out in at 3rd late in the game, down by 3, for the 3rd out.
Diaz hasn't been lights out, for sure this season. But he was virtually unhittable the season before the injury. Hard to imagine he could bounce back to that level.
Gasser put up 6 shut out innings for the Crew against the cards in his MLB debut a couple of days ago. His ERA at AAA ball was 5.75. Go figger.
Lot of uber low ERAs this season. Seth Lugo is the pitching equivalent of Brady Anderson in the Balco days.
Wouldn't it be a nice change for a Canadian team to win the Cup? The Montreal Canadians were the hockey equivalent of the Yankees when I was growing up, but their legend has faded with all the years of mediocrity.
Teams from Florida win Stanley Cups but can't put 25,000 fans in a baseball stadium.
I'll happily trade my Brewers score with the Mets result today! Mets play Atlanta tough...except late in September...
Now the Knicks and Rangers- I could see both of those teams not winning another game this season.
This season, Stanton could be approaching a PB for games played without a trip to the DL. The turtle pace doesn't matter- this is a guy who gets hurt walking back to the dugout after strike 3.
Rhys Hoskins giving the Crew what they have been lacking for years- a consistent thumper who can rise to the occasion late. Even Gary SANCHEZ had a great at bat tonight- HBP with the bases loaded to drive in a huge run. The guy is MONEY!
Adames with a 3 run bomb in the 9th with 2 outs wins it for the Crew at Kaufman! Makes up for yesterday a bit.
Ottavino can't slam the door. He's always been a guy who I wouldn't want to see out there in high leverage situations.
Mets better clutch up and get this W for Scott today. He definitely has impressed.
On the other hand the A's are going to be at .500 after play today, which to me is the biggest surprise in all of baseball. I mean this is a team that was slated for better than 100 losses. Not sure if it's the manager or the schedule or what, but for a club with a 63 million dollar payroll to put up the same record as a team with a 308 million dollar payroll, even after 1 month of the season, says that when it comes to building a roster, someone knows what they're doing. And someone doesn't!
There's a lot of contending teams in the bottom tier of the payroll ladder.
https://sports.betmgm.com/en/blog/mlb/mlb-teams-highest-payrolls-2023-bm15/
Pathetic franchise. Explains a lot about why Jeter and Kin Ng moved on so abruptly.
Didn't he used to pitch for the Yanks? Cashman berate him out of town?
Bucks fan first, but they've won it all very recently, so I'm happy.
Can't say I like the move to bring doc Rivers in to coach. Nor did the Lillard move make much sense. The team has its superstar in Giannis. Everyone else knew their roles. That's how you win.
Love getting that first win at Wrigley. 3-1 is a Brewer's score I'm used to. The new call up, Tyler Black, has been a spark this week, but we still need an innings eater or 2.
Marte should pitch! 2 missile strikes at the plate in the same game. Wow. Nice scrappy comeback today. Mets needed this one. Knicks? I'm not confident there. Looking for a redux of John Stark's 2-18 game 7 performance! Knicks have a real history of choking after the Clyde and Earl the Pearl days.
Uribe is a highly charged cat. You can see it on the mound in big moments. He's also super young, with little capacity to manage tight moments. Worse than all of that, his right cross is horrible!
Please. Just another small market team shaded by a MLB billboard player. You get used to this when you're a fan of any team outside of NY, LA, or sometimes Chicago.
After the game, however, crew chief Andy Fletcher owned up to it being the incorrect call.
"On the field, we got together and did the best that we could to come up with the correct answer. After looking at it off the field in replay, it appears that the call was missed," Fletcher told a pool reporter. "It should’ve been called interference because it wasn’t a natural part of his slide.
Hey, at least the umps conceded that they blew the call, which doesn't happen that often in baseball. IMO, for some hack reporter to try and make the play legitimate in the context of baseball tradition is just another sign that too many pRicks are paid to write about baseball in NY.
Great to see the O's back on top in the AL East. Without Soto, this Yankees team is just a continuation of the 2023 version.
Like the Brewers, your team is regressing to the norm. They weren't as bad as their first week suggest, nor as good as their 2nd and 3rd weeks.
You have a .500 team, give or take a few games. The hitting has been generally terrible from the guys you count on most, but that should improve too.
Wendle and Houser et al are role players. They're not going to make or break the season.
With 3 hits tonight, the Mets have plenty of ineptitude to go around.
Severino looking like CY material through 7 tonight. Definitely a guy who knows he needs a big year if he's going to get paid big $$ as a FA in 2025. Could be the bargain of the 2024 pitching acquisitions if this continues.
"starting"?
No Burnes or Woodruff.
If Wade Miley going down to TJ surgery is hugely consequential to your season... that's when you know you got serious pitching issues.
Quality thump. The message on Ross has been clear for the Brewers. Not sure what they can do about it, but I'd hate to see them waste a decent season in a winnable division because they won't pay up for 2 serviceable arms.
Got you right where we want you for the bottom of the 9th. 14 to tie, 15 to win
I know what you mean about Houser. In Milwaukee, even as a #5 he was only good for 4 innings at best. His one decent season ended up with a 3 run HR to Joc Pederson to lose a game in the playoffs against the Braves in 2021. That was on Counsell for leaving a righty in against a guy who crushes righties, but Houser did his part well.
You do need innings though, and the lack of starting pitching is going to be a bigger factor now that April is finished and overworked bullpens can't keep up the innings total. It's happening in Milwaukee right now.
Nothing wrong with Tonkin. Hope to see him in the 10th today!
He's not the first youngster to be sent down and he won't be the last. After a hot start for the Crew, Jackson Chourio is down to .205, with a strikeout rate approaching Gallo's. They'll hang with him for now, mainly because Yelich is injured and there's nobody exactly tearing it up in the Milwaukee outfield. A change to either of those situations might determine Chourio's time with the big boys. Then again, maybe he'll start hittting!
Either way, helluva game 1 vs the Yankees. Back and forth all night long. Hope Judge doesn't wake up til next week.
Mason Miller?? Where did this guy come from? Filthiest stuff I've seen this season. He made the Yankees look terrible.
Meanwhile, Gary Sanchez takes Chapman deep for a Brewers winner. Comeback player of the year now has his average up to .189!
O's have tried a day off for Holliday a couple of times and it hasn't worked. They're winning, which is probably why he hasn't been sent down yet, but you gotta wonder how long they can stick with him. It can't be good for Holliday's mental well-being- it's hard enough for seasoned veterans like Judge to manage a slump, but for a kid?
Today the Mets displayed the strategy that will become the norm this season for all Dodger opponents: 8 walks to Betts, Ohtani and Freeman. Smith is a force, but if you get beat by Outman, Muncy and Lux, so be it. I love to see the Dodgers paying so much for a .500 team, though it'll suck to see Roberts fired in a few weeks.
The Brewers aren't slowing down a bit. Gonna enjoy it while it lasts.
Probably signed as company for Voit!
It's only April. Sox have shown they'e quite capable of big streaks during the season. Heck, they put up 3 separate 5 game losing streaks last year!
Looks like MLB is laying the groundwork for a Bauers return:
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39958530/trevor-bauer-accuser-indicted-fraud-arizona
Forget about Torres tonight. With a bit of luck, you'll get to see Volpe try and complete the platinum sombrero.
Brewers usually get off to a hot start, and this year was no different. Sadly, the holes in the pitching staff are starting to shine through, just as Yelich has his first back issue of the season.
Much as I like Wade Miley, a team like Milwaukee can't possibly survive the loss of Burnes and Woodruff and expect to compete. Gotta enjoy any hot streaks while they last!
Wendle comes through!
Terrible news if Baty goes down. He was really playing with confidence, for the first time. I'm looking at all the hype over Holliday being promoted to the bigs in Balty...sort of reminds me of the pressure on Baty early on. Seems like the spectre of demotion to AAA weighs heavy on the kids who don't get off to a decent start after being called up.