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Look, Buck is just not on point with the relievers. O's fans remember watching Zach the Brit on the bench while the O's dropped a playoff decider in extras. Surprised it didn't come up in his interview!
Mets aren't right this year....or is it possible that last year was the abberation and they're not as good as people thought ? Sort of like the Giants a couple of years ago Pete and Nimmo and McNeil's chippy bats. What else is there?
If you're as good as your record, the Mets are looking up at most of the NL Central!
Trade for Vogelbach?
Watching a pitcher bat was fantastic! Especially if the pitcher was a dick and had beaned an opponent- now there's no real payback possible. Batting the pitcher added the element of the loss art of bunting, which I doubt any hitters train for these days.
I for one am sick of seeing 2 leagues filled with Dave Kingmans (minus about 20 HR's a year). It's boring, all-or-nothing batting with little nuance and variation (unless you're Cleveland). How many palookas have the Yanks featured over the years? The Balbonis, Cliff Johnsons, Jack Clarks.....One of these guys whiffing in the 9th added some excitement, but now you trot out 7 palookas every night, guys who can only pull the ball, who only go the other way when they're late on a heater, who make contact and stand at the plate gazing because they're too lazy and unprofessional to haul ass down the line until the ball clears the fence. That's the Brewers line up: Willy Adames, 25-30 HRs to compliment his .206 average and he's the team's MVP 2 years running.
And then there's the lost strategy of pitcher management in the late innings...whether to pinch hit for a guy when the score was close and he was throwing well. The double switch.
Existing shareholders are stuck. Nobody is positive on their investment in OWPC. IMO, this PR is just one of the IR hires justifying their paycheck. Looking at the trading today, the market agrees
Thanks for posting. Interesting that there's no stated interest in the US market.
Sanchez and Hicks cueing up some player of the week votes!
Could be worse. You could have had Correra on board for a decade.
Get the checkbook out! Wouldn't want anyone stealing IKF out from under your nose. 4 years/48 million ought to do it.
Hard to see even a cashed up shady bastard laying out 250 million for Burnes on top of the huge outlay for the geriatric 1,2 punch you got going now, but hey, who knows?
You're definitely right in your appraisal of the Mets! And sorry to add the obvious, but this pain ain't going anywhere - 2024 features a lot of these guys locked into expensive contracts, sucking up payroll and blocking minor leaguers or other FA acquisitions.
The good news is you're only 4-5 years away from a sustainable Dodgers/Rays/Astros program that knows the formula for competing every year. And of course the $$ is there to fund it. Eppler has to go. Buck too, if only because Stearns will want his own guy in the dugout.
The new Seve. Streamlined location and ability to mix speeds. BP Seve. Luckily the Yanks are also facing a guy whose nowhere near his prime.
Time to exhume Billy Martin! Too much of a swing to the "entertainment business" in baseball these days. It's all about showtime and marketing. A manager sits a clown for watching a HR ball clang off the wall..... that's news today.
Reds are an exciting team to watch, a bit like the Orioles a couple of years ago. Milwaukee is not. While the pitching has been okay in the past few years, injuries have knocked back the rotation this season, and the offense as usual has been AA level at times. AAA is a bonus.
I'm hoping whoever trades for Burnes will have to eat Yelich's contract too. If it's a rebuild, let's get on with it- after watching the Crew get swept by Oakland at home this weekend, I'm finding since the HAder trade, the air has gone out of the balloon, even if they can scrape together the 82-80 record required to win their division. The quicker they extract some value for thier trade pieces, the better.
Mets are as boring a team to watch as any in MLB this season: they get down early in games and struggle to find a spark. While the monster payroll is clearly not a guarantor of elite status, for that $$, fielding a team this mediocre and downright boring is unacceptable. There's clearly no chemistry on this squad; they don't play well for Buck, for which they aren't in any way made to answer. As for the forecast of winning 95 games, that was based on the premise of old men pitching like 28 year olds.
How in the world is this Yankees team 10 over .500?? They look terrible. Willie Calhoun is shouldering the burden?
Cry me a river! Crew drops a home series to the A's. Chance for a sweep tomorrow.
If only we had Vodlebach and Escobar back, LOL!
Gary Sanchez having a nice run with the Padres. If only the Yanks had been a bit more patient.
Buck finishes out the season. Or at least until the season outcome has been decided. Eppler and Buck hit the unemployment circuit together, clearing the way for Stearns to come in and clean up the little piles left by the past 10 years of Mets' GMs.
Crew runs into the 14-50 Oakland A's buzzsaw. At home. 4 hits through 7.
I guess if you're Verlander or Scherzer, signing up for 43 million is as good as it gets. They both have rings and Cooperstown tickets, so nothing left to prove there.
Some delusional owner needs to wave his big wad around... that's just kismet for those 2 guys. I'm sure they'll pitch their hearts out, but the evidence is pretty clear about the risks involved in signing old arms. I can't blame Scherzer or Verlander or Degrom in Texas for taking the money, but expressing any surprise or frustration when they can't pitch like 27 year olds in peak health..... that's denying the reality of taking such a huge risk. The real surprise would be getting 200 innings of sub 3 ERA baseball from any of those 3.
It's not over yet for the Mets, but without a rotation, they're just another mediocre club looking up at the elite.
Yup. 8 runs against Strider ought to be enough. You're missing Timmy Trumpet big time.
The market agrees. $1600 worth of stock traded on the heels of the PR. It's definitely show-not-tell time for OWPC. I'm thinking the canniest investor here needs a 100% gain to get within eyesight of a 25% loss. And based on the volume, nobody here (or anywhere) is seeing a big opportunity to load up.
Voggy with a rally-killing dp. With that dude up. Marte should have been running on the first pitch.
Burnes back to Cy form against the O's. Someone is going to be very happy to sign him for the big $$.
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Still holding. Not overjoyed to see Zeke tucking a 3 month extension into the PR for an already overdue milestone.
I wonder how much of that contract can be insured. And how much that policy costs!
Degrom was a gamble at best. Who would take thar chance for those dollars. Ironic the team is tearing it up without him.
Meanwhile, the Crew gets torched by AARON HICKS???!!!!
https://www.mlb.com/news/jacob-degrom-rangers-60-day-injured-list
Degrom bumped to the 60 day list. Go figger......
Yup. Any time Springer and Bichette go 0-10, that's a game you gotta take from a team as stacked as the Jays.
Brewers give up 11 stolen bases in a game....and win! Don't know about some of these new rules this season. I get the idea that MLB owners are old and boring, with the creativity and imagination of hamsters, but baseball ain't hockey.
On the other hand, maybe if fighting were allowed.......
The Mets are learning the hard way what the Angels have been living for years: signing the wrong guy for huge $$ is a blunder that hurts on so many levels. The opportunity costs have nothing to do with money if you're in a big market, but the necessity of the manager to pencil in the same mediocre names in the line up and on the mound - it hurts player development, team morale and chemistry. It's not all on Buck. At this level, very few managers operate without the shadow of ever-growing front office analytics crew hanging over them. On one hand, the NL is weak. 500 might be enough to punch your ticket to October ball. On the other hand, the NL is really competitive. 91 wins might be enough to lock down homefield advantage.
September is a long ways off and over 162, teams find their place. There's no way Pittsburgh could keep playing up to their early season level. Gotta think the Mets can't keep playing down to theirs.
Just watched the replay of ikf's walkoff hit. Is it me or were the Yanks a bit less than full energy when they went to "maul" him? Looked like a bit of trotting.
Brewers made the Yankees look like the Rays yesterday! I guess 5-1 and 15-1 look the same in the L column. Crew wins games 4-3 but loses them 9-3!
O's are an explosive team. Since that Davis contract ended, they've been better and better. Love to see them looking down at most of the AL East after those years of PAIN.
Hahaha!
Boone has nothing. Judge and Cole are the rocks. Rizzo is punching over his weight with the shift. Torres is acceptable. The rest of the team is interchangeable with the mediocre core of any other MLB roster.
I second that. Enjoy the dog days. The time for genuine moaning and groaning is months away. Unless you're Oakland.
Seriously, with Scherzer? We're not talking about a 28 year old horse in his prime who can toss 250+ innings a season. This is a guy who gets hurt. A lot. A guy who broke down in the post season with the Dodgers, and that was 2 years ago. Maybe in the playoffs you ask him for a bit more, but 6 innings is all you can expect from Max during the regular season for your 43 million.
Mets have won 5 straight. They've just had a HUGE week and swept a doubleheader. What's not to like? You want pain, try cheering for Oakland!
Looks like 3M is going to have some more serious questions to answer:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/paradise-poisoned-how-the-idyllic-town-of-wreck-bay-was-left-asking-who-s-going-to-die-next-20230519-p5d9pb.html
A couple of big wins for your boys this week, for sure. Definitely could be pivotal point in the season if the Mets turn it at. And with Scherzer and Verlander, it really can't get much worse.
Brewers won't be in first at the All Star break. No Woodruff, no Yelich, Burnes ready to leave town.....it was a nice run from 2017-2021. I think the owner can't wait to tear this team apart. Williams, Adames, Woodruff, Burnes, Lauer......they all have trade value.
That aside, the Cards are definitely the more stacked team. I the rotation comes around, they could go deep this year in a weak NL.
Good luck getting out of this company. About the only reliable communication from OWPC is the fluff PR followed by a share beatdown on higher than usual volume.
200K shares sold dumps the PPS 20%.
Nothing here but pain.
ICU going off PM. Crucified after an FDA curveball last week. Low float.