OT: MLB Thread XLI: Dog Days
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I want to know why on GOD’S GREEN EARTH STANTON IS BATTING IN THE TOP HALF OF THE ORDER???? WHY BOONE!?!?. This guy should be batting 7th or lower. Enough of this shit ass clown. He didn’t do anything to earn being in that spot. He has been bad since coming back. I get that this is basically his April but this isnt the time for us to wait for him to work his way out of it. And on top it, his issues are the same he has at all times during a season. He GUESSES. He cant pick up a pitch out of the hand. He cant pick up the spin. He looks pathetic up there. And this is coming from someone who likes Stanton but this unacceptable at this point. We dont have time for this. We dont have time for his strikeouts. And one last note on the Stanton subject, can Thames make himself f***ing useful as a COACH and try something different? Maybe change his approach? He so often takes an early in the count fastball. Have him be more aggressive.
Lastly, this team is checked out. The whole offense looks done. They look like they are ready for playoffs to start. But thats the problem. Playoffs dont start for another week, they have games left. There is no room for developing bad habits right now. Having bad At-Bats. Even in the field they are nonchalant...Gleyber making an awful throw on a gimme groundball out, taking Voit off the bag. There are no excuses here.
Get this shit right Boone. Get this team’s head right because its not in it.
Lastly, this team is checked out. The whole offense looks done. They look like they are ready for playoffs to start. But thats the problem. Playoffs dont start for another week, they have games left. There is no room for developing bad habits right now. Having bad At-Bats. Even in the field they are nonchalant...Gleyber making an awful throw on a gimme groundball out, taking Voit off the bag. There are no excuses here.
Get this shit right Boone. Get this team’s head right because its not in it.
Irishguy42
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This is a bad hockey team.
Maximus
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Joel Sherman of the Post pointed out a very succinct point about the Mets this year which was this considering the fact that Jake will likely win the Cy Young award and Alonso will win the Rookie of the Year award:
"Eleven times in the wild-card era (since 1995) one team has won two of the three major player awards (MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year), and in some cases like Clayton Kershaw in 2014, one player won two by himself. All 11 times, the team made the playoffs. The last one that did not was the 1994 Royals (David Cone, Cy Young; Bob Hamelin, Rookie of the Year) in the season in which the World Series was cancelled. Before that, go back to the 1976 Padres (Randy Jones, Cy; Butch Metzger, ROY".
Only our lovable yet CURSED Mets could be the ONLY f'n team to not make the playoffs despite 99.9% winning both the CY award and the ROY award....why am I not surprised?....lol
"Eleven times in the wild-card era (since 1995) one team has won two of the three major player awards (MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year), and in some cases like Clayton Kershaw in 2014, one player won two by himself. All 11 times, the team made the playoffs. The last one that did not was the 1994 Royals (David Cone, Cy Young; Bob Hamelin, Rookie of the Year) in the season in which the World Series was cancelled. Before that, go back to the 1976 Padres (Randy Jones, Cy; Butch Metzger, ROY".
Only our lovable yet CURSED Mets could be the ONLY f'n team to not make the playoffs despite 99.9% winning both the CY award and the ROY award....why am I not surprised?....lol
Damn, Morton was pretty much unhittable last night. Ray's are playing for their collective lives and we're just waiting for the postseason, so not an unsurprising result
East Coast Bias
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Kind of amazing the Nats went on that run June on with such an awful bullpen. Their bullpen is worse than the mets, statistically at least. It helps they have that 1-2-3 in the staff, but its still amazing they were able to be so good from like 60 games on with such a weakness.
17futurecap
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The 1 seed is gone in the AL, would be nice to finish tied with the Dodgers so they get home-field in the World Series if they somehow make it.
JimmyG89
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Really feel like the Mets are a huge reason their ERA is insanely bad. Their pen blew just about everything when facing the Mets. Feel like against the rest of the league it was probably bad, but not that kind of bad. Would explain the resurgence.
SA16
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Well that is obviously a biased stat as "making the playoffs" is something many voters consider important to even vote for a MVP candidate. I would be much more interested to know how many times it is just Cy Young/Rookie of the year.
Larrybiv
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And here, all of my 50 years of being a MLB fan, was I under the impression that "subtracting that player" how good would that team be, and where would they be in the standings? In other words, how important was HE, in regard to the teams success?
Subtract Yelich from the Brewers they still win (as proven)
Subtract Rendon, and they still probably are in PO's.
Subtract Bellinger and they STILL have quite the talented team.
The only guys that "I" would consider for MVP would be Marté and Alonso. Where would those teams be without?
What was that age old story about Ralph Kiner being traded from Pirates opposed to his getting a big raise? Something like;
"We could finish last, without you!"
Irishguy42
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Subtract the Yankees from the Yankees and they are still have 100+ wins.
Bob Richards
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Yeah Pete is not the MVP nor should he be. He had an amazing year which should tell you about the kind of years that guys like Bellinger and Yelich had. Anthony Rendon should be above too.
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Larrybiv
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And where you think its awesome, I say that is "bush league". Makes a mockery of the game, for an individual statistic.
So many things involved here, and you are right in that their record is what it is and going nowhere......but so are 20 other teams not making PO's or whatever the number is.
1. Does he get more money from his contract if he hits 200?
If so......that would piss off owner......not cool
2. What about people betting on that game (Texas) does anyone think they didnt make bettor unnecessarily nervous about it?
3. A lesser form of "throwing a game". They should be fined.
Would have been one of the few times I would have been rooting for Boston. Would have loved nothing better than for him to get a hit and next up, hit a home run and then he would have LOST a chance to WIN, and the team could have lost.
Larrybiv
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As for the Mets......
deGrom and Wheeler with 11 wins.
Matz and Noah with 10 wins each.
Mets have the best pitching staff going deep into games, per start or close to it.
Tells everything. Fortunately they did most of the time go 6 or 7 innings and they still blew like 3rd most games with bullpen.
Like I said, thats a tell all. Had they had any semblance of a reliable bullpen ALL SEASON (better when Avilan and Wilson came back) but, looking directly at the pathetic seasons of Familia and Diaz, costing the teams wins every which way but loose......
Each starting pitcher could have or dare I say should have gotten 3-5 more wins apiece.
A little more support, deGrom alone would have had an 18 win season easily.
This needs fixing, #1 priority.
Otherwise, a very unexpected and sometimes thrilling Mets season.
deGrom and Wheeler with 11 wins.
Matz and Noah with 10 wins each.
Mets have the best pitching staff going deep into games, per start or close to it.
Tells everything. Fortunately they did most of the time go 6 or 7 innings and they still blew like 3rd most games with bullpen.
Like I said, thats a tell all. Had they had any semblance of a reliable bullpen ALL SEASON (better when Avilan and Wilson came back) but, looking directly at the pathetic seasons of Familia and Diaz, costing the teams wins every which way but loose......
Each starting pitcher could have or dare I say should have gotten 3-5 more wins apiece.
A little more support, deGrom alone would have had an 18 win season easily.
This needs fixing, #1 priority.
Otherwise, a very unexpected and sometimes thrilling Mets season.
Larrybiv
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Oh please.
their owner is ridiculously wealthy so if he has a contract clause, it’s basically peanuts for him. His teammate gave him a shot at hitting a pretty big milestone, I can tell you that no one in the clubhouse minded. These games mean nothing to either team.
romba
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Anyone remember Strahan's final record setting sack (Giant's record I think)? Favre lay down riiiiight before Strahan reached him and they had a good laugh about it.
It's 200 strikeouts, not the strikeout record for all time. His teamates had fun with it, good for them. And the owner will gladly pay it out for building camaraderie among teamates and good PR in the news.
It's 200 strikeouts, not the strikeout record for all time. His teamates had fun with it, good for them. And the owner will gladly pay it out for building camaraderie among teamates and good PR in the news.
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