Dyson definitely sucks. He's a terrible hitter. But some of his ideas on space travel are pretty good.
OT: 2019 Mets Season Thread
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Dyson definitely sucks. He's a terrible hitter. But some of his ideas on space travel are pretty good.
Disagree about the garbage, but agree about the long season. I figure into late October.
It was a vacuum cleaner joke. Note also the reference to Hoover. Hopefully they will not go from suck to blow.
Arms need to stay healthy and Brodie needs to work on getting pieces for the bullpen, Diaz is solid, in fact I think he has a chance to be the best closer the Mets ever had, and Familia should be a solid setup man despite today's performance, however it's the bullpens front end that concerns me.
But if arms stay strong and bullpen gets better, you have to like our chances.
They need to revamp the front end of the bullpen. Wilson, familia, Diaz and maybe Lugo are the only good ones. The others need to be upgraded. It just seemed like there was no way they were going to hold the lead up 1-0 and then 3-1. It is the same thing as last year
I hate to say it because I always liked him and he's a Jersey guy but we should release Frazier when he comes off the DL, it's going to be hard enough getting him playing time as it is but when Jed Lowrie gets off the DL too? Mets probably made a mistake signing both JD Davis and Lowrie especially if it's going to steal away at-bats from Jeff McNeil, at least Davis can play the OF. But say both come back to active roster we would have to send Lois Guillorme down leaving us with no viable backup shortstop (unless I'm missing someone who can play the position) and Dom Smith, and Smith we could send down as Frazier would then back up Alonso.
But even we go that route, again, I don't like taking at-bats away from McNeil because he'll be competing with three other players.
EDIT: I forgot Lowrie has played shortstop so there is our backup for that position
But even we go that route, again, I don't like taking at-bats away from McNeil because he'll be competing with three other players.
EDIT: I forgot Lowrie has played shortstop so there is our backup for that position
Maybe Vargas was the wrong one in the rotation to skip. Going up against Scherzer you know going in you dont have much margin for error. At this rate I can see packaging up ond of the glut of young shortstops for a starter.
At what rate? This is Wheeler's second appearance. You gonna throw out the entire second half of last season?
Yes it is possible that the Mets may move a young shortstop for a starter. A trade like that - IF it happens - happens at the trade deadline. Not after Game 9.
Let's at least get through the start of the season (Game 40?) before reaching any conclusions. We haven't finished the start. Hell, we're still at the start of the start.
Yes. You can look it up, which I doubt you have any intention of doing, since your question was clearly rhetorical.
When you are asking your bullpen to pitch three to four innings every game, you MUST expect them to give up runs more often than not. Middle relievers give up runs. That's what they do. If they were better than that, they wouldn't be middle relievers.
Just sign Keuchel to a 2 year deal. Don’t know if you can count on wheeler. Definitely can’t on vargas
That's what I'm talking about. By midseason. And no matter how early it is these games count too in what figures to be a tight race for playoff spots.
They've shown that they will battle right to the end but it's hard to overcome your starter placing you in such a large hole.
Did I forget to mention that I've been elevated to the Head of Mets Scouting and Player
Development and Evaluation.:baseball::stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:[cheers]
So you have faith in this bullpen outside of Diaz and maybe Familia? Lugo and Wilson should be ok. But inability to hold on to leads or giving up runs even with big leads is concerning.
If Keuchel (and more importantly, Boras) wanted a two year contract he'd have signed one long ago. Maybe he'll eventually have to settle for that, but it ain't happening anytime soon IMHO.
It would be nice to sign another starter and move Vargas or Matz to the bullpen.
Maybe they should check in Boston's closer from last year. I like Dallas K but the bullpen worries me.
I don't know about the idea of Matz in the pen with his propensity for losing the strike zone.
There is nothing about Matz that says bullpen. He is either a starter or nothing. I liked most of his latest outing and think he may find himself.
I’ll say something...to me, it seems that GSel and Lugo seem to be tiring of this BP BS and both still feel they are starters. Seems to be affecting them this year.
I think Vargas would be the one relegated to the pen.
Yes. Not to mention that Matz is one of those pitchers who tends to take a while to get in a groove. You certainly don't have that luxury coming out of the pen.
I dont blame them. Esp since I think both are better than Matz, definitely better than Vargas
I’m curious this year with Matz now also going outside instead of trying to bust everyone inside. He has real good stuff, just control problems and a bit predictable.
I think Lugo could be a very good number 3 starter. GSel- maybe 5th starter but he isn’t nearly the pitcher Lugo is. He wasn’t horrible last year just nothing special.
Why not? He's a 5-6 inning starter with good stuff. Put him in the bullpen he might be lights out. What in Andrew Miller's first 6 years said bullpen?
Mets are killing me tonight.I had hopes of going 5-0 today after TOR,CLEV,and CINN with TEX later.
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