OT: 2024 NY Mets Season Thread
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Garbage effort vs a team full of minor leaguers
Mets could be 7 out by Howard
Orioles padres diamondbacks next 10
Mets could be 7 out by Howard
Orioles padres diamondbacks next 10
Pathetic AB by McNeil in the 9th with 1st and 2nd no out. Looked like he had absolutely no idea how to sacrifice so it was ridiculous to ask him to do it.
I blame McNeil. You’re a major leaguer and ex batting champ. Advance the damn runner somehow !
Pathetic by McNeil. Worst part for me was pulling the bat back on the most buntable pitch of the at-bat. With that said I'm not sure about the strategy because if he gets it down they walk Lindor and then you have a hitter who is having a solid year but is still young and inexperienced in Vientos. As well as a double play candidate.
Yeah I don't like the chances after this stretch. Maybe they'll surprise me.
The bunt, if successful, takes the bat out of the hands of your TWO hottest hitters since the break.
With just a runner on second, that is a fair request of a lefty batter. But with first and second, that is MUCH easier said than done. Unless you want to advance the runner at the cost of two outs, which I assume you do not.
The surest way to advance the runner in that situation is by a successful sac bunt, but that takes the bat out of Lindor's hands. Bad idea IMO, especially since no one knows how to bunt anymore.
The next surest way is to get a base hit. But when you get only one swing to try to do that, instead of three, it really cuts down on your chances.
The ironic thing is that he is quite good at the running drag bunt for a hit. He just can't square around and sacrifice, which is supposedly easier.
Mets radio broadcasts after August 26th? https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/wcbs-880-radio-ending-whsq-starting/
Thanks for posting this. I had thought the Mets games would no longer be on 880 AM and on Audacy. When in the car, the 880 AM signal is weak, and the FM signal is also weak. Glad to see this:
"New York Mets games will continue to air on 880 AM and stream on the Audacy app, the company said."
Now Austin Riley is out for the regular season for the Braves. Broken hand on a HBP yesterday.
The Braves have really been snake bit this season, yet the Mets can't seem to pass them.
What the Mets have gotten out of Peterson this season is nothing short of fantastic.
Mets bats have been garbage tonight. Especially against the bullpen. Bottom 8, 3,4,5 batters coming up and all three struck out. Gross
All it took was for me to open my mouth! Next pitch Alvarez wins it!!!! Yea baby
For a change, I picked the right night to go!
Hopefully the next time a Met hits a walk off, his teammates will allow him to touch 'em all before they disrobe him. You may have noticed that Alvarez missed home plate. Fortunately, somebody in a jacket (Hefner?) made sure he came back and touched up.
As do the Mets. Danny Young might be the only one who doesn't hit the mid 90's. Dedniel Nunez will bring another one soon. Butto doesn't hit the upper 90's but he has been nothing short of excellent.
Stearns continues to overhaul the team’s scouting department. Good. It’s been pretty clear for a while that the Mets scouting has been, in the least, underwhelming.
I kept watching the replay and to me, it looked like he did step on the edge of the plate. But it doesn't hurt to make sure.
Alvarez had a crazy personality during the at bat. Did you see him shaking his head after the third pitch missed? He was really jacked up. Then when he hit the 4th pitch, he started celebrating rather than run the bases. It all worked out, but man, it would have been brutal if the wind knocked it down and hit the wall for a long single. But I guess these guys are all millionaires and showboaters. There are no Don Drysdales to keep them in check.
Alvarez had a crazy personality during the at bat. Did you see him shaking his head after the third pitch missed? He was really jacked up. Then when he hit the 4th pitch, he started celebrating rather than run the bases. It all worked out, but man, it would have been brutal if the wind knocked it down and hit the wall for a long single. But I guess these guys are all millionaires and showboaters. There are no Don Drysdales to keep them in check.
Lou, that ball was never going anywhere but in the stands. He swatted it.
not sure of what his original signing bonus may have been but Alvarez is making just north of 700k...just saying
That ball could have been hit in a hurricane and it was going out. I don't like showboating myself but there was never any doubt. I am the type that agree with the Walter Payton's of the world who used to say to act like your done it before.
Also, I think it is much more in the opponents face if you just put your head down, run the bases and ignore them completely.
Alvarez was one of the top intl signs in his class and got $2.7 million.
I think in that situation it is fine. He could probably tell as soon as he made contact that the game was over and it was a walk-off. Many guys would have reacted the same way. We loved it when RHJ did virtually the same thing out at IU.
Neither is everyone in the Baltimore pen. The point is that the Mets have multiple relievers who can throw 95 or above unlike what was claimed. And even Ottavino reaches 95 at times.
Francisco Alvarez is not a millionaire, at least not on his pre-arbitration minimum salary.
He is definitely an excitable guy.
Braves signed Gio Urshela from the scrap heap. He was released by the Tigers earlier in the season. Now he'll probably pull a Eddie Rosario or Jorge Soler and hit 10 home runs for the Braves in the remaining games.
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