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The Lugo game loss still irritates me, but can't complain at all over what the Mets did this past weekend. Going forward I think this offense could definitely use some more power...outside of Pete things are a bit lacking. Is it an absolute MUST...well no. The lineup as it is constructed can win with a healthy Scherzer/deGrom, I'd just like to bolster it a bit with another guy who can wreck a game with a home run.
What a strange year...feels like there are so many putrid teams this year. At least 6 clubs (Cubs, Nats, Royals, Reds, A's, Tigers) have that 100 loss feel to them. Not that they all will, but these are some bad bad clubs as CR has mentioned before.
After a brief respite, the Mets once again face top competition, the Houston Astros
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Yea and it's a shoulder too. He's having an MRI today for what they're saying is "shoulder discomfort". I can't imagine this will be good. In fact it can be very very bad. Would be surprised if whatever this is isn't season ending.
Canha with a huge home run for us. He is so damn solid and maybe the most underappreciated piece of this team. A quality professional hitter, and somebody who has always known how to get on base.
Nice job by Lugo and Smith last night as well. Hope they can keep it up
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When the Mets play these teams I expect the same level of quitting they have for Atlanta.
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Terrific bounce back start for Bassitt. He needed it and this was against a quality club who happens to be ice cold as of now. Not sure if it was mentioned during the broadcast but I wonder how much of Bassitt's struggles had to do with McCann being out and having to throw to Nido. 8 innings, 3 hits...can't ask for much more than that.
Tonight is a big test as we have to face Burnes, who they're desperate to stop the bleeding, and even he hasn't been all that good his last two outings
The schedule makers gift to Atlanta ends soon, so soon they'll start running into teams who do not outright concede baseball games to them
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3 hours ago, Colorado Rockies 1976 said:
They went 8-8 for those two trips combined. Sure, always nice to win a little more, but at the same time, they completely avoided potential disaster scenarios. No complaints about a .500 record for those jaunts.
As for the Braves/Phillies...easy to begin to worry about the Braves, until you factor in the following:
The Braves needed to go an unconscious rampage just to pull to within 5.5 games of the Mets. And again, that's the problem...many teams can get off-the-charts hot for short bursts. But the problem is that the Braves will need ANOTHER insane hot streak to really breathe down the Mets' necks. 5.5 games back is still not really that close.
The Mets have played considerably more road games than home to this point; the opposite is true of the Braves and Phillies.
Mets are doing quite well against teams currently over .500; the Phillies and Braves, not so much (both are under .500).
The Braves and Phillies still have 15 games left against each other; 10 of them will be played in Philly.
So basically, the Braves still have a ton of work to do...and of course, if the Mets can manage to win, say, nine of the 15 games that they have remaining against the Braves, it will be that much harder for the Braves to catch them.
Just hope the starting staff can somehow piece it together just a little longer...feels like they're running out of steam.
It annoys me though to see Atlanta being served up both the Cubs and the Nationals next. Both clubs will eagerly roll over for them. We'll have to deal with the Brewers who just pulled out of a nightmarish 2-10 stretch, but are still very much a formidable club. And even after that while we finally play the Marlins...they've actually been a lot better of late. Everyone was paying attention to the Phillies and Braves while the Marlins won 5 in a row themselves. Their team era is a respectable 12th in baseball and they've allowed the 9th fewest earned runs.. May not be as easy as I thought. They just took 2 of 3 from the Astros as well
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Not sure how much the finger slammed in the door has to do with this, but Lindor is sinking like a stone again. 3 for his last 25 and no runs batted in in his last 7 games. Hopefully he gets it going again soon
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This was a big important win. It solidifies the trip as a success. Walker was getting knocked around in the 1st. A run, 4 hits. You worried that after last nights outburst the Angels would finally get rolling. Not so, he totally shut them down over the next 5 innings and struck out 10. Very very impressive.
The Mets were handed two brutal back to back West Coast swings and handled it very well.
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What a mess the Angels are good lord. Finally got a W vs Boston but couldn't at all build on it.
Rendon used to absolutely kill the Mets, though after a pretty good 1st season as an Angel in the shortened covid year, he just hasn't been the same player.
Mets just had great at bats today. 13 total hits. Everyone in the lineup had at least one hit, they drew 4 walks. You love to see it
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Nido and Canha with some big hits after it looked like we'd waste 1st and 3rd and 0 outs...had Alonso up with the bases loaded but could do no more damage. Hope it doesnt come back to haunt us.
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I would bet he already has some kind of rap sheet and been thrown out of many a scuzzy night club. He just looks like that type.
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10 hours ago, NJDevs4978 said:
And btw I know they're due for a couple wins, but my goodness it'd be tough to lose a series to the Angels when they have the immortal JUAN LAGARES batting fifth tonight.
I had no idea he was still in baseball. Seriously. Like when I found out Ollie Perez was still around
Hansel Robles who was a pathetic point at the sky as the ball goes into the 2nd deck disaster actually went to the Angels right after the Mets kicked him to the curb and somehow was excellent for a season and a half (little over 100 innings) in relief before falling apart in 2020.
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And on top of it all the Angels lost 1-0, seems like a total bottoming out. Really worried that they're just so due and we're really starting to sputter with a dead lifeless offense now with Marte and Alonso out.
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Not looking good though a long way to go. They really look like the Alonso/Marte injuries just shell-shocked the team. Sucked the life out of them. Somebody needs to step up and get the offense going
Mets seriously lucked out (it seems) with both Pete and Starling labeled Day to Day
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Certainly is nice to see Cinci and finally Miami show up (not that I enjoy playing in that late inning house of horrors in Miami) Houston would also be a good test of the Mets mettle. The Mets have had 24 games vs teams who going into that game had an above .500 record...they've gone. 14-10 in those games. They've answered the bell and every single time looked like they belonged. I can't remember a single series (as would happen vs Atlanta back in the day) where the Mets just looked like pretenders and got outplayed, outpitched, and outmanaged from the get-go.
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Mets have signed outfield Terrance Gore. Very fast and small pinch runner and outfielder. Only 77 MLB plate appearances. It's to a minor league deal of course
Wonder if this portends to something going on with Marte. No doubt he'll be going on the IL, hope for not too long as he's been a godsend to this team. Alonso I'm afraid they'll find something that didn't originally show up on the xray when we all let out a sigh of relief
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Alonso, X-Rays negative. No breaks. Thank God
Marte had left quad tightness and will undergo imaging. So we'll see.
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And getting no hit on top of it all
Christ talk about air coming out of the sails.
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Yep. Things were going just a bit too good for the Mets. In step the baseball as Met hitters just somehow some way always seem to get hit. Awful.
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On 6/2/2022 at 10:21 AM, NJDevs4978 said:
Only now do we see how good we had it with those 3. Mangold I feel should have his number retired and probably Revis too.
Mangold should probably get legit HOF consideration (7 or 8 Pro Bowls) what we had with Nick and D'Brick for so many years was so key to the Jets actually being a decent franchise in that 2006-2015 window. It really allowed us to carry a scrub like Sanchez in 2009 (he was a bit better in 2010) and super simplify/limit what we needed him to do.
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Also what this run allows us to do is relax a bit regarding the deGrom and Scherzer timelines...nothing needs to be ramped up too quickly, nothing needs to be hurried. Heck we can extend things a bit and hold things back a week or two just to make sure they're truly, fully healed and in the best possible condition to return and pitch
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Escobar with the cycle. GREAT to see. Needed him to turn into that at least .255 ish with a .300+ obp player that we know he's capable of being (the K's will always be there) but he had to start knocking in some runs and he pick up 6 rbi's today
Outstanding job by Carrasco. Bullpen was taxed yesterday and he gutted out 7 innings for us. Drew Smith crumbled but the Mets offense has been outright relentless. Every Met has a hit today and they've added 4 walks on top of that
The Padres are no pushover, but the Mets offense on some days...it's going to be a nightmare to pitch too. Forget Alonso and Lindor for a moment...Canha, Marte, McNeil and now Escobar when he's rolling. They have a plan at the plate, run up pitch counts. Nimmo too, he'll have those 7, 8, 9 pitch at bats. I believe we have the highest OBP in baseball. Just a well assembled lineup
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If the Phillies plan on making a run, now is the time, after Milwaukee they have an easy 11 (Zona, Miami + 5 with Washington) I still see that as a fatally flawed team where something is just wrong...off, though it's tough to precisely put your finger on what it is. If Milwaukee slaps them down and then they beat up on the Dbacks, Marlins and Nats I would still seem them as phony. I don't trust those starters and that bullpen is the definition of chokers. With the expanded playoffs I'm not sure I foresee them tearing that team apart as they should be in somewhat striking distance of the last playoff seed the rest of the season plus they've spent a ton of $. But that team just doesn't strike fear in anyone.
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Braves sort of worry me but sort of don't. Still don't really trust their offense...they feasted in Colorado as many do. They have a cupcake sched until June 20th or so (though the Pirates aren't a total pushover) just gotta hope that by 6/20 they're not like on some 14-3 run. Still that would only put them at 37-30. We should be no worse than 44-25 (ish) at that time. Somewhere in that range
If the Mets can get out of this brutal West coast + Brew Crew at home gauntlet no worse than 4-5 then they will be extremely well positioned heading into the real heat of summer. Then we start seeing Miami (finally) Texas, the Cubs, Cinci. And hopefully deGrom and Scherzer are close to returning or back by then. Though tough to put a timetable on both
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unreal. More creative fvck the Mets behavior
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Gotta figure the Yankees will come down to earth eventually but...it just isn't happening. And I'm not sure if it will to any great extent
Mets have to deal with Alacantra today, and a Marlins team that's won 3 in a row. They're not great but no slouches either, and at home you know they're gonna play the Mets tough. This is going to be a difficult series. Braves are now 18-3 in their last 21. Hopefully the Dodgers give an effort when they play them