Good morning Mets fans.
Iced coffee this morning with a shot of espresso and it tastes delicious.
Seven wins in a row after some DeGrominant work the by the starter and stomach-churning outings by the back of the bullpen. Is the Gilmartin experiment coming to an end?
A base knock and a round-tripper from Flores yesterday. Looks like our shortstop is getting into a groove.
Duda and Cuddyer remain red hot, but some regression to the mean is to be expected. Doubtful that they sustain a .444 and .519 BABIP respectively throughout the season.
Granderson and Murphy are similarly ice cold with respective BABIPs of .161 and .128(!). Have to figure that balls will have to start dropping in for them sooner or later.
TDA, like the little bear's porridge, is just right. Slashing .289/.317/.526 with BABIP of .273 and a K rate of just under 10%, this could conceivably be the real, 2015 d'Arnaud, which is pretty damn exciting.
Down in the minors, Conforto hit another homer. Ho-hum.
Today, Matt Harvey brings the heat we look to break out the brooms as the good guys face the Marlins at 1:10 EDT.
Let's go Mets.
Should be a fun day at CITI
Terry Collins has indicated that Michael Cuddyer would get a day off today.
Michael Cuddyer does rest. Kirk Nieuwenhuis in left field
D'Arnaud 2
Duda 3
Campbell 5
Murphy 4
Lagares 8
Nieuwenhuis 7
Tejada 6
Harvey 1
Terry Collins says Bobby Parnell may overtake Familia as closer eventually, but Parnell will first have to demonstrate worthiness.
Terry Collins: Jeurys Familia, based on recent success, will remain closer at least initially when Parnell and Black return.
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D'Arnaud 2
Duda 3
Campbell 5
Murphy 4
Lagares 8
Nieuwenhuis 7
Tejada 6
Harvey 1
So let's reward Flores's improved play of late by sitting him? Why not let Tejada play 2B and sit Murphy
I don't mind it.
Amazing to think that if the other kids pan out, Mets could have 140-162 "must see" starts a season.
What a week
We can still be friends!
Love always, Speedywheels...
He batted .229 and .232 the previous two seasons so it can't be that big of a surprise especially since he is 34. At least he is walking a lot.
Tejada doing work!
He had 80 pitches and a 6 run lead.
no need to push him early in the season
Last two games he's given up 7 runs in 12 innings on 13 hits. Not horrible but not ace like either. Its early.
Bring up KP.
agreed - no point in bringing up Monnell.
Can't even go 1 week.
Week 1 - Mejia
Week 2 - Wright
Week 3 - Blevins, TdA
They'll get hot at some point. It sure feels good to see our team jump out to such a strong start though. I don't think anyone could have envisioned we'd win 10 of our first 13.
Harvey battled today.. apparently he was really sick. Kudos to him.
The positive take is that if they can weather this latest injury setback you have to believe that for those players stepping in that the extra experience they will gain can only help the teams depth and might really make a difference if they do find themselves in a playoff hunt later in the season. Sucks now but very well could make them a stronger deeper team come August and September.
Normally, they take a player out of the game to be called up "just in case" of an injury; I've never actually heard of an injury occurring in that case. However, with the luck they've had so far, they absolutely had to take him out the second TDA went down.
Better place him in bubble wrap on the plane too..
Is there a team more cursed with injuries than the Mets? I mean, the obvious answer is Yes...but statistically this season, is any other team even remotely close?
How many teams have had three players hit by a pitch in the hand in under a week? Are teams purposely throwing high and inside on the Mets? This team has the worst luck I've ever seen.
Ok...now that that's out of the way, it's nice to see the Mets persevere.
-Losing Wheeler and Edgin sucked but he had the pitching depth to overcome it.
-Losing DW sucked X2 but it's only 2/3 weeks and Campbell has been awesome in place of DW.
-Losing our Closer for a huge amount of time for the 2nd straight year is a BIG blow...but Familia seems up for the task and is holding it down.
-Losing TdA (one of our top hitters) and Blevins (our top reliever) to an indefinite amount of time is a HUGE fucking blow that's going to be tough to overcome.
I really don't know how much more one team can overcome. Good new is that it's early in the season. Let's see what this team is made of.
I agree, this will test the depth of the organization and guys will have to step up.
Text from scout: "Conforto just hit another bomb! Get him out of this league. The kid has been incredible."
Text from scout: "Conforto just hit another bomb! Get him out of this league. The kid has been incredible."
was that his 5th? He needs to move up now.
Alex Torres will become the primary left-handed reliever in Blevins' absence. The Mets also have southpaw Sean Gilmartin in their bullpen, but neither Torres nor Gilmartin is considered a lefty specialist. ...
Right-handed reliever Vic Black, whose rehab assignment had been transferred to Double-A Binghamton over the weekend, is being sent to the Hospital for Special Surgery for MRIs of his shoulder and neck.
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Plawecki and Robles time.
Man we are getting crushed with injuries early.
Reynolds too. The two of them are scalding hot the last few days.
So do I. Fuck.
I think you name the starter such as TDA and maybe try to get Plawecki two days backing him up at catcher, maybe a game at first, key pinch hitter of the bench, ect. I don't know. I think it might work. I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
The Mets drafted Kevin Plawecki out of Purdue with the extra pick they got for losing Jose Reyes to the Marlins as a free agent.
So lets see Wheeler, Edgin, Black, Mejia, Wright, TDA, and Blevens and we haven't even played three fucking weeks. Awesome.
He texted a trainer at 7:30 a.m. Sunday when the illness intensified, but ultimately decided to proceed with his scheduled matinee start against the Miami Marlins.
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My early takeaway thus far into the season. Forgetting the record and the rotation, this squad has some balls.
He texted a trainer at 7:30 a.m. Sunday when the illness intensified, but ultimately decided to proceed with his scheduled matinee start against the Miami Marlins. Read more ... - ( New Window )
In a backwards way that's good news. There's a reason he wasn't in top form.
I absolutely hate losing TDA as good as he has been playing but I can't deny Im pretty excited for Plawecki. He seems to have been heating up in AAA the last couple of days as well. Thank god this team has depth in spades. These injuries are getting out of hand though.
This will be a test.
How does the 40-man work with injures. TDA to DL, but does that mean they still need to remove someone for Plawecki who is not on the 40-man?
And by the way, as much as I detest Tejada he is tailor made for this role. I think Flores starting and Tejada backup utility IFer makes Tovar expendable.
Was there some promo or what gives?
I could understand getting 30k, but 40 both non-Harvey days in April?
I really wanted a healthy run this year but this team does have depth. More than most teams. I don't think many teams can lose a catcher of TDA's caliber and insert a major league ready 1st round pick the next day.
Robles was hitting 98 MPH last night and apparently has a wicked slider. Leathersich is on the 40 and finally seems to be getting over his wildness. Hopefully these guys aren't out too long.
Not really rocket science here.
Plus, it's not like DeGrom is chopped liver. He did win ROY last year.
Plus, it's not like DeGrom is chopped liver. He did win ROY last year.
Exactly. DeGrom is just as much as a "must see" as Harvey is at this point. The Mets have a hell of a 1 - 2 punch with Harvey and DeGrom.
As for Harvey I could be wrong but I thought Rubin or someone tweeted he said he was asked after 6 and he said he was gassed. I could have misread it or the tweet could have been wrong. Collins did say "When he went out in the seventh, you could tell, obviously, he was out of gas," If it was so obvious why leave him in for three batters?
Pen's getting dangerously thin again. Is Soriano still floating out there? I'm guessing they won't have any interest unless Parnell has as a set back, but if he does Soriano has to be a consideration. Don't want to see Familia and both Torres' pitch every day for a month.
Again, few teams carry three lefties in their bullpen but we did. Few teams have two young catchers of TDA's and Plawecki's caliber but we do.
Cant give Sandy enough credit.
I just feel horrible for TDA the player who was looking like he was poised to have a huge year on both sides of the plate and his confidence was through the roof lately.
TDA might have been an all-star this year. He's looked that good.
Closer- Familia
8th- A. Torres
7th- Carlos Torres
Loogy- Gilmartin
Roogy- Goedell
Anywhere man- Carlyle
Wildcard- Robles
Im not 100 percent confident in A. Torres either but let's see.
lol. Maybe.
Its the Marlins...is it really a surprise?
They give up on EVERYBODY.
Atlanta had McCann and Gattis a few seasons ago. That was Gattis' best season statistically.
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Say Plawecki shows enough in 8 weeks to be a number 1 catcher, how do you divide playing time? You can only have 1 number 1. I don't remember a catching situation ever where a team had 1A & 1B catchers
Atlanta had McCann and Gattis a few seasons ago. That was Gattis' best season statistically.
Lefty/Righty platoon works a lot better then TDA/Plawecki though. Getting pretty far ahead of ourselves anyway.
That would be an interesting move, though I wouldn't expect it so soon. They do need a Backman type, since Redmond is WAY to nice for that team. Though at first the players would not react to well to an outsider coming in and shaking things up.
If that's the price for Stanton, I take it