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.
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.