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Mets and Phils both showing "strong" interest in Mike Minor apparently

proved yesterday why Kapler is a bumbling fool.

Hopefully, he stays hot and forced Kapler to sit Hernandez.

In comment 14390106 CMicks3110 said:

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Mets and Phils both showing "strong" interest in Mike Minor apparently

Good. I wanted Minor all offseason. Would be a nice little add to help the pen and possibly rotation.

He was just getting red hot.

also Z, I wasn't trying to be critical of d'arnaud, I just think it would be an opportune time to get a 3rd catcher in our system who can be a productive player. d'Arnaud and Ramos are both so injury prone, would love to get someone who can fill in this year and next couple of years. Like if Tucker Barnhardt became available, I'd jump over that to add to our depth.

would cost a TON to acquire. He's signed through 2021 with a 2022 team option. 3 years 8.12 guaranteed.

In comment 14390157 CMicks3110 said:

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also Z, I wasn't trying to be critical of d'arnaud, I just think it would be an opportune time to get a 3rd catcher in our system who can be a productive player. d'Arnaud and Ramos are both so injury prone, would love to get someone who can fill in this year and next couple of years. Like if Tucker Barnhardt became available, I'd jump over that to add to our depth.

Yeah all good man. Wasn't necessarily directed at you. I just feel like he's the next "whipping boy". The daggers are out with every atbat for some reason. I think if it were Mesoraco, Plawecki, ect. people could care less and I do feel like TDA is probably the best of that group.

he's not a high $$ player (under $4M I believe) and no one has high expectations for him.

Unlike players in the past who became whipping boys like Bruce or Frazier or Cabrera or Reyes, etc. TDA will not be blocking a young player looking to crack the lineup.

If he sucks, sure get on him, but he should get a chance and support from the fans.

At this stage, no, he doesn't need to be a whipping boy. But he has been a pretty disappointing Met. I can understand any overall fan frustration with him.

will remain whipping boy A1 while in the rotation. Old, highly paid, tough to watch. Cano has to turn it around or he's going to have a major target on his back as well. Fans will be somewhat patient, and I'm sure he turns it around but he has the potential to be a crowd target.

Making arrieta work now

In comment 14390208 DanMetroMan said:

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will remain whipping boy A1 while in the rotation. Old, highly paid, tough to watch. Cano has to turn it around or he's going to have a major target on his back as well. Fans will be somewhat patient, and I'm sure he turns it around but he has the potential to be a crowd target.

He should and Familia should too if he doesn't straighten himself out. he looks like his stuff is fine, velocity seems right.

is Garbage, Can't win with stuff as bad as his. Nothing personal against him, but you know batters are just waiting to tee off. Hard to win with a 84 MPH fastball, average command, and sub-par breaking balls.

Cesar Hernandez, such a pain in the ass player, credit to him for a good at bat

In comment 14390205 Chris684 said:

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At this stage, no, he doesn't need to be a whipping boy. But he has been a pretty disappointing Met. I can understand any overall fan frustration with him.

That's fine but it's not like we should be pissed off that he didn't work out. We still got Syndergaard in that deal. It's not TDA's fault he got hurt a lot. If he was still the starter or he was making big money like PJ said I could see fans being more pissed off but backups around the league are mostly terrible. The bar is really really low.

Wheeler's piching a good game. We just can't eek anything across against Arrieta today.

Alonso is still a rookie and he's K'ing 31% of the time. Yes he also walks and is getting base at a crazy clip, but I just don't know why we wouldn't slide him slightly down the lineup to 4 or 5 when we have other guys like Mcneil + Conforto who also have top of the order skill sets. Isn't it relatively old school to put that much emphasis on L/R?

This is where Lowrie could fill a big need whenever he's ready to come back.

Nice job Conforto!

98 on the last pitch of the 7th.

for the tying run @ 1st? I don't like losing his bat if it goes extras, but it's 9th inning, he's struggling and we need the run. Ideally we would have been able to stick a SB threat in there too. Maybe not just what I was thinking

Ramos for TDA. Obvious, but I like it

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his arm and make it better.

was thinking that as it happened anyway

I dunno why conventional wisdom is always to replace a guy, even when he's killing it. That last hit he gave up was bad luck. I woulda had a longer leash for sure (if I were thinking from Phi's perspective)

At least we didn't go down and die.

Maybe some rustling around SP rotation w/ Minor rumors too

coming out hot to open the season. Next game is Vargas vs a good offense so would've been really nice to win today.

Pitchers have to do better. Frustrating that we had a nice outing today and couldn't score more.

and might miss Saturday's start. Yikes.

In comment 14390567 ZGiants98 said:

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and might miss Saturday's start. Yikes.

Yeah I read he wasn't well after his last start. Article said he was sick for like a week but they didn't say anything til after his rough start...

Maybe we shouldn't play guys who are sick? Lugo's two shaky outings coincided with flu. Of course wtf do we do if we skip a JDG start? Atm he's better than the rest even when sick

Mets have interest in Mike Minor. Feels like a nice add for them even if it would seem a bit of a buy-high moment.

In comment 14390573 ChaChing said:

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Maybe we shouldn't play guys who are sick? Lugo's two shaky outings coincided with flu. Of course wtf do we do if we skip a JDG start? Atm he's better than the rest even when sick

Eiland And Callaway need to teach these guys to throw a Barf Ball.