-Mets to FINALLY kick off their season tonight against the lefty Matt Moore
-Stroman at Chase Anderson tomorrow
-Peterson at Nola Wednesday
-Sandy thinks a Conforto extension still possible. Will continue dialogue with Boras into the season
-Lindor extension officially announced
-Alderson also brought up Syndergaard. "we’d like to keep as many players on the current roster as possible–especially the homegrown talent."
-With the long layoff bats are probably ice cold but LFGM!!!!!!!!
Lineups to come:
Nimmo is the leadoff hitter (keep him there)
Dom needs to be in there everday
not that difficult.
Spot on. Ridiculous lineup.
@MBrownstein89
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FWIW: Among 45 left-handed hitters who faced lefty pitching in a min. 50 PAs in 2020, Dominic Smith recorded the 7th-highest wRC+ at 146.
@Metsmerized
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Agreed with all of this, but you know Pillar is going to end up having a big game today now.
if we score enough runs DeGrom will get the W...its that simple.
Anthony DiComo
@AnthonyDiComo
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Luis Rojas on the decision to play Kevin Pillar over Dominic Smith:
"We're going more with the matchup. A guy like Pillar, the way he's been swinging the bat against lefties ... this is how this team has been built from the offseason and into Spring Training."
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decision. Trying to be too cutesy. Dom is your regular LF .900 vs. lefties in 2020, .876 in 2019. This is being too cutesy. If it's about splits then Nimmo should sit today (not that I would have sat either one of them). Pillar career 1-11 vs. Moore (who others have noted has reverse splits).
Agreed with all of this, but you know Pillar is going to end up having a big game today now.
I'm obviously rooting for 5-5 with 4 homers and to be mocked for not liking it.
I just don't get it...some are saying maybe he was behind defensively in spring training with that injury...but there hasn't been anything recently on that right? Just seems like an overreaction to lefty vs righty sh*t. When Moore actually has reverse splits and Pillar is a meh hitter to begin with. I don't mind spelling our main guys every once in a while but let the main guys play and don't jerk around the lineup...just over managing.
Sandy claims he's going to be hands-off with the manager. How true hat is? Who knows.
He specifically said it's about Pillar against a lefty starter.
Pillar isn't a good CF actually anymore (if he was going defense you might as well start Almora).
And I'm sure is just saying get me runs and I will figure out the rest.
I wish him the best, but he was never going to succeed here. Wheeler on the other hand, f'n cheapskate Wilpon is clearly to blame for that one.
@TimBritton
The plan is to get Pillar as many ABs as possible against Moore, then probably shift to Smith once a righty reliever comes into the game.
Also, why the hell is Nimmo batting 8th and Pillar 1st?
Pillar can wind up with a monster game and shut people up, but it doesn't change that the analytics strongly suggested against this.
With the expanded analytics dept the Mets have you have to wonder if it includes lineup construction too.
Pillar can wind up with a monster game and shut people up, but it doesn't change that the analytics strongly suggested against this.
With the expanded analytics dept the Mets have you have to wonder if it includes lineup construction too.
It doesn't even sound like Rojas is making the claim he has some inside numbers that are pushing this decision. Said he wanted Pillar in there vs. a lefty given his ab's this spring against lefties and that they plan on putting in Dom if a righty comes into the game.
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extend to putting out a lineup or did that end for the Mets with Davey Johnson?
Pillar can wind up with a monster game and shut people up, but it doesn't change that the analytics strongly suggested against this.
With the expanded analytics dept the Mets have you have to wonder if it includes lineup construction too.
It doesn't even sound like Rojas is making the claim he has some inside numbers that are pushing this decision. Said he wanted Pillar in there vs. a lefty given his ab's this spring against lefties and that they plan on putting in Dom if a righty comes into the game.
Right, and his claim is against the analytics, so as fans we have to assume he's not considering what the stats suggest the best lineup should be and therefore analytics do not extend to the lineup. I am using stats and analytics interchangeably like a lot of people do.
At least in this case he's not considering the data.
Truth is, if we are fully healthy, Rojas will look for excuses to get guys in the lineup. I think that’s all this is. With a stretch of righties coming up, it’s probably a week before Pillar can get in a game again.
It’s a long season.
Hopefully next time Pillar gets a start it’s for Nimmo or Conforto and he doesn’t become Dom’s caddy.
Heck, even Harvey looked decent the other night too and I was happy to see it.
Wheeler, Harvey, Flexen and now Matz all pitching well in their season debuts.
I'm not a fantasy baseball guy, but I got roped into it and needed a guy late and thought Matz has good stuff. Sometimes. and maybe I can be the beneficiary.
He had decent starts with the Mets until the bottom would fall out and he'd have awful innings that negated his good starts.
Robert Murray
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Source: Free-agent pitcher Mike Montgomery in agreement with the New York Yankees, pending physical.
K's the side in the 6th. I bear no ill will to him or almost any other ex-Met.
I do bear ill will toward the ex GM though.
Either way if they kept Matz they probably wouldn't have signed Walker, so if he pitches well they got him plus the 3 arms in the system.
also agree with everyone above, benching Dom is stupid. Wouldn't it have been good to have Pillar on the bench if Alvardo comes in late in the game and the pitchers spot is due up?
Citi
After two bad strike calls on Lindor.