Good morning
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Injuries...Wilmer Flores goes out with a strained back... then Yoenes Cespedes gets hit on his wrist. .. Now Steven Matz is put on the shelf for back stiffness after sleeping wrong on a couch.
Again,,, guys... get off your ass and wrap your wrist, put a band around your backs, use your beds, and get the f back out on the field!
Feel free to save all your ticky tacky bumps and dings for the end of October after the World Series is over.
Got no time for all this pussy stuff. If you don't break a bone or tear a tendon, pick up your glove and get back out in the field.
Fangraphs http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-mets-are-a-scary-playoff-team/ had a feature on the first time the Mets four main starters played back-to-back all season –
Christopher Soto talked about this earlier this week, but I thought you would like to see how this looks in an Excel sheet form:
Again,,, guys... get off your ass and wrap your wrist, put a band around your backs, use your beds, and get the f back out on the field!
Feel free to save all your ticky tacky bumps and dings for the end of October after the World Series is over.
Got no time for all this pussy stuff. If you don't break a bone or tear a tendon, pick up your glove and get back out in the field.
Fangraphs http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-mets-are-a-scary-playoff-team/ had a feature on the first time the Mets four main starters played back-to-back all season –
Christopher Soto talked about this earlier this week, but I thought you would like to see how this looks in an Excel sheet form:
Mets Starters vs CIN
| Starter | IP | H | HR | BB | K | ERA | FIP | xFIP |
| Jacob deGrom | 6.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1.50 | 0.15 | 1.62 |
| Noah Syndergaard | 7.2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2.35 | 1.97 | 1.24 |
| Matt Harvey | 6.2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2.70 | 1.35 | 3.12 |
| Steven Matz | 5.2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4.76 | 0.32 | 1.37 |
| Total | 26.0 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 2.77 | 1.03 | 1.84 |
Mack – Look, I know
Cincinnati isn’t a very good team and it seems like the only teams the Mets win
a series against are bad teams, but, if we turn this around and look at it
differently, we might be watching this pitching staff peaking at the right time
of the season.
You put these four
guys up there, followed by a relief threesome like Addison
Reed,
Tyler
Clippard, and Jeurys
Familia and there just may be some longevity
on this race to the World Series.
Frankie
asked –
Mack, you outlined last week the
sheet load of minor league pitching prospects that were dealt off in order to
create the playoff team we have for 2015.
Who would you rank as the top
five pitchers still in the system?
Mack – Thanks for the question, Frankie.
Let me answer this in four ways.
First, the ‘system’
still has Zack Wheeler and
Rafael
Montero in it. They aren’t really minor
league prospects anymore and should be part of the Mets 25-man squad in 2015.
Trust me, the Mets knew these guys would still be in the system when they
traded all those secondary prospects. Both these guys easily rank ahead of all
of them and, frankly, all of the ones that remain.
As for the top 5
pitching prospects that remain, if I ranked them by affiliate levels, they
would be Chris Flexen,
Rainy
Lara,
Corey
Oswalt, Marcos
Molina, and Robert
Gsellman.
If I rank them as
what I project as possible front end prospects, they would only be two…
Flexen and Nicholas
Debora.
In addition, I
project Ricky Knapp, Nabil Crismatt, Thomas
McIlraith, and Merandy
Gonzales as possible back-end starters.
Warning - This is not the best representation of Mets minor league starters over recent years... but... the good news is if Wheeler and Montero return to form, we may not need anymore new starters until the turn of the decade.
Warning - This is not the best representation of Mets minor league starters over recent years... but... the good news is if Wheeler and Montero return to form, we may not need anymore new starters until the turn of the decade.
Comment From
Zen - bigger choke job: nationals season or papelbon?
Dan
Szymborski: I think the Nats. We all expected the Nats
to be good. We never really expected Papelbon to not be an asshole.
Comment From
Phillies113 - If I were the Nationals manager and, as a Phillies fan, was
actively trying to sabotage the team, would I still be a better manager than Matt Williams?
Dan
Szymborski: Probably. At least they’d get a good draft pick
Comment From
Omar - Who would you rather hang out with , John Rocker
or Jonathan Papelbon?
Dan
Szymborski: Rocker
Mack –
These are bad times for everybody involved with the Nationals.
There will be some
big changes here in the off-season. This was a team with a $162million dollar
payroll in 2015 that imploded.
Seven players are
scheduled to depart via free agency… RHP Jordan Zimmerman,
2B Dan
Uggla,
RHP Doug
Fister, SS Ian
Desmond, CF Denard
Span,
LHP Matt
Thornton, and OF Reed
Johnson.
Papelbon is under
contract for 2016 ($11mil), but my guess is his chances of coming back are
equal to the return of both their manager and General Manager.
One bright not for
them is you could see the debut of SP Lucas Giolito next
season.
I may be overrating this guy, but Martires Arias has to be somewhere in the Top SP list. Although he had just one (excellent) start as high as High A ball so far in his career, and he's getting older, he was 14-5, 1.90, and 175 Ks in 175 IP the past 2 years in rookie and A ball. Got 118 innings in this year, so he should be ready for a boost to 150-160 next year. he is my sleeper choice for an upwards leap.
ReplyDeleteFlores and Matz strained - Mets lose 3 to Phils and it strains celebration week revelries. A shame they come home and fans get rain and wind.
Hasn't Gsellman won best pitcher award or something TWICE already within their system? Gotta be something with this young man.
ReplyDeleteAnd what the heck is going on with Marcos Molina? Does he need TJS or not? Does he even have an elbow injury?
I think I remember Billy Martin back in the day used to walk in the clubhouse and ask his players if they wanted to play that day.....yeah sure LOL. Things have certainly changed and maybe its me but weren't we going to go for home field advantage? I know we wrapped it up in Cincy but it still bothered me that we mailed it in in Philly and can they PLEASE STOP USING PARNELL ALREADY as he alone cost us the 2nd game.
ReplyDeleteGary, you need to send Bobby Parnell a retirement card. He and Vic Black have been awful this year. Ernest, my only reservation with Gsellman is a low strikeout rate. In 2016, he ought to get to Vegas and we'll see if he goes the way of Bowman and Pill, or is much better.
ReplyDeleteThomas -
ReplyDeleteI expected you to add someone else this morning. Remember, this is one of the reasons I hate projecting players belows the A+ level. They are simply too far away and have not played against enough quality competition. Yes, some develop late and come out of the woodwork, but most go south with high numbers early. What you are looking for are pitchers like Steven Matz that dominate at all levels.
As for Gsellman, strike outs or no strike outs, he still remains one of the best the team has left in the higher levels. For that reason alone, he made my list.
Ernest -
ReplyDeleteThe last thing I heard was Molina DID NOT require TJS. That doesn't mean he didn't have it because it's become harder for me to get this kind of information
Gary -
ReplyDeletePlaying out useless games is tough to watch. This is the kind of lineup this team had before all the injuries healed and trades were made.
My guess is most or all of the regulars will make their way back into the lineup over the weekend.
sure but do they want home field advantage or not?
ReplyDeleteI agree on the guys needing to get up to really performing at higher levels like AA before you know whether a guy is for real or not, Mack. Gabe Ynoa dominated until he got to AA, then took a few steps back. I will say that Arias' #s in Savannah were very similar to those of Matz in his days there, but Arias will have to show if he is for real next year.
ReplyDeleteThe thought of facing Kershaw at Citi is more appealing than in L.A. but maybe that's just me
ReplyDeleteGary -
ReplyDeleteDamned if you do, damned if you don't...
Thomas -
ReplyDeleteFrankly, I'm not that high on anyone past Flexen right now.
The best of the Mets pitching is in Queens + Wheeler and Montero.
The rest was traded.
I don't think there's much pitching in the system at all. Which is too bad, because those are valuable trade chips to shove toward the center of the bargaining table. In a way, those chips got us 2015. In the future, we might miss those resources.
ReplyDeleteIn five years, I don't think Sandy has done a particularly good job replenishing the system from a pitching perspective. The position players seem to be in better shape, if Rosario and Smith are for real. Unconvinced about Nimmo and Plawecki.
James Preller
the good news, is that if you draft some pitching this coming year in three of 4 years it will be ready. and well those 4+(2) guys are all controlled until at least then, matz, degrom and thor for even longer.
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