4/30/21

Mets News and Breakfast Links 4/30/2021

 



Good Morning.  Steve Cohen tweets about Mets offense and has been having Mets players over for dinner.  FanGraphs confirms that deGrom's run support is lacking, and Mets Prospects Brett Baty and Matt Allan talk to the Media.

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Tonight's Game: 

Mets (9-10) @ Phillies (12-12), 7:05 pm

PHI: Chase Anderson (#57, 33, RHP, 0-3, 6.48)
NYM: Marcus Stroman (#0, 30, RHP, 3-1, 2.25)

Mets.com: 5 biggest early-season surprises in NL East. For the Mets – Their Offensive struggles.  ”…the Mets instead ranked last in the NL in runs per game over their first 18 contests, in large part because they were also dead last in batting average with runners in scoring position.”

NY Post: Luis Rojas has ‘aggressive’ fix for Mets’ MLB-worst offense.  “Right now, we just gotta remind ourselves that we gotta be aggressive,” Rojas said. “We gotta hunt the fastball and we gotta adjust.”

FanGraphs: Jacob deGrom’s Run Support Is As Lacking as You Think. One of the great points noted by writer Dan Szymborski “…if the Mets just scored runs the way they do for their other pitchers, it would add roughly 17 wins to deGrom’s career line, shifting his record to a healthier 89-34.”

NY Post: Francisco Lindor’s Mets struggles are more worrisome than you think. “Meld his dreadful .203/.317/.261 slash line this season with the .258/.335/.415 he posed with the Indians last year, which established or tied career lows in all three counts, and it instantly becomes a less small sample.”

NY Post: Why Steve Cohen is inviting Mets stars over for dinner. “The dinners that Cohen is hosting in Connecticut reflect more on the new Mets owner’s desire to speed up his baseball education, let employees know the ultimate decision-maker cares about them and to humanize the relationship”

SNY.TV: Guess What? The Mets' bullpen is really good, and the advanced numbers prove it. Edwin Diaz, Miguel Castro, and Trevor May have been a dominant trio in the back of the bullpen.

SNY.TV: Mets prospect Matt Allan ready for first full season: 'I just feel pretty dominant'. SNY's No. 2 overall Mets prospect, Allan profiles as a top of the rotation starter.

SNY.TV: Mets top prospect Brett Baty 'really excited' for minor league baseball returning. 'Just playing in a different uniform has been amazing'.







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New York Mets claimed Daryl Boston on waivers from the Chicago White Sox on April 30, 1990.

New York Mets signed free agent Val Pascucci on April 30, 2008.

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1988

Reds' manager Pete Rose will be suspended for thirty days and fined $10,000 for pushing David Pallone, after the umpire makes a delayed call that allows the eventual winning run to score in the team's 6-5 loss to the Mets at Riverfront Stadium. The Cincinnati skipper shoves the first base ump twice after claiming he was poked in the face, a charge the arbitrator denies, and one never substantiated by major league baseball.

1990

With Dale Murphy and Ernie Whitt on base, Mark Lemke grounds to second baseman Gregg Jefferies, who lobs the ball to David Cone covering first. The runner is called safe, which leads to the Mets starter having a complete meltdown, vehemently arguing the call with umpire Charlie Williams as the two Braves' runners cross the plate to score.

2002

Al Leiter becomes the first pitcher in baseball history to record wins over all thirty big league franchises that have been existence since 1901. The Mets southpaw earns the victory as New York routs the Diamondbacks at Bank One Ballpark, 10-1.

 

2005

With an enthusiastic RFK crowd chanting "Let's go, ground crew" the inexperienced group puts on quite a show of ineptitude when they struggle putting the tarp on a very soggy field during the second rain delay of the rain-shortened 5-3 victory over the Mets. New York files a protest after the game is called off in the bottom of the eighth, claiming the field became unplayable due to Washington's inability to cover the field during the 37-minute stoppage of play.

2008

Julio Franco, the oldest player to homer in the major leagues, announces his retirement from professional baseball, leaving the Quintana Roo Tigers of the Mexican League. The 49 year-old Dominican compiled a .298 average, collected 2,586 hits and hit 173 homers during his 23-year tenure with eight big league teams, which included the Phillies, Indians, Rangers, White Sox, Brewers, Rays, Braves, and Mets.

 

2012

When Brett Myers faces his first batter in the ninth inning, the Astros closer becomes the seventh different Houston pitcher to face seven consecutive Mets, a major league first. Houston manager Brad Mills wears out a path from the dugout to the mound when he pulls starter Bud Norris from the game and then proceeds to summon Wilton Lopez, Wesley Wright, Brandon Lyon, Fernando Abad, and Fernando Rodriguez, to face one batter each in the team's 4-3 victory at Citi Field.

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2017 - Anthony Rendon has a game for the ages as he goes 6-for-6 with his first three homers of the year and drives in 10 runs to lead the Nationals to a 23 - 5 drubbing of the Mets. He joins Walker Cooper as the only two players ever to have 6 hits and 10 RBIs in one game. Bryce Harper scores 4 runs to give 32 in April, a new major league record, and Matt Wieters has a pair of homers among his three hits. It is the most runs in franchise history for Washington. Worse for New York, Noah Syndergaard leaves the game in the 2nd after experiencing arm pain.

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7 comments:

BrooklynTrolleyBlogger said...

Happy Friday to all at Mack's Mets.

April 30, 2021 at 8:17 AM
John From Albany said...

Good Morning BTB...memories of High Pockets Kelly...gotta love it. He had 122 RBIs for the NY Giants in 1921...we could use a few of those.

April 30, 2021 at 8:59 AM
TexasGusCC said...

Read that article by Tim Britton in The Athletic. If Cohen hadn’t signed Lindor, the media would say Lindor is pressing. For such an “in depth” piece, it sucked. It did offer that RISP situations are tough and players chase more. It also offered that Dom Smith and the Mets are confused at the plate, but didn’t say how a whole team can be confused, and it didn’t give any reason why things will be getting better any time soon.

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m starting to find the baseball season just way too long and these silly two game series unnecessary. I still think teams should play five game series and travel less. My opinion.

I don’t like the idea of moving back the mound because it won’t change hitters’ approaches of always swinging for the downs. I feel moving the fences back to Grand Canyon levels will make hitters stop trying for theHR as much and start looking to hit line drives again. My opinion.

Have a great weekend everyone.

April 30, 2021 at 9:57 AM
John From Albany said...

Gus - great comments as always. Your comments from yesterday regarding the Mets being a fastball hitting team were spot on. Did you ever do a post on that for Mets360 - if so let us know.

Regarding moving the fences back...that is how Citi Field was first designed and instead of trying to build a team to fit the dimensions, Sandy moved the fences in.

April 30, 2021 at 10:17 AM
Tom Brennan said...

On other subjects, great to see Matt Allan feels dominant. Looking forward to that.

Marisnick - wish Mets had kept him.

April 30, 2021 at 11:48 AM
Tom Brennan said...

Gus, I pushed hard for the fences to be brought in - their initial depth really hurt David Wright. I honestly do not know the right answer, except to say that if the hitters hit the ball hard, more HRs will fly out due to shortened fences. Swinging for the fences, though, is a good way to go into long slumps.

Mets need to start HITTING and winning - my zeal is virtually all gone until that happens. None of last 17 games with more than 6 runs...and just 47 runs in those 17 games. Brutal.

April 30, 2021 at 11:52 AM
TexasGusCC said...

John, thank you for the compliment. No, I have never done an article on that topic, but as my turn is coming up next Friday, I need to find a topic. I actually thought of the original Petco Park and what it didn’t to hitters when I wrote that comment earlier, but I also thought of the Cardinals and Busch Stadium during the 80’s and how Herzog built a team to have an advantage in that stadium. Alas, Petco has brought their fences in a couple of times too.

Tom, I had preferred the fences in also, if it can give my team an advantage. But not to sound like a grumpy older man, but we know kids these days aren’t flexible in their thinking on just about anything, so if I just can’t get through to the modern ballplayer to hit more line drives and less upper cut when the entire league has this fly ball revolution going on, am I help my organization just because I have “this great idea”? It’s complicated.

April 30, 2021 at 1:52 PM

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