By metstradamus | May 6, 2021 5:59 pm
To think that Taijuan Walker was just sitting on the free agent wires … for months … before anybody decided that he was a chance worth taking. Walker, coming off a decent year, wasn’t signed until February 19th. Now that’s probably more of an indictment on the landscape of baseball than it is against Walker or any member club.
But Walker has been just what the Mets needed in the middle of the roatation, and that was before today’s spectacular outing where he retired 18 in a row to highlight and end a seven inning, one hit, no walk outing where he struck out eight batters and gave up one lonely unearned run. I can make a case for Walker as the team’s MVP so far this season, only because of the improvement he has provided in the middle of the rotation, and the pure numbers which have been above and beyond what anybody had a right to expect from him this season.
Now from the sublime to the ridiculous, and that’s the Mets stranding more passengers than Gilligan. So get this: The Mets stranded 17 runners on base during Thursday’s game against St. Louis. You do realize how difficult that is right? You understand that not even the Mets as a franchise has ever done that before, and this is a franchise that is in their 60th year of being … well, the Mets. So the fact that this is a first is saying something. Also, the Cardinals walked 11 batters during the game, which basically means that this game should have been won 15-1 or something. And when you combine it with your pitching staff giving up one hit in eight innings, you had better win by accident.
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