About yesterday…
It is obvious that the Mets do not currently have enough to win the amount of games needed to fight off the rising Braves. Don’t blame Atlanta for this one. This is all on the Mets.
We know what we need but we seem to be hesitant to pull the trigger on a minor league bat to replace the horrible output by our designated hitters.
You can trade RIGHT NOW until the deadline runs out on August 2nd at 6pm EST.
The delay right now must mean that teams are asking too much from the big, bad, Mets, or we don’t want to give up the prospects needed to get something done.
No team is going to make this easy for us. No team.
Just call up either Vientos or Alvarez and make that bat the designated hitter. Then, convert the only guy we have that could possibly help us in the pen right now, Thomas Szapucki, into the much needed middle relief lefty.
Regarding bats, do you really think Houston, San Diego, Atlanta, or the Dodgers would hesitate calling up either Mark Vientos or Francisco Alvarez to put some muscle into the DH sitiuation?
Give me a break.
Relief pitching is a different animal. We don’t have a sure think in the chain and the starters that could be converted are needed to start until the placement on the IL stops.
Do something! I don't care if it works. We know standing pat is doing us squat right now.
Tell the other 29 General Managers that Dom, JD, and Mauricio are on the block for the right deal and then hang up.
Do it now and fuck the other teams.
RHP David Griffin promoted from Double-A Binghamton to AAA-Syracuse.
Griffin is a 25-year old righty out of Curry College (MA). He went undrafted in 2018 and was signed after two years of Indy ball.
He has pitched for two Mets affiliates this year:
Brooklyn - 5-G, 2-ST, 1-0, 2.40, 15-IP, 20-K
Binghamton - 9-G, 8-ST, 0-4, 5.01, 32,1-IP, 24-K
I have no explanation for this one.
There is a new analytic rating to determine the current production of professional baseball D players. DIGS
What is DIGS?
Defense Independent Game Score (DIGS) is an updated version of Bill James' and Tom Tango's respective game score creations. It rates a starting pitcher's performance for each game, but can also be applied over a full season or career's worth of data.
DIGS is designed with the pitcher, and only the pitcher, in mind. It factors in metrics the pitcher can control (strikeouts, walks, home runs, barrels, and batted balls), while leaving out those that his teammates factor into (hits and runs allowed). The goal of DIGS is to capture a pitcher's "true talent" while creating a value that varies less yearly than traditional game scores and ERA.
Pitcher DIGS (@DigsPitcher) tweeted at 2:55 PM on Sat, Jul 02, 2022:
MiLB DIGS+ Leaders | METS
1. Calvin Ziegler = 136
2. Thomas Szapucki = 116
3. Mike Vasil = 114
4. Junior Santos = 112
5. Javier Atencio = 110
6. Nick Zwack = 110
7. Keyshawn Askew = 108
8. Jose Butto = 105
9. Jordany Ventura = 103
10. Alex Valverde = 101
You can see why I say that Ziegler is only one of two RED PROSPECTS starters currently in the chain.
Tom's Chirps:
Mack covered the majors.
Binghamton scored 11 today, with a Baty 3 run HR. More noteworthy is that the bottom third of the line-up, Wyatt Young, Jeremy Vasquez and Zack Ashford, combined for 7 runs and 5 RBIs. I wish our Mets' bottom third could EVER do such a thing. Ragan went 3 in a start, and Butto the final 6 for an 11-3 win.
Brooklyn lost 2-1, with 2 hits. Boring, frankly.
Syracuse - Mazeika hit his 2nd HR in the last few days. Syracuse, though, got whooped 9-5, surrendering 18 hits.
St Lucie? Got whooped. I write less about teams when they get whooped. But they scored 3 in the bottom of the 9th to make it closer - 8-6 loss. William Lugo had 3 hits and 3 RBIs, and Omar De Los Santos had 3 hits and a walk, BUT WAS 0 FOR 1 IN STEALS! Sunday? Jake deGrom Day.
13 comments:
Why would you make any changes? You don't like Dom Smith? You're not deliriously happy that he hasn't homered since July 21 LAST Year and in 241 at bats since then, he's hitting .208?
Why this guy s still on the team, and not a righty Mark Vientos, who hit 7 HRs in 16 games and his last 3 were a crushed HR to left, a crushed HR to center, and a shot to right that cleared to fence by 40 feet, is beyond me.
Weepy Dom was great in 2020 - but now he is Wimpy, Woeful Dom. Gotta go. The divorce can't come soon enough.
I wonder why Ziegler has not officially pitched since a one inning outing on June 16. Perhaps they are trying to address his mechanics? Hopefully not an injury.
DIGS is interesting - yes, it indicates Szapucki should be switched to the bullpen if the Met have any intention of using him again in 2022.
Only surprise on the list to me was Junior Santos, who results-wise, has been pretty ineffective this year.
Steve Cohen proved to me that he wasn't going to shy away from the hard decisions.
Thus, the Cano release.
We need to make a move. Any move.
I have heard nothing regarding this.
Ernest?
DIGS looks to be a pure stat on the true current value of a pitcher
There is a sense of urgency in this post, and there should be a sense of urgency in the front office. The Mets luckily survived a difficult part of this year with all the starts lost to MeGill, deGrom, and Scherzer injuries. They did this with timely hitting and playing good, aggressive baseball. Now the timely hitting has dried up a bit, exposing a real DH deficiency. "Doing something" as Mack aptly puts it shakes things up, changes the dynamic, and gets things going. Doing it now with the Reds and Marlins coming up allows the momentum to build before the mid-July face-off against the charging Braves.
Paul, I seem to remember that the Mets were in a similar place - a tough stretch in 2021, but 7 straight against a very lowly Pittsburgh team coming up. I hoped for 6-1, we got 3-4, and the death spiral had begun. They NEED to clean up in these next 7 against Texas Cincy and Marlins. Or clear the airfield, a Mets Airlines plane in distress will be approaching.
Look what it did to Philly after they fired their manager
If we don't feast during this next weak stretch, we don't deserve to be in the playoffs
Alvarez goes to AAA but were wasting time he needs to be at Citi along with Vientos and send Dom and JD somewhere else anywhere else because their not getting it done. Look we were only going to get by for so long with Max Jake and Megill out and CC a real question mark from start to start and now were paying for it because if we don't win against the Rangers Reds and Fish it will be last year all over again. I just hope we don't make a stupid deparation move like the Baez deal again. After the Fish we get the Braves Cubs Padres and Yanks so by the 27th of this month we'll know if were contenders or pretenders. To get something good we'll have to give up at least Maurcio so to me it's a no brainer try Alvarez and/or Vientos and Blankenhorn BEFORE we make any deals PLEASE!
Did Alvy get sent to Cuse?
I missed that.
Alvarez would not have been promoted except he told everyone it was his lifelong dream to go to Syracuse. So they sped it up, because obviously he has little natural talent. As he stepped out of his Uber in Syracuse, he said, it is my lifelong dreams to go to Queens. Just kidding - congratulations to Francisco. Soon, you'll say Francisco the Great in the Mets clubhouse and two heads will turn.
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