Tom Brennan - There’s Thunder Down Under; Paul Simon; Vientos; Vasil

Some thunder, some blunder, down under. 

There is some thunderous scoring in the 50 team DSL.

Of course, 50 teams mean some organizations have 2 teams (as do the Mets) while others have just one.

Two teams with one squad each (the Rockies and Nats) are scoring at decidedly different rates. The Nats have just 88 runs in 32 games, while the Rockies in 32 games have scored a monstrous 283 runs, or just under 9 per game.

The Mets’ two teams are scoring a very middle-of-the-pack 172 runs and 170 runs, each about 5.2 runs per game. (18 teams have scored between 160 and 180 runs, a tight cluster).

Naturally, the Dodgers’ 2 teams are rolling in runs with 255 and 252, an average of 8 runs over their 64 combined games, and the Yanks’ 2 teams total 457 runs in 63 games, or 7.3 runs per game. Those two franchises know how to generate run production, seemingly forever.

Oddly, there are five hitters at or above .400 in the league so far, and 4 are catchers. None are Mets.

The Mets’ top 3 hitters are 51st (catcher Julio Zayas, .319), and 54th (SS Branny de Oleo, .317), and 55th OF Jostyn Almonte (.316). 

Jefry Rosa The boomer, and is 2nd in HRs (8), and 4th in slug % (.658), despite relatively low at bats so far (76).

A glance soon from moi meme at the pitching side of the fence in the wild, wooly DSL.

RAIN DELUGE IN BOSTON

Game suspended, with Mets up 4-3 in the 4th. Then they win a close game completion, but Max Scherzer loses the nightcap, allowing 4 HRs and upping his HRs allowed to 22 in 100 innings in 2023. His 4.20 ERA is 2 runs higher than 2022.

Mad Max has become Mediocre Max.

Somewhere, Edwin is rehabbing.

Last night, and all of 2023, makes me think of these lyrics:

Slip slidin’ away
Slip slidin’ away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you’re slip slidin’ away

But Mark Vientos? 

3 for 6 in his first 2 games back. BUILD ON IT. PLAY HIM.

Actually, he is now 9 for his last 36 MLB ABs, and has hit the ball hard in his Mets ABs this year.

Remember: 37 XBH in 228 AAA ABs, .307, 50 RBIs in 60 games.

Play him.

SHAKY MIKE VASIL: 

In early May in AA, we were loving the performances: in a 3 start stretch, 21 innings, just 8 hits and 1 run allowed. ERA of 2.19.

“How long until he joins the Mets?”

Since then, however, in 37 innings in AA and AAA, 44 hits allowed, including a whopping 10 HRs, and 30 runs. Two solid outings in that stretch, spanning 9 innings and 2 runs. In the other several, 28 innings, 28 runs.

Now not feeling at all comfortable that he will be ready to pitch for the Mets next April. 

Could the recent results just be growing pains…or is it more?