RECAP!
I will share my thoughts on the Mets’ trade deadline activities tomorrow.
An unscheduled article for me today.
Sometimes, marvelous minor league things are worth a mention.
Seaver once fanned 19.
Tuesday night, St Lucie fanned 19, too.
2 Ks in an opening frame by rehabbing Grant Hartwig.
9 Ks in 4 innings by Saul Garcia.
3 in 2 innings by Irving Cora.
5 in 2 innings by Gregori Louis.
St Lucie Mets hitters fanned 16 times to bring total Ks in the game to 35.
St Lucie won 4-0.
Moving on…
Binghamton was 2 hit in a 6-0 loss. Punched out 9 times. Punchless.
Syracuse, though, won 7-1.
Mighty Luke Ritter was 3 for 3 and 2 walks, including his 20th HR and 70th RBI. Impressive. Ritter, this season and last, in 695 official at bats, has 47 HRs and 134 RBIs. That ain’t chump change.
Drew Gilbert had 2 hits.
Mike Vasil was GREAT! 7 innings, 4 hits, a run, 8 Ks. Just allowed a solo shot in the first.
Bradley Jr was 1 for 5, and 4 for 18 since he signed on.
Brooklyn was rained out. No, it wasn’t a cyclone.
Lastly in one of the DSL games, Mets pitchers held their opponent to 7 hits.
The problem was the 12 walks they also allowed along with 2 HBPs and the team making 3 errors, so the opposing team scored 14 runs on 7 hits.
The last Mets pitcher, Darling Felix, was excellent, though.
He fanned 4 in 1.2 very clean innings just a walk) and has now fanned 23 in 11.2 IP, but he has also allowed 14 hits, 24 walks, and 4 HBP. It is a learning process, this game of baseball.
Signing off…
I did notice the Vasil game and still believe that Hamel and Vasil can be helpful in the bullpen this year. Ritter… doesn’t seem to be getting a chance. Even with a scrub like Gamel taking up a spot.
ReplyDeleteOn the trade deadline: Britton wasn’t impressed and Bowden gave the Mets a C+, as both wanted to see a starter, especially since Flaherty went for prospects barely in the top 30. I really had my hopes on an ace also, but I won’t be that cruel as long as Manaea keeps throwing seven inning shutouts!
Gus,
ReplyDeleteThe Yankees are saying they backed out of a trade for Flaherty because of a medical concern during an assessment before the trade. That may have influenced the Mets. Didn't seem, however, to give the Dodgers any concern.
I also would like to see Hamel,Ritter, and Vasil in the Mets plans in the future.
I will miss Tyler Stuart. Hope he does well and gets traded back to the Mets later. Winker had better live up to expectations.
ReplyDeleteStanek has the pedigree to make a valuable addition, but his first two outings were tough to watch. We don't need another reliever to come in and get behind in counts, then throw middle middle pitches - already have enough of those. Diaz got away with some really scary sliders that broke over the plate last night - he has to fix that. Lucky the Twins hitters were out of sorts last night.
Paul, if Nunez and Garrett were healthy they likely don’t do the Stanek deal. But they need experienced pen arms. I am sad to see Gervase go, myself, but he also filled a need.
ReplyDeleteWinker is a Nimmo hitter vs. righties. He is strict platoon.
His splits this year? .268/.391/.447 vs righties in nearly 300 PAs. I take that in a heartbeat.
I would have preferred Chisholm, but the Mets would have had to add a top 5 prospect. Stearns is playing chess, thinking 50 steps ahead.
If Stearns believes Scott, Nunez, and Garrett are back by mid-August, they will be flush with pitching. So, if Faherty is healthy, sad they did not go for him. But if there are health issues,Stearns was probably wise.
ReplyDeleteThe comparable Mets prospects for what the Dodgers gave up for Flaherty are Ronald Hernandez and AJ Ewing/ Boston Baro type SS. Would you trade that for Flaherty and maybe include a DSL kid, if needed? Boy, did the Tigers get screwed by waiting til the last minute and having the Yankees crap the value.
ReplyDeleteI think that Stearns walked the tightrope about as well as he could have, given the prices paid for pitching. I trust this FO to make good decisions, both on whom to acquire and on the value of our own prospects, and it’s been a very long time (Frank Cashen?) since I could say that.
ReplyDeleteThe Senga injury, and to a lesser extent the Scott annd Nuñez injuries hurt. A lot. Add in that Alvarez hasn’t looked healthy (offensively) since his hand injury (and now a balky shoulder) which isn’t surprising - it’s gotta be hard to hit big league pitching when your hand (and/or shoulder) is in pain. We can hope that he heals up and starts hitting rockets again. JD Martinez had two hits yesterday, but other than a couple of three hit games, he’s looked absolutely lost at the plate for most of a month. Will he find it again and be the line drive/RBI machine he was looking like before this stretch? We don’t know, but that would also help.
With so much talent already lost, and the health/reliability of other key pieces feeling very much up in the air, I’m good with not giving up prime prospects for a bigger name. As often as not, expensive big-name deadline adds disappoint, while elsewhere, less heralded additions make important contributions to post-season runs. As the best team in baseball over the past couple of months, with a FO that seems to actually know what they’re doing, I’m ready to put my faith in this team and see what we can do.
Adam, good points. Alvarez should return healthy enough, and the reborn McNeil and "I hit righties as well as Nimmo" Winker should keep the offense in high gear.
ReplyDeleteBut this Darling Felix guy....maybe the second coming of Ron Darling? Doubt it. But stranger things have happened, darling.
ReplyDeleteCompare the St Lucie 35 K strikeout game to this:
ReplyDeleteThe Mets-Nationals game just broke the combined strikeouts record. By both teams in a 9 inning game. Record now stands at 35. Old record was 31 by Texas@Seattle in 1997.Oct 4, 2015