Orioles Reliever Right After his 98 MPH Pitch was Rocketed
1. Left David Peterson in too long, but I understand why. He is an ace.
2. Great to see the game-winning thunderbolt from Francisco Alvarez and his celebratory dance-off. It is clear the Mets’ players love this guy.
See, I can be concise.
Oh, before I go, in DSL action yesterday, on the next to last game day of the season, when their game should be at its sharpest, one DSL Mets team made 7 errors. Amazing. Not unusual.
As the Mets have lost many games to bad pen work, the top teams go for QUALITY. Michael Kopech since LAD acquired him has hit 103 MPH, gone out and fired 9.1 innings of one hit, one walk, no run, 13 K ball. How would that look in the pen rather than what the Mets have (not) gotten out of the former Seattle reliever and Brazaban. The Dodgers paid a PRICE, but the result was a huge bullpen boost, not bullpen bust.
ReplyDeleteThe Dodgers got Kopech as a piece of a bigger deal by having a farm system that everyone thinks is so great. Where are all these great prospects that other teams acquire? THEY SUCK! I don’t know how they convince so many teams of some of these guys’ value. They either lie about their exit velocities in their writeups and other teams are too lazy to verify, or they just know how to present a player correctly.
ReplyDeleteThe Mets aren’t there yet. Plus, the Mets AAA and AA teams have NOTHING in the way of offensive talent other than the top four prospects. Luke Ritter is our big trade bait and no wants him. Alex Ramirez was put on the 40 man so he won’t be stolen. Great move. And, the Dodgers always sell their hitters and keep their pitchers. Look at their lineup: their big prospect was Lux, LOL. Other than Will Smith, who is their homegrown guy? But, they accumulate good pitchers and even when the Red Sox didn’t want that guy from the Twins that threw 103 in the Mookie Betts trade, the dodgers said “we will take him and worry about injury later”, because injuries can happen to anyone!
Gus, we seem to deal from weakness, due to weak drafting. Little to sell.
ReplyDeleteBryce Montes de Oca went from 7 day IL to “injured…full season.” Precautionary shutdown, or something much worse?
ReplyDeleteAroldis Chapman was a $10.5 million free agent off season signing by Pittsburgh. 73 Ks in 45 IP, and saw a recent video clip where he was hitting 105 on the gun. 1..0..5.
ReplyDeleteWe got the White Sox bum instead, who failed and is no longer here.
Tom I disagree about leaving Peterson in too long. Our pitchers need to be stretched out to 100 pitches and allowed to pitch the 7th inning to save the bullpen. Peterson is a big guy at 6'6" 240lbs, let him develop. This is my issue with Mendoza he has a quick trigger with all his pitchers and he just burns up his bullpen arms with using typically 3-5 pitchers per game. Pitching rosters are built to sustain this, thus we keep bringing minor league arms up that just arent good enough to get major league hitters out on a consistant basis.
ReplyDeletePeterson was not left in too long. He was hurt by the balk call.
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