MACK – MY Tuesday Morning Observations
Bob
Nightengale @BNightengale
Five
Scott Boras starting pitchers have now signed:
Blake
Snell, Dodgers: 5 years, $182 million.
Yusei
Kikuchi, Angels: 3 years, $63 million.
Frankie
Montas, Mets: 2 years, $34 million.
Matthew
Boyd, Cubs: 2 years, $29 million.
Nick
Martinez, Reds: 1 year, $21.05 million.
David L
Funnell @sportz_nutt51
Number of
pitchers with 200+ innings pitched since 2021:
2021 - 4
2022 - 8
2023 - 5
2024 - 4
Total: 21
Mack – See? This is not just a Mets problem. It’s a
problem throughout baseball. Is this the pitchers at fault here? Is it the
teams? Or is it a combo of both? My guess it is baseball’s obsession with
analytics, particularly with third time around stats and pitches thrown. The
days of Bob Gibson are over and teams must now adjust by strengthening the
depth of their pen.
https://sports.yahoo.com/mets-prospect-luisangel-acu-swinging-163451071.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall –
Mets top
prospect Luisangel Acuña has been red-hot at the
plate during the Venezuelan Winter League.
The
speedy infielder helped the Cardenales de Lara secure their doubleheader sweep
on Friday as he reached base four times, stole three bases, drove in three
runs, and scored three runs of his own.
Acuña is
now hitting .388 with two doubles, one triple, one home run, nine RBI, nine
stolen bases, and an impressive .996 OPS over his first 17 Winter League games.
Mack – The problem here is all but one of these
games had Acuna playing short, not second or any of the outfield positions that
would be a path to a starting position on the Mets.
All Other
MLB Teams Forced To Forfeit As Dodgers Sign Every Baseball Player In Existence
It's
official, the 2025 Major League Baseball season is over and the Los Angeles
Dodgers have been preemptively declared World Series Champions for the
foreseeable future after all other teams were forced to forfeit due to the
Dodgers signing every baseball player currently in existence to a collective
30-year, $400 trillion contract.
According
to sources across the country, the Dodgers extended the astronomical contract
offer to every single player who has ever laid a finger on a baseball,
including all minor leaguers and a six-year-old second baseman on the Big
Orange Machine Little League team of Mankato, MN.
"There's
literally nothing else we could do except forfeit," said New York
Mets Manager Carlos Mendoza.
"They've managed to sign every single baseball player currently walking
the face of the earth. I heard they signed three contracts with unborn infants,
too. I hate to say it, but they beat all of us. And by 'beat us,' I mean they
made it so we literally can't sign any players. Because they're all Dodgers
now."
BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history
More
people have walked on the moon (12) than men who have scored against Mariano Rivera in the postseason
Justin
Rocke @JustinRocke
RHP Alan Perdomo has signed a MiLB contract with the
Colorado #Rockies per MiLB's transaction page.
Perdomo
was taken by the #Mets from Colorado in the '23 MiLB R5 Draft. Recorded two
saves and a 3.86 ERA in 10 outings for the @BKCyclones in 2024
Jim
Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball
“Steve Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches
through him. The batter hardly exists
for Steve. He’s playing an elevated game of catch.”
Tim McCarver
“Joe DiMaggio was
the greatest all-around player I ever saw. His career cannot be summed up in
numbers and awards. It might sound corny, but he had a profound and lasting
impact on the country.”
Ted Williams
"I'll
never forget September 6, 1950. I got a letter
threatening me, Hank Bauer, Yogi Berra & Johnny Mize. It said if I
showed up in uniform against the Red Sox I'd be shot. I turned the letter over
to the FBI & told my Mgr., Casey Stengel about it. You know what Casey did?
He gave me a different uniform & gave mine to Billy
Martin."
Phil Rizzuto
"In
baseball and in life, it's not about how hard you can swing, but about how well
you can connect."
Gary Carter
11 comments:
I'm on the Babylon A team
Mariano....140 post season innings, 0.70 ERA, 8-1, 42 saves. Against playoff caliber hitters. Very sick.
Pitcher free agent salaries are Russian Roulette
Loved the one on the Dodgers signing everyone. Some days it feels like that. You wonder when all the deferrals will end up haunting them.
I don't understand two things
1. Why doesn't other teams do this?
2. Why can Atlanta only sign young talent to long cheap contracts?
Mack, maybe if Soto is not signed, they will extend Vientos, Alvarez, Peterson. Diaz?
But it takes two to tango and only Braves management and players seem to be able to dance that dance
Let me jump in:
When the Braves did that, they sucked for many years and had no $34MM Lindors or Nimmos. They were able to go “prospects only” and thus pay them all by spreading out the money. How
Many Mets fans can stomach the Mets sucking for a while? How about not having any players that are marquis names? I don’t think the Mets get a fair shake. Personally, Sterns didn’t need this job, this job needed him.
Gus
Trust me
There is plenty more coming
F the Dodgers. I've had a premonition about a NY Post headline;
'Soto to Mets - Jaun Billion $ Man.'
I'm using ChatGPT to help me work out how 1B/16 years would be calculated to exceed Ohtani's 700/10 deal. If that deal is 'really' worth 460m 'today,' then how much would be differed to Soto. Need help with the details, but I saw that headline! LFGM! Wishing everyone here on Mack's Mets all the best for these Holidays and beyond. #JaunBillion$man (tm)
Can everyone just sign everyone this week and start spring training next week? They all get too much time off from work.
Anybody else a little worried that Acuna is running so much in his winter league? I'd hate to see another lost year a la Mauricio with a stolen base injury.
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