TOM’S TASTY TIDBITS
Sometimes, you presume amiss.
I thought Binghamton would be a game in, game out juggernaut.
But they’ve lost 2 straight 7 inning games, totaling 0 runs and 4 hits. Maybe just an early season fluke.
Only AJ Ewing and Chris Suero have been commendable offensively so far.
St Lucie? Lost 8-6.
Nate Lavender gave up 5 runs in 1.1 innings, made worse by his reliever allowing all 3 runners to score and accrue to Nate’s ledger account.
Great news. Dylan Ross appeared, throwing a scoreless frame. 13 pitches, 9 strikes, no Ks.
Salgado, Zayas and Benson each are hitting well for the Lucites and each had two hits, and one of Benson’s hits cleared that pesky outfield wall.
Branny de Oleo also hit his first, and my guy Randy Guzman crushed his 3rd dinger in 2 games. Wow.
Brooklyn? Lost 7-6. They have however started to rake. Still just .184, but up 42 points in 3 games. Just 25 Ks over the last 4 games, a major improvement, and an improving .310 team OBP. Gutierrez has a .444 OBP, with just 6 Ks in 45 PAs.
Colin Houck had 3 hits, including two doubles, and his teammate Antonio Jimenez smacked his 2nd rocket of the season and added another hit.
Alan Minter tossed a solid frame, allowing an unearned run.
Syracuse? On a hot mid-April day in NYC and LI, close to 90 degrees, Syracuse further upstate got rained out.
The Mets licked their wounds and headed to Wrigley Field for a 3 game series. Pete Crow Armstrong, the ex-Met, is hitting just .236, but is 5 for 13 in his last 3 games.
Sorry, Ernie Banks, let’s NOT play two. One game per day is more than enough, thanks.
Edwin Diaz didn’t feel right after an outing on April 10, so he sat out the recent Mets-Dodgers series. No sweat…the Dodgers swept them anyway.
THINGS HAPPEN IN THREES
Going into the final week of spring training, everything looked nice and Rosie in the outfield. But, as we all know, whether you hate clichés or not, things happen in threes.
So in the space of three weeks, outfielders Mike Tauchman, Juan Soto, and Jared Young all go down with lengthy injuries. Pretty insane.
“ALL TIME GREAT”
WHILE THE METS WERE GROVELING OUT IN LOS ANGELES, THE OTHER LA TEAM, THE ANGELS,HAS A SUPERSTAR WHO IS OFTEN INJURED, BUT WHEN HE’S NOT, HE’S STILL GREAT.
Mike Trout hit five home runs in four games against the Yankees in the Bronx this week. Aaron Judge called Trout an all-time great. What a shame that he’s been injured so much the last half a dozen years.
Finally, in the “Seller’s Remorse section” of this article:
The Brewers won 2-1 against the Blue Jays Thursday, behind a dominant ex-Met Brandon Sproat start (6.2 IP, 4 hits, 1 run).
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11 comments:
TGIF
In the “what have you done for me lately” column, the Mets have scored just 54 runs subsequent to their season opener, over their last 18 games.
Where does that rank them then offense in the major leagues? If you guessed last, well, you are sadly correct.
I now perfectly understand the run prevention thesis of David Stearns. This team has constructed his preventing an awful lot of Mets runs from scoring. Good job.
350M doesn't get you much these days. Imagine what a great GM like Stearns could do with 500M.
Not surprised that Brandon Sproat is coming around. That was his history here. Struggle the first year on a different level and then adjust. I hated the trade but our resident GENIUS knows best. I would not be surprised that he ends up better than Tong.
Morabito to LF while Soto is still out?
The question is "is this rock bottom?" Polanco, Semien, Bichette, Pham and Williams are added to the disaster list which includes Mo Vaughn, Jim Fregosi, Jason Bay, Carlos Baerga, Robbie Alomar well you get the picture and frankly Mr. Stearns what are you going to do about it? It's really wonderful what small mkt GM can accomphish with a really big budget isn't it. It's really had to believe we can be this bad.
If you compare Sprout to Myers, the trade works. Peralta cost Jett Williams and go look at his poor start. Nimmo was replaced by Robert, allowing a better alignment or Benge and Soto. The outfield has held its own, pretty much. It’s the infield that rots. Bichette rode Guerrero’s coattails, Polanco is a nice 5 or 6 hitter, they need to get Lindor out of lead off and Semien batting at the bottom is fine. If only Vientos or Baty could get hot.
Ewing is hitting better. Try him?
Bring back Daniel Vogelbach!
Can ANYONE get hot? Polanco may be headed to IL.
Sat what anyone will about Nimmo and Alonso, but both were Iron Men.
Fully agree Tom. Bring up Ewing. He certainly can't hit worse than Semien!
Ewing needs AAA at-bats. Promote him to Syracuse before calling him to Queens. Otherwise it will damage his confidence. Benge was further along and he still hasn't gotten his MLB legs under him.
In AA, 38 career games, .350/.410/.459 for AJ
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