The Mets Police

RHP Nick Tropeano has been claimed off of waivers from the San Francisco Giants…He has been optioned to Triple-A Syracuse.  The West Islip, NY native appeared in four games with the Giants this year, going 1-0 with a 1.50 ERA (one earned run/6.0 innings) with two walks and two strikeouts…He had made three starts at Triple-A Sacramento, going 1-0 with a 2.79 ERA (three earned runs/9.2 innings) with five walks and 13 strikeouts…Tropeano owns a 14-14 career record with a 4.22 ERA In 53 games (39 starts) in the majors…He was originally selected in the fifth round of the 2011 First-Year Player Draft by the Houston Astros out of SUNY Stony Brook.

RHP Tommy Hunter has been transferred to the 60-day IL.

Well, I try to post something every day, and there’s nothing going on and I have work to do so this is something.   This cap is on sale today for $18.  I have seen worse.

The Mets were in Baltimore where they had to face their #1 pitcher (with John Means on the IL), let’s check the stats…

Matt is looking good.

And the game is underway….oh no….

But he MAKES THE CATCH

and The Dark Night is pleased.

Lindor then walks, and followers of Mets Police know that Matt Harvey does not do well with runners on base.

It’s a matchup of two of my all-time favorite players….Matty Baseball vs. Vulgar Pete and….

Gary Cohen lies and says it’s Outta “Here” which it is not.  Gary in Citi Field where Pete has only hit one Home Run.  This is Camden Yards where even I can hit a home run and Matt’s face says it all.

That’s Pete’s TENTH Home Run of the season….and Pete knows I need some new images fo Pete Alonso Hating blog post….

Dom makes the second out and then McCann hits a bloop….can the defense save Matt a second time?  No!

But Billy McKinney sounds out and its a nice tidy 31 pitch inning for Matt.  2-0 Mets.  On to the second…

Pillar singles to lead off.   Someone named Mason Williams or something is apparently on the Mets (stupid cheap Wilpons) and he strikes out for the first out.  Then a DP (Matt loves those) gets Matt out of the inning and we don’t get a single screen grab of Matt!  The Dark Knight is back baby!  On to the third…and the second time through the order which NEVER goes well.

Villar leads off with a double, so there’s a man on second and none out.  I think we all know how this is gonna go.

Lindor strikes out and should be DFA’d as his punishment.  Then Vulgar Pete steps in.  Pete singles and it’s first and third and one out.   Dom is terrible and flies out.  2 down and Matt looks like he’s got this!

Or maybe not McCann singles to make it 3-1….and the Wednesday Night crowd at Fells Point won’t be looking to take anyone home tonight.

Billy McKinney who somehow starts every day for a team owned by the stupid cheap Wilpons Uncle Steve singles and well look at this face…

That’s the look of a man who has banged his last supermodel.  But the pain is not over yet Matt.  We all know what’s coming.  We feel it in our bones.  I have been warning the Orioles about this for months but they didn’t listen.  But we all know…

Oh my.  Have you ever seen a freeze frame like that?  Look at that ball.  Gary Cohen lies to the audience and says the ball is out of Citi Field (aka “here”, where Gary is) but its actually out of Camden Yards.  It’s a 3 run homer.

But you know what Matt?  The Orioles obviously have nobody to eat innings and are going to lose 110 games, so guess what….nobody is coming to get you.

Mason Williams somehow starts for the stupid cheap Wilpons Uncle Steve’s Team and makes the third out.  And let’s take a long hard look at Matt Harvey as we may never see him again in the major leagues.

 

“Unfortunately, I pitched like [expletive],” Harvey said.

That’s not me doing a bit, that’s what he said.

It’s been a couple years now of being really horse[expletive],” Harvey said. “It’s frustrating, the amount of work that I’m putting in between starts. Especially with the start tonight, I felt good, I had good stuff. Like I said, I missed spots.

“Those are the frustrating ones where you feel good and you feel like — I was throwing 95, 96 mph and got hit around. Those are the tough ones, the ones that I’ve been out of mechanics, there’s a reason for that and I guess an excuse for not pitching well. But for tonight, it was, I felt good. I just missed spots in situations where I can’t, and I did. It cost us the game.” (via Baltimore Sun)

Lyin’ Todd Frazier who  you may not know is from New Jersey, once played in the Little League World Series and has met Derek Jeter, has finally reached PEAK TODD FRAZIER by playing for a baseball team IN NEW JERSEY!

The Miners by the way have very nice looking uniforms.

Lyin’ Todd is apparently getting ready to represent the US of A in the Olympics where hopefully he will play honorably and not switch baseballs to cheat which is a dishonorable thing to do and not something I would want our Olympians to do.

Best of luck to Lyin’ Todd and his attempt to hit .185 in the minors and then Tokyo.

 

 

Pete Alonso spoke to the media.  I shall comment.

Pete, anywhere else is CITI FIELD.  So is the answer ONE?   Because that’s how many you’ve hit at home.  It’s June 9th.  Pete also has three RBI at home.  Three.  It is June 9th.  Three.

I can’t keep track of the Tims, I forget if this is the Tim who doesn’t like me or the other Tim and which Tim yells at managers but…

And let’s get to it Pete.  Let’s really get to it.

Here’s why changing the baseball is bad.   Your game is home runs.  You broke the rookie record when MLB decided to have Superballs that flew out of the park.  That led Mets fans to put you in Cooperstown, and to blind the Mets that they should have traded you at peak value.  After all, only 8 players have hit 50 or more twice and three of them are McGwire, Sosa and A-Rod.

Now we see that you are a .245 batter who is going to hit something like 27. 28. 29 home runs.  In other words, Ike Davis with a worse glove.

So I am sure Pete would love to see the superballs come back.

But let’s look at that free agency comment.  That is sure to get some eyes popping wide open at The MLB HQ.

And now let’s look at THIS quote….

So what Pete is saying is that EVEN PETE may think his 2019 numbers are kinda fugazi.

Trade High-ish Mets….while you still can.