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Go to bed instead – Mets game notes for May 31

Good evening!   It is May 31 and Pete Alonso is back baby.  He has six home runs!

Mets Police reminds you not to chase tonight’s game to 1am.  If you want to watch a little deGrom I understand, but really by 11 just give up on it.  You will thank me when the alarm goes off at 6:30.

RHP Sean Reid Foley, C Patrick Mazeika and OF Khalil Lee were optioned to Triple-A Syracuse yesterday.

OF Cameron Maybin and RHP Sam McWilliams have been designated for assignment.  Maybin finishes his Mets career with one hit I guess.  I didn’t fact check this but sounds right.

INF Pete Alonso (right hand sprain) and OF Kevin Pillar (multiple facial fractures) have been activated from the 10-Day IL.   Pillar tweeted a vulgar version of LGM earlier today so he is now my 24th favorite Met.  (Vulgar Pete is 25 and The Big Zero is 26th, except during doubleheaders when they all move down one spot.)

RHP Seth Lugo (right elbow surgery) has been activated from the 60-Day IL.

OF Mason Williams has been selected to the major league roster and will be active tonight…He will wear #70 as will @mediagoon who has purchased a Mason Williams Mets jersey.

The Mets have played the fewest games in the majors…The Mets have had three games postponed due to COVID-19 safety protocol, one suspended game due to rain, another postponed due to snow and six additional postponements due to rain…The team’s 10 postponements are the most in the majors…The Twins are second with six postponements.

deGrom is off to one of the best starts in major league history, posting a 0.60 WHIP and 0.80 ERA through his first seven outings over 45.0 innings…There have been nearly 8,000 (7,886 to be exact) individual starting pitcher seasons that have begun with at least 45.0 innings through seven starts and deGrom’s 0.60 WHIP is second only to Chris Sale’s 2014 season, when he started out with a very slightly lower 0.596 WHIP in his first seven starts…Only 15 pitchers have had a lower ERA through seven starts (min. 45.0 IP)…The last pitcher with a lower ERA in his first seven starts of a season was Kris Medlen (0.54 ERA in 2012 for Atlanta)…The only Mets pitcher with a better ERA through seven starts is Johan Santana (0.78 ERA in 2009).  Thee years later the Mets would wreck Santana’s career so you could all get Nohan t-shirts in one of the most reckless managing assignments of all time.

ATROCIOUS: Pete Alonso | INF | .236, 6 HR, 19 RBI, 0 SB

 

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“Huge Presence” Pete Alonso who hits 3 HRs per month to return to Mets tonight!

Hello to all my new followers.  Yesterday was quite the feisty day on twitter as people DID NOT LIKE MY POV that I am not at all attached to Random Guys In Mets Uniforms Playing Games At OddBall Times.

To catch up the new folks, one of my VERY unpopular takes is that the Mets should have traded Pete Alonso after his rookie year.  In the history of baseball, only EIGHT players have hit 50 or more home runs twice.  Three of those names are McGwire, Sosa and A-Rod and…you know….

With Dom Smith in the organization, I feel the Mets should have traded Pete at his highest ever value and rebuilt the organization.  I also don’t think Pete is good at baseball.

I stuck to my guns last year and got told my opinions were stupid and Pete handed in a lousy year.  The people in the media who should know better because they saw the games spun it into Pete had an OK season.  They forget that three of Pete’s home runs came in the final weekend after the Mets were eliminated from an 8 team playoff which is nearly impossible to do if I spot you Jacob deGrom.  Steve should have fired Rojas, which is another topic.

Today is May 31.  Pete has six home runs.  That’s three per month.  Now you can tell me last year didn’t count for some reason, and well Pete was injured or whatever excuse you have for this season but the facts are Pete has six home runs on May 31 and you are making excuses.  What you are NOT doing is telling me Pete is having a good season.  Again.

The same people who get mad at this opinion are the same people who didn’t want to trade Matt Harvey for Mookie Betts.  Always trade high.  Always.

Luis Rojas says that the Mets will get a “huge presence” back tonight.  Yeah?  They seem to be doing fine.   They are in first place.  Seems fine to me.

Anyway, the “huge presence” is back.  I understand that it’s exciting when he hits a home run every 6 days, and he probably will hit 25 more this year and finish with an Ike Davis like 35.   Wow.    Now imagine what we could have brought back after 2019 with Dom now comfortable at first base and a proper outfielder playing left field.

Pete is tied for 83rd best in home runs.  Tied with say Wilson Ramos.

But I know the millennial don’t like old school stats.  Things like batting average and even home run totals are stupid, right.  Let’s add some numbers together and come up with OPS.

Pete’s OPS?

.769

Seven Sixty Nine?  Isn’t OPS supposed to be some kind of big number?   .769??

.769 is Kyle Tucker level good.   Kyle is an OFer on the Astros.  HE has eleven home runs.  He plays LF.  Pete Alonso for Kyle Tucker straight up, who says no?  Then we could play Dom at first!

The Post is already laying groundwork for MORE EXCUSES…

Alonso went on the 10-day IL on May 21 with a right hand sprain that stemmed from getting hit by a pitch on May 5 in St. Louis — at which point he was hitting .287 with five home runs and a .892 OPS. He initially tried to play through it, but since the game in which he was hit, he batted just 5-for-40 (.125) with one home run and a .505 OPS in 12 games before finally landing on the IL.

But here’s the thing Post.  It is May 31 and Pete is in the middle of his second straight and year and he has six home runs.  At some point the number count guys.

Anyway, I am sure the new followers won’t like this.  That’s OK, been doing this since 2008…I’m used to it.

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First crack in the Pete Alonso Mafia’s armor

If you read today’s New York Post, there it is.  It’s just the tiniest of cracks, but there it is.  It’s just that tiny drop of water on your outdoor faucet that’s the first sign that the fixture is starting to go bad.  Nothing to worry about.  Just ignore it.  All will be fine.

The Post wrote about McCann hitting better….

Perhaps, the temporary position change has awoken the hitter within. Maybe, the Mets should tell rehabbing first baseman Pete Alonso to take his time.

And there it is.  Take your time Pete.  Pete Alonso with the team leading 6 home runs on May 30th (Three per month, pacing to around 20 his season! If he gets hot he could hit 30!)

Remember friends, always trade high and deal from strength.  Especially when you have other options.

Oh, and another thing.   #LGM.  There’s no F in that.

 

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Matt Harvey pitched against the White Sox! Was it his final MLB appearance? You’ll look

Well, as the world’s foremost Matt Harvey expert I was quite disappointed by last night’s rain out because today I had BIG TIME FAMILY STUFF and there was absolutely positively no way I could do a Matt Harvey recap.

Fortunately for us all, our old pal @nycsporty agreed to back me up with some quality coverage.  Thanks Nick…

The Orioles have spotted The Real Deal to a one run lead and away we go….

The leadoff guy doubles, Grandal strikes out (sit down son) but then Moncada (who?) walks and now the game looks like this!

And I think we all know how Matt feels about runners on base…

So what do you think happened? Abreu singles…

OK not THAT bad, and on to the second!

Vaughn singles to lead off the inning (uh-oh) but have no fear, The Dark Knight Is Here and it’s a 1-2-3-4 inning.

On to the third, and I think Nick has seen Harvey pitch before because he can see it coming just like I always do…

and then Jose Abreu steps in…

Well, at least you can’t even see the netting.

Matt will settle in here with the bases empty and he strikes out Mercedes and then Jake Lamb steps in and OH NO….

In the 4th, Nick Madrigal (who?) reaches on an error and here comes the manager….

 

And was that it? Did Matt Harvey’s career just end?

The Baltimore Sun does not sound hopeful.

“Got to get better in really all areas,” manager Brandon Hyde said.

Harvey, 32, was never expected to recapture the form that made him an All-Star starter and National League champion with the New York Mets, but the Orioles hoped he could be a serviceable innings provider behind John Means to stabilize what is otherwise a fresh-faced rotation. He seemed up to the task initially, but beginning with a four-inning outing in which he lowered his ERA to 3.60 because the quartet of runs he surrendered were unearned, he has failed to complete five innings in five straight starts. The Orioles have lost each, with Harvey’s ERA climbing to 6.84.

And what does Matt Harvey think about Matt Harvey?

“I feel good throwing every pitch, and things are really just not going our way, in general. I missed a couple pitches over the middle that really cost us and cost me today. The last two starts, I’ve felt like I’ve had much better stuff than I even had at the beginning of the season, so it’s just kind of one of those things that is extremely frustrating when you know you have good stuff, you’re just not really locating as well as you need to be and not keeping runs off the board.”

Oh wow, I actually feel bad for him. He thinks he’s almost good.  You aren’t Matt.  You are bad.  And when the weather heats up more and more of those 385 fly outs are going to fly out of Camden Yards.  This is only going to get worse Matt.

You can’t expect the Orioles to carry this Matt….

Unless the Orioles just don’t care and realize SOMEONE has to pitch on the way to 110 losses, so it might as well be Matt Harvey. Depending on how updated the standings I just googled are…the Orioles are 15.5 game out before Memorial Day, and on pace to win 53 games…so sure, maybe you do just let Matt Harvey pitch 4 innings every 5 days instead of paying someone else.

Matt got 9 outs on 86 pitches with pitch counts of 33, 17 and 36. Yikes!

3 innings, 5 runs all earned, 5 hits, 3 walks, SIX STRIKEOUTS BABY and a 3-6 record with an ERA of 6.84

It’s over Matty.

Chicago is a fun town. Hopefully TDK can find a nice burrito stand and wash away his sorrows in beans and cheese.

I’m disappointed I didn’t get to watch this as I think I had seen EVERY post-Mets start (maybe I missed one West Coast 10pm game and I didn’t catch all the bullpen appearances) so I have been very invested in this saga. I don’t want it to end! See you in 5 days? Someone’s gotta pitch…

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So Steve….it’s time to dome the Mets.

Of the many things I find insane, I can’t believe the metropolitan area built two baseball stadiums and a football stadium in the 21st century and not one has a dome.

I am very much PRO DOME.  I have attended several games in Arizona and I will tell you, the dome is so high that you feel like you are outside anyway.  You don’t feel like you’re inside say the Garden, it feels like wide open spaces.

So Steve, what if you dusted off the plans for this….

Now I’m not sure how that would even work – I am no engineering wizard but “load bearing” and stuff – or how one could build this while still using it as a baseball stadium.   Looks to me like they’d have to rip open left field to which I say GOOD as left field is Citi Field’s biggest failure.

But then…maybe it’s time for something more radical Steve.  We have seen the Braves and Texas move on pretty quickly from their  new stadiums.  Citi Field is now in Year 13.   What if we said goodbye to The Wilpon Era forever and went back to something a little more Mets.  I bring you the Point 72 SheaDome.

Let’s do it Steve.  Let’s move back and to the left where the Mets belong.  Put the new mound where the old mound was.  Put first base where Buckner missed a ball.  Let’s go back to where the Mets should play, in the beautiful new Point72 SheaDome, complete with fancy squares on the outside design.

You would be a conquering hero Steve.   PLUS people could ALWAYS BE COMFORTABLE AT GAMES!!!   Why should someone have to worry about driving two hours for a rainout, or sitting out in the cold or rain or heat when we could all just be comfortable.  When I get Hamilton tickets I don’t have to stress at 5pm about rain.

Then we can knock down Wilpon Era Citi Field and make it a parking lot.  Plus the Wilpons will be annoyed that all their cool development on 126th/Seaver Way are now “far” from the stadium on the other side of a lot….but hey they are just in it for the affordable housing and the public school so I am sure they will be fine.

As for those of you who think Citi Field is great….is it?  It’s fine.  It’s a middle of the road modern baseball stadium.  What do you like about it?  I’ll give you a minute……

….about 500 of you said “We like wearing t-shirts on the bridge.”  Fine.  The Point72 SheaDome can bring the bridge and both Apples (even though nobody cares about the new Wilpon Apple.)

What else?   Did someone say The Food?   That’s your #2 thing you like?  Well the Point72 SheaDome will have food.

And can we all be honest here?  Ready?  The Rotunda?   It’s a bust.   It means well, and we all love Jackie Robinson, but it’s a bust.  It’s out of the way other than it being the place you walk through as quickly as possible to get to the escalators.  I am sure we can find a way to honor Jackie at the Point72 SheaDome.

Let’s do this Steve.  Start talking to The Mayor today and maybe we can get this done for 2029.

 

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