Around The Majors 2019

"I think we are a good team. I think that we are a complete team. I think we are a balanced team..... and I look forward to showing people that we are a team to be reckoned with. I fully expect us to be competitive and be a winning team, and our goal is to win a championship and it starts with the division, so come and get us"



Mets GM before the season.
 
cajunrevenge said:
"I think we are a good team. I think that we are a complete team. I think we are a balanced team..... and I look forward to showing people that we are a team to be reckoned with. I fully expect us to be competitive and be a winning team, and our goal is to win a championship and it starts with the division, so come and get us"



Mets GM before the season.
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Didn't know Omar Minaya and Steve Phillips were GM again.
 
That's what the Mets get for hiring the only candidate who didnt want to rebuild. Probably should have taken the hint. I think they are going to try and reload for next year as opposed to rebuild. So we get to do this over again next year.
 
From MLBTR

The fun never stops for the 2019 Mets, who’ve endured a nightmarish, drama-packed campaign after starting it with playoff aspirations. Following Friday’s loss to the Phillies, general manager Brodie Van Wagenen assembled the Mets’ coaching staff, including beleaguered manager Mickey Callaway, and “lashed out” over the fact that the team wasted ace Jacob deGrom’s excellent performance, Mike Puma of the New York Post reports. Van Wagenen further expressed his displeasure by throwing a chair and ordering Callaway to go conduct his “[expletive] press conference,” according to Puma.
 
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10:50pm: X-rays on Bumgarner came back negative, Andrew Baggarly of The Athletic tweets. He suffered an elbow contusion.

10:12pm: Giants left-hander Madison Bumgarner exited his start against the Cardinals on Saturday after two innings. Bumgarner took a first-inning comebacker to the left elbow off the bat of Jose Martinez, Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle was among those to report. The 29-year-old stayed in immediately after, but his “elbow was really swollen,” Anne Rogers of MLB.com tweets. The Giants opted to pull Bumgarner early as a result.



On Arrieta

8:24am: Arrieta does think he has a bone spur, but he expects he’ll be able to continue pitching through it this season, per Scott Lauber of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

7:49am: Phillies right-hander Jake Arrieta turned in his latest clunker Saturday, a 4 1/3-inning start in which he allowed five earned runs on 11 hits in a loss to the Mets. Afterward, not only did Arrieta have some choice words for Mets third baseman Todd Frazier, but the former ace suggested he has been pitching through an injury (via Ken Rosenthal and Matt Gelb of The Athletic).



"Os" selling starters??

Orioles general manager Mike Elias suggested in late June it would be difficult for the starter-starved club to part with either Dylan Bundy or Andrew Cashner prior to the July 31 trade deadline. However, at least in Cashner’s case, Baltimore “certainly would” part with the right-hander, according to Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com. Elias has been “checking the Cashner market for quite a while,” Kubatko adds.
 
nsacpi said:
you living up to your standards with that post
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I had someone ask me whether I’d rather have someone with a 4.5 ERA that had a bunch of wins or someone with a 2.50 ERA that didn’t have a bunch of wins and I thought they were ****ting me, but they were serious.

The happiness with they said they’d take the wins was hard for me to disrupt. I think I’ll give Scheff his email.
 
A bit off topic, but man I wish we would have traded for Joey Gallo this past offseason. I was a huge advocate of his and he seems to have turned in to an absolute machine. Plus he's actually playingCF now and doing a pretty darn good job of it for those of you who always thought his defense was trash.
 
BeanieAntics said:
A bit off topic, but man I wish we would have traded for Joey Gallo this past offseason. I was a huge advocate of his and he seems to have turned in to an absolute machine. Plus he's actually playingCF now and doing a pretty darn good job of it for those of you who always thought his defense was trash.
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I actually and admittedly wanted no part of Gallo until you made me look closer at his numbers offensively and defensively since he started playing the outfield. You converted me, and I was also really hoping we'd somehow pick him up this past off season. He's a star from here on out if he stays healthy.
 
zbhargrove said:
I actually and admittedly wanted no part of Gallo until you made me look closer at his numbers offensively and defensively since he started playing the outfield. You converted me, and I was also really hoping we'd somehow pick him up this past off season. He's a star from here on out if he stays healthy.
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Yeah I think Gallo is one of the most misunderstood players of the past couple decades.
 
Look out below when that .385 BABIP regressed towards his sub-.300 career mark.

He hits for enough power and walks enough that he’s still valuable though.
 
Enscheff said:
Look out below when that .385 BABIP regressed towards his sub-.300 career mark.

He hits for enough power and walks enough that he’s still valuable though.
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If his defense is to be believed he’s still Adam Dunn with good defense at a premium position. That’s...a great player.
 
NL Central is crazy. Five teams within 3 losses of each other. At this point none of them are sellers.
 
Giants are 5.5 out the WC. After break, they have at brewers x3, at Rockies x4, Mets x4. Be interesting if they can move up... if they do get to within 4 games, do they sell those relievers and bumgarner?
 
I hadn't realized how great Realmuto has been defensively this year. He has a 10 DRS on defense. But his first half on offense wasn't anything special, but still good for a catcher (.766 OPS).
 
msstate7 said:
Giants are 5.5 out the WC. After break, they have at brewers x3, at Rockies x4, Mets x4. Be interesting if they can move up... if they do get to within 4 games, do they sell those relievers and bumgarner?
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They'd have to pass 8 teams to take that second WC. So while 5.5 back might not seem like a lot, expecting the Giants to beat out 8 teams the second half is very unlikely. I have no doubts they are sellers.
 
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