Is Anyone Alive Out There: Ongoing Mets Thread

[Used 2 B Hu]

Yeah, sign me up for the Clip-Art trade. A rightie who gets out lefties. Plus, Mejia won't be around for any potential playoffs, so this adds some depth.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

NEW YORK (7/28)-- Center fielder Brandon Nimmo has been promoted from Double-A Binghamton to Triple-A Las Vegas.

Nimmo, 22, hit .279 with two homers and 16 RBIs in 269 at-bats with the B-Mets. He had a .354 on-base percentage.

Nimmo and Michael Conforto represented the New York Mets in the Futures Game in Cincinnati.

Nimmo was drafted in the first round (13th overall) in 2011 out of high school in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

 

[Chef99]

NEW YORK (7/28)-- Center fielder Brandon Nimmo has been promoted from Double-A Binghamton to Triple-A Las Vegas.

Nimmo, 22, hit .279 with two homers and 16 RBIs in 269 at-bats with the B-Mets. He had a .354 on-base percentage.

Nimmo and Michael Conforto represented the New York Mets in the Futures Game in Cincinnati.

Nimmo was drafted in the first round (13th overall) in 2011 out of high school in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

I was looking for info about this guy...

...so thank you for Finding Nimmo.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Tyler Clippard -- "Nats are beatable"

Newly-acquired New York Mets reliever Tyler Clippard calls Washington Nationals 'beatable'

 

[Nasty_Magician]

Mejia second failed test, 162 game ban. How fucking stupid can you be?

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

He is literally dickless stupid.

Un frickin real

How important is that Clippard trade now??

 

[Chef99]

He is literally dickless stupid.

Un frickin real

How important is that Clippard trade now??

Bye Bye Mejia. Idiot.

On another note, has anyone noticed that Tejada has been hitting pretty well lately?

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Bye Bye Mejia. Idiot.

On another note, has anyone noticed that Tejada has been hitting pretty well lately?

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Welcome back, Travis....now try to stick around a lot longer this time, please....lol

New York Mets activate catcher Travis d'Arnaud from disabled list

 

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"It's a Cespedes, for the rest of us"

-Jerry Seinfeld

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Amazin Sweep.....

Citi Field rocking like Shea Stadium for the first time - Mets Blog - ESPN



http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/me...-rocking-like-shea-stadium-for-the-first-time
Pitching, schedule looking quite good for the New York Mets - Stats & Info - ESPN

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Buster Olney:
Mets fans deserve standing ovation
It was largely the passion of Mets fans -- their declared frustration, their anger -- that drove their team's front office to make changes in Queens.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Let's Go Matz!!

MIAMI (8/3)-- New York Mets rookie left-hander Steven Matz tossed a baseball Monday for the first time since landing on the disabled list retroactive to July 6 with a strained lat muscle.

Matz threw a baseball on flat ground at 60 feet at the team's complex in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

Mets manager Terry Collins is eyeing early September for Matz's return to the majors. Because Matz had not picked up a baseball for four weeks, he must throw on flat ground for a while before returning to a mound. Ultimately, he should need at least two rehab starts in the minors before being activated from from the DL.

Matz's return next month should allow the Mets to spread out the September starts of Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom and keep their innings in check so they can contribute in the postseason if the Mets qualify.

"We'll do the best we can to make sure everybody's OK to pitch," Collins said.

Matz is 2-0 with a 1.32 ERA and has driven in five runs as a batter through two career starts.

Also on the rehab front:

• Michael Cuddyer ran in Port St. Lucie on Monday as he works back from a bone bruise underneath his left kneecap. Cuddyer should be in rehab games within days and could be activated as soon as the weekend series against the Tampa Bay Rays.
  
  
• David Wright (lower back) accompanied the Mets to Miami. He will head to Port St. Lucie on Wednesday and should begin getting eased into minor league games later this week.
  

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

We could use the Colon money that's due to come off the books next year as part of an offer to keep Cespedes...

Mets must release Yoenis Cespedes after World Series - Mets Blog - ESPN

 

[DevilishWon]

Amazing...you used to be able to shoot a cannon off in here and not hit anyone...lol

LET'S GO METS

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Stark: Mets have best rotation in baseball

ESPN MLB Insider Jayson Stark weighs in the Mets' and Blue Jays' playoff chances after their busy trade deadline. Plus, he plays trivia with Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

The Duda is abiding quite nicely against lefties, tyvm....

Where did the New York Mets really win that game against the Miami Marlins on Tuesday night?

It wasn’t with any pitch thrown by Jonathon Niese or the two-out hit that Eric Campbell got off Mike Dunn (the second time Campbell has beaten Dunn with an eighth-inning hit the last two seasons, by the way).

The difference-making moment for the Mets was when Lucas Duda took a 1-2 breaking ball off the plate for ball two.

There was a time when Duda would have swung at that pitch.

In fact, that time was a few weeks ago when Duda was in a massive slump.

In June and July, Duda saw 58 breaking balls out of the strike zone from left-handed pitchers. He swung at 26 of them (45 percent).

In the last four days, Duda has seen seven such pitches. He swung at one of them. It’s an incredibly small sample, but it’s one that weighed in the Mets’ favor.

The payoff on Tuesday was that Duda’s take bought him another pitch in the at-bat. Dunn left a slider in the strike zone and Duda crushed this one to the wall for a single. He’d score the go-ahead run on Campbell’s hit.

Duda is now hitting .307 against left-handed pitching, sixth-best among left-handed hitters this season. He hit .180 against lefties in 2014.

Lucas Duda took Mike Dunn's fourth offering, but got a good swing against his next one.
ESPN Stats & Information

 

[Nasty_Magician]

Mets Acquire Eric O'Flaherty, Designate Alex Torres - MLB Trade Rumors

I like this move a lot. We needed another arm in the pen and if everyone gets healthy we have plenty of options. His numbers against lefties, especially later in this season, are substantially better than Torres'.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Great piece....

Seven Days in Flushing: Reliving One of the Craziest Weeks in New York Mets History

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Another good article....

Youth vs. experience

Four months ago, the Nationals entered the season with what looked like baseball's best rotation, writes Jayson Stark. That is, until the Mets proved they have talent few can top. Said one scout: "It's really the Mets, because right now they're doing it -- start after start after start after start. It's scary."