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Conforto an All-Star!

41Forever Jul 03 2017 02:36 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 03 2017 12:37 PM

Congrats to Conforto. At the start of the season, we didn't even know for sure whether he would start the season on the Mets or in Vegas. I would not be surprised if deGrom eventually joins him once the injuries and Sunday starter issues are worked out.

G-Fafif Jul 03 2017 08:12 AM Re: Conforto an All-Star!

I'm happy for Conforto, a fine young man who will not be traded at the deadline, a player who should keep improving and be an important building block for the Mets' future. But if one Met and one Met only is to be chosen, it should be deGrom. As 41F says, perhaps he will still get the call. Conforto was phenomenal through his first 41 games (.341/.437/.712) and decidedly less so in his last 28 (.202/.360/.303). Without picking apart the rosters and taking into account who had to represent who, I don't think it adds up for Michael over Jacob. Again, good for him, I will applaud heartily when he tips his cap on the foul line at Marlins Park (assuming he doesn't reaggravate his thumb in the cap-tipping warmup) and I hope it's the first of many selections in his burgeoning career. But deGrom's the best and most valuable of Mets in 2017, someone who has established himself as one of the top pitchers in the league. I'm honestly miffed -- in the baseball, if not the "there are so many bigger problems in this world" sense -- that he wasn't taken.

metirish Jul 03 2017 12:35 PM Re: Conforto an All-Star!

Agree on the points here, deGrom is an All-Star ...congrats to Conforto

41Forever Jul 03 2017 01:11 PM Re: Conforto an All-Star!

With Terry not managing, Conforto actually has a chance to get in the game!

bmfc1 Jul 03 2017 02:02 PM Re: Conforto an All-Star!

Good move blaming your fans, that'll endear you to them: http://nypost.com/2017/07/03/dodgers-st ... ame-snubs/

Ashie62 Jul 03 2017 05:15 PM Re: Conforto an All-Star!

If Conforto can't go would the Mets still need to be represented, be deGrom perhaps.

Edgy MD Jul 03 2017 06:45 PM Re: Conforto an All-Star!

Usually, a disabled guy will go to tip his cap and participate in the extra-curriculars, even if he can't play. The league will try and get an active player from the roster from the same team on the roster, but technically, the injured player fulfills the at-least-one-guy-per-team rule.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 03 2017 06:48 PM Re: Conforto an All-Star!

Conforto expects to be able to play by then, but if he can't, and the league wants to replace him with a position player instead of a pitcher, then Jay Bruce is a potential choice.

Edgy MD Jul 03 2017 07:04 PM Re: Conforto an All-Star!

And a good one. A lone representative who has been on the disabled list harkens back to 1981. Joel Youngblood, who had been having the season of his life when he got hurt, but the strike came a week later, and the two of them combined to freeze his stat line in amber at .359 / .406 / .555 // .960. Yeah, it was only 38 games, but those numbers were too impressive to ignore for a manager looking to find a sole representative from a perennial bottom dweller like Joe Torre's Mets. He was still understood to be hurt at the time the strike ended, but he managed to do more than tip his hat in his sole All-star appearance, pinch-hitting for starter Fernando Valenzuela with Andre Dawson on second, but popping out to first baseman Rod Carew to end the inning. Youngblood played another week before re-injuring himself and ending his season, forever locking his 1981 line in at a jawdropping .350 / .398 / .531 // .929. In retrospect, they might've done well to trade him that offseason rather than in the middle of the following summer. But, you know, they got Tom Gorman for him, and they could've done worse.

cooby Jul 04 2017 01:39 AM Re: Conforto an All-Star!

Very cool

Edgy MD Jul 05 2017 03:39 PM Re: Conforto an All-Star!

Logan Morrison griping about Gary Sanchez has made for some mid-summer soap opera drama. [tweet:1uypnptb]https://twitter.com/Covers/status/882368647804723200[/tweet:1uypnptb]

Edgy MD Jul 10 2017 12:31 PM Re: Conforto an All-Star!

Rosario batted third for the World Team in the Futures Game, taking a mini-collar of 0-2, with two strikeouts. Tomás Nido, on the other hand, collected two hits and two RBI in his two plate appearances so win. #dontbesurprised

MFS62 Jul 10 2017 12:59 PM Re: Conforto an All-Star!

Edgy MD wrote: Rosario batted third for the World Team in the Futures Game, taking a mini-collar of 0-2, with two strikeouts. Tomás Nido, on the other hand, collected two hits and two RBI in his two plate appearances so win. #dontbesurprised Rosario's first strikeout came against a pitcher who is among the rarest of species in the baseball world - a righthander who throws a screwball. The announcers speculated that was the pitch on strike three. Al Leiter, pitching coach for team USA said it was a changeup. But it appeared to have a "different" motion and I doubt Rosario had ever seen anything like it. I didn't see the second K. Later

Ashie62 Jul 10 2017 04:16 PM Re: Conforto an All-Star!

Tom Nido had three hits.

Edgy MD Jul 10 2017 04:20 PM Re: Conforto an All-Star!

One of them must have come after the game.

G-Fafif Jul 11 2017 03:41 PM Re: Conforto an All-Star!

Newsday's Lennon, who has become kind of a hack (or maybe he was and I just never noticed), paints a portrait of our All-Star representative as the outcast child nobody wants to play with. Michael Conforto was seated at his own podium, one of more than two dozen representing the National League that ringed the outfield warning track at Marlins Park. Surrounded by fellow All-Stars during Monday’s workout news conference, Conforto probably never felt more alone. Despite the personal triumph and all the perks that come with being an All-Star, Conforto seemed like a kid at a birthday party that none of his friends showed up to. As the Mets’ only representative at the Midsummer Classic, he didn’t have any teammates as podium neighbors to joke around with and share the experience. “I was hoping some other guys would make it,” Conforto said. “I was hoping Jay Bruce would make it. That Jacob deGrom would make it.” [...] Now that he’s fine physically, Conforto has some catching up to do at the plate, as the shiny new All-Star pick lost some of its luster in the weeks leading up to the game in Miami. He earned his selection during the first two months, when he batted .316 with 13 home runs, 34 RBIs and a 1.054 OPS through the first 47 games. There was a time when Conforto’s own torrid start was compared to that of Aaron Judge’s path of destruction across town, but that talk obviously has disappeared entirely. Since June 1, a span of 23 games, Conforto is batting .209 (14-for-67) with one homer, seven RBIs and a .690 OPS. Not exactly an All-Star month, and his troubles were compounded when he got drilled on that left hand by the Giants’ Matt Moore on June 25. Maybe these two days in Miami can give Conforto a boost heading into the second half. Have some fun, possibly contribute in the game itself. Given the Mets’ frustrating season, it might be a little difficult for him to completely clear his mind of that, but a mini-vacation from that daily aggravation certainly won’t hurt. “Me being the only guy from the Mets makes it all the more special for me, but a number of [teammates] did deserve it,” Conforto said. “That would have been great, but it’s just me.” After reading that, I was honestly relieved when I saw him sitting among his temporary teammates and laughing it up during the Derby. Yay, Michael made a friend!

d'Kong76 Jul 11 2017 06:58 PM Re: Conforto an All-Star!

Conforto probably never felt more alone. Conforto seemed like a kid at a birthday party that none of his friends showed up to. That's some low shit right there, even from a Yankee-loving bat blower.