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EXPECTATIONS for 18: Jacob Rhame

Edgy MD Mar 28 2018 08:58 AM

It's not Buddy, it's IncrediBoy! I got the goofy frames, the big chicklet teeth, and I rear back and let it rip. Like any good superhero, I have an origin story. I disappointingly went undrafted out of high school. I accepted a pretty sweet consolation prize, though, getting a scholarship offer from Oklahoma. Then I gained 40 pounds my freshman year, lost a few feet on my fastball, and got dropped from the program after one year. I sought wisdom, I sought enlightenment, and I sought a way forward. And that could only be found by undergoing The Way of Seaver. So I set off for the Alaskan Summer League, trimmed my diet religiously, and never looked back. Junior College, Division I Texas State, a sixth-round draft choice of the Dodgers in 2013. Ogden, Great Lakes, Tulsa, Rancho Cucamonga, and then finally traded to the Mets in the Curtis Granderson deal. I got a four-seamer in the upper 90s, a cutter in the low nineties, and I've got a mission. We're not talking about just another pitcher. We're talking about a pitcher of destiny. It looks like I've got opening day roster status nailed down. Where will destiny take me in 2018? Lemme know. [fimg=351]https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/rhame.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1[/fimg] [fimg=349]https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/cCSECxxuY2f6c9GcNY99NOyon2M=/173x37:4315x2084/1200x800/filters:focal(1760x574:2450x1264)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/58949043/usa_today_10301547.0.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=380]https://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/2017/09/02/images/mlbf_1800894983_th_45.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=320]http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Jacob+Rhame+jfxjIDE5dJ-m.jpg[/fimg]

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 28 2018 09:11 AM Re: EXPECTATIONS for 18: Jacob Rhame

No idea on this guy. I will roll the dice and say he turns in the exact same season as Ricky Trlicek did with the 1993 Dodgers: 41 games, 64 innings, 1-2, 1 save, 41-21 K-BB, 3 HR, 4.08 ERA

Edgy MD Mar 28 2018 11:39 AM Re: EXPECTATIONS for 18: Jacob Rhame

Trlicek. Nice. I was thinking Pedro Beato 2011. But this guy has touched 100 on the gun in the minors. And it's 2017, so I'm seeing a lot more strikeouts than Beato. How about this? He does well, but elbow tendonitis short-circuits his season. 2-3 / 2.60 ERA / 34.2 IP / 32 SO / 19 BB. That's Vic Black, 2014. I'm sorry to report that the elbow tendonitis forebodes worse for 2019.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 28 2018 11:45 AM Re: EXPECTATIONS for 18: Jacob Rhame

I'm hoping he's the Mets closer and gets 40 or more saves in 2019. How likely that is, I have no idea. My guess for 2018 is that they'll try to see if they can lean on him more heavily as the Mets begin to prepare for life after Familia.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 28 2018 11:52 AM Re: EXPECTATIONS for 18: Jacob Rhame

I was thinking Jesse Duryea, 1891 Red Stockings. 77 IP, 62 ERA +, 1.63 WHIP, and gets himself arrested for using cocaine laced coca-cola to treat a toothache.