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IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

G-Fafif
Sep 29 2019 07:27 PM

Brrr, it's probably cold out there. There must be Metsies in the atmosphere.



Or it'll be because they're playing baseball in the Northeast on March Bleeping Twenty-Sixth.



But when they do, figure Jake and Max bundled up and ready to heat things up again.



Let's get going. We're on a three-game winning streak.

Fman99
Sep 30 2019 08:00 AM
Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

I'm erect with anticipation. Going to be a long, hard winter.

Johnny Lunchbucket
Sep 30 2019 08:15 AM
Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

Can't wait for them to release those balls

Edgy MD
Oct 01 2019 11:58 AM
Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

Next year's Nats are going to be a big mystery, as a big chunk of the lineup, plus several part-timers, are hitting free agency this off-season. Strasburg, too.




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  • [*]Wilmer Difo, 3b

  • [*]Adrián Sanchez, 2b

  • [*]Max Scherzer, p
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  • [*]Brandon Nimmo, cf

  • [*]Pete Alonso, 1b

  • [*]Jeff McNeil, 3b

  • [*]Yoenis Céspedés, lf

  • [*]Michael Conforto, rf

  • [*]Wilson Ramos, c

  • [*]Robinson Canó, 2b

  • [*]Amed Rosario, ss

  • [*]Jacob deGrom, p
    • [/list]    [/TD]

    G-Fafif
    Oct 30 2019 09:55 PM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    Now to instigate the World Series hangover...

    Johnny Lunchbucket
    Oct 31 2019 06:22 AM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    We've really been too hard on Nats fans
    [TWEET]https://twitter.com/The_UnSilent_/status/1189784349677424640[/TWEET]

    Lefty Specialist
    Oct 31 2019 07:17 AM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    Lol. Good fun. Love how quick the reporter pivots.

    MFS62
    Oct 31 2019 07:19 AM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    That dude has his priorities straight!

    Later

    Centerfield
    Oct 31 2019 12:41 PM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    Someday when I'm king, I'm going to re-vamp the off-season. When the World Series ends, everyone goes home and rests. Every team has 30 days to rest, celebrate individual awards and focus on their respective Tabloid Cover Derbies. Winter Meetings are held the first weekend of December. Free agency/trades have to be wrapped up by December 20, so that new jerseys can be under the tree by Christmas.



    Pitchers and catchers report the first week of January. Full Squads by January 15. Spring training games start February 1. Opening day March 1.



    I know there is the small problem of weather for the month of March, but I'm figuring if the Republicans stay in power, the cold weather will be just a temporary problem.

    Edgy MD
    Oct 31 2019 09:47 PM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    Nats fans have really stepped up their game in this run. Maybe losing Harper made them realize the heel turn never suited them. Philly and he belonged together.

    Ceetar
    Nov 01 2019 07:49 AM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started


    Someday when I'm king, I'm going to re-vamp the off-season. When the World Series ends, everyone goes home and rests. Every team has 30 days to rest, celebrate individual awards and focus on their respective Tabloid Cover Derbies. Winter Meetings are held the first weekend of December. Free agency/trades have to be wrapped up by December 20, so that new jerseys can be under the tree by Christmas.



    Pitchers and catchers report the first week of January. Full Squads by January 15. Spring training games start February 1. Opening day March 1.



    I know there is the small problem of weather for the month of March, but I'm figuring if the Republicans stay in power, the cold weather will be just a temporary problem.


    I could get behind this. Well, maybe not the Tabloid covers because well the NY ones are all trash papers anyway and many of these cities don't have competing papers?



    Shorten up the free agency period. You probably have to work on the exclusivity window. here's a thought, let the "7 days to negotiate with Wheeler" happen after the _Mets_ season ends. helll, give them the entire month. You get the playoffs to negotiate with your own departing players, and then it's fair game. Baseball media can handle a little extra news during the playoffs, if anything it might keep eliminated teams engaged in the sport and therefore the playoffs.



    You've lengthened ST though, I think pitchers/catchers mid-January is fine. get 'em stretched out.



    You've lengthened the season a month, but I probably wouldn't add games. Add teams maybe, but work in those extra off days. Maybe end the season a week earlier just so it's not TOO many days off, but with the extra days you could set up the schedule so that march is mostly warm weather teams hosting first. Or hell, Neutral Parks to try to grow the game/try out new places? a 3-game series in San Antonio? Mexico City? etc. Or Japan, Spain, etc. The extra off days would work to your advantage this way.



    Plus with your team playing 5-6 times a week instead of 6-7, you might have a shot at Nationalizing the game again, at least a little bit. You'll still be assuming the team is on every night, but there will be more nights that they _won't_ be, so watch a different game. It'd help if MLB smashed the damn blackout nonsense, or networks worked together. Mets and Rays for example, made a deal so that SNY would show a lot of Rays games on Mets off days, or something.

    seawolf17
    Nov 01 2019 08:08 AM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    I love the longer season/same number of games idea. Build in community builders on the off days, especially when teams are home. Have them spend a day at local elementary schools or whatever.

    Lefty Specialist
    Nov 01 2019 01:16 PM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    March baseball, especially early Match baseball, is basically not doable for 16 MLB teams.



    BOS

    NYY

    NYM

    PHL

    WAS

    BAL

    PIT

    CLE

    CIN

    CHC

    CHW

    MIN

    KCR

    STL

    COL

    DET



    Not to say you won't get a 70 degree day in Washington on March 15th, but odds are just as good you'll get 10 inches of snow in Minneapolis or Cleveland or Chicago on March 15th.

    G-Fafif
    Nov 14 2019 06:40 AM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    If health isn't a hindrance, the last four NL Cy Youngs figure to be on the mound in the top and bottom of the first.

    G-Fafif
    Feb 20 2020 04:41 PM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    Five weeks out. Crazy!

    Edgy MD
    Feb 20 2020 04:52 PM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    My mental opening day lineup.



    1. Nimmo, cf

    2. Canó, 2b

    3. McNeil, 3b

    4. Alonso, 1b

    5. Conforto, rf

    6. Céspedes/Smith/Davis, lf

    7. Ramos, c

    8. Rosario, ss

    9. deGrom, sp



    I still like the effect of contact hitters in the three-hole and bashers batting cleanup, as outmoded as that may be. I also anticipate Rosario moving up as the season progresses, and maybe displacing Canó.

    Ceetar
    Feb 20 2020 05:25 PM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    McNeil

    Nimmo

    Alonso

    Conforto

    Cespedes

    Cano

    Rosario

    deGrom

    Ramos



    for me. if It's Davis instead of Cespedes I probably swap with Cano.

    Edgy MD
    Feb 20 2020 09:09 PM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    Thoughts!



    1. Whether or not Canó belongs in the back half of the lineup, it'd sure be nice if the manager opened the season with the clout that it was at least an option to make that move outright.



    2. I can't-a resist-a Brandon Nimmo's OBP in the leadoff spot.



    3. If I'm going to bump the pitcher up to eighth, it won't be to get a cement truck like Ramos up ninth.

    Ceetar
    Feb 21 2020 06:04 AM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    yeah probably go with traditional pitcher 9th with McNeil first anyway. Could probably put Rosario there. I need tosee how both are looking in like, April, before I am real set on that.



    I prefer McNeil 1 over Nimmo just because Nimmo has some power and you give up a scant few AB for a few extra runs when he connects.

    Edgy MD
    Feb 21 2020 07:33 AM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    McNeil — for whatever you want to make out of the limited-but-not-insignificant MLB data on the two — has a similar homerun rate to Nimmo.


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    Vic Sage
    Feb 21 2020 08:21 AM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    Edited 5 time(s), most recently on Feb 21 2020 08:44 AM

    lineup v RHPs Sherzer (game 1) and Strasburg (game 2):

    Nimmo*, cf

    McNeil*, 3b

    Alonzo, 1b

    Conforto*, rf

    Davis, Lf

    Cano*, 2b

    Ramos/Rivera, C

    DeGrom/Syndegaard, P

    Rosario, SS



    lineup v LHP Corbin (game 3):

    Rosario, ss

    Alonzo, 1b

    Cespedes, lf

    Davis, 3b

    McNeil*, 2b

    Ramos, C

    Conforto,*rf

    Stroman, P

    Nimmo*, cf



    These lineups start the season by platooning Cespedes and Cano (assuming Cespedes starts the season on the active roster and can play the field without falling down like Willie Mays in 73), reducing their playing time in consideration of their age and physical decline, as well as Cano's career-long (and increasing) platoon splits. If they both show they can play ever day and be productive, things can change. In the meantime, Marisnik can occasionally spot Conforto (who still has problems against LHP, unlike Nimmo and McNeil, who have less significant splits) and Smith can spot Davis against RHP, once in a while. Rivera catches Syndy, to give Ramos a regular day off. Lowrie gets replaced by Guillorme at the end of the bench.

    Ceetar
    Feb 21 2020 08:27 AM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    damn. I'm clearly not giving McNeil enough credit.



    They have similar OBP too though, fwiw.



    Nimmo's much faster though, so I guess let's give him that leadoff nod. Plus his walk rate is much higher, probably means he sees more pitches which supposedly can help other guys after him, and means less guys on base for McNeil's ball in play method which could lead to more double plays.

    Johnny Lunchbucket
    Feb 21 2020 09:46 AM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    Vic Sage wrote:

    lineup v RHPs Sherzer (game 1) and Strasburg (game 2):

    Nimmo*, cf

    McNeil*, 3b

    Alonzo, 1b

    Conforto*, rf

    Davis, Lf

    Cano*, 2b

    Ramos/Rivera, C

    DeGrom/Syndegaard, P

    Rosario, SS



    lineup v LHP Corbin (game 3):

    Rosario, ss

    Alonzo, 1b

    Cespedes, lf

    Davis, 3b

    McNeil*, 2b

    Ramos, C

    Conforto,*rf

    Stroman, P

    Nimmo*, cf



    These lineups start the season by platooning Cespedes and Cano (assuming Cespedes starts the season on the active roster and can play the field without falling down like Willie Mays in 73), reducing their playing time in consideration of their age and physical decline, as well as Cano's career-long (and increasing) platoon splits. If they both show they can play ever day and be productive, things can change. In the meantime, Marisnik can occasionally spot Conforto (who still has problems against LHP, unlike Nimmo and McNeil, who have less significant splits) and Smith can spot Davis against RHP, once in a while. Rivera catches Syndy, to give Ramos a regular day off. Lowrie gets replaced by Guillorme at the end of the bench.


    Marisnick it would seem was supposed to be the guy who could get a start against Corbin. Mickey would put Lagares there, anyway.



    I still think there's gonna be some earthshaking trade before spring is out

    Ceetar
    Feb 21 2020 09:53 AM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    Especially if Cespedes and/or Lowrie are in fact healthy and playing spring games. It'll be interesting to see.

    Vic Sage
    Feb 21 2020 12:43 PM
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    i think that, if Marisnick is going to be anything more than a late-inning defensive sub and batter/baserunner off the bench (and i don't think he should be more than that), it'll be an occasional start hitting at the bottom of the order against LHPs (and particularly if we have a flyball pitcher starting), with either Nimmo or Conforto sitting. But i don't know that they would do it in the 3rd game of the season, particularly with a groundball pitcher like Stroman on the mound.

    Fman99
    Feb 23 2020 05:45 AM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

    lineup v LHP Corbin (game 3):

    Rosario, ss

    Alonzo, 1b

    Cespedes, lf

    Davis, 3b

    McNeil*, 2b

    Ramos, C

    Conforto,*rf

    Stroman, P

    Nimmo*, cf




    Well, in real life, Cano won't be sitting out the 3rd game of the year unless his body breaks down in game 1 or 2.

    G-Fafif
    Feb 27 2020 02:07 PM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    Four weeks to go.

    G-Fafif
    Mar 05 2020 10:52 PM
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    Less than three weeks to go.

    Ceetar
    Mar 06 2020 08:22 AM
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    and me without tickets. It feels weird to wait until the night before, but I think that's the move in 2020.

    Johnny Lunchbucket
    Mar 06 2020 08:49 AM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    Coronavirus scare will prolly lead to a no-show epidemic and lots of secondary market tickets. That and the fact it will be 30 degrees and damp without a doubt

    Ceetar
    Mar 06 2020 09:50 AM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

    Coronavirus scare will prolly lead to a no-show epidemic and lots of secondary market tickets. That and the fact it will be 30 degrees and damp without a doubt


    here's hoping!



    MLB has hard-clamped down on the secondary market stuff. Not just MLB even. But you frequently don't get a barcode/ticket until 24 hours before.

    G-Fafif
    Mar 12 2020 09:31 PM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    Countdown to Opening Day suspended.

    G-Fafif
    Mar 26 2020 05:07 AM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    By my calculations, the Mets have won 54 games that qualify as Openers in the Season, Home or Split Season sense. Read about each of them here.



    By everybody's calculations, Pete Alonso of the Mets hit 53 home runs in 2019. Relive each of them as they happened through the magic of words here.



    Looking forward to the Mets' 55th Opening-type win and Alonso's 54th career homer whenever they can be arranged.

    Edgy MD
    Mar 26 2020 05:55 AM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    All this Coronavirus is really delaying Alonso's climb up the Mets all-time homerun list.

    Willets Point
    Mar 26 2020 12:41 PM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    There is a great void in the world today.

    Frayed Knot
    Mar 26 2020 12:50 PM
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    The thought crossed my mind today that maybe Covid-19 is god's punishment for Nike swooshes on the uniforms.

    Willets Point
    Mar 26 2020 12:57 PM
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    https://productplacementblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Citi-Field-New-York-City-Stadium-in-Avengers-Endgame-2-800x450.jpg>

    Life imitates art. Or Marvel movies.

    seawolf17
    Mar 26 2020 01:28 PM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    I watched a little bit of the SNY "MLB The Show 2020" version of Opening Day today. It just kinda made me sad that it wasn't the real thing.

    Frayed Knot
    Mar 26 2020 02:32 PM
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    Edgy MD
    Mar 26 2020 02:49 PM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    Did anyone play this one out electronically?

    batmagadanleadoff
    Mar 26 2020 02:59 PM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    Not me. But at midnight, you can re-live Opening Day 1994 and watch Tuffy Rhodes take Doc deep, and deep and.deep.



    It's all happening on the MLB network.

    Edgy MD
    Mar 26 2020 03:05 PM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    If you play this season out electronically do you do it from the point that play stopped in the spring, or from Day One?



    In other words, It's Syndergaard digitally injured also?

    seawolf17
    Mar 27 2020 06:41 AM
    Re: IGT 3/26/2020: WAS @ NYM -- Let's Get This Decade Started

    Edgy MD wrote:

    If you play this season out electronically do you do it from the point that play stopped in the spring, or from Day One?



    In other words, It's Syndergaard digitally injured also?


    Yes - they did it "live" on MLB The Show on Twitter. That's what I ham-handedly referred to earlier. It was 2-2 in the 6th when I turned it off; don't know how it ended.