@HoffWFAN @Metsomania_Pod Sure who needs speed or defensive flexibility on their bench
It was made clear Mauricio was going to be a bench piece for this particular assignment, stop overthinking it
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Sidd Finch
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@Metsomania_Pod I'm pretty Jorge Polanco's Achilles is close to bursting. Why not give him another day off.
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Great to see Mauricio get rewarded for his walk off pinch hit yesterday!👎
New York Mets@Mets
Today's starters 💪 #LGM
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@DrewSav Been seeing a few of these takes pop up all of a sudden - feels like a coordinated effort to keep R voters from getting demoralized? Just an all-around odd time to be projecting optimism
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Polanco has four hits in his last two games
Almost had a walkoff in the first home stand
Dealt with a small lower half issue on the road
He’s a hitter and will be fine
Darth Paul@Paulie_Bruz
@biggcheezus He’s been great early on. Polanco is my main concern in the lineup right now minus Soto missing 2-3 weeks
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@EasyE65 @CodifyBaseball And sadly kind of the poster child for how quickly it can all fall apart for one dimensional power hitters once they get into their early 30s
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@CodifyBaseball I’ll add in wRC+ for those years…
2004: 142
2005: 138
2006: 115
2007: 135
2008: 130
2009: 142
2010: 136
2004-2010: 134
The man was simply a great hitter.
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@KobeissiLetter Israel completely hijacking American foreign policy is some sad shit - Trump is apparently impotent to stop their adventurism
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BREAKING: The passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz has been stopped, per Iran's Fars News Agency.
Iran says it will withdraw from the ceasefire if Israel continues attacks on Lebanon and it is preparing potential responses.
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@I_Had_3_Pugs Hopefully this was just an honest misinterpretation of what they were saying, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt
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@LeadingReport I'm sure that headline came directly from Vance's camp so he can use it as cover when it gets brought back up during any potential presidential campaign
Also he completely failed to stop anything so also seems like he's pretty impotent within the admin
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BREAKING: Nobody in Mr. Trump’s inner circle was more worried about the conflict with Iran, or did more to try to stop it, than the vice president, per NYT.
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@spennie_money @GoodFundies And it's a fairly rare occurrence to begin with
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@GoodFundies I think it’s totally fine to let the defense choose their runner in this situation.
They’re also taking the risk of a crazy bounce
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Like many things, it's only a surprise that it took 100+ years for a team to figure this out.
They'll have to change the Infield Fly rule to apply to when there is one out.
Can't let the defense choose their runner.
Christina De Nicola@CDeNicola13
#Marlins practiced this a bunch during Spring Training. It's a way to get rid of a speedier runner on the basepaths and/or see if the batter is caught napping and not running the play out.
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@atrupar This is an example of why Vance will never succeed as a presidential candidate
Trump can get away with rambling hypocritical inane BS but he does that so constantly we just tune it out, but it won't work for anybody else - especially in this holier-than-thou lecturing style
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JD Vance in Hungary: "You should never have a foreign head of state threatening the head of government of an allied nation. It's preposterous, it's unacceptable."
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@ralakbar Trump could put a 300% tariff on Russia and it would still basically be meaningless given how little they export to the US
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JUST NOW!! Trump threatens 50% 'universal tariff' on any nation arming Iran
POTUS vows "no exclusions or exemptions" in aggressive new trade decree aimed at severing Tehran’s military supply lines
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@Ucfdk @metsbatflip1 They have both hit better than Alonso & McNeil
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Devin Williams has been awesome.
Luke Weaver has been awesome.
Tobias Myers has been awesome.
Luis Robert Jr. has been awesome.
David Stearns.
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@PatrickRuffini Noticeably absent here anything relating to the economy
Also still waiting to see if anyone besides Trump can turn out low info/prop voters - Dems own the enthusiasm gap & will show up no matter how much they disapprove of the party, huge advantage in a non-presidential year
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This path to a not-terrible midterm now seems more plausible:
- Some kind of successful resolution on Iran
- Trump then goes to the Artemis splashdown
- America 250 good vibes
- Midterm convention
- Actually force Dems to take bad votes on things like deporting criminals
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@TensionShoppers @OleTimeHardball Yaz's per game stats suffer from him playing so long, he's was basically league-average for 6 seasons before retiring
Clemente is still better, Yaz just had a better peak
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@OleTimeHardball Clemente, hands down.
Same WAR in nearly 4,000 FEWER plate appearances?
Silly comp.
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One corner Outfielder for the entirety of his career
Roberto Clemente or Carl Yastrzemski
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@OleTimeHardball Clemente was the more consistent player so for the entirely of his career that's where I'd go - his biggest knock is that he was pretty much guaranteed to miss 20-30 games a year
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@Jolly_Olive Pretty good ranging side to side, needs more work receiving throws and stretching but that can definitely get better with more reps
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@Mathew_Mocha89 @Metsmerized He tossed 218 innings that year and hit 1000 when he was still only 23
The off-field stuff was obviously his biggest problem but that crazy early workload certainly also definitely was a factor in why he never got back to those early heights
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Dwight Gooden made his MLB debut at the age of 19 years & 143 days old #OTD in 1984. @Metsmerized #Mets
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@TalkinMetsNoG Is this not clear to everyone that this is obviously a joke?
And tbf this is a top-tier angry pop up, Jeff McNeil would be proud
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Last I looked an “electric bat flip” doesn’t add any runs - what a weird generation that focuses on strange things
Chris ✟@OpoyChase
Not a fan of PCA as a player but I’ll give credit where credit is due this was an electric bat flip
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@GoodFundies C'mon man you've had months to whine about the offseason, it's time to root for the 2026 squad - sample size is small & the bats are finally showing some real signs of life
2020 Mets had a top-5 all time 123 wRC+ before dropping to 93 the next season with largely the same team
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Stearns masterclass, spending nine figures to completely rebuild an offense that was 4th in wRC+ last year.
(I know it's early. Just frustrated).
Mike Petriello@mike_petriello
I saw someone note that most of the Mariners had slower bat speeds and wondering if that was tracking data weirdness and hey, always possible, but when the hard-hit rate has collapsed by this much too ... the bats might just be slower. baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/st…
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@ReichlinMelnick Yeah sure who needs billions in lost tourism dollars
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Markwayne Mullin floats that his first major move as DHS Secretary might be to massively disrupt international air travel into and out of the United States by pulling customs officers out of cities like New York and Los Angeles, a move that would have international ramifications.
Acyn@Acyn
Mullin: I believe sanctuary cities is not lawful. Some of these cities have international airports. If they are a sanctuary city, should they really be processing customs into their city? We need to have a really hard look at that. Baier: So you are saying that big cities that are sanctuary cities that have a big airport, they might lose their customs? Mullin: I'm going to be forced to make tough decisions.
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Telling everyone how impressive my first gay bareback orgy was
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