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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 4337739, member: 27"] Another nice win last night. Jake was again sublime but made a couple of mistake late, when he was presumably getting tired. Nimmo bailed him out with a great catch. Solid relief by Ottovino and Diaz, our two best relievers. Kershaw against Bassitt this afternoon. Bassitt is an innings eater and I am sure Buck would love to see him get 8 innings in, and turn it over to Diaz. Let's hope that happens. Marte with another big HR. He is up to 16 now. He is hitting .293, which is 9th in the NL. He is quietly having a really good year. (Squirrel remains 3rd). The Mets continue to struggle to score runs. but everyone struggles to score runs against the Dodgers. We play a 3 game series against the Nationals next. These are the last 3 games of this homestand. Not sure what the Nats are going to do. They do have Grey penciled in for Friday night. I don't think the Mets have announced their starters for this series yet. They have a decision to make for Friday. It is Peterson's turn in the rotation but with the off day Monday, Scherzer could pitch. I would much prefer to pitch David Friday and give Max an extra day of rest. But Max is an option. The problem with pitching Max is that if they do that, they would need a starter for Saturday, because that lines up with the Monday off day. So I think they are almost surely going to give David the start on Friday, and then go with Max on Saturday. That way both guys get an extra day of rest. Ideal. Carlos is supposed to come off the IL and start Saturday or Sunday. Looks to me as though he will be starting Sunday. Then the Mets head to Pittsburgh for a 3 game series. I think the Mets will start Walker on Monday. On Tuesday, it is deGrom's turn to pitch. On Wednesday, it should be Bassitt's turn. All three would get an extra day of rest. Ideal. Thursday is another off day, then 3 games in Miami. This is when it gets trickier. I would go with Peterson again on Friday. That gives him a couple of days of extra rest. Then Scherzer on Saturday off 2 days extra rest. Then Carrasco Sunday with a couple of days extra rest. I suspect they will skip Peterson's turn, and pitch Max, Carrasco and Walker. They all get one extra day of rest. Not a bad option either. That Marlin series is the start of a 13 day straight with no off days. I would at least get David a start in the middle of that stretch to give all the starters another day of rest. Skip one start but not the second. After that stretch, David will probably be a relief pitcher. 3 off days the rest of the regular season and the playoffs have off days regularly as well. So Buck night have a lefty to play around with a bit for a week or so. Megill has his first rehab appearance scheduled for today. They want him to pitch 5 times and then bring him up as a reliever. Looking at about September 10th. Drew Smith is penciled in to return around September 12th. The bullpen could be much deeper in two weeks. Guillorme is making progress and is expected back around September 10th. Sounds extremely unlikely Vientos is getting called up. Deven Marerro sounds like he is going to be the guy. The Mets are prioritizing defense right now. The next couple of weeks will be interesting. [/QUOTE]

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