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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4324418, member: 289"] Just got back from the final game of the Buffalo series, which has been a disaster, (as August has been so far for the team after a hot June and July). Beautiful day but a frustrating game to watch. I wanted to see all the hot prospect on the team right now. Brett Baty, (as if 'Bay-Tee') looked like the kind of guy who could get a hit falling out of bed. He got two of them in this game and is batting .354. He and mark Vientos switched playing 3rd and left field, (and botched a pop fly because neither of them called each other off). Alvarez batted second and got on because of an error but that didn't officially extend his streak of 19 straight games getting on base, which is quite a streak for a .180 hitter. He goes deep into the count, (his on-base percentage is almost twice his batting average), but swings as if he wants to hit the light tower each time. He could take some lessons from Pete Alonso, who's realized that all hits are valuable and if a strong man maximizes the number of times he makes good contact with the ball, the home runs will come. Mark Vientos is stuck on 19 homes. Dan Palka has 20 but at age 30 he's not considered a prospect anymore. Nate Plummer is hitting .231 and Kalil Lee .202. He had a near embarrassment, (which should still be one), when he hit a clean single to right but jogged to 1st base and almost got thrown out anyway. that was our first hit and I wondered how he would feel if he had been thrown out and the guy had thrown a no hitter. David Peterson had a strange game. He pitched 4 innings and easily got the first two guys out each inning. He looked like DeGrom - you could hear his pitches 'thwack' into Pat Mazeika's glove. But then he gave up two hits with two out in each inning - and the Bison were hitting the ball right on the label. Tom Sevar used to say that pitching was a combination of three things: speed, location and movement. I think Dave had the speed but lacked the movement and may have bene a bit 'wild in the strike zone. He gave up the only two runs in the game, (one on bad throws by Mazeika - high to second on a steal and bouncing past the third baseman on another) and was visibly frustrated, (he's now 2-3 as a Smet). After giving up one hit, he gave the air the old one-two while grimacing. Given this and his disastrous relief appearance for the Mets suggests that he's not responding well to be the odd man out in the Met's rotation. [/QUOTE]

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