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2024 New York Mets Thread

Cusefan95 said:
Quintana is showing as the starter on the MLB app.
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oye... too bad they can't get Senga to go. I suspect they get Quintana through the order twice and turn it into a bullpen game. I bet Peterson takes the ball from Quintana if the win is in play.
 
OrangeFoo said:
oye... too bad they can't get Senga to go. I suspect they get Quintana through the order twice and turn it into a bullpen game. I bet Peterson takes the ball from Quintana if the win is in play.
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Hopefully he pitches like he did Thursday vs the Brewers.
 
Cusefan95 said:
Hopefully he pitches like he did Thursday vs the Brewers.
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Outside a less than great but still strong outing on sept 29 José has had great stuff for almost the last two months. Happy he’s got the ball tonight.

I’m greedily hoping our bats go nuts tonight and take some heat off the pitching staff too. Let’s slam the door shut and maybe get a chance at some post season revenge vs the Padres.
 
Orangezoo said:
Outside a less than great but still strong outing on sept 29 José has had great stuff for almost the last two months. Happy he’s got the ball tonight.

I’m greedily hoping our bats go nuts tonight and take some heat off the pitching staff too. Let’s slam the door shut and maybe get a chance at some post season revenge vs the Padres.
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Quintana has been terrific down the stretch and it seems like the Phillies are struggling more against lefties than righties right now, so hopefully the veteran comes up big tonight.

If the Mets lose tonight, there is an off day and then The Phillies will start Wheeler, who is by far their best starter. And we are scheduled to start Senga. Senga is terrific but with all the down time he has had, this is not the matchup you want in a win or go home scenario.

The game today is a home game. A game on Friday would be on the road.

I think the Mets really need to win this game. It will be a much tougher job to beat Wheeler than Ranger Suárez. Suárez has an ERA over 5.00 for his last 15 starts and it is 5.74 in his last 5. And he is a lefty. Pretty sure the Mets have been doing well against lefties down the stretch.
 
sutomcat said:
Quintana has been terrific down the stretch and it seems like the Phillies are struggling more against lefties than righties right now, so hopefully the veteran comes up big tonight.

If the Mets lose tonight, there is an off day and then The Phillies will start Wheeler, who is by far their best starter. And we are scheduled to start Senga. Senga is terrific but with all the down time he has had, this is not the matchup you want in a win or go home scenario.

The game today is a home game. A game on Friday would be on the road.

I think the Mets really need to win this game. It will be a much tougher job to beat Wheeler than Ranger Suárez. Suárez has an ERA over 5.00 for his last 15 starts and it is 5.74 in his last 5. And he is a lefty. Pretty sure the Mets have been doing well against lefties down the stretch.
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Yep tonight is the night to get it done. Philly is pressing a bit at the plate too- they’ve been more impatient than usual in this series and that plays well to putting Quintana on the mound. Mets are just playing better baseball all around than the Phillies. That of course guarantees nothing but does put them in a great spot to make it happen.

Not to mention a wild card team breaking the script is the new normal in the NL playoffs so why not us this year?
 

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www.nytimes.com

An hour after the “Let’s Go Mets” chants stopped ringing through the stadium concrete, Brandon Nimmo absorbed what this day — the day the New York Mets had planned for when it was never promised — had been like. “This,” the team’s longest-tenured player said, “is what Mets fans have been waiting for.”

“We had plans of this,” said Jesse Winker. “Being on the road was part of our journey. Now we’re back here and we’re loving it.”
 
SWC75 said:

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An hour after the “Let’s Go Mets” chants stopped ringing through the stadium concrete, Brandon Nimmo absorbed what this day — the day the New York Mets had planned for when it was never promised — had been like. “This,” the team’s longest-tenured player said, “is what Mets fans have been waiting for.”

“We had plans of this,” said Jesse Winker. “Being on the road was part of our journey. Now we’re back here and we’re loving it.”
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I used to listen to a now-long defunct Mets podcast back in 2013 -2016(ish). For part of the podcast they’d cover prospects down on the farm - I remember lots of discouragement about Nimmo and questions if a guy from Wyoming had seen the level of competition he was dealing with, because that year (2013) was a struggle.

Once Conforto was drafted, he became the guy to watch - lots of projections of success for him, with an upside of numerous All-Star game appearances. The hopes for Nimmo were mostly that he someday make the roster…but it might only be as a bench player. The trajectory of those two guy’s careers has been interesting to watch - Conforto’s injury seems to have completely derailed his career, while Nimmo has significantly outperformed the early projections. Considering how Conforto’s career worked out, the Mets would be in a world of hurt if Nimmo didn’t keep steadily improving to be the player he is today. He’s easily my favorite player on this team.
 
Cusefan95 said:
I used to listen to a now-long defunct Mets podcast back in 2013 -2016(ish). For part of the podcast they’d cover prospects down on the farm - I remember lots of discouragement about Nimmo and questions if a guy from Wyoming had seen the level of competition he was dealing with, because that year (2013) was a struggle.

Once Conforto was drafted, he became the guy to watch - lots of projections of success for him, with an upside of numerous All-Star game appearances. The hopes for Nimmo were mostly that he someday make the roster…but it might only be as a bench player. The trajectory of those two guy’s careers has been interesting to watch - Conforto’s injury seems to have completely derailed his career, while Nimmo has significantly outperformed the early projections. Considering how Conforto’s career worked out, the Mets would be in a world of hurt if Nimmo didn’t keep steadily improving to be the player he is today. He’s easily my favorite player on this team.
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Nimmo has been the successor to Wright in my opinion. Has his ups and downs but he is a Met through and through.
 
SWC75 said:
I knew this wasn't going to wind up 0-1. It probably won't wind up 4-1, either.
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Nice 3 run cushion let’s add to it though. Diaz should be ready to go too
 
Mets revenge tour:

Two years ago we were in first place all year but the Braves caught us and passed us in the season series on that last weekend to win the division and get the bye. The Padres then beat us. The Brewers got us off to that 0-5 start this year. An the Royals may be waiting for us in the World Series.
 
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Orangezoo said:
Nice 3 run cushion let’s add to it though. Diaz should be ready to go too
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Not sure I can take much more of this Good Diaz or Bad Diaz thing. But he sucked it up and got the outs and it was still 4-1 when he got the last one and that took guts after he couldn't find the plate.

It seems to me that the Mets have always had 'closers' who added too much drama to the game.
 
It might have bene less nerve-wracking to have a great regular season and clinch 10 days before the season ends and know you were going to do it. But it's also hard to turn it off and turn it back on. The have to win to get there can give you and advantage.
 
Diaz has great stuff, but he consistently gets in bad spots because no umps want to give him the marginal pitches.
 
upperdeck said:
Diaz has great stuff, but he consistently gets in bad spots because no umps want to give him the marginal pitches.
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I think he throws too hard to get the marginal pitches… I suspect umps aren’t tracking his pitches through the zone, they only see where it ends up and call it based on that. I also think Diaz gets too amped and over throws, when he is in the zone he is relaxed and the stuff looks easy. I haven’t seen that this year… he’s trying too hard.
 
OrangeFoo said:
I think he throws too hard to get the marginal pitches… I suspect umps aren’t tracking his pitches through the zone, they only see where it ends up and call it based on that. I also think Diaz gets too amped and over throws, when he is in the zone he is relaxed and the stuff looks easy. I haven’t seen that this year… he’s trying too hard.
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He said as much after the game that he was trying to paint corners, and his pitches were tailing off. Pitching coach and teammates told him during mound visit to trust his movement and not try to paint corners. Just throw the fastball and let it dance.
 
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