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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 5173717, member: 27"]
I was at the game yesterday as well.  It was perfect weather.  Got a free bag as we left the stadium.

The Syracuse Mets won their division in the first half of the year but did not make the playoffs.  The International League has a weird playoff procedure where the winner of the 1st half of the season plays the winner of the 2nd half of the season.  Even though there are divisions in the IL, they take the overall winner of the first and second halves, ignoring divisions.  So Omaha (overall first half winner) is going to play Columbus (overall second half winner).

And the Syracuse Mets go home to get ready for 2025.

It was a good year.  The team was dominant for most of the year and fell apart late, when a variety of player moves made the team much much worse.

We got a chance to see Jett Williams and Drew Gilbert late and both looked very promising.  Gilbert scored from third in the 10th inning yesterday on a ground ball to get the team the win.  Got his BA up to .215 after getting off to a bad start after returning from a badly pulled muscle early in the season.

The team should be good next year.  Hard to say for sure what the roster will look like but it could be something like this:

Field players

J Williams SS
Gilbert CF
Ritter DH
Mauricio or Baty 3B
Acuna 2B
Clifford 1B
Parada C

Starting pitchers

Sproat 
Tidwell
Hamel
Vasil
Tong

Relief pitchers

Lavender
Montes de Orca
Hartwig
Orze
McLoughlin
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