Altchek's Office Alumni: 2017 New York Mets

"I can't tie him down and throw him in the tube"

http://www.nj.com/mets/index.ssf/2017/04/sandy_alderson_on_noah_syndergaards_mri_refusal_i.html#incart_river_index

Noah Syndergaard, who was scratched a few days ago with a dead arm and sore biceps, has left his start today in the second inning after wincing in pain after two pitches to Bryce Harper, grabbing under his arm after the second pitch. He left trailing 5-2 and you have to wonder why the heck he was out there in the first place.

Yeah, kind of saw this coming, especially since a very similar thing just happened to Cespedes.

when did Alderson have a lobotomy, im wonderin'

hey they've won 3 of 4 and it looks like Conforto is in the lineup to stay. #SunnySide

I hope Conforto sticks around, but he also had a great April last year, and then tanked. He has been impressive though.

@AnthonyDiComo
Tonight's Mets-Braves game will feature the two lowest OBPs in MLB among qualified players:

-Curtis Granderson, .177
-Dansby Swanson, .202

@Joelsherman1
Syndergaard flying to L.A. to get 2d opinion on torn lat from Dr. Neal ElAttrache. Initial conservative estimates is he'll be out 3 months

Is Suntrust park the second coming of coors field, or is this team starting to wake up offensively?

losing a 3-1 lead to rain, that sucks

I'd be curious (for climate change/we're all doomed purposes) to see a graph of mlb rainouts by year -- I'm sure some stathead is tracking that somewhere.

tj

excuuuuse me? you just made me check all the damn headlines.

anyway THANKS FISH for the win

oh, Rivera! That's very different.

lol sry

well there ya go

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-tweet-photo-showing-sex-toy-kevin-plawecki-locker-article-1.3141351

lol did matt harvey pull the dildo prank

That was my guess too, considering the suspension is apparently retroactive to yesterday

also, Asdrubal hurt

@MarcCarig
I went to J school so I could Tweet this: I'm told Matt Harvey's suspension is not related to the sex toy fiasco from the other day. #Mets

why would it be?

i feel bad for everyone forced to be a fan of this team even though there's an actually fun and good team in nyc

well said

yeah well we don't switch as easily as in Chi

so don't feel bad

even though there's an actually fun and good team in nyc

i didn't read this correctly the first time. you're an idiot, but i knew that.

you should be a Stankee fan in fact

i sort of understand since i was a cubs fan back in Sandberg decline years/Maddux to the Braves years, which coincided with the peak era of the Thomas/Ventura/McDowell White Sox.

Mets won a pennant a year and a half ago, have gotten to the postseason in consecutive seasons for the first time in team history, and went 4-2 last week, but somehow they're not FUN.

massive dildos are never not fun.
nev. er.

Gavin Cecchini called up

mets got to post season in 99 and 2000

you're right, first this century

@NYPost_Mets
Two factors in not starting Harvey on Wednesday: Team wants him to throw a side session first. And they want to avoid hostile environment.

the hostile environment being . . . citi field

or by extension, NY tabloids/sportstalk radio

Terry Collins: “I don’t know” if Matt Harvey’s teammates respect him https://t.co/5EP7glll1n

— HardballTalk (@HardballTalk) May 8, 2017

i disconnected for the most part this weekend so i'm catching up on what happened, but all i know is that jose reyes is lecturing someone about their behavior so it must have been O_o

aaron hernandez killed himself bc he couldn't live in a world where matt harvey did such an egregious thing

Cecchini was flow in, but never activated. Wilk was DFA'd and Tommy Milone activated.

8 of 11! But when does the FUN start?

Conforto seeming more like the real deal every day now. Also love how shocked Gary Cohen is that Rene Rivera continues to hit over .300.

Since I’ve been covering the Giants, they’ve had a pitcher fall off a dirt bike, a pitcher miss the All-Star Game with flu-like symptoms, a pitcher busted for possession of marijuana, a pitcher detained for arguing at a Vegas airport, players with questionable work ethics, players who didn’t get along with members of the organization because they thought they were better than they actually were, players with salary complaints, and a player who scheduled surgery right in the middle of the postseason because, gee, why would he want to hang around the team in the middle of the postseason? I’m sure I’m missing a whole bunch, too.

They were all stories. They never contributed to a general sense of “What are the Giants doing, lol?”

When any of that happens to the Mets, though, it becomes a story that hurts the entire organization. That’s because of a perception that’s been created with the help of everyone from the owners to the star players, sure. That salt has already been added to the soup, and it’s not coming back out. The only thing to do is to make sure everyone remembers at all times that the Mets will always be held to a different, unfair standard. Live it. Internalize it. Have training sessions and orientations about it. Make sure the rookies know. Make sure Ted from sales knows.

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2017/5/9/15597084/mets-matt-harvey-mess-fiasco

@SteveGelbs
Uh-oh. Mets say Jeurys Familia had an arterial clot in right shoulder. He will have further tests tomorrow. Possible surgery coming.

well he sure sucked yesterday

Duda activated and hitting 7th tonight.

Mike: The Mets are planning to continue to use Jose Reyes at third. At what point should they call up Rosario?

Keith Law: Yesterday.

https://www.fanragsports.com/mlb/mets/tim-tebow-proving-least-deserves-shot-baseball/

hitting at 106 wRC+ right now

he ranks 119th out of 234 qualifying class a hitters in OPS at .700 (which, tbf, is three spots higher than mickey moniak, last year's top draft pick)

but he's at least doing well enough to make you wonder what might have been, if not well enough to take playing time away from an actual prospect at a higher level. he's hitting 4.5x more grounders than fly balls, which does not play into his strength of being fucking huge, so maybe if his swing can be tweaked . . .

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.3161450.1494658565!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/index_350/cover-back-2017.jpg

@AnthonyDiComo
The Mets have signed reliever Neil Ramirez to a big league deal, per @Ken_Rosenthal. Ramirez was twice DFA'd this year, owns an 8.71 ERA.

Desperate times. Hard to believe how bad the pitching has been.