Altchek's Office Alumni: 2017 New York Mets

How can Mr. Met get in trouble for giving someone the middle finger IF HE DOESN'T HAVE ONE 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 pic.twitter.com/0QZd2GxQyz

— Hector Diaz (@iamHectorDiaz) June 1, 2017

back to the field: ROSARIO

http://nypost.com/2017/05/31/note-to-mets-end-cabrera-misery-and-call-up-amed-rosario/

and just watch, Collins will sit "tiring" Conforto twice a week once Yo comes back

http://nypost.com/2017/06/01/curtis-granderson-making-case-to-stay-in-mets-of-rotation/

http://i.imgur.com/SWYjKnU.jpg

things keep getting weirder

Moltar:
In your Insider piece today you talk about how Harvey still has the stuff to be successful, but no longer generates swings and misses. Is it reasonable to think that Harvey is still less than %100? If the Mets’ injury prevention program wasn’t a dumpster fire, would he have been better served starting the year on the DL and pitching a full compliment of rehab starts?

Jeff Sullivan:
Well, that’s impossible for us to know and be any kind of certain. My hunch is that Harvey had his delivery kind of screwed up when he made that emergency start against Atlanta, but that’s just uninformed speculation.

I have yet to do a real Harvey deep dive. But it’s instantly clear that his O-Swing even from last year has dropped 10 percentage points. That’s a problem with his secondary stuff, and not his fastball.
…which then becomes a problem for his fastball, since hitters can look for it.

texas appears to be starting dillon gee tmorrow

our only hope

Braves intentionally walk Conforto to load the bases for Cespedes, who promptly hits a grand slam. Welcome back!

Flores is 39 for his last 100. I've done the math. That equals .390. Since the start of May. Decent.

— Steve Gelbs (@SteveGelbs) June 11, 2017

Starting pitching as advertised v Braves (assuming 5 scoreless innings is the max Harvey can give henceforth).

Series vs Cubs and Nats, need to go 4-3 at least.

@MarcCarig
Michael Conforto has back stiffness and was a scratch, per multiple reports from the ballpark. Flores is getting a day off.

@AlbaneseLaura
TC says Flores needed a day and today was ideal because he's struggled against Lackey and they've got a bunch of lefties coming up.

that's the deGrom i know and love

game only took 2 hours and 23 minutes too

Cespedes left game w/ sore heel :/

Cabrera DL'd (thumb); Conforto out of lineup (back discomforto)

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2017/6/13/15794890/mets-asdrubal-cabrera-tj-rivera-disabled-list-thumb-injury-new-york

Even though Cespedes was removed due to the score, TC brought up tendinitis for him, which isn’t great. Manageable, but not perfect.

— David Lennon (@DPLennon) June 14, 2017

The Mets drafted Edgardo Alfonzo's son, Daniel, in the 38th round of this year's Draft. He played at Bayside High School in Queens.

— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) June 14, 2017

did they just have walker sac bunt with 1 out down 2-1 in the third inning???

with harvey and montgomery on the mound, you know runs will be hard to come by

starting to think Mets are at least better than the Cubs

http://nypost.com/2017/06/15/behind-the-scenes-of-the-darkest-day-in-mets-history

worse than the Nixon pardon

apparently sandy has not seen reyes or cabrera or rivera play this year

Sandy's comments when asked about Amed Rosario pic.twitter.com/jCvmANJYnk

— SportsNet New York (@SNYtv) June 15, 2017

also harvey and walker to DL, syndergaard still four weeks from throwing

starting to think the cubs' medical and conditioning staff are at least better than the mets' medical and conditioning staff

oh c'mon, you don't expect to offend a Mets fan with that concept?

I don't know if Alderson is taking questions at his SABR appearance... I'm trying to formulate 'polite' inquiries about Rosario/injuries.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017/06/juan-lagares-diagnosed-with-fractured-thumb.html

I just read the article about the Seaver trade in the Post ... if this happened today, would people see it differently? These days, if a team knows it can't contend this year or the next, they almost have to trade a star who's signed to a team friendly contract.

So I guess it's really about how Mets management treated their biggest ever star like shit, rather than the trade itself?

He was The Franchise. It would be like the O's trading Cal Jr in his prime during a down season.

He was in the last year of his contract, right?

only 6 home games left in the first half, that's daunting

Nimmo and Reynolds are the moves.

— Marc Carig (@MarcCarig) June 16, 2017

Seaver signed a two year extension with a hometown discount instead of testing free agency. I guess you could point fingers at both sides there (Seaver for being naive, Mets management for taking advantage of him) but baseball fans as a whole were on the owners' side of the free agency issue, so Seaver was in a bad place, PR-wise, when his demands for a raise became public.

In the past decade, Johan Santana and Roy Halladay were franchise pitchers who were traded in their prime for players who never panned out. Of course they weren't inner circle HOF'ers like Seaver. But comparing these kinds of things across eras is (probably) pointless anyway -- every era needs to be considered within the context of its time.

I had forgotten most of the money details. It wasn't exactly a hometown discount -- the multimillion signings (Wayne Garland being the first, as the Post article says) began just after TS signed his 3-year deal.

how a hitter like Reyes homers off a pitcher like Scherzer is a mystery of baseball

so after this, they face Strasburg tomorrow and Kershaw Monday. Clearing my throat to declare the season done if they don't split this series.

fuckin' Salas

I was at that dispiriting slog today. Time to cut Reyes and call up Rosario.

"Don't be surprised, be ready," whispers a 40-year-old Amed Rosario, leading the PCL with a .675/.822/1.445 line, to no one in particular.

— Chris (@tpgMets) June 15, 2017

Keith Hernandez last night: “Roark’s been getting his tits lit.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/keith-hernandez-tanner-roark-t-s-lit-article-1.3261370

deGrom named NL Player of the Week btw

funny who turned out to be their best pitcher of the Sandy-Terry era, huh?

Biceps tendinitis for Wheeler. Here are the other moves: pic.twitter.com/Q2bpP10Jkf

— Marc Carig (@MarcCarig) June 21, 2017

keith hernandez says his daughters are deadheads. "i like a lot of their stuff. i don't like a lot more of their stuff." prefers zappa.

— jesse jarnow (@bourgwick) June 22, 2017

https://www.fanragsports.com/news/asdrubal-cabrera-demands-trade-mets-game-friday/

smdh

I haven't followed his story but wtf is his deal

iirc bobby bonilla had similar issues with changing positions (all of which he was terrible at)

the mets, of course, are still paying him -- next installment in eight days!

Giant pitching, The San Francisco Treat

Since May 3rd, Curtis Granderson ranks 5th in NL in OBP (.414), 4th in SLG (.611), & 3rd in OPS (1.025) among players with at least 150 PA.

— New York Mets Stats (@NYMStats) June 26, 2017

Ron Darling is upset

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-broadcaster-ron-darling-rips-trainers-latest-injury-article-1.3283039

Granderson really has come back from the dead. Can he play shortstop?

tbh Cabrera at 2b has been ok so far (small sample size though). Can Walker play 3B/SS? His injury is the one that bums me out the most at the moment.