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Janish said Fredi has already pulled him aside to talk about bunting.
From the last thread:
Tommy’s career K/BB is 2.81. This year, it’s 2.45. In 2011 and 2010, it was 3.09. That’s a really steep drop.
He has succeeded striking out fewer batters than this, in 2010, but his control was impeccable that year.
HR allowed is clearly a problem, though. Even excluding the sweltering Yankee stadium game, where the weather clearly contributed to his and Hughes’ performances, he’s going to keep disappointing if he can’t strike out as many batters and flyball contact keeps resulting in HR at this rate.
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Hanson’s HR/FB rate this season is about 13%, higher than his career rate. I think that’s mainly attributed to that start where he gave up 4 HR in New Yankee Bandbox.
Otherwise, the walks are slightly up and the Ks are a bit down from his 2009-2010 seasons, but within random variation.
It would be nice if he rediscovered a few ticks of velocity, but other than that he’s basically the same guy as he was. Not an ace but a middle of the rotation starter, on a team that has 2 #3’s and 3 #5’s.
Fangraphs (I’m so addicted to that site) says K/BB rate takes 500 batters faced to stabilize. So maybe Tommy’s 9.83 K/9 from 2011 exceeds his true talent level, and it is just a random spike.
But going from 9.83 last year to K’ing 7.88 per 9 this year, and then you see the velocity drop…I wish I could say that it felt random.
He’s still just turning 26 in August, but everything up until the injury pointed towards steady improvement. Now, with the exception of his BB/9 holding steady and some actual improvement at limiting SBs, he’s regressing when he should be hitting his peak.
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Has anyone noticed that Lowe has struck out 34 batters all year, in over 100 innings pitched?
So far so good for Sheets
Chip: “That’s gonna roll for awhile”
Half second later fielder picks up the ball.
9- There’s never going to be a shortage of reasons to hate Chip, is there?
Yawn-ish.
Just kidding.
Signing Sheets is looking pretty brilliant so far.
Sheets looks okay. It would be nice to score a few runs to take some pressure off of him.
He’s three innings into his Braves career. Three innings.
Sheets is an ON BASE MACHINE. lol.
He’s done an OK job hitting, too.
“He’s three innings into his Braves career. Three innings.”
And yet, if Delgado was still here and pitching today, it’d probably be 2-0 Mets right now.
With Minor, it’d be 4-0 Mets.
So, seriously, Sheets’ stuff looks good. He knows what he’s doing out there. If he can stay healthy, he has a chance to become a very nice addition.
Sheets certainly knows how to pitch…Liking what I see so far
Let’s get some runs.
Even if he ends up kind of sucking, just getting four shutout innings out of him is a great value.
FWIW It looks like Sheets knows what he is doing. But it is Los Mets
Could Sheets be the best midseason pickup we’ve made in years?
Time to get Ben some run support, guys.
23- Agreed. Let’s not overestimate what Sheets would do against major league competition.
Sheets is doing a great job. Chip just said that he’s only had one ground ball out so far today, rest fly balls with 4 k’s. Its probably not correct coming from Chip, but its surprising.
And Diaz with the leadoff double!!! let’s get him in boys!
“Let’s not overestimate what Sheets would do against major league competition.”
The Mets are tied with the Braves for eighth place in all of MLB in runs scored in 2012, with 406.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/team/_/stat/batting
Well, no worse a bunter than Hanson.
Come on, Michael.
Pay the man
…as much as he wants
WOOOOO!. All of the money, seriously.
I love watching Mets coaches getting tossed.
I wonder if Johan Santana leads the league in mental strikeouts?
Thanks, ump.
Does every Mets game involve them whining over something? Good grief.
@38,
It’s OK by me as long as every Mets game also involves them losing. Here’s hoping.
Bunch of whining Mutts.
Well done, Jason!
Yes sir, JHEY
J-hey still getting it done
Chipper tried to take Santana out there.
I wouldn’t hate a rally-killing HR here.
CB Bucknor is such a bad umpire: it’s good to see that it’s just incompetence, not bias.
HAH! Chipper.
#45 -DONE!
Well, there it is. Too bad. 😉
45- YOUR WISH IS FREDDIE’S COMMAND!!!
Wow..way to go Freddie.. good call drewdat
That moment was not hated.
Oh, hell yeah!
Go Fredward!
I LOVE FREDDIE FREEMAN.
Well done, laddies.
this inning has escalated in a hurry
I like my meltdowns melty and Metty.
I see Santana still has a mental shutout going.
mlb.tv has such a mets homer doing color. LOL
Ok…I feel you Janish
58- As opposed to Melky. Melky meltdowns were no fun at all.
I think I can get used to this Janish guy, even if his name sounds like a bit character from Dracula.
Freddie “Splits” Freeman.
Santana two starts against ATL this year.
6.1IP 12H 10ER 3BB 3K – and we complain about Hanson
Should Sheets go another inning?
Sheets is probably right around his pitch count so I’d expect a reliever next inning.
Sure. He’s not losing anything on his stuff or performance.
Ben is back, at least for today.
I feel like we’ve done very well against Santana ever since he became a Met.
88 pitches, 6IP 2H 0ER 1BB 5K – thank you Mr Sheets
Well done, Mr. Sheets. My friends will be glad to hear about this.
You dont deserve to have a job if you walk Juan Fransisco
Clutch walk by Franciso with 6 run lead
when chip does his skip impersonation, i just get sad.
@73: Me too. Though his impression of his grandfather is no better. In fact, though it is perhaps not well known, ububba does a better Harry, Sr. than Chip. Much better.
Fortunately, I’m listening to Cohen and Darling today. They are doing their usual outstanding job.
When Chip talks at all, I get sad
Did JJ need an extra day off? Sheets did very well.
Is Medlin being streched out? 3 inning save?
9- Amazing. Chip just said that again, almost verbatim. And was just as wrong.
Have I mentioned, pay the man?
Can we just, like, not lose this game?
#76 * No, the Braves wanted to split up Minor and Delgado from pitching back to back games. They didnt know if Sheets would be ready. Glad he was
BTW, hadnt heard of this 26 man rule. On double headers a team can add an extra player for that days game. Apparently Delgado is scheduled to come back and pitch next saturday. Did they eliminate the rule regarding players having to stay down for 10 days?
Milwaukee have Livan and we gets Sheets? Seems fair to me.
Wash up 4-0…Miami has bases loaded no outs bottom 9
@81 Likely an exception to the rule. It may be changed.
now 1 out, Reyes up
Reyes pops up the first pitch to the catcher, 2 outs
84- They just explicitly said the 10-day rule is waived for the 26th man.
Nats win…but I hate the Marlins and Ozzie so in a glass half full kind of way, that makes me happy too
And Miami fails to score.
Diaz flashed the leather in the 9th!
The Mets flashed the ineptitude all weekend!
Matty D, for defence.
Does Diaz makes the hard plays look easy or the easy plays look hard?
That’ll do Sheets…That’ll do.
Matty D. As in giDp.
I paid attention to precisely one AB in this game — which of course was the one in which Medlen gave up the run. I give up.
Damn, Sheets is ugly. He looks like an opossum.
@78 Hah. I noticed it that time, too.
Recapped.
Woo, Ben Sheets!