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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Sunday, September 14, 2008NL East race: September 14, 2008MLB.com: Wright homers twice but Mets fall
MLB.com: Game 1 - Phils move up in Wild Card, East races
MLB.com: Game 2 - Phils tied for Wild Card, one out in East
NYM 83-65 [7-4 in SEPT] PHI 83-67 [8-5 in SEPT] (1 GB) NTNgod
Posted: September 14, 2008 at 06:56 PM | 15 comment(s)
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Please let the Mets keep losing so both the Phils and Brewers can make the playoffs...
Fine, you believe in closers. Bad luck, your closer goes down so you have to scramble to fill the role.
That's no excuse for not bringing in a lefty to face Norton (career 650 OPS against LHP despite being a switch-hitter) in a high-leverage situation.
Only idiotic obeisance to the idea of a closer explains that. If this happened in the 8th to Sanchez or Heilman or Smith or whoever, there's no way they'd be left in to pitch to Norton.
It's one thing to leave Mariano Rivera in. Heck, maybe it's even OK to leave in the mediocre guy who's been "getting the job done all year." But Ayala is an emergency closer. Treat him like one.
OK, OK ... I didn't watch the game (and can't access the box score from work), it's possible the Braves had an even better RH option on the bench or Manuel had already used all his LH options.
I don't know or care if the Mets made the right moves there. From my point of view, they sure did!
OK, OK ... I didn't watch the game (and can't access the box score from work), it's possible the Braves had an even better RH option on the bench or Manuel had already used all his LH options.
They didn't and the Mets went to Feliciano later anyway. If they had gone to Feliciano, Bobby would have stayed with Norton anyway. Bobby hasn't acknowledged Norton's platoon split all season.
What's more likely is that the Brewers will have collapsed two years in a row.
And Ned Yost is your ####### manager. I wouldn't trust him to bag my groceries. EGGS GO ON TOP, NED!
If one happens, two won't be true any longer. I don't care if Harveys thinks Yost is safe; if you contend for two straight years and collapse, and sell 3 million tickets in baseball's smallest market the second year - Yost won't be allowed to stick around.
Even if Melvin wants to keep him, I suspect ownership might "persuade" him to make some changes for the sake of 2009 business.
(And if the Mets miss the playoffs again, obviously the Mets are going to undergo a number of changes themselves)
Anyhow, a positive thought for Brewers fans: if the Brewers fail to make the playoffs, the PTBNL in the CC deal will be a lesser prospect.
-- MWE
Manuel is showing himself to be just as inflexible as Willie. Initially, I thought he was different. I was wrong.
Which they might be ... until ownership comes to Melvin, expresses their disappointment in the team performance and Melvin, wisely, cans Yost instead of himself. :-) I don't really mean that as a swipe at Melvin, standard baseball FO there -- first the manager goes then, usually no more than one season later, the GM goes.
Now here's a "fun" scenario -- the Brewers and the Mets miss the playoffs -- leading to much upheaval in both places (including a trade of F-Mart for, oh, Kevin Gregg). Houston miraculously takes the WC whereupon Wade and Cooper get 5-year extensions, Brad Ausmus is talked out of retirement (I'm assuming he is right?), and they sign Randy Wolf for 5/$70.
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