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Post by anthonyd46 on Jun 26, 2024 15:30:50 GMT -5
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Post by azbob643 on Jun 26, 2024 15:35:37 GMT -5
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Sitting Gleyber...best for the team and him. |
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Post by inger on Jun 26, 2024 15:40:40 GMT -5
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Sitting Gleyber...best for the team and him. Physical and mental break. I hope it’s about 3 days before we see him again… |
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Post by ill636 on Jun 26, 2024 15:42:59 GMT -5
I listened to his interview after yesterday's game. He was really in the dumps.. Sitting him might help relieve some of the pressure he is putting on himself..
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Post by anthonyd46 on Jun 26, 2024 16:06:06 GMT -5
Sitting Gleyber...best for the team and him. Physical and mental break. I hope it’s about 3 days before we see him again… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Post by bumper on Jun 26, 2024 16:10:22 GMT -5
gleyber sitting - not unexpected. so tonite we get davis batting "cleanup". had a bad game last. maybe finds some magic tonite.
people can pine for rice, but w the mets i believe starting another lefty, boone chose not to put too much pressure on the kid. let him get his feet wet.
after his stinker against the O's, hopefully gil gets back on track.
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Post by chiyankee on Jun 26, 2024 16:22:32 GMT -5
gleyber sitting - not unexpected. so tonite we get davis batting "cleanup". had a bad game last. maybe finds some magic tonite. people can pine for rice, but w the mets i believe starting another lefty, boone chose not to put too much pressure on the kid. let him get his feet wet. after his stinker against the O's, hopefully gil gets back on track. DJ hitting 6th is even worse than Davis at clean up. Despite all this nonsense, they did score 7 runs last night. |
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jun 26, 2024 17:59:35 GMT -5
Lefty Sean Manaea starts the finale of the brief 2-game Subway Series for the Mets. Drafted by the Royals with the 34th pick of the 1st round of the 2013 draft after being the star pitcher for Indiana State for 3 seasons, Manaea didn't pitch for the Royals that summer because of a hip injury. Once started in the Royals' farm system, Manaea advanced very rapidly through the minors, pitching very well at high-A in 2014 the spring after the Royals drafted him, and after his start of the 2015 season was delayed by abdominal and groin injuries, he made 5 rehab starts at Rookie and high-A ball, before the Royals sent him to AA to advance his career. After two poor starts there, the Royals, trying to round out a team that they hoped would go far in the postseason, traded Manaea to the A's along with pitcher Aaron Brooks for Swiss Army Knife INF/OF Ben Zobrist two weeks before the trade deadline. He had time to make 7 very good starts at AA, going 6-0 with a 1.90 ERA before the minor league season ended. At that point, Manaea was regarded as an excellent prospect, having made all 3 major top 100 prospects in the winter-spring of both 2015 and 2016.
The A's had Manaea open the 2016 in AAA, and after 3 good starts there, they called him up. He was hit pretty hard his first 9 starts in the majors, so the A's sent him back to AAA for one start to regroup and called him back to Oakland two weeks after sending him down. He did better his 2nd try, and caught fire down the stretch, going 3-1 with an ERA just over 1.00 and a WHIP of 0.815 over his last 7 starts, securing his spot in the rotation. He was so-so for the A's in 2017. In 2018 he broke through with a good season, going 12-7 with a 3.63 ERA, but had to be shut down at the end of August with a left shoulder impingement. After having arthroscopic surgery, he spent most of 2019 rehabbing, but was able to return in September to make 4 outstanding starts. This earned him the start in the Wild Card game, but the Rays knocked him out early and won.
Manaea was so-so for the A's in both 2020 and 2021, and, as his 6 years of team control was going to expire after 2022, the A's traded him to the Padres just before the season started along with a pitching prospect for pitcher Adrian Martinez and an infield prospect. Manaea had a miserable season with the Padres, so they decided to let him go free agent. The Giants picked him up for 2023, and he struggled. They moved him around, starting him, relieving him, trying to make a set-up man out of him, then a bulk reliever after opener, made changes to his pitch mix, and finally put him back into the rotation in September to make four good starts down the stretch. He wound up 7-6 on the season with a 4.44 ERA in 10 starts, 27 relief appearances and 117 2/3 innings.
Looking to fill out their rotation, the Mets offered Manaea a good two-year contract with the promise he could start for them. This year, Manaea has had some very good games and some very bad ones. In his 14 starts, he's gone 5 innings and allowed no more than 2 runs in 9 of them, but he's also had starts where he gave up 6, 6, and 8 runs. Overall, he's 4-3 with a 4.16 ERA. In 71 1/3 innings, he's allowed 63 hits, 36 runs, 33 earned, 7 HR, walked 29 and struck out 73. The flaws in his season are two: the walk rate is still too high, and partly because of that, he can't get deep into games. I mentioned above about his good starts of at least 5 innings; well, in a lot of the starts, 9 of them, 5 innings is all he's gone. He hasn't gone past 6 in any start this season. The reason the Mets are handling him like this is his 3rd time through the order stats: a batting average of .340 and an OPS of .833 (as opposed to a BAVG of .210 and an OPS of .344 the first two times through the order). In his last four starts, both the Phillies and D'backs hit Manaea hard, but he had an outstanding 5 inning start against the Padres and a so-so 5 2/3 inning start against the Rangers (he was taken out in the middle of a rally in the 6th during the Rangers, (suprise!) 3rd time through the order.
This is Manaea's 7th career start vs. the Yanks, and he's been so-so against them: 1-3 with a 4.46 ERA. In 34 1/3 innings, he's allowed 29 hits, 17 runs, all earned, 5 HR and 10 BB, while striking out 40. His WHIP is a very good 1.136, and the K/BB ratio is excellent. The Yankee team quadruple slash line against him is .227/.296/.398/.684. But all of this was compiled while he was still with Oakland; he's not quite the same pitcher now. He last pitched against the Yanks in 2021, making 2 starts. The first was at the Stadium in June (during the Chris Gittens Moment©), a good one in which he got a tough loss in a 2-1 game. Manaea struck out 11, but gave up a two run double to Gary Sanchez in the 6th, knocking him (3rd time through the order, natch), blowing a 1-0 lead he had held from the 1st inning to that point. The other start in August at Oakland, he gave up two solo HRs in the first, then, (Ta-Daaa!!) the 3rd time through the order in the 5th, Judge knocked him with a 3-run HR after he'd walked two guys. The Yanks won, 8-2. At this point in his career, he's what Coney calls a "5-and-fly guy".
Repertoire: Another tall, burly 6-5, 245 lefty, Manaea throws six pitches: both fastballs, both sliders, cutter and change. The 4-seamer gets excellent run but no "rise". The sinker doesn't sink much at all, but it moves away from righties and into lefties fairly sharply; the horizontal movment is 35th best among 277 MLB ptichers throwing sinkers this season. According to the charts, his sweeper and slider both get below average vertical and horizontal movment; same thing for his cutter. The movment on his changeup is almost exacly league average in both directions. By "run values" the sinker is his only effective pitch at +10 runs, the run values on the sweeper and change cancel that out, and the other 3 pitches have run values near 0. He gets below average velocity and spin on his FB, but as with several pitches the Yanks have faced recently, his extension is among the best in the game, year after year; he's been top 4% in extension every year since 2020. Despite being sinker-heavy, his ground ball rate is well below MLB average, and his solid contact and barrel percentages are slightly worse than average. My guess about his approach is that the other 5 pitches are for setting up the sinker, and to keep hitters from guessing right on any of the 5. Having 6 pitches allows him to junk 2 or 3 that aren't effective any given night, like Clarke Schmidt learned to do. The pitch mix so far this year: sinker 92-3 abut 39% of the time, sweeper 78 about 16%, change 86 about 14%, cutter 88-9 also about 14%, 4-seamer averaging 92 about 11%, and slider85-6 about 6%.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jun 26, 2024 18:00:09 GMT -5
Playing the name game...the have been 37 Seans in MLB history. I find it very surprising that there are no Seans from the 19th and early 20th centuries, as there were many Irish players in the majors at that time. Recent Yankees' batting coach Sean Casey is one of the earliest and probably the best of the Seans, he had 1500 hits, a lifetime BAVG of .302, made the All-Star team 3 times, and got some downballot votes for the MVP in 1999. I checked on Shawn, and though there were 20 of them, none started their career before 1987. As you might expect from a player whose father is Samoan, there are no other Manaeas in MLB history.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jun 26, 2024 18:00:34 GMT -5
The Yanks send rookie Luis Gil out to try to fix what went horribly wrong in his last start. The Orioles looked FB in the zone early in the count, tried to ignore the change unless it was in the middle of the plate, and with his 3rd pitch being the sub-par slider, the legs were knocked out from under his small repetoire. They bashed him for 8 runs in 1 1/3 innings on their way to a 17-5 demolishing of the Yanks. Not sure what Blake can do in the short run except send him out there against a hot Mets' lineup that certainly watched the tape of the Oriole game with great interest. Even after the pasting he took in his last srart, Gil is still 7th in the AL in ERA and tied for 2nd in wins with 9. This will be Gil's first Subway Series game.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jun 26, 2024 18:02:21 GMT -5
Yankees lineup vs. Manaea
Volpe has never faced him
Soto is 0-4 with 3 BB and 2 K
Judge is 5-12 with 2 HR, 6 RBI, 2 BB and 5 K
Davis is 2-6 with a solo HR, 1 BB, 2 K and 1 GIDP
Verdugo is 1-4
LeMahieu is 3-8 with 1 double and 1 K
Trevino is 1-6 with 1 double and 1 K
Rice and Cabrera have never faced Manaea
On the bench: Grisham is 3 for 7 with 1 K and 1 GIDPTorres is 0-4 with 2 K
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Mets lineup vs. Gil: Gil's never faced the Mets, but two Mets have faced him during their time in the AL East in 2021 and 2022:
Martinez is 1-2
On the bench: Stewart is 0-2
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jun 26, 2024 18:02:51 GMT -5
Yesterday, Gerrit Cole had absolutely nothing; the Mets knocked him out after 4 innings, having given up 7 hits, 4 BB and 4 HR. In light of those numbers, allowing "just" 6 runs is actually pretty good. (Bill James' runs created has large error bars in very small samples of at bats, but the runs created figure for what the Mets did to Cole in his 4 innings last night is about 10 1/2.) Cole was able to get his pitchcount up to 72. Boone says there's nothing wrong with his arm, but his FB was sitting 92-3 as early as the 2nd inning. We'll see about that one. The Yanks tried to rally late with a 5-run rally capped by Judge's 29th HR, a 3-run shot, but that's as close as they got, going down 1-2-3 in the 9th, although two balls were hit hard at Alonso. The loss was the Yanks 2nd straight and 8th in the last 11 games, dropping them to 23 games over .500, 52-29 at the halfway point of the schedule. Before the season, there was not a Yankees fan that wouldn't have signed for that record at mid-season, but right now, there's a hole in the side of the S.S. Yankees, and water is coming in faster than it can be bailed out.
In other AL East action...The O's continued to help the Yanks by losing their 5th in a row to the Guardians; they've now lost 2 series in a row as well, since they took 2 of 3 from the Yanks at the Stadium last week. Last night, the
Guardians and O's went at it back and forth with 4 lead changes, and the O's tryng to rally late again. Baltimore had the go-ahead run at the plate with 2 outs in the 8th, but Sam Hentges caught Ryan O'Hearn looking to kill that threat. In the 9th the O's got the tying run to the plate with 1 out on a double by Mullins, but closer Emmanuel Clase got Colton Cowser to ground to 2nd, moving Mullins to 3rd, and Steven Kwan made a shoestring catch on Adley Rutschman's inside-out flare to left on a 101-mph cutter to end it. The Rays broke open a 2-2 tied in the 6th against the Mariners with a 4-run rally on a 2-run triple by Taylor Walls and a 2-run HR by Ben Rortvedt (who's now batting .274 with a .759 OPS; he's started the Rays last 8 games at catcher, which co-incides neatly with their climb back to even .500 by winning 6 of 7. If it makes you feel better, he's thrown out just 5 of 41 basestealers so far) on their way to 11-3 rout of Seattle. The Jays slowed down the Red Sox' freight train for one night with a 9-4 win. Kevin Gausman threw an on-the-nose quality start to even his record at 6-6; the Jays broke the game open with a 7-run 3rd inning that knocked out Boston starter Brayan Bello. The loss was just the 3rd for the Sox in their last 13 games.
The Yanks began play today up 2 on the O's, 8 1/2 up on the Red Sox, 11 1/2 ahead of the Rays, and 15 ahead of the last place Jays.
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Post by qwik3457bb on Jun 26, 2024 18:04:40 GMT -5
Mariners a 3-1 lead and George Kirby went 6 strong innings of 1-run ball, and M's salvaged the 3rd game of the series in Tampa, 5-2. The O's will be fighting to avoid getting swept at home by Guardians at 6:35 pm. Carlos Carrasco (3-6, 5.40 ERA), hoping to build on a good start last time out, goes for Cleveland. Grayson Rodiriguez (8-3, 3.82 ERA) will be on the mound for the O's, trying to rebound from the pasting he took in Houston during the Astros sweep of Baltimore. That game is 0-0 in the 2nd in Baltimore. At 7:10 in Fenway, the Jays will send touted but struggling rookie Yasiel Rodriguez (0-2, 5.94) to the hill to try to earn a split of the 4-game series vs. the Red Sox. Boston will oppose with Kutter Crawford (3-7, 3.59 ERA. Crawford is 1-6 since May 1st, his sole win coming against, yes, the Yankees 10 days ago.
And, in a few minutes at Citifield on Prime Delayed Video (and SNY to avoid the delayed webcast), it's Gil vs. Manaea.
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Post by inger on Jun 26, 2024 18:06:32 GMT -5
I guess I should have taken Spanish in high school… Spanish commercials…mixed in with the English commercials…
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Post by azbob643 on Jun 26, 2024 18:07:10 GMT -5
As you might expect from a player whose father is Samoan, there are no other Manaeas in MLB history. Former CU quarterback Sal Aunese, of Samoan descent, was inducted in the Italian Sports Hall of Fame.  |
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