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The dude isn't human. The Mets rotation with him at the top is pretty scary, but who knows if he can remain healthy enough for it to matter in the post season.

Chill the f*** out man. When did I ever state the bullpen wasn't an issue? I simply said the pen really wasn't the primary reason the club lost the 3 games in the Tampa series. Starting pitching injury/lack of effectiveness and lack of offence was largely to blame for the way the series went. If Gausman didn't get hit with a comebacker who knows how that game turns out. As soon as he was out of the game in the second inning it was effectively over against a true ace such as McClanahan. If Hatch didn't get crushed in the second game who knows how that turns out. The pen was actually good in game 2 in the doubleheader as they only allowed 1 run in 4-1/3 innings. I've already stated that Stripling gave up 4 runs all on his own and the offence only provided 3 runs. The bullpen had no effect on that loss. Perhaps the team would have had a better chance to come back with a more effective outing from Thornton but the bullpen giving up a s*** ton of runs ultimately didn't affect the final outcome.

Yes you can. Gausman went down early against one of baseball's best starters. That's not the pen's fault. In game two of the doubleheader Hatch absolutely got his teeth kicked in, that's not on the pen either. And in today's game the offence left a million runners on base against Baz and Stripling allowed 4 runs to score. The team only scored 3 runs, that's not on the pen either.

No need for the constant doom and gloom. If Rogers continues to put up the bucks the team should have plenty of chances to continue to compete. It's not like all of the key players are going to leave at once, and there are plenty of prospects in the pipeline working their way up as we speak. The team doesn't have a barren minor league system lacking in talent, the system is very healthy in the lower levels of the minors.

The bullpen as assembled to start the season in 2021 seemed like it was just fine. More AAA depth would have been nice, as is the case this season as well, but to suggest that the general manager should be axed because of bullpen injuries and previously effective relievers becoming ineffective out of the blue seems like a bit of a stretch. Do you think it's fair or reasonable to blame Ross Atkins for the sticky stuff ban rendering several of his bullpen members to be completely ineffective?

It appears as though he will have to remain down for 10 days unless somebody goes onto the injured list.

I'm not the one who brought that up in the first place. It's great ammunition so of course I'm going to take full advantage.

Well duh, it's obviously because they didn't win enough games. There's plenty of reasons for this, the offence and starting staff was s*** in the early going and the team was largely kept afloat by a stellar performance by the pen. The pen started to suffer from injuries and tanked soon afterwards as the remaining dependable options were overworked. The sudden in season sticky stuff ban made the club's primary setup man completely ineffective from that point forward. It would have been nice to see some help brought in a little sooner, but aside from massively overpaying it didn't seem like there were trades to be made early in June or so when the pen became an issue. There's also the not so insignificant fact that for the first 4 months of the season the team basically played as the road team in their "home" games and faced hostile crowds, while also facing the prospect of moving in season several times. This team faced far more adversity than any other team due to the covid pandemic. It's unfortunate that they missed the post season by a single game, but given that they played in a murder's row division where there were 4 teams that won over 90 games I'll give the GM a bit of a pass.

Why don't you spend some more time ranting like a senile geriatric imbecile about how Russel Martin's significant other being called his partner is somehow destroying society. This is the same team that most of the major prognosticators labelled as a legitimate world series contender in the offseason. There have been serious underperformance and injury issues which have largely sunk the pen up to this point. The trade deadline has not passed yet, and there will be ample opportunity to bring in much needed help. This same general manager assembled a team which may have been baseball's best team in the second half of 2021, but unfortunately just missed the post season. There are 3 months left to this season, so maybe we can let things play out before labelling the general manager as a "clown".

Go ahead and look in the mirror bro.

That's probably the game right there.

Of course yet another lucky hit.

Jays pitchers have bullseye on them today.

Just more of the same from yesterday.

Thankfully nobody on base for the Paredes blast.

That was completely baffling right before a double header, especially when you have a crappy AAA depth starter going in one of them.

Looks like running Castillo out in the late innings last night has already backfired given the need for innings today.

Rays already with 3 garbage hits in second inning.

Several 98 MPH heaters from Gausman early on.

Great approaches by Bo and Vlad going the other way.

Bo showing how it's done!

It looks like Gausman has good stuff today. Hopefully he can escape the first with no damage as the Rays haven't exactly scorched any of the two hits so far.

Yeah this was a very fun game. Early on it appeared as though the Rays might end up BABIP'ing their way to an undeserved victory but Berrios held the fort and the offence destroyed the Rays pitching staff from the 3rd inning on.

I've always maintained that we should reserve judgement until Biggio had a chance to get his body fully healthy and receive some regular playing time. It just didn't feel reasonable to completely write him off after the injury riddled 2021 season given how productive he was in his first three seasons. He was a player who's not necessarily a finished product at the plate as he was still attempting to tweak his approach at the plate. Some of this ended up hurting him though, as he attempted to be more aggressive at the dish, which lessened the impact of his world class plate discipline. I definitely didn't expect such a dramatic turnaround though. Before his covid infection he was sitting at a -9 WRC+ after his first 13 games. 26 games later and he's worked his way up to 133 WRC+. It will be interesting to see where he ends up by season's end.

Yeah Lawrence is probably a good call as long man for tomorrow. I think Cavan must have made some tweaks while in AAA and has emerged as the best version of himself since returning.