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i give wright a break because of his spine, but yeah. he needs to be sharper.
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What Terry really needs to do is put Ces in left, bring Lagares in at center and let Conforto DH...Cuddyer needs to ride the pine for the rest of the series and only be used if a game goes into the 20th inning.
Last night was a huge letdown, but I honestly feel like the Mets have the advantage for the next few games...deGrom against a shaky Cueto tonight should mean a W...Syndergaard and Matz are better than their 3-4 pitchers, especially at home...and then the Dark Knight in Game 5 for the 'ship
i give wright a break because of his spine, but yeah. he needs to be sharper.
Duda needs to stop swinging at garbage also...and I give Wright a slight pass, but he's been waiting years for this...he needs to step up!
cuddyer should only be used if snipers kill 4 men in one game.
Don't know how y'all feel but that umpire was not giving the Mets pitchers the same calls he was giving the Royals pitchers
Yoenis Cespedes shows every risk of his megabucks free agency
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Yoenis Cespedes plays two huge games at once these days. The World Series, of course.
And the World Series of baseball poker. In that one, the game is about winning hearts and minds and — ultimately — a huge wad of cash.
He is trying to convince an industry — Mets ownership and those of any team with deep pockets and a need for a slugger — that his quick-twitch genius outweighs a suspicion that he is not someone who should be trusted with lots of years and money on a contract.
What New York has learned up close about Cespedes is there is a Dominique Wilkins Human Highlight Film aspect to the guy. But, like Wilkins, there is a combination of the spectacular and a persistent wonder whether he is a winning player. He has played for four organizations since July 2014 and that is because he is in demand. But is it also because his old clubs do not mind saying goodbye?
By the time the Royals finalized a 5-4 victory in 14 innings and five-plus hours early Wednesday, Cespedes’ highlight moment of World Series Game 1 had faded somewhat. But how he handled the play and the aftermath was not a positive.
Before the 111th World Series was one inning old, Cespedes had missed the pregame call to the base line because, one Mets official said, he was in the bathroom and then missed a first-inning fly ball by Alcides Escocbar that went for an inside-the-park homer.
On that play — off Matt Harvey’s first pitch — Escobar drove a ball just shy of the warning track in left-center. Left fielder Michael Conforto said he thought he heard Cespedes call for it. Cespedes said he did no such thing. Cespedes put up a desperate backhand, missed the ball, had it carom off his leg way toward left field and Esocbar circled the bases easily.
Conforto, a rookie, was quickly to his locker in the postgame and took responsibility, saying “that ball can’t get down, it must be caught. … I definitely had a chance to make a play and didn’t.”
Cespedes, a veteran who wants long-term riches, stalled and stalled before begrudgingly answering questions and never being accountable about the play.
The rule is on a 50-50 ball the center fielder has priority, but Cespedes spoke vaguely of a shift taking him out of position. Nevertheless, one Mets official said bluntly, “That is the center fielder’s ball.”
Cespedes had one positive in this game, singling in the sixth and coming around to score on a Conforto sac fly to medium left, from where the only left fielder with a chance to throw out the speedy Cespedes would have been Cespedes.
Power arm. Power legs. Power bat.
It is the package that makes Cespedes so desirable, on the trade market and this coming offseason on the free-agent market.
And if the story ended there, Cespedes would no doubt receive a six-year deal this winter for $150 million — perhaps more in both length and dollars.
It doesn’t. Cespedes worries the Mets and other teams. What will organizations think of Cespedes walking the course for 18 holes of golf even on game days? What will they think about mental holidays once he has the security of a long-term deal? Some executives who have had Cespedes portray a good teammate and hard worker, and some offer the opposite. If you like Cespedes, you see eccentricity within a magnetic star. If you don’t, you see a diva.
And it is amazing how quickly thoughts and emotions change about players. For most of the last two regular-season months — when Cespedes was carrying the team — Mets fans were all but ready to set up a fund to help the Wilpons pay for him. Imagine if I had told you on Oct. 1 that by the end of this month, most of the fan base would want Daniel Murphy re-signed and would be OK letting Cespedes head off to his fifth team?
Cespedes went 1-for-6 in this game and fanned twice, giving him 13 strikeouts in 40 plate appearances. That he feasts on ordinary pitching and is susceptible to high-end stuff also will concern suitors — the Mets included.
The reality is the Mets never were likely to pay Cespedes at the top of the market and the expectation is he will go to the top bidder.
Still, he could spruce his status with a strong World Series. But it has not begun well. His goodwill with Mets fans is melting. He plays now the World Series — and World Series of baseball poker — to try to win back hearts, minds and ultimately a huge wad of cash.
im fine with lagares starting tonight because he hit well. I'm not gonna complain about cespedes in CF since he's a good CF, he just hot dogged that fly ball like a punk.Mets gave that one away, but the Royals will use their speed to really test this Mets defense out, few plays were left on the field.
Split on the road would be ideal with deGrom tonight, favorable matchup.
I think we will see Cespedes in left, Lagares in center, and Conforto or Uribe (if he is able to) as a DH tonight.
conforto is in the DH spot tonight.![]()