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Originally Posted by Westheim
Takeaways from the Mets' largely listless 4-1 loss to the Padres on Friday night.
Pro: The Mets are back!
Con: ...losing.
Pro: The Mets are back!
Con: Mostly on national TV though.
Pro: Scherzer was fine.
Con: Darvish was finer.
Pro: Mets trade for Dan Vogelbach!
Con: Mets trade for Dan Vogelbach, continuing to be entirely hopeless against southpaws.
Pro: Travis Blankenhorn!
Con: Travis Blankenhorn.
Con: Nido had a paw squished.
Pro: His replacement can't possibly hit less than him.
The highlight reel is mostly Keith antics, like absolutely enjoying reading out loud the pitching log of the Red Sox as they got crammed 28 by the Blue Jays, and being cordially invited by Gary Cohen to trim his hedge if he's bored while the Mets are on national TV.
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This is the baseball equivalent of the Simpsons' "Stonecutters" episode. Detach the stone of shame... attach the stone of triumph!
Vogelbach will be perfect for the team beach football game after the season, but he's the perfect example of the kind of guy teams actually roster to be a DH. Career .400 SLG, useless with a glove or on the bases, Not a niche that needs to be filled on a team with JDD AND Pete AND Dom.
But it does remind me of all the lunkheads the last two years who went on and on about how the Mets would be so helped by the DH
