In all seriousness, I'm shocked we won with Peralta for day 1. Losing Burnes and not having Woodruff is gonna blow. It's a long season. I have no faith in our depth. Sent from my genius mind.
I have very little expectations for this year. As I stated above, I hate our starting 5 and now, Megill is on the shelf....shocking.
Unfortunately for the Mets, he had a good rookie season, and a good start in the World Series against the Yankees, which made the team think he was a much better pitcher than he was. By all accounts he was a good guy and a good teammate. RIP.
That one has a bigger impact for sure - he was an excellent defensive catcher (Johnny Bench famously said that if Grote was on the Reds, he [Bench] would be playing third base), and extremely important in the development of pitchers like Seaver, Koosman, Gentry, Matlack, and McGraw. Gil Hodges had a tremendous effect on him from a personal point of view (and gave him some good hitting advice as well), and Yogi helped sharpen his catching skills as well. RIP.
They're for sure going to need another arm in the pen at some point. The lack of length from the SP is a real problem when you have to rattle off 6 or 7 games in a row.
Bizarre decision of Mendoza to keep Houser in when he obviously had absolutely nothing. Before you know it, you're down 7-0.
