Baseball Chatter 05/31

Last week Pete Mackanin benched Maikel Franco for two games, but instead of talking to him, he waited for Franco to approach him. Last year he did the same thing to Odubel, who never showed up to talk about it because he thought he was getting rest. WTF kind of communication is this?

Baseball Chatter 05/26

Sandy Alderson says that the Mets will talk less often and with much less specificity about their injuries. “I get in trouble because I try to be as honest as I can with you guys and give you an honest look at things, and then if it doesn’t happen, we look like an idiot because there’s no guarantees, So, we’re going to try to stay away from trying to predict anything except the fact that, Hey, look, there’s a process involved of getting these injured players back on the field and it changes every day,” says Terry Collins

Baseball Chatter 04/14

Luis Severino was a monster yesterday when he struck out 11, as 70 percent of his pitches were in the strike zone. Severino pitched quickly and showed great mound presence. Come to find out, he worked with the king of mound presence this offseason, Pedro Martinez.