MAY 3: The Mets have placed Davis on the 10-day IL (retroactive to May 2) and recalled righty Trevor Hildenberger, Anthony DiComo of MLB.com tweets. Meanwhile, Nimmo is still active, but he’s not in the Mets’ lineup Monday.
MAY 1: The Mets’ 5-4 victory over the Phillies may have been a costly one, as New York saw two lineup regulars leave tonight’s game with injuries. The Mets announced that Brandon Nimmo suffered a left index finger contusion that forced the outfielder to leave partway through a seventh inning at-bat, while third baseman J.D. Davis was replaced before the bottom of the seventh due to a left hand sprain.
X-rays were negative on Nimmo, which is a positive sign considering that Nimmo looked to be in pain after fouling off a pitch during his at-bat. It isn’t clear how Davis hurt his hand — he struck out during a sixth-inning plate appearance and then played his position in the bottom of the sixth, seemingly with no issue. It’s possible this latest problem could be related to Davis’ previous left hand injury, as he was hit by a Chase Anderson pitch on April 7 and ended up spending a 10-day minimum stint on the injured list.
Since returning from that injury, however, Davis has been among the game’s hottest hitters. Entering tonight’s play, Davis had an outstanding .395/.489/.632 slash line and two homers over 45 plate appearances, with a 208 wRC+ that ranked seventh amongst all players in baseball with at least 40 PA.
Nimmo hasn’t been far behind in terms of productivity, hitting .339/.453/.468 in 76 PA heading into tonight’s game. Nimmo’s .453 OBP was leading the National League, and ranked fourth overall in baseball (behind only Mike Trout, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., and Yermin Mercedes) among qualified players.
Davis and Nimmo have represented a major chunk of the Mets’ offense thus far in the season, as apart from Pete Alonso, virtually the entire New York lineup has struggled to begin the season. The Mets finished April ranked last in the majors in both runs and home runs, as well as 29th in team slugging percentage, 22nd in OPS+, and 20th in wRC+.
good umpiring has also left the game as a whole.
It’s time for the rise of the machines. I was always against it but after what we have been witnessing, I am afraid it’s time. They want to mess with the game and do home run derby’s instead of extra innings? Oh yea Manfred? You think people want to see that nonsense? Then get rid of the umps and replace them with the sensors. I’ll tell you what, the game will only get better but your other rules just make the game worse and for what? To gain 5% of fair weather fans? PleAse. Go pack a lunch Manfred.
Manfred has nothing to do with the Pioneer League which is where the homerun derby extra innings rule is happening.
well they are a partner league but it was their idea
A bad idea… a shootout to end a baseball game. What’s next? Throwing a ball at a table full of bowling puns? Maybe you can win a stuffed animal to go along with a contrived “victory?”
I also think robo umps will speed up the game. If a player disagrees with a call, program the robo ump to zap them with an electro-rod, or some kind of neural zapper.
Now while good idea players are made of glass to begin with. There would be no players
I want ED-209 style RoboUmps.
Ive been against it too. But really what have been consequences for west and angel. No letters of warning suspensions. And others just really bad calls that arent even close. Do something Mansfred. Stop with little league rules. We put a guy on second in extra innings because the sun was going down.
The only 2 guys in the Mets lineup that are hitting right now
Travis d`Arnoud looks injured too :/ maybe we will get to see the immortal Mathis though!
Looks like AJax took one to the parts when he got crossed by LJax. Mathis better be Skiplagging red eyes to Dunedin. Wonder if Sandoval can don the gear.
@rundmc
Yeah, I saw that and wondered the same thing! Lol. I hope the braves pen doesn’t blow this game.
Annndd Nate Jones happens. I have no earthly idea why snitker brings him in high leverage situations. He’s even trashier then the rest of the braves bullpen.
Luke Jackson is the worst
I saw. I hope it’s not to serious. If your bullpen pitches better you’ll will be fine. It can’t be this bad all year just like the Mets offense.. both teams will be good soon.
I feel the Braves pain. Marlins have 4 freakin’ blown saves through 25 games! And an umpire fail.
It’s actually 5 since the games was tied bc your guy just blew a save. So I don’t know if you counted but you still have to count it as a blown save.
I did count it. It was one of the four. Either way, our closer situation sucks. And as pointed out above, the umpiring this season has been horrible throughout. In that one blown save to the Mets, it also covered both the Marlins blown saves problem and the atrocious umpiring problem all in one inning.
@metsfan22
I hope you’re right. The Mets lineup is a quandary, so many great hitters in the line-up who are struggling.
Hopefully no extended IL stints for these two. Wonder if Mallex Smith gets a call up.
Neris always seems to have a terrible time against the Mets
remove the last three words.
They showed a graphic during the game that his era is a full two points higher against the Mets than other teams…
Simply because the Mets face him a lot. He’s good against teams out of the division. When you know that splitter is coming, it’s fairly easy to crush. I bet the Braves, Nats and Marlins have similar success against Neris.
@VonPurpleHayes
At least in terms of overall numbers, he’s been by far the worst against the Mets. But I think your assessment is correct. He’s easy to predict, and the familiarity undoubtedly helps a lot.
As far as I can recall, pretty much all of their other major bullpen arms have done solidly against the Mets over these first few series.
Neris has a terrible time against most teams. He has a nasty splitter, but that’s all he has. So it’s easy to guess what’s coming and leads lots of homers, especially against teams that face him often. Bradley, Coonrod or Brogdon should be closing out games for the Phils.
Agreed. Neris isn’t even ordinary.
Better to place faith in a pitcher like Brogdon, who can grow into the closer’s role
The story the first month of the season has to be the horrific umpires and the equally horrific offense league-wide. That Cutch inteference call was the 2nd worst call I ever saw. The 1st worst call was the one against the Brewers this very week. I always argued against robo umps, but man…these guys have been absolutely blowing it. As for these particular injuries, these guys need to comeback quick for this struggling Mets lineup. If this division weren’t so awful, the Mets could easily be 6+ games back by now. Luckily no one wants to win the NL Least so far.
All the NL East teams are better than what we’re seeing right now. Just some bad baseball with some even worse umpiring. It’s got to get better because it can’t get much worse
Agreed about the umpiring. It has been atrocious so far this year. While it may not have an effect on the other division races, but because of the potential small differences in positioning in the NL East this year, I’m truly concerned that this division may be decided by an umpire’s bonehead call. That would be worse than this being decided by health situations.
As for our records, yes, the teams are better than their records, but it’s also based on all five of our teams can battle each other. In all of my years of watching baseball, I’ve never seen an entire division where all have a decent chance of winning the division. All five teams would be contenders in every division, and potential division champs in both Central divisions. Unfortunately, we’ll all bring our win totals down to the point that it very likely will be ‘division or bust’ for the NL East.
I believe automated umpires would actually speed up the game, in addition to making it a better product. Umpires are terribly inconsistent. Often they give the charity call, on a 2-0, 3-0 or 3-1 pitch. Anything close, they call a strike. It results in encouraging pitchers to nibble around the corner – which lengthens and makes a more boring game.
@Dogbone, you’re not wrong, but I’m not even talking balls and strikes here. I’m talking no brainer routine plays that are getting botched because umpires are on power trips and making up phantom interference calls…etc. We saw it twice this week.
Wander Franco needs to be called up. It is time.
I realize this is unrelated, but still truth.
Happy baseball, friends.
Ive been against it too. But really what have been consequences for west and angel. No letters of warning suspensions. And others just really bad calls that arent even close. Do something Mansfred. Stop with little league rules. We put a guy on second in extra innings because the sun was going down.
At this rate, A-Rod is going to be able to buy the Mets for a huge discount after Cohen gets bored with the lack of offense.
Baseball does not need robots. It needs more umpire accountability and less “subjective” BS calls. Everything should be reviewable and the original call on the field should not be told to the baffoons in NY.
Baseball actually does need an “absolute” strike zone… The call against McCutchen was absolutely horrid as well… Baseball has always been a sport based on interpretation. I get people are mad at the umpires but as a percentage they do a great job. Remember, the ump on the field didn’t decide what is reviewable and what is not. Bottom line, if you don’t like how the game is handled or played then just shut it off… Problem solved. I wish people had the same off button
Everyone should check out the new documentary called Sprains, Strains, and Bruises: The Real Story of the 2021 MLB Season. Narrated by Cal Ripken Jr. it’s basically him breaking down which current MLB players are the softest. Also J.D. Davis is currently in the early stages of a movie about his life and career its gonna be called The Forty Year Old Prospect.
We have to thank Manfred for changing all these rules and the end result is more injuries. Single handed my destroying the integrity of the game.
I don’t like the rule changes but I don’t see how they can be the cause of the injury plague. They’re designed to speed up the game…
Which really isn’t happening.