Boras will doubtless want to monitor Harvey closely tonight, and it just so happens that Amazon's Deal of the Day is the iBaby Monitor M6 HD Wi-Fi Wireless Digital Baby Camera.
At $139.95 down from $199.95, the Mets could even spring for the device as a peace offering toward Harvey's helicopter agent. After all, the promotional copy promises: "no more endless phone calls from the office to check on your little bundle of joy."
As for Game 2, not much good to say about the 5-0 Met loss. Yoenis Cespedes is 0 for his last 17, but his overall Met numbers remain sensational. What's more concerning, however, is that the Mets have been shut out twice and have scored only eight runs total in their last four games while Cespedes has gone cold.
The Mets now have enough good hitters that others should be able to pick up the slack when Cespedes inevitably cools off. Lucas Duda hit nine homers in eight games in late July and early August, then failed to hit another one until Friday night. Yet it was when Duda stopped producing that the Mets' offense took off. Can the Mets now similarly thrive without Cespedes' daily heroics, or is it that, as Cespedes goes, so goes the team? If it's the latter, Cespedes' free-agent price just got higher.
If Harvey does well tonight against the Yankees and shows he is in good form for the postseason, much will be forgiven. It shouldn't be too much to ask, considering that he is going on ten days rest. As Squawker Lisa would say, sounds like my blogging schedule!
Matt Harvey. That's cute. No, I don't mean the baby stuff. I mean he'd be the 4th starter on the Yankees.
ReplyDeleteThen again, he's probably better off on the Mets, seeing that Joe Girardi panicks when a pitcher reaches 85 pitches, and thinks he needs 7 pitchers to throw a shutout.
Cespedes and Mark Teixeira may well be the most valuable players (note the lower-case letters) in their respective leagues. Without them, their respective teams can't hit!