The Story Of How The Mets Knew Carson Benge, Nolan McLean Were Ready
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What event is being celebrated at Cisco Brewers?
We're having a party, by the way. If you're in Boston on Tuesday, we're having a party at Cisco Brewers. Cisco Brewers from 6 to 8. The Best Shape of My Life Club people are all going to be there showing off what they did. I'm so inspired by everybody. I'm so happy that we did it. It changed a lot of lives. And now we get a chance to have a party. And it's not just a party for that. It's a party to celebrate the great game of baseball as we storm into the season. Rich Hill, by the way, is going to be there. It may or may not be his retirement party as well. I don't know. But anyway... No matter where you are, no matter where you're listening, we want you to celebrate baseball isn't boring. You can do that.
BB isn't boring. BBisntboring.com. bbisntboring.com to go get your merch. We got more on the way. But in the meantime, go take a look at what we have right now. I think you're going to like it. I think it's going to give you a chance to walk to the park, walk to a park, walk down the street, and everyone will say, oh, that's interesting. Yes, baseball is indeed not boring. And we had examples of that across the board. We have examples of this on the podcast. Today's podcast, the centerpiece, Dick Scott is back. Dick Scott, in case you don't know him, he's a AAA manager for the Syracuse Mets. He's one of our go-tos when it comes to knowing what's what in the minor leagues and getting players from AAA to the major leagues.
There's nobody better in explaining it. There's nobody better in doing it. Dickie Scott has had some great success stories throughout his career, and he has a couple great success stories going on right now. And really, I wanted to know a few different things from Dickie about just his lot in life as AAA manager when you enter into the frigid, frigid ways of the early season, when you have guys who have never, ever played baseball in temperatures of 30 degrees or something like that. But more importantly, what's it like? How do you know when a guy is ready? And we have a couple good examples from Dickey's point of view. And that's, of course, Mets, Mets rookies. That's Nolan McClain and Carson Bench.
So we talked to Dickey about all that stuff, about how he knew that Bench and McClain were ready. And he's given honest, precise advice. intriguing, outstanding answer when asked about both guys. And then he obviously talks about guys he already has. He has right now who might be the next Ben or McClain. But, hey, before we get to digging, I want to give you what's what when it comes to that first series that we went through with Major League Baseball. Now we have five undefeated teams. Blue Jays, Yankees, Marlins. Yes, Marlins. Brewers, Dodgers. We have five teams that science suggests have not won a game. Those are White Sox, A's, Diamondbacks, Rockies, and Giants. All right? And in case you don't know...
I want to get this out there before I forget. Per MLB Network, ABS Challenge, which was all the rage. There's a lot of ABS drama. You can go check out our Baseballs and Boarding on the radio where we spend an hour doing the talk about the ABS chaos. All right, batters were 26 for 57. Catchers were better, 40 for 63. Pitchers, if you're a pitcher, don't challenge. One for four. All right, but let's go back. So, like we said, we had five undefeated, five teams that didn't win. I look back at this time last year where you had four teams who were undefeated. Those teams were Yankees, Dodgers, Padres, Cardinals. Now, remember, Yankees, Dodgers, okay. Padres, Cardinals, eh, didn't have a great year. And four teams that hadn't won a game.
Now, this should give hope to everybody. Two of these teams made the playoffs. Brewers, Tigers, and then there were the Twins and the Braves. All right, so just to give you some perspective. Also, was there any trends? Did baseball change at all? Eh, maybe a little bit. Maybe.
Who is Dick Scott and why is he important to the Mets?
Played appearances per walk last year, 10.90. This year, 9.70. At bats per home run, well, they're hitting fewer home runs this year. Last year it was over 26. This year it's just over 30.
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