The Bleak

So last time was before Nor'easter #2...we ended up with about 2' of the snow. Good news is we didn't lose power, which I can't say for everyone else. Lots of trees and limbs down (we had a 40' limb crash into driveway behind la casa but it didn't hit anything). Approximately 2 hours of shoveling and snow throwing Wednesday evening and another 2 hours on Thursday morning to get the driveway and cars cleared. We were supposed to have another Nor'easter today but the track changed and we were spared.

As for HS baseball...with the weather what it was, they've (YSSS' team) has only had 4-5 practices. He was taking SAT on Saturday so he missed that one. They are working out as we speak (or as I type).

Spring training baseball is getting down to it. We'll see how my NY Mets are in pretty short order. I think the pitching will be ok (if healthy), though most of the pitchers (except deGrom and Vargas) will be limited to well below 200 innings. You have to have the horses to pitch a minimum of 1458 innings in MLB season, so this will begin to be an issue around August 1. Figure that 567 innings are a lock for relievers...that leaves around 891 for starters. If deGrom and Vargas can go 400 that leaves 491 for the rest. That's a lot to ask for guys who will be on a short leash. Expect a lot of spot starts. Right now rotation looks like:

deGrom

Syndergaard

Vargas

Harvey

Matz

Lugo and Wheeler in pen. Wheeler only has about 70-80 innings I think so his dream of starting is just that, a dream. You can add Gsellman and Montero in there as well. We'll see.

Hitting for NY Mets will be spotty. Bet that.

As for D...I'm not in love with it. Especially with Nimmo and then, Conforto on CF. The catchers are not going to light up anybody's fantasy draft. The IF is suspect. Rosario is fine. The rest (Gonzalez, Frazier, Reyes, Cabrera, Flores) are all a bit slowed, if you catch my drift.