{"id":3105,"date":"2018-04-17T08:45:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=3105"},"modified":"2018-04-16T23:46:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T03:46:18","slug":"forgiving-asdrubal-cabrera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2018\/04\/17\/forgiving-asdrubal-cabrera\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgiving Asdrubal Cabrera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/images\/1\/6\/4\/267742164\/030218_cabrera_smelling_bat_002_.gif\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" \/>Getting thrown out at third was a dumb mistake by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cabreas01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Asdrubal Cabrera<\/a> tonight, especially with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/confomi01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Michael Conforto<\/a> at the plate, but after cooling down a little I have to forgive him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Mets have been really aggressive on the basepaths this season. They&#8217;re going first to third and second to home every chance they get. They&#8217;re always moving, always making the defense make plays, keeping them on their toes. It&#8217;s been working, and I&#8217;d hate to see one mistake blunt what&#8217;s been working. Perhaps two mistakes if you want to count the play at the plate earlier, but I don&#8217;t, I liked that send.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Coming into today Asdrubal Cabera was 9th in Fangraphs\u00a0 BsR, baserunning runs above average.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/frazito01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Todd Frazier<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cespeyo01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Yoenis Cespedes<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rosaram01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Amed Rosario<\/a> are also in the top 36 of 190.\u00a0 Cabrera knows it was a bone-headed move. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/callami01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Mickey Callaway<\/a> knows it, the entire team knows it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You take the tough loss, and you move on. The Mets are fallible, unfortunately. but unsurprisingly. Luckily, they still have a solid lead and 15 more games against the Nationals. Keep winning series, winning baseball, just winning in general. Things will be fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting thrown out at third was a dumb mistake by Asdrubal Cabrera tonight, especially with Michael Conforto at the plate, but after cooling down a little I have to forgive him. &nbsp; The Mets have been really aggressive on the basepaths this season. They&#8217;re going first to third and second to home every chance they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2018\/04\/17\/forgiving-asdrubal-cabrera\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forgiving Asdrubal Cabrera&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2999,19,3],"tags":[2065,3014,3015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}