Today, SSB favorite John Garland faced off against SSB sworn enemy Oliver Perez.
Ollie won! Look out your window. It may be dark, but if you squint, you will see the pigs flying!
On the all important "Ollie" score (walks + HBP + WPs + HRs):
Ollie: 7
Garland: 3
Ollie walked 6 people in less than 6 innings. As Crash Davis says: "I don't know where it's gonna go. I swear to god!"
On a related (sign of the apocolypse) note, Jeff Francouer walked twice in a game for the 3rd time this season. Granted, one was an intentional walk, and the other might as well have been (2nd and 3rd less than two outs). Still, two walks is two walks.
The silver lining with Ollie is that Omar can't give him any more money for a few years. He already has $24M coming the next two years.
Frenchie, on the other hand? Not so much. I expect that he will get a new contract equal to .7 X RBIs as a Met X $1M. For example, 42 RBIs, $6M per year. The years will be determined by how "clutch" he seems to Manuel. Since no one seems to remember his outs, I expect Frenchie to get a $24M extension at the end of the year. Hard as it will be to believe, that contract will be worse than the Castillo contract.
On the bright side, when Omar gives Frenchie $24M this offseason, it will quiet the "Omar only pays Latinos" mob. Not sure if that is worth being stuck with Frenchie as our RF for the next half decade. I guess we will find out.
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