Readers of my daily recaps -- and those who remember the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” -- know that when I reference the big pile of mashed potatoes and say “This is important. This means something,” that something has occurred that may actually matter but I don’t know exactly what it means or how it all fits together.
With that in mind, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic just dumped a bunch of mashed potatoes on our plates and it’s time to get sculpting, Richard Dreyfuss-style:
The #Mets scratched Ervin Santana from his Triple A start today. Syndergaard scheduled to pitch for them in majors tonight. Not known whether two are linked.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 30, 2019
If the Mets think they have a deal in the works for Syndergaard, they’d most certainly scratch him, thus the need for Santana. Heck, even if they think they’re a day away from closing a deal, they may do it so that an acquiring team can run Syndergaard out this week.
UPDATE: For now, anyway, Syndergaard is still on the hill tonight:
Mets currently plan to start Syndergaard tonight on schedule
— Andy Martino (@martinonyc) July 30, 2019
Guess we’ll see. All of this is, of course, pure speculation, but it’s a lot more fun to speculate when there’s at least a little hook of something on which to hang it all. And really, it’s not like anything else is going on.
