IGT 2026-04-12: Getting Out of Town

[Edgy MD]

Good time to pinch-hit Mo for Semien.

[whippoorwill]

Come ON Mets

[Radar]

Glad we improved our defense Mr. Stearns.

[Centerfield]

What a horrific homestand. Mendoza really should not survive the road trip. 

[Radar]

2 minutes ago, Centerfield said:

What a horrific homestand. Mendoza really should not survive the road trip. 

Hope Stearns goes with him

[metirish]

Boos so loud you could just about hear Gary after the final out, pathetic 

[Centerfield]

Just now, metirish said:

Boos so loud you could just about hear Gary after the final out, pathetic 

Well deserved. A pathetic effort by this team. 
 

Mendoza continuing to demonstrate that he has no idea how to right the ship. 

[ashie62]

The word is "grim"

[Edgy MD]

One walk on the afternoon.

Might have had a second, but Vientos had a ball four overturned into a strike three.

[Radar]

17 minutes ago, Centerfield said:

Well deserved. A pathetic effort by this team. 
 

Mendoza continuing to demonstrate that he has no idea how to right the ship. 

Not protecting Mendoza but we're always quicker to call out managers but not so quick to look at roster construction. 

[Edgy MD]

Philosophy emanates from both places.

Whatever philosophy undermined Jeff McNeil, two-time batting average champion, and turned him into Jeff McNeil, utterly disposable player, presumably was understood and embraced among the front office, the manager's office, the batting coaches, and (to be fair) Jeff himself.

You can change personnel over and over, and outspend most everybody, but most teams are filled with capable major league players.  The difference, to a meaningful extent, is philosophy, and beliefs can be stubbornly persistent, whether it is effective or not.

[MFS62]

52 minutes ago, Centerfield said:

Mendoza continuing to demonstrate that he has no idea how to right the ship. 

He has major leaguers(some better than others)  but he has no idea how to blend them into a cohesive offensive lineup.

Later

 

[Frayed Knot]

So a lineup of the same guys, only in a different order, would have squeezed a better result out of four singles and a walk?

[MFS62]

Not all of the same guys. I’m talking about the roster. 
where was Alvarez.?

later

[Frayed Knot]

Sitting, as all catchers do and as he will probably twice a week. Get used to it. And Torrens had one of the hits and was robbed of a second.

[Casey Stengel]

2 hours ago, Radar said:

Hope Stearns goes with him

hopefully before midnight tonight.

[Gwreck]

18 hours ago, Radar said:

Hope Stearns goes with him

What does this accomplish?

Serious question:  how does firing Stearns mid-season fix anything?  Let alone the publicity and perception problems it creates, as well as the difficulty in hiring a replacement.

 

[Radar]

6 minutes ago, Gwreck said:

What does this accomplish?

Serious question:  how does firing Stearns mid-season fix anything?  Let alone the publicity and perception problems it creates, as well as the difficulty in hiring a replacement.

 

As I posted earlier, I think this third year will tell whether he should be replaced. I agree midseason is not necessarily what should be done, but if things continue as they have certainly someone else in my opinion should oversee our next off season.

[Edgy MD]

Well, things are certainly not going to continue as they are.  All sorts of things will happen this year.  Bad things, good things.  Guys will heal.  Other guys will hurt.  Guys you never heard of will arrive.  A period will pass where things are going so right that you think the Mets are touched by God. 

It probably won't be a defining part of the season, but it might.  Births, deaths, raccoons, fights, foul language, clownish errors alternating with angelic athleticism.  At the end of the day, there's a real good chance there won't be a trophy, but that's the game.

You can cash in your chips now — and that's all a valid move — but then you don't get to watch tomorrow, and I'm still interested in what tomorrow brings.

[Gwreck]

2 hours ago, Radar said:

As I posted earlier, I think this third year will tell whether he should be replaced. I agree midseason is not necessarily what should be done, but if things continue as they have certainly someone else in my opinion should oversee our next off season.

I could see a situation in which Stearns is fired but there’s way too much baseball left to be played and thus this discussion is silly at this point.  Stearns didn’t make Soto hurt or Lindor/Bichette bad.  

If those 3 players all wind up having reasonably-standard seasons for them and the team still misses the playoffs?  Ok, we can talk about it then.