IGT NYM@SEA, 2026-06-03

[Edgy MD]

Getting out of town with a win would be some small consolation and that's what Freddy Peralta hopes to make happen for the Mets.

A 3:40 start for East Coast viewers allows for daytime baseball engorgement. 

[duan]

and those of us on the east of the atlantic can get a rare sighting of Safeco (now T-Mobile) Field in the wild. 

[Frayed Knot]

It's just another sleepy, dusty, delta day.

[Brock Beauchamp]

	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	TOT
Sean Manaea	0	0	0	63	0	63
Luke Weaver	14	0	0	15	0	29
Huascar Brazobán	12	16	0	0	33	61
Devin Williams	0	8	0	18	0	26
David Peterson	0	0	51	0	0	51
Cionel Pérez	0	12	0	0	28	40
Brooks Raley	5	0	0	19	0	24
Austin Warren	7	20	0	0	0	27
A.J. Minter	14	0	0	9	19	42

[The Hot Corner]

The Mets need to avoid the sweep.  It seems every time they play well for a few games and look like a potentially competitive team they go right back into a tailspin of poor offense and shaking defense.

[Radar]

11 hours ago, Edgy MD said:

Getting out of town with a win would be some small consolation and that's what Freddy Peralta hopes to make happen for the Mets.

A 3:40 start for East Coast viewers allows for daytime baseball engorgement. 

Yeah, West Coast games allow me to just watch fast forward on SNY rather than slow suffering through a game with this team. Between getting rid of players that weren't the problem and actually making  what Stearns thought was bad defense even worst and not really improving the pitching enough which was the problem last year I think the owner should know what the biggest problem is and for 10 mil per year.......worst decision since he's owned the team.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Edgy MD]

Does anybody else think the defense is worse?

I mean, it is at shortstop, but that's because the top two shortstops got hurt, but not because of any change the team made.  Even last night, as two liners weren't successfully handled by the infielders, really good defense was on display in the outfield and at catcher.

I think they are almost certainly better at defense with a chance to improve further as the season progresses.

[Centerfield]

The outfield defense is much better.  I mean, it had to be.  We had Jeff McNeil out there in center.  Catcher is the same.  Shortstop is only worse because of injury.  First base is worse.  Second base is better.  Third has been fine.

 

 

[Centerfield]

But to Radar's point, yes.  The biggest problem the Mets have right now is David Stearns.  A last place team in the standings, the worst OPS in MLB, roster construction, players underperforming.  It all comes back to him.

Princeton Review used to cite to a guy named Joe Bloggs as part of their SAT prep.  Joe Bloggs represented the average guy.  A guy who would get the easy questions right, get some of the moderate questions, then miss on all the hard ones.  Part of their strategy was to recognize a hard question then identify the Joe Bloggs answer.

I kinda think of Billy Eppler as the Joe Bloggs of GMs.  He'll get all the slam dunks.  Hit or miss on the moderates.  Rarely makes an exceptional, out of the box move.

Joe Bloggs gets a $380MM team into a 12 team playoff pretty easily.  He won't build a dynasty, but he'll never have a last place offense.

The problem with David Stearns is that he's performing well below Joe Bloggs level.  And because he considers himself a 1600 guy, he refuses to make adjustments.  He figures his genius will eventually emerge.  

[Edgy MD]

However Stearns may be indicted, let us not call the defense worse if it isn't.

[Centerfield]

I think the defense has been kinda fun to watch.  Ewing and Benge and Baty all made great plays in this series.

And the biggest problem on defense can be remedied pretty quickly by never playing Vientos in the field when you have Jared Young in the lineup.  

Why he was out there is a mystery to me.  Except that David Stearns thinks Mendy is doing a great job.