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Either bone, looking at 3 months before he’d pitch in an MLB game. Decent chance he’s done for the year.

Rare day game at the ballpark for me. AJ Hinch got ejected after the play at third which to my eyes was clearly one that should have been overturned. Of course arguing with the field umpires after a replay call might seem pointless, but all the umpires do a shift in the replace center during the season, and when it’s so clearly wrong, I can see some value in remaining the ump here that you expect better from him when it’s his turn there. Ewing’s homer was pretty. 7 more wins to go to reach .500 …

Aside from Mendoza — isn’t this exactly what happened between 2025 and 2026? Coaching staff was changed top to bottom. Massive changes in the clubhouse. Big new free agents coming in, other longstanding players leaving. That is not at all a stick-to-the-line approach. I agree Mendoza should be fired (and should have been fired several weeks ago). And sure, Paul Blackburn sucked (I agree), but he was something like the #9 starter entering 2025, and the few million bucks he got from the Mets were a rounding error for the team/Cohen. I also don’t think JD Martinez was half as good on the field as you credit him for. I find myself sympathetic to Stearns’ situation because: (1) he came into a team that had just gone through 5 GMs in the prior 7 seasons, and for the 7 or 8 seasons prior to that had been on an austerity budget. That’s a long time for an organization to be run badly. Seems logical that it’s pretty hard to develop an organizational philosophy, improve talent evaluation/ development/ etc. with constant turnover. (2) Plenty of success with Milwaukee. I suspect I’d have less patience if he didn’t have a track record. (3) Stearns has mostly been handing a roster that others built. The 2024 team largely existed before he showed up (and, if Stearns is getting dinged for Blackburn or Martinez, he has to also get credit for singing Jose Iglesias to a minor league deal and having him available — the singular change that saved the 2024 season in my view). The 2025 team was a mix of Stearns acquisitions and old-guard, and by 2026 it’s actually his team. (4) Stearns didn’t make Bichette bad, Lindor bad/hurt, or Soto hurt.

It’s complete lazy bullshit, something invented because it’s easy to lash out when the team underperforms. And, apparently, people feel threatened by those who are younger than them (hence all the ridiculous/repeated complaints about him being young). —- Firing Stearns mid-season is dumb because it won’t fix the team this year and has all sorts of potential negative side effects (there’s a draft coming up, it makes Cohen look impetuous and thus harder to find a good replacement, etc). Centerfield brings up an interesting counterpoint, about whether Stearns should be in charge of deadline trades. Aside from generalized anger/disappointment at the team’s performance this year, I’m not sure what the support is for the idea that he can’t do that effectively. I also don’t think there’s a lot to do at the deadline. The Mets have what, 3 tradeable assets? Peralta, Holmes, and Raley, all on expiring contracts? No GM is coming back with a big haul from that.

Also vote to eliminate it! Sidenote, thanks for the efforts and soliciting of feedback to get us up and running here.

I think it’s to keep it a 1:1 substitution. Baty to first, Bichette to third, Brujan to short for the bottom of the tenth.

The gist is that (1) the focus on defense and positioning is a big part of the long-term decline in batting average, combined with (2) different hitting strategies (better to hit it in the air than on the ground). There was a one-year uptick in batting average after the shift was banned but those two long-term trends have not changed.

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Am I missing something?

Hey, there’s the value Semien’s supposed to be bringing to the team.

Except they’re not paying for the in-market games. MLB.tv has always been advertised as providing access to out-of-market games only. if MASN would sell them in-market streaming (the way SNY does) then they’d have easier access to those 17 games. (This clarification is not an endorsement of MLB’s broadcast strategy.

People care what Curt Schilling says? Really?

SNY started in-market streaming last year through the MLB.tv app….seems like something any other network could do too.

First thing that comes to mind re: Sterling is that he was on the call in the legendary July 4, 1985 game that the Mets won in 19 innings.

Well, it’s on Stearns now.

Ads: I know why they’re here. I wish there was a number you could give me that I could pay to make them go away when logged in. Assuming that’s pie-in-the-sky, however, can they at least be in sensible places? The ones that appear in the middle of the threads/topic listings? Ok, I get it. But the pop-up that comes up on mobile right above the address bar is awful and hinders us from using the site as intended.

Peterson is a free agent at the end of the year and has actually had some success in the bullpen. There’s plenty of reasons to keep him around and yes, he probably can be moved in a trade also. Manaea needs a thorough evaluation to see if he’s actually healthy. He never got those loose bodies in his elbow fixed, right? One would think a long IL stint and slow ramp-up is the path with him.

Maybe JD Martinez? this change has to happen immediately.

I’m on board with criticism of Stearns for making ill-advised moves but this one doesn’t make sense. -The Mets aren’t paying Nimmo to play for another team; the whole point of that deal was to lower overall financial exposure. Maybe (and it sure looks that way) it was a bad trade because the Mets weren’t getting enough on-field value in return but for cash purposes it was a reduction of money. -Minter is fantastic when on the field. Wasn’t it part of the Mets’ financial advantage to sign him to that deal knowing that they aren’t hamstrung spending the money if it doesn’t work out? Should Stearns have spent even more money for a different reliever? -Polanco was a (likely?) a bad move because he doesn’t really have a position. The alternative was…what, exactly? Spend more on whom? The point is that the issue isn’t the money, it’s the choice of players. And maybe also the manager.

1,301. Carl Edwards Jr. 1,302. Austin Slater

Still searching for rock bottom. Have to fire Mendoza soon so it doesn’t happen when the team is in Anaheim.

Or hurt. I’m certainly convinced that Manaea’s not been healthy for a long time.

Mark Vientos challenging a strike call with no one on, one out, and an 8-run lead in the 5th inning…and the pitch nowhere close to a ball…to burn the last challenge…is something. He needs to lose his challenge privileges for a week or something for that.

Zero chance of that happening.

Choosing (and retaining) Mendoza is also a Stearns choice. As I’ve said earlier, I think Stearns’ seat is also warm but firing him in-season isn’t going to make a difference with this team. Changing the manager might - and it’s not as if the team can fall to 6th place.