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  1. Gwreck
    They also didn’t make an offer before knowing that. (I suppose at some level it can be argued that the Mets did have a financial cap on what they were willing to pay Pete, since they didn’t want to do a 5 year deal. But as established by the 2/$54M deal they agreed to in the prior offseason, the holdup certainly was length and not the annual salary amount).
  2. Gwreck
    No one is suggesting that Stearns has done a good job overall. Full stop. Once we get past that reality (and/or if we are able to stop incessantly complaining about Stearns’ age and/or other self-created perceptions about him), how do we evaluate these specific set of deals? -One reaction I had is that it seemed like the Mets paid higher prices for relief help last year than what they received this year. Of course the market is different year-to-year, but what it took to get Soto and Rogers and Helsley seemed like more than what the Mets got for Raley and Minter and Weaver. -The prospects acquired from PIT and CHC are the most exciting. -One wonders how many of these new prospects will last in the Mets system beyond this year if the strategy is to use prospects as trade bait this offseason.
  3. Gwreck
    Mets home runs that were so big that they got the Gary Cohen double-call (“It’s outta here! Outta here!”): 1. Edgardo Alfonzo Grand Slam, 1999 NLDS Game 1 2. Todd Pratt, walk-off, 1999 NLDS Game 4 3. Robin Ventura, walk-off grand slam, 1999 NLCS Game 5 4. Mike Piazza, 10-run inning vs. Braves, June 2000 5. Benny Agbayani, walk-off, 2000 NLDS Game 3 6. Carlos Beltran, walk-off vs. Cardinals, August 2006 7. Carlos Beltran, 13th inning walk off vs. Arizona, June 2008 8. Asdrubal Cabrera, 12th inning walk-off vs. Philadelphia, September 2016 9. Wilmer Flores, walk-off vs Oakland, June 2017 10. Todd Frazier, game-tying 3-run homer in bottom of 9th vs Washington, August 2019 11. Pete Alonso, sets all-time Mets homer record, August 2025 12. Tyrone Taylor, 3-run game-tying homer in bottom of 9th vs Yankees, May 2026
  4. Gwreck
    Couple of thoughts: 1. Reportedly there was interest in Torrens, which makes sense to me (outstanding defense, team control for 2 additional seasons). 2. Senga’s contract isn’t really an albatross. $14M next year and then he’s a free agent. He does have no-trade rights to block deals to 10 teams. Made sense to keep him since any return would be selling at the lowest value, and maybe with different coaching the Mets can get him right. 3. Manaea is the pitcher who I thought the Mets might be able to move if they ate money ($25M next year) given his more promising results of late.
  5. Gwreck
    The key distinction here is “the answer.” Robert was not a bad a lottery-ticket acquisition: he cost little to trade for other than the money. He’s got massive talent and if he can stay on the field he’s excellent defensively with huge upside potential offensively. Now, depending on Robert to be a key contributor as an everyday player? That’s where the problem lies. I do get the desire to have him on the team.
  6. Gwreck
    I hate to break it to you but selling at the deadline is specifically designed to make your team worse in the short term.
  7. Gwreck
    1. 11 pitch at bat resulting in a leadoff double in the top of the 8th to start the rally in the legendary game 161 in Atlanta in 2024. 2. Massive home run with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th to tie the game against the Yankees this year. Struggled (badly) at times but was overall a great fourth outfielder. Agree; seemed like a great teammate and all-around good guy. He’ll be missed.
  8. Gwreck
    It was a money crunch that led to those departures? That’s breaking news to me. I was very much under the impression that deGrom wanted to leave New York and the Mets simply didn’t want to retain Alonso. Wasn’t it well documented that the Mets didn’t even make Alonso an offer this offseason?
  9. Gwreck
    According to DiComo, Rojas now becomes the highest rated prospect in the entire Mets farm system (based on MLB Pipeline rankings).
  10. Gwreck
    Significantly better than what they’ve received for any other players. His leg has healed and the Mets badly need starting pitching for 2027. Trading him doesn’t help that.
  11. Gwreck
    I disagreed with CF about Peralta in another thread but here I absolutely agree: barring a massive haul, far better than what’s been seen so far, you keep Holmes and either get him back for 1 year on the QO, get QO picks, or re-sign him.
  12. Gwreck
    Also the remaining schedule. No more Dodgers, only 3 games left against Atlanta, Milwaukee and Philly. 15 games in September against other selling teams (WAS, MIA, SF, BAL).
  13. Gwreck
    At some point the money might be a limiting factor but we haven’t seen that with the Mets very much under this ownership. The bigger issue is that Peralta is not good. And while I fully agree that the coaching staff is not worthy of being retained, I’m not at all confident that Peralta is going to rebound. I think it’s far better to move on to someone else.
  14. Gwreck
    This is the first guy coming back who seems really exciting as a prospect.
  15. Gwreck
    Ken Rosenthal reporting that the Rangers asked if deGrom would waive the clause and DeGrom said no, but it wasn’t clear if it was for a specific deal, or if it was perhaps a check-in to see if was even worth exploring a deal.
  16. Gwreck
    “Freddy Peralta on a one year deal isn’t a bad bet” is doing a lot of work in this analysis. We got a pretty good preview of that, right? 22 starts, an 83 ERA+, and -0.2 WAR. That’s ugly. Peralta could easily have taken the QO and then you’ve signed up for that ugliness another year (at about $25M), hoping that he’ll be better. Seems very unpalatable. Getting the QO picks would require keeping him AND he gets better so that he doesn’t take the QO AND hoping that some other team is willing to sign him so you actually get the picks. Just too many variables versus the certainty of taking whatever you can get now.
  17. Gwreck
    A solution for what? And I’m not sure I understand why any of this means they should have traded him. He’s under team control through the 2029 season, but is making only $1M this year. You could cut him in the future if he’s bad, but he’s been good for two consecutive years now. He’s precisely the sort of player you keep for next year.
  18. Gwreck
    Brazoban is Dominican, no? He was their closer in the WBC I thought (again underscoring it was odd he never got any save chances with the Mets).
  19. Gwreck
    Reasonable, but since he’s a free agent at the end of the year and the Mets don’t have meaningful games remaining with Philly, it’s a “meh” to me.
  20. Gwreck
    For two prospects not in the White Sox‘ top 20. Not sure I understand why the guy with multiple seasons of team control is being traded.
  21. Gwreck
    It’s almost as if you admit that sometimes moves that seem to make sense at the time don’t always work out
  22. Gwreck
    Yeah, I thought the question was interesting too which is why I participated. I don’t think it should come as a surprise that the position (in sum and substance) “we shouldn’t trade anyone because it’s dehumanizing” got the response it did.
  23. Gwreck
    Well, while not meaning to insult, that’s kind of a silly answer that ignores nuance and context, right? And if trading is bad in an “astounding” number of ways, one anecdote about childhood toxicity is such an odd choice as the only example to cite. And especially so because the situation the Mets find themselves is nowhere close to the “he sucks, trade him!” scenario. Instead it’s “he’s good, trade him so we can get value back instead of losing him to free agency and getting nothing back.” I could totally get on board with generally disfavoring offseason trades (Nimmo for Semien, anyone?), or taking on bad contracts (Cano) or trading prospects for in-season help. Even if sometimes you get back a Mike Hampton or Yoenis Cespedes or Keith Hernandez. But just a “I never want to make trades” — comes across as strange if not…petulant?
  24. Gwreck
    Don't leave us hanging here. What’s the case for keeping Taylor?
  25. Gwreck
    It’s irresponsible to not trade Taylor given his status as a free agent at the end of the year and that a trade can bring value to make the team better in the future. Robert is a tougher decision because of the option. Feels like a real roll of the dice either way because of the injuries.
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