Gwreck
-
Posts
13,498 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
12
Content Type
Profiles
New York Mets News, Rumors & Analysis
New York Mets Videos
2026 New York Mets Top Prospect Rankings
New York Mets Trade & Free Agent Rumors
New York Mets Fan Guides & Resources
2026 New York Mets Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses
Forums
Blogs
Events
Store
Downloads
Gallery
Everything posted by Gwreck
-
Gwreck Ballot: Yes: Carlos Beltran Adrian Beltre Todd Helton Andruw Jones Joe Mauer Gary Sheffield Billy Wagner No: David Wright (regrettably) Abreu Pettitte Buehrle Alex Rodriguez Ramirez Utley Everyone else on the ballot is below this level (eg. not seriously considered).
-
Should we be talking about Juan Soto?
Gwreck replied to Marshmallowmilkshake's topic in New York Mets Talk
The only reason to trade prospects for Soto now (rather than waiting a year) is that he's the difference between playoffs/not playoffs in 2024. There seems to be no expectation that Soto won't test the free agent market next season. -
I appreciate his honesty. Ottavino was a favorite player and it'd be a shame to lose him.
-
Ottavino declined his option for 2024 with the Mets and is a free agent.
-
Zack Wheeler Travis D'Arnaud Jason Vargas Heath Bell Ty Wigginton Darren O'Day
-
Do you remember Paul Sewald as a Met? I'm very glad for his successes but do you really think he's the shutdown closer you want in Game 7 with a two run lead? I think the Diamondbacks are in a great spot but I am nervous for them.
-
Rooting hard for Arizona here.
-
There's a compelling argument that given the context, this is the greatest postseason catch of all time (apologies to Willie).
-
Edgy MD wrote: If you have the biggest budget ever, why sink so much of it into starting pitching in an era when — between caution and injury — starting pitchers get an ever-decreasing opportunity to impact the game? If you're unwilling to depart from the prevalent thinking, you can be minimizing the advantage of a large budget, rather than maximizing it. Because starting pitching was a way to rapidly improve the team without committing to long term contracts? Trea Turner or Aaron Judge - or even Carlos Correa - were all available last season (and Cory Seager, Marcus Semien, and Freddie Freeman the year before) but required contracts of substantially different length than the 2 or 3 years committed to Scherzer and Verlander.
-
A Boy Named Seo wrote: The Mets will in be hamstrung by both the ghosts of Scherzer and Verlander next year, too (and maybe for taxation purposes $17.5M more for Verlander in '25). This hardly seems like something that gets charged to the account of Eppler. He certainly could have moved more of the money when trading Verlander/Scherzer. Steve Cohen was very candid about the fact that he preferred to eat the money and acquire better prospects.
-
Especially given what the Diamondbacks have done so far as the #6 seed, one additional angle to consider is what the Mets might have done with the departed players and if they could have won the 10 extra games needed to get that #6 seed.
-
That was fabulous.
-
Answer is: John Olerud. 1993 WS, for Toronto against Curt Schilling* 1999 NLDS, off Randy Johnson 1999 NLCS, off Glavine and Smoltz 2001 ALDS and ALCS, for Seattle 2004 ALCS, for the Yankees, off Pedro Martinez. *Not in the HOF but added for context.
-
Not Murphy, Floyd, or Burnitz. The player in question has homered off 4 hall of fame pitchers in the postseason.
-
Curtis played in the postseason with 5 teams (DET, NYY, NYM, LAD, MIL) but only homered for the first 3. Ventura played in the postseason with 4 teams (CHW, NYM, NYY, LAD) but only homered for the first two teams.
-
Asdrubal did not hit a home run in the Mets 3-0 loss in the 2016 wild card game, his only Mets postseason appearance.
-
Leaving this one open a little longer. The non-Met answers are JD Martinez Russell Martin Nelson Cruz Reggie Sanders Mike Napoli Ron Gant
-
Only homered in postseason for the Dodgers.
-
Not Rickey. Postseason for 5 teams (OAK, TOR, SD, NYM, SEA) but homers only for Oakland and San Diego.
-
Travis did not make the postseason with the Dodgers (nor did he homer for the Rays).
-
Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Don Baylor Also an excellent guess. He made the postseason with 5 teams (Baltimore, Angels, Boston, Oakland, and Minnesota) but only homered for 3.
-
Good guess, but he only made the postseason with 3 teams: Baltimore, Texas, and the Mets.
-
Sheffield's a good guess: he played in the postseason/hit postseason homers with Miami, Atlanta, and the Yankees, but never with the Dodgers. Beltran played in the postseason with 5 teams but only homered for 3: Houston, Mets, and Cardinals. The Met actually hit a homer with the Mets in the postseason. All are wild-card era players.
-
Great trivia question (degree of difficulty: impossible). JD Martinez's solo homer made him the 7th player to hit a postseason home run for 4 different franchises. Met content = 1 but I'd have had trouble coming up most of the other 6.
-
I thought TBS used to have Ernie Johnson as their lead play-by-play announcer for the playoffs, typically paired with Ron.
