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  1. smg58
    On paper he's bullpen filler, but it would be a great story if a local guy who paid his dues for a long time gets some key outs for us. Even if that means next year.
  2. smg58
    There's a decent chance we could sell very high on Weaver. Good set-up guys are not hard to find for his salary or less, so if somebody is offering serious value, you have to do it.
  3. smg58
    We almost got there today.
  4. smg58
    Never any doubt!
  5. smg58
    If Bichette opts out of $84M over two years with a .679 OPS, it's a massive blessing in disguise. That being said, he made a really nice play last inning.
  6. smg58
    I'm not sure how many hitters have been healthy enough to get a fair sense of where they are (although I suppose that could also conceivably fall under the heading of "the Mets are doing something to these hitters"). Vientos appears to be healthy, which is... unfortunate. But Vientos is hitting lefties decently, which leads me to think that righties have figured him out. Like Luis Robert, he's only hit righthanded pitching well in basically one season, and I think you need to accept that's who he is. Benge was not ready in April, and Ewing would still be in AAA if things went remotely right. I don't think you can fault either, nor is there a point in demoting them or giving ABs to players who aren't better.
  7. smg58
    Ewing has a .241 BABIP against lefties, which is extremely unlucky for a lefty hitter with his speed. He'll regress to the mean in a good way if he's given the chance. I realize Taylor is responsible for the team's happiest moment this season, but why is he still here?
  8. smg58
    Other than playing Springer's sinking blooper into a little league home run, Soto has not been the problem. Offensively, he's been great despite getting basically zero help. While being 33-37 with him in the lineup is far from good, it shows that the season would be a lot more salvageable if the team hadn't completely fallen apart without him.
  9. smg58
    I'm disappointed by Tong. Hopefully he rights the ship in the second half.
  10. smg58
    This assumes, of course, that there still is a QO going into next season. And that there is a next season.
  11. smg58
    My gut says giving Holmes the QO would make more sense. It's a reasonable gamble to assume his health will be less in doubt at the end of the season than it will be at the end of the month, which means the draft pick -- assuming Holmes doesn't take the offer, which is at least possible -- would probably be worth more than they could get for him in a trade.
  12. smg58
    60 WAR seems to be the bar now (at least that's what it's become for hitters), and DeGrom (by FanGraphs' math, at least) is still below 50. So he's not a lock, but two more elite seasons would put him in the running. While I'm looking at FanGraphs, it's worth pointing out that his fastball has been faster than his 2018 level every year since. And with the exception of the 2021 season, when he blew out his arm and took the team's playoff chances with him, he hasn't been as good. And of course, he hasn't been anywhere near as healthy. There is a moral in there that a whole lot of baseball people are ignoring.
  13. smg58
    I don't think anybody would have taken the remaining two years of his contract even if he was playing well. We kind of have to hope he gets healthy, stays healthy, and plays better. Just like about twenty other Mets.
  14. smg58
    I think Baty has been playing hurt too, and Bichette probably played hurt the first two months of the season. I doubt it's a coincidence that Semien stayed active until Lindor and Mauricio came back. Which begs the question of whether something in our training regimen is horribly awry, or whether we've gotten catastrophically unlucky.
  15. smg58
    Senga really didn't pitch badly. He threw a flat pitch to the wrong guy, which unfortunately is the difference in the game.
  16. smg58
    Wagemen strikes out on a pitch over his head, Alvarez strikes out on a foul tip that wasn't (you can't challenge that?), and Vientos simply strikes out. It's already a long afternoon.
  17. smg58
    I'm with you on this. I'd rather give the kids a chance. Soto refuses to challenge two strikes that weren't, then walks anyway. I wonder if he's daring the pitcher to challenge him.
  18. smg58
    It's easy to forget how valuable Peterson was in the second half of 2024 and the first half of 2025. I can remember somebody here ( I forget who) repeatedly referring to him as our ace -- and for what now seems like an instant, he was. But pitching value can evaporate quickly.
  19. smg58
    To be fair, Mendoza got the team to rise out of an early-season performance two years ago that, after sixty games at least, was worse than this year. Then and now, I felt circumstances were mostly not in his control. I was willing to give him the opportunity to get this team out of their funk, until Wednesday.
  20. smg58
    The first half of the Wednesday doubleheader was the end for me. Neither McLean nor Pintaro should have been kept in to pitch to Swanson. Then the team went and played the second game like they'd stopped caring. The writing was on the wall. As usual, in these situations, the manager precedes the GM to the door.
  21. smg58
    Our GM choices post-Minaya have comically underwhelmed, other than Sandy Alderson (who was basically the league's idea). And even Minaya started making head-shaking decisions post 2006, just like Steve Phillips did post-2000. I think GMs that have shown success often have a use-by date, which may well be the problem with Stearns. Maybe instead of bringing in a hotshot big name, we should find a young person who's worked for a good GM but has a better idea for how to move forward.
  22. smg58
    The odd thing about Stearns is that I could understand moving on from Alonso and Nimmo, where he seems to have taken the most heat. I don't think he took nearly enough heat for botching last year's deadline. And if moving on from Alonso and Nimmo was about long-term sustainability, the Peralta deal was dopey. (And if he's as over-obsessed with analytics as he's made out to be, he'd have known that Peralta is a 3.50-3.80 ERA pitcher who got lucky last year.) And I think it's now clear that he wasn't the brains behind the Brewers' successes. The Brewers are the best team, or second only to the Phillies, at getting sustainably good pitching. To say that we've seen none of that is a major understatement.
  23. smg58
    I'd be unpleasantly surprised if the Cubs can fix Peterson that quickly, but stranger things have happened. A prospect's stats don't really start being meaningful until he reaches AA, but Mathis has more than enough upside (fairly acknowledging that the bar was really, really low) to justify this trade.
  24. smg58
    And again. The Mets were still in the game.
  25. smg58
    Mendoza needs to know when the next batter is one too many.
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