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You figure that within a lineup your expensive players give you a bit of a floor. Meaning they may not live up to expectations, but you figure they’ll be at least pretty good. Not on our team. 1. Lindor (expensive). Historically a slow starter. I expect will be fine. 2. Soto (super expensive). Hurt. Will be fine once he returns. 3. Bichette (super expensive). Figure he’ll be fine. But inexplicably slow start. 4. Polanco (expensive). Is hurt and played even worse than Bichette when he wasn’t. There’s no guarantee he’ll be good. This was the risk of signing an injury prone player coming off his one good, healthy year. 5. Robert (expensive). Big question mark. The reason we got him for nothing was because he’s expensive. Realistically we can’t expect any better than he’s already shown. 6. Semien (expensive). We took on the worst contract in MLB because we feared that Nimmo might turn into a worse one. It may still, but it hasn’t yet. And the decision has saddled us now with a terrible player that is not likely to improve. Baty, Vientos, Alvarez and Benge are obviously not expensive. But we have no idea if they will end up being any good. That means out of the ten players that make up this lineup, six of them being very highly paid, only three of them can be expected to provide us with any sort of reasonable floor. That’s on Stearns. (And unfortunately in this early season, none of them have provided that floor yet). The fact that of those 10, only 2 are performing at a reasonable level suggests that the analytics, coaching, preparation or management is not doing their part. The fact that the underperformance has been happening since mid-June of 2025 suggests this is no fluke.

It probably wouldn’t have made a difference but don’t you walk Nico Hoerner and set up the double play? Makes no sense. maybe Mendy just punted knowing they weren’t going to score and didn’t want to burn any more bullpen.

I mean really. We have a rich owner that funds the second highest payroll in baseball. He’s also brilliant and has hired one of the smartest executives in baseball. I think the manager is not any good, but he’s not 11 losses in a row bad. How is this possible? They are the worst team in baseball. Worse than the White Sox. Worse than Colorado. I didn’t agree with the offseason moves, but there’s no excuse for them to be this bad. It’s hard to play yourselves out of contention in the three WC era. The Mets are threatening to do that before the weather gets warm.

Mendoza should just start packing now.

You spend the entire road trip hitting ground balls. Then when you need one you hit pop ups.

Fire the whole team. All of them. wtf. Kidding. We can keep McLean.

Hard to win a game scoring one run.

Never a doubt.

It’s bad enough for us. Don’t make it a Conforto walkoff HR.

Someone’s going to tweak a back with that hammer.

I see today will be the Devin Williams gut punch walk off.

Come on guys. This Webb guys sucks. Can we score please?

Torrens and MJ. The only productive Mets are the subs.

Good job by Peterson. I don’t remember the last time the Mets came to bat with a lead.

Maybe I was expecting too much, and maybe I was too spoiled by Iglesias, but I’m not impressed by Semien turning 2.

Nice! The Mets catching a break for a change.

Of course he has an opportunity to shut me up right here.

Sure. But the guy with a sub .500 OPS? I checked the splits. He’s mid 400s for the past 7 days, past 15 days and past 30.

Hey! We turned a double play!

I don’t understand anything in Benge’s recent performance that suggests he should be leading off.

All three of them suck.

I’m at the point where I feel bad for Mendoza. I think it’s inevitable that he’s going to be fired. I think he knows it too. For me, he’ll go into that unique club where I think he’s not a good manager but I like him anyway. Terry Collins is in that club. Buddy too.

The Mets have the 29th ranked OPS through 21 games. It’s a small sample size, but it’s not insignificant. 21 games is 13% of the season. It’s not like they just had one bad road trip. This lineup was built with way too many question marks. But even the reasonable downside wasn’t this bad. So you have to ask the question. What is causing this? Is it really just random? It doesn’t seem like it. We’ve fired hitting coaches, brought in different players, is there something in the team’s organizational philosophy that is faulty? I can’t help but notice that the two best offensive days were the times the game was out of reach. Is that also just coincidence? I feel like that suggests the team is badly pressing.

And one hit didn’t register as a hit because Alvarez failed to advance.

Peterson out. Not injury related. Tobias myers will start the game.