Centerfield

Fire Mendoza.

What on earth was he doing there

Again, the Mets come out looking unprepared.

I’ll start one after the next loss. So, tomorrow.

Did you guys hear Mendoza justify Lindor’s baserunning last night? That’s crazy to me. You can’t be erased from third like that. The way I understand it, on that ball you take a secondary lead but don’t break for home until the throw goes to second. It’s very unlikely that the SS would throw you out on a tag play at home. It’s unlikely he would even try. He has to come across the bag and completely turn his body to get anything on a throw home. A fast runner like Lindor scores easily. This is like the ridiculous send in the Pittsburgh game. Acknowledge the mistake so it doesn’t happen again. inexcusable.

Five Mets regulars have an OPS in the .500s. Francisco Lindor .558 Bo Bichette .524 Marcus Semien .557 Brett Baty .599 Jorge Polanco .569 Carson Benge would love to be in the 500 club but would have to go on a hot streak to get there. (.422) Of the regulars, only Robert and Alvarez are hitting. Alvarez is batting 9th. Vientos, the other semi-regular that’s hitting, didn’t play last night. The Mets have a .665 OPS as a team, good for 20th in MLB. Yes, it’s early. You figure Lindor and Bichette will be fine. Soto will come back. But everyone else is a question mark. The guys who are struggling might improve, but it’s just as likely that the guys who are currently hitting will regress.

.557 OPS.

This was still a winnable game. Mendoza has no feel for the pitching. Stayed with Senga too long. Pulled McLean too early. Hung Myers out to dry.

Terrible throw too.

Catch the fucking ball. Wow.

“Better ABs”

Left hamstring tightness for Clay Holmes. Not great.

Omg. This team cannot be any worse.

Yikes. Holmes pulled with an apparent injury.

What to even say. Another pathetic offensive showing.

Opening day was 70 degrees. Since then all of our home games have been cold. Maybe our hitters don’t like the cold.

Where to start. The Mets have a real outfielder but he was on the bench. Even guarding a slim lead in the late innings, when moving Baty to 1B and removing Vientos makes all the sense in the world. Because they’re playing short handed. they’re short handed because they signed a guy who’s always hurt and now he’s hurt. But you won’t IL him because the lineup is punch less without him. all this talk of better ABs and I haven’t seen shit.

Astonishing how bad this lineup looks. Day in and day out.

Not the main story tonight, but Luis Garcia needs to be DFAd tonight.

Defense not great either.

Offense continues to be shit.

This would be a terrible loss.

My feelings on the City Connect jerseys are kinda mixed. I don't like City Connect jerseys that are a different color scheme than the team's actual colors. I think it dilutes the product (the team). Nothing is better than walking into a stadium and seeing a sea of red, or blue, or whatever color is the team's primary. But if you keep the same color scheme, then that limits your options. You get things like this Pirates jersey, or the Reds jersey, which just kinda looks like an alternate Reds uniform. Maybe I'd be more flexible on the color thing if they wore them less often. I think you have to focus on the city itself. So you remove anything that says "Pirates" or any sort of team logo. You're there to represent the city itself. And you have to figure out how to do that without looking like a cheesy airport shirt (don't just slap a picture of your tallest building), without being just a throwback jersey (using an old Negro League jersey is lame), and without being so obscure that you're constantly explaining it. And most of all, it should be a once in a while thing, not a regularly cycled alternate jersey. Maybe you have one City Connect week, or one City Connect homestand. Otherwise, you wear your traditional gear. They should be banned for the postseason, along with that stupid Strauss advertisement on the helmets.

ERod (does he go by that?) has a 0 ERA. No ER in 12 innings against the Dodgers and Braves. over his career he’s been not great.

Swing at ball 4. Ground into the DP. Pathetic effort today.