Centerfield
-
Posts
16,985 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
9
Content Type
Profiles
News
New York Mets Videos
2026 New York Mets Top Prospects Ranking
New York Mets Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
Guides & Resources
The New York Mets Players Project
2026 New York Mets Draft Tracker: Picks & Bonuses
Forums
Blogs
Events
Store
Downloads
Gallery
Everything posted by Centerfield
-
On a deep fly ball it’s not usually clear that it’s a routine play. Outfielders get twisted around. You have to go halfway in case it drops. Allows you to get to third and the batter to get to second. If you tag and you’re wrong, you give your batter a long single. By the time you realize the outfielder is under the ball, there isn’t enough time to go back and tag.
-
Man. I hope this kid is good. The Mets need a good 21. (No offense Lucas Duda)
-
I wonder if that means play through the broken pinky, or wait until after it's healed.
-
He wore 21 as a Salt Potato.
-
Wait. Did I miss something? Did we get offended by the schedule last year?
-
Wow! After just 2 starts in AAA. The stuff I read tells me his stuff is amazing and he'll be a star, and also tells me he depends too much on a fastball that won't fool MLB hitters like it did in the minors. So we'll see. I hope this kid is good. I love watching his interviews. I feel like I'm watching a kid that could have easily played on one of my son's teams.
-
Anything other than a sweep is fine for Philadelphia. If they lose three in a row, then maybe it becomes something. Tonight is a BIG GAME.
-
The closest they’ve come was the May 23 game against LA, scoring 3 in the bottom of the 9th to tie the game and force extras (losing in the 13th). Yup. That was an incredibly frustrating game. Torrens needed to put the ball in play to win it. There was one more game. I think it was the Sunday game in KC? Where McNeil tied it in the ninth. Then they lost in the bottom of that frame.
-
How brilliant was it to promote McLean when they did?
Centerfield replied to roger_that's topic in New York Mets Talk
I think it's impossible to know if it was the right time to call up a particular player when it comes to that player's development. But as far as a team in contention is concerned I think it would be far fetched to argue that the team couldn't have used McLean, even a lesser version of him, during the losing streak in June. McLean said he got better against lefties in his recent starts. Would he have not made that progress pitching in the bigs? I don't see how anyone can know the answer to that. As far as Jonah Tong, I can't figure out how he's that good. The clips I'm seeing of him shows a lot of swing and miss on his fastball, and a decent change up. Hopefully that can translate to the big leagues, but who knows. -
I remember trading for him in 2024 and wondering what Stearns saw in this guy. And then he sucked and got hurt and you figure that's the last we'll see of him. And then his spine starts leaking fluid and I was sure that's the last we'll ever see of him. And then astonishingly he's tendered a contract by Stearns. $4M that could have gone to re-sign Jose Quintana. And then he finally came off the IL and pitched one good game against LA, then absolutely sucked every time he pitched after that. He was the one that started the avalanche in that June 13 game against Tampa. He started three games in that miserable losing streak in June and sucked in all of them. You wonder how many of those games the Mets might have won if he simply didn't exist. Even Austin Warren or Chris Devenski would have given us a better chance. I'm shocked that the Yankees signed him and ran him out there. I don't see how this guy has a job.
-
For reference, in 2024, they had 8 wins where they came back in the 9th inning, which led MLB. In 2025, the Mets are one of 3 teams with no 9th inning comeback wins (Baltimore and CWS are the others). The Dodgers have 4, Milwaukee has 4, Philadelphia has 3, SDP and Cubs have 2 each. The Reds have 3. The NL leader is, of course, the Colorado Rockies. Just like everyone expected. They have 6.
-
I think the worst case scenario is already here. Alvarez is a big part of the Mets future. I don't see any sense in trying to let him play hurt and potentially hurting him long term. Dustin Pedroia is the case that is cited as an example of him playing through this. Pedroia just said in a recent article that (a) his thumb still hurts him, and ( it's going to rob Alvarez of any power. In Dustin's case, power was just part of his game. If you take away Alvy's power, what do you have left? Of course, Pedroia played an entire season with a torn UCL, where Alvarez will be playing maybe a month to 6 weeks. I don't know. Doesn't seem like a good idea to me. I'd rather they call up Parada and see if the kid can go Benny Agbayani for a month. It can't be worse offensively than Senger.
-
Expansion and Realignment (split from Aug 17 IGT)
Centerfield replied to metirish's topic in New York Mets Talk
One of the fun things for me is taking a trip to Baltimore or Boston and being able to root for the home team without any reservations knowing that it can’t hurt the Mets. And if they’re playing a NL team, it may even help them. Eliminating the AL and NL just so fundamentally changes the way we watch baseball. It’s just crazy. How much more revenue will actually be generated? Is that enough to destroy these traditions? I mean. I think I know the answer. It’s yes. It’s always yes. We didn’t stop the universal DH. We didn’t stop the extra inning runner. Naming rights to stadiums. On field advertising. Ads on the uniform. Eventually we’ll be rooting for the CitiBank Mets. If the name Mets even survives. -
They say hitting will be the actual challenge. Apparently there is some history of this. Dustin Pedroia played through a similar injury, and though it affected his power, he had a decent season. I don't know if there are any other examples other than Pedroia.
-
He needs surgery. His season is over. It's hard enough to ask a regular position player to play through such an injury. A catcher? Forget about it. As long as you're not risking anything for next year, I guess there's no harm in seeing if he can play through it. But coming back seems highly unlikely.
-
Again, it's curious that there's so little info. What's the injury. How long. etc. Makes me think it's bad. I wonder if they're holding the info while trying to figure out a better plan than Torrens/Senger.
-
Not good. Hoping it's a 1-2 week thing.
-
I dunno. I’m getting a bad feeling. Like if it was minor why not just announce it. Hope it’s just paranoia.
-
Curious that there is no update on Alvarez.
-
Expansion and Realignment (split from Aug 17 IGT)
Centerfield replied to metirish's topic in New York Mets Talk
Eliminating the NL/AL has so many ramifications. All of the awards/records would be affected. There would only be one batting champ, one MVP, one ROTY. There would be no such things as “National League Champions”. And I’m sure eventually everyone would get used to it. But does this really need to be done? One of the cool things about baseball is being able to travel to Boston or Baltimore and root for the team knowing it doesn’t affect your team at all. Eliminating the leagues robs us of that. -
Team is spiraling. No end in sight. No solutions anywhere. Stearns roster isn’t perfect but it’s not this bad.
-
Oh, WTF, been a long time ATL at NYM (ll)
Centerfield replied to kcmets's topic in New York Mets Talk
They were down 3 runs with 6 innings to work with against a terrible team. If they felt like their backs were against the wall then that’s on the coaching. This team has played like they’ve had their backs to the wall for 2 months. Something has to change. -
Oh, WTF, been a long time ATL at NYM (ll)
Centerfield replied to kcmets's topic in New York Mets Talk
I really thought once we brought in Stearns this type of collapse wouldn’t happen anymore. After showing an incredible ability to adjust on the fly last year, this year has been marked by ridiculous stubbornness. Including quadrupling down on Paul Blackburn. How many times can a guy play himself off a team. -
Maybe Mauricio Shouldn't Be a Switch Hitter
Centerfield replied to Edgy MD's topic in New York Mets Talk
In 2021 he had a higher OPS as a right handed hitter. So it’s not impossible. But even then all his power was from the left side. -
The problem is, everyone in the organization, and even the media surrounding the team think that the Mets are just going to magically snap out of it. Like it’s just. A bad stretch. It’s not. The offense has been bad all year (4 months plus). It was bad in 2023. And bad for the first two months of 2024. The 4 month run they had in 2024 was the outlier. They need to figure out what was different during that time and figure out how to get that back.
