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I think the real important question is, would we be bringing back the annual song parody contest? And… these prospective new users that could be brought in to liven things up… are they any good at wordle? Because the competition is already too damn stiff over here. Jeez. -
Quite coincidentally, the other day my kid - ummR for the record - asked me what the cranepoolforum was and why I was so often on it. And in the process of explaining what it is and how it had come to be I marveled quite a bit that it has managed to persist as long as it has, however small and concentrated it’s current membership is.
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I thought he was related to Tim Kohler, based on the avatar. Welcome abordick. It’s interesting prospect to consider wrt opening up the gates to a wider audience, seeing as historically we’d secreted ourselves away from a larger forum that had grown unwieldy (and decidedly least common denominator). I’d love for this forum to be more lively - and to become a home base for even more interesting and intelligent metly discussions and analysis. But how would we ever get the rabble caught up to all of our inbred hill people history? Will there be a mandatory onboarding process? We’d need people to understand where the hell all of us came from - and why the hell we are the way we are. And, of course, they must be forced to hold us in the required high esteem.
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It’s kind of a silly thing to make a point of - but since it seems to be a thing that needs a point made about it, I like the point that was made. As much as we appreciate David wright as captain, and feel that it can be quite meaningful, I think pointedly NOT having a captain is perhaps more meaningful. Basically cohen is saying that he doesn’t want the role of leadership to fall only upon the one designated guy. But rather that each player can be, and is, a leader in their own way and in their own time. That a successful team shouldn’t me looking to that ONE GUY to carry them through the dark times but that they should all look inward to ask what they can do as leaders among men to take on and share the burden. And since it appears - reportedly and rumouredly - that the potential captainship was a point of fission in the clubhouse last year, then doing away with it pointedly is the right thing to do. Enough of that ********. Etc.
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No no. I’d much rather freak out about this. It’s important.
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Is Ronny Mauricio an option to fill in at shortstop while Francisco is out?
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i think my first mets game was in 86 (or maybe 87), so there's a pretty good chance that i saw carter. no clue who they might've been playing against though. coulda been 85...
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Jett for me, though it was getting harder to see a pathway for him here. I’m excited for him to get a shot, and Milwaukee seems like just the right spot for him to get a lot of play. It was cool seeing his bat in the Louisville slugger museum when we went three years ago. I’d been hoping to see him use it for us. Oh well.
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Let us also talk about Freddy Peralta
metsmarathon replied to Benjamin Grimm's topic in New York Mets Talk
Jett and Sproat for peralta and something called Tobias myers, apparently. -
hmm... i liked that acuna could fill in at short if need be. though i suppose that new guy we just recently got has had some experience there, so i guess its ok. ...we're not paying his whole salary are we...?
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Well. I did not see that coming. I’d see if Baty can play 1st. Or, semien.
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Bellinger is crazy inconsistent. If he plays well, he’s absolutely worth 30. This past season FanGraphs values his 4.4 war at $39M, and $36M in 2023. Unfortunately in between he posted a $16m season and had been coming off a three year stretch coming off his mvp wherein he logged a total of 2.0 fWAR. So… you don’t quite know who you’re going to get. At his best he’s at least as good as Tucker. Based on the Tucker valuation, I’d be ok with a $40M aav as the cost of doing business, with a similar 4-year structure to what they offered Tucker. Not 7. Or, actually, I’d prefer they do a similar thing but for framber, and then bring back bader, or some other of stopgap. I’m not as much concerned about our offense as the potential low floor (albeit high ceiling) of our current starting pitching staff
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No one is talking about Kyle Tucker
metsmarathon replied to Centerfield's topic in New York Mets Talk
Well **** I’d much rather have bellinger than tucker, if that’s what it costs for tucker. Jeebus! Might be able to get framber too for that total cost. -
No one is talking about Kyle Tucker
metsmarathon replied to Centerfield's topic in New York Mets Talk
I think I’m ok with that, if it pans out. He’d get paid quite well for three years, then comes off the books as all of our babies start hitting their arbitration years. Heckuva lineup with him, Soto, and Lindor, too. -
Hmm.. didn’t know about the opt outs. Curious. I’d still be willing to run the risk of it. I do agree though that all the risk is on the club, but how do you square that particular circle?
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****ing hell, I’d’ve done that in a heartbeat!
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Rico brogna resonates for me….
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I’d sign him to compete for a spot with benge and Williams, and cut him as soon as he didn’t… Or maybe just skip the part where we pay him altogether.
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This feels like a fantabulously low return for a guy who’s bringing along a suitcase filled with $6m dollars or so, let alone a valuable offensive and defensive contribution.
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Doc & Darryl are a singular entry.
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What will it take to forgive Stearns?
metsmarathon replied to Centerfield's topic in New York Mets Talk
I’m mostly pissed, re Pete, that they let It get to the point where he was able to get the 5x155 from the o’s without it seeming like the Mets gave him much of an alternative… Like if they went 4x125 as soon as he opted out (or before) would he have taken it? -
I think it’s too early to say they’re aiming for the wild card and good luck with the playoffs lottery. I think they’re aiming to eventually build a “**** yeah let’s go” team, because one does not spend $300M to just only make the playoffs. I just think they’re doing it a different way, that may prove to be smart, if heartless. I think their big brains have missed the mark on the fandom and its irrational whims that don’t necessarily abide by analytical purity. And while I like big brains and I cannot lie… my anaconda wanted Pete’s home runs, son.
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I honestly didn’t think the Mets could possibly make me this mad. I’m a grown ass adult. I lived through the 90s, the madoff era. All of it. I was wrong. :Sadface
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I think stearns is also banking on this having been a 90-win team that played down to 83 wins, instead of that reflecting their true talent level. And he’s probably right about that. Will we get the regression bounceback and snag a few free wins? I sure hope so… but I think that’s his starting point. And if it is true that there was something insidious in the clubhouse that we do t know enough about, and if he’s now gone and fixed it, or will have fixed it by the end of the off season, then maybe yeah we get those wins back next year. But those are still some pretty big ifs.
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What’s crazy is, and mind you this is all just preseason projections and all that ********, but right now, with our rotation and lineup feeling like they are in absolute shambles… FanGraphs depth charts has us currently projected to have the 6th highest WAR in baseball, with 43.2 WAR. A team with 43 WAR last year could expect to be an 89-90 win team Mind you, last year the Mets actually had 46 WAR between their pitchers and batters (fielding included) which should’ve been a 92-win team based on such figuring. So there’s definitely a pathway to find a successful analytic framework upon which to build optimism (or pessimism if ya wanna focus on the underperformance of our expectation!) Can stearns win back the rational part of our brains by adding to this foundation? I sure hope so. It won’t feel right next year without Pete, but maybe it’ll be ok if it just feels different if we win.
