TheNextMetsManager

MVP.

I wonder how Mets catchers are hitting since his demotion. Certainly worse than his .709 June OPS right? oh my god my eyes, it burns it burns the goggles do nothing! 4 walks? That's an average weekend for Juan Soto. 2 XBHs? That's a bad weekend for Juan Soto. Alvarez had more than that in the same amount of time previous to the move.

you're a bad umpire?

=Gwreck post_id=187226 time=1741981350 user_id=56] Britton reports that (1) Senga won't be ready for opening day and (2) Mets had previously expressed interest in not putting Peterson up against the Astros.

well, he's not English. I'd expect him to speak Japanese, given that he's from there.

At no point should the owner "step in". The whole point of having a POBO is to keep the owner from butting in. Just sign the checks and let baseball people do the baseball stuff.

=metirish post_id=183016 time=1736986556 user_id=72] Let's hope the X-rays are ok if this does happen

Worth remembering with these things that A. Rob Manfred Hates Baseball and B. This is something he can get sponsorship money for.

It's not technically colluding if it's reported by Jon Heyman via an anonymous source. It's not like these guys are tapping front office phones, they're fed information with a purpose. They have all sorts of language and technicalities to play by. This is why sometimes you here "Team A didn't even make an offer". They DID discuss numbers and ranges and such, they just never made it official so that it wouldn't be reported that way. In part because having an official offer invites other teams to top it, and then for you to top that, driving prices up. Usually in these cases, the team has make it pretty clear they're thinking in the say $20-22m range pretty firmly so when team B offers 22 the player/agent knows they've probably reached the cap of what they're going to get, and that it's better to take the offer you've got.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Are we supposed to be upset that the Mets exceeded our expectations in 2024? Maybe they lied, or more charitably, underplayed their intentions, to Max Scherzer to get him to accept a deal. Max ended up with a World Series ring and the Mets ended up with a top prospect. And went to the 2024 NLCS. I'm okay with all of that. No, but because they exceeded their own plans and expectations should not be taken as a validation of their process. If you flip a coin 162 times and get heads 89 times, you shouldn't adjust your thinking that coins flip heads .549% of the time now. "Oh it worked out" is fine for the fan experience, but need to dig deeper to evaluate what you have for 2025.

I'm glad we'll make a real good faith effort to sign Soto. And if he chooses to go elsewhere, it won't be for lack of trying. I mean, after all the double talk, and excuses, and the classless belittling of good players, it's like I'm in some sort of weird, but awesome dream. Like we made a good faith effort to sign Ohtani? (didn't even call him) Like the classy way they handled Correa, no excuses. How about all the straight talk with regards to competing in 2024 and clear, uniform message he sent to the public, Max Scherzer, and various media leaks? --- i don't know if we're at "good faith" effort to sign Soto. I don't know if Soto is in "good faith" on his end either. *channeling Yoda* There is no try. There is only one way Soto doesn't come to the Mets, and it's if they don't pay him enough. I know that makes sense to industry sources that put the Mets as the favorites, because it's nonsensical to have that much money and not use it to get the best free agent you might ever get the chance to flex wealth to sign. Does it make sense to Cohen? I don't know.

Edgy MD wrote: What do you do when your veteran name-brand closer gets hurt and your team collapses down the stretch? If you are Omar, you try to go out and get two name-brand closers for the next season. I look at a lot of the Mets in first decade or so of the 21st century as putting too much focus on trying to solve last years problem. At least they tried something. Current iteration just shrugged and went 75-87 instead.

=ashie62 post_id=175504 time=1728856946 user_id=90] Sucks baseball has to wait til most of the football games are over to start 8pm is on the late side

Letting Alonso go is actually an easy decision if. they invest and have a good plan for the future. They have good player dev and fix Alvarez, etc. His power is pretty nearly irreplaceable, and it plays in a pitcher's park. Pete's been doing this for a long time, Vientos doesn't even have a full season, you simply can't just say "oh go play first and do what you're doing." and think that's enough. You need that home run power. Alonso plays poor defense. He's at 1B. Sure, you could DH him but why lock yourself down there? Plus he doesn't want to. Mets are 6th in run creation this year, 8th in the second half. Not terrible, but not comfortable in the "we hit well enough so we can focus on other holes" game. Alonso's 133 wRC+ in the second half is on par with his career norm. That's 48th of 131 qualified hitters even. He's a good hitter. He's just SO one-dimensional that it does present all sorts of opportunities to replace him. On the other hand, the solution to replace him offensively is simply a money one. You couple simply refuse to be outbid for Soto.

=Cowtipper post_id=167649 time=1724687077 user_id=166] =TheNextMetsManager post_id=167647 time=1724686884 user_id=193] =Cowtipper post_id=167646 time=1724685191 user_id=166] I like Mendoza now than I did earlier in the season. Early in the season, he seemed like a wimp who didn't know what he was doing. I like that he lets his starters decide what they want and stay in every once in a while, instead of doing what the analytics tards would want and have them be pulled at 100 pitches even if they were throwing a perfect game.

=Cowtipper post_id=167646 time=1724685191 user_id=166] I like Mendoza now than I did earlier in the season. Early in the season, he seemed like a wimp who didn't know what he was doing. I like that he lets his starters decide what they want and stay in every once in a while, instead of doing what the analytics tards would want and have them be pulled at 100 pitches even if they were throwing a perfect game.

=TheNextMetsManager post_id=163308 time=1721600512 user_id=193] not bad, just meh. Does Stearns have it in him to be bold? probably not.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: That game against the Cardinals has the potential to be a tie-breaker that would keep the losing team out of the postseason. I expect that both sides know this. The Mets have a significant advantage in the second tie-breaker

=ashie62 post_id=164539 time=1722285684 user_id=90] The Reds acquire 1B Ty France from the Mariners for minor league catcher Anthony Salcedo

=kcmets post_id=163971 time=1721932207 user_id=53] Biggest series of the decade (so far)!

Frayed Knot wrote: It's better than pop-ups and multiple weak ground-outs which is what we've been getting from McNeil for a long time. My insinuation is that they WERE pop-ups. Mostly a "ha ha this is Yankee Stadium that's basically the infield" way. The double was well struck, but the two flyouts were not. He hit them hard, for Jeff, but not really. Those are fly outs everywhere, pretty much every time. I'm glad he's hitting it harder, that's a good sign, but It's only a small data point. McNeil is still a huge problem that the Mets need to address, especially if guys playing over their head, like Bader and Iglesias, revert.

Frayed Knot wrote: He's gotta have more 95+ exit velo shots in the last two weeks than had in the last year and a half. he hit two balls merely to the warning track at Yankee Stadium tonight. Not a great sign.

I don't get it.

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not bad, just meh. Does Stearns have it in him to be bold? probably not.