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Just a gentle reminder that "your GM" is now your GM.
You sure were singing a different tune when he inked the contract. You also did predict the Mets to lose 90 games this season in spring training, so really, this team is meeting or exceeding your expectations. Most fans would be very happy with that.
In his defense, Diaz is injured and shouldn't be blamed for the bullpen collapse. Brewers lost Devin Williams for half the season or better, and still find a way to get outs in the late innings. Either your players in the pen are no good, the manager deploying them is no good or the guy who chose them is no good. Lots of options for ya.
Can't say people miss Stearns too much in Milwaukee. Or Counsell. Yet.
Time for the Barry Bonds treatment. Why would anyone pitch to this guy right now? Put the 4 fingers up and be done with it.
Not quite as trafficed as the Brewers 23 hits (Yelich with 5!) but the Crew was facing the White Sox bullpen for a lot of it.
Yanks rivals gotta be hoping Judge stubs his toe again before coming to their stadium. What a tear he's been on!
It’s amazing what team speed can do -- especially when it’s mixed with a dose of power.
“That’s the kind of team we have this year,” said Brewers catcher Gary Sánchez after deciding the game with the latter. “We’ve got a fast team. I’m fast myself.”
Do the Yankees have a stand-up comedy coach?
I feel for you and all Mets fans. Total Mets meltdown today. Can't say I blame Lopez for going off, even though he'll possibly never pitch again in the Bigs. His tantrum was long overdue; it speaks the the world that it took a 2nd tier reliever to show some spark and give the team a public kick in the azz. There's no veteran leadership on the diamond and a first year manager walking on blades of grass.
In contrast, you have Lindor saying he felt “something in my gut” that this was the right time to gather the roster. He must have an iron stomach if he couldn't see the time for this team to hash through stuff is weeks and weeks overdue. Or maybe, it's because his play this season is part of the core issue. Either way, it's a new low, with 100+ games left to suffer through.
Cohen must be regretting he didn't buy the O's instead.
Pretty hard to disagree, with the Mets 10 games uinder .500 at this point. Yup, could be years before they contend again because even though they can move some salary this trading season, they're going to have to ride out a lot of bad contracts. Contracts that were not inked on Stearn's watch. Good luck finding a team to take on Mcneil's contract! How much are the Mets paying players to play for other teams this year?
Just to switch the subject to exciting, winning baseball, great to see the Royals, Brewers, Guardians, Nats, Pirates, Twins and Reds all field decent teams this year. Lots of injuries and rookies mistakes to be sure, but on any given night in those towns, a fan can enjoy some quality action in June. It's been a while since this many small market teams have been relevant at this point in the season, which can only be good for MLB. Hopefully it continues through September.
Lopts of chirping about the possibility of a re-tool in Flushing: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/40235856/david-stearns-mets-plenty-weigh-trades
Good to see the Mets giving someone else besides Diaz a chance to blow a save late.
And maybe the best thing they did for the brewers was taking the gm off your hands, because so far to say I'm not impressed is a understatement in my opinion.
I can't say I'd completely agree with you at this point. Gotta give Stearns credit for what he achieved in Milwaukee, the smallest market in MLB. Much of what's happening with the Brewer's success this year was decided on his watch. I will admit he did have some tendancies in his Milwaukee years that have carried over to NY and aren't looking good. He tends to overvalue the D-focused, versatile veteran, who in some cases can suck at a range of positions (Wendle). There's no debating that Houser has been consistently awful.
When he signed Bader, I thought it might be the 2nd coming of JBJ, but to be fair, Bader has possibly been your best hitter this season in addition to playing great D. Bullpen construction has always been a priority of a Stearn's team. Diaz's performance this year has torpedoed the Mets pen, which is better than the numbers suggest. Severino has been worth the $$, as has Manaea and JD. Point is, many (not all) of the pieces the Mets added this season are doing just fine, so IMO Stearns isn't the problem in NY. He inherited a roster of higly paid regulars who are seriously under-performing and who will be suiting up for the Mets for years. I'm not sure if it's a chemistry issue, a lack of clubhouse leadership or a by-product of losing, but the Mets need someone on the field to step up and call out some of their bad baseball habits.
I'd get it if the Mets were a young team learning to play the game at the MLB level, but some of their lapses are inexcusable for veteran baseball players.
Very sad to see that. What a season he had in 2023. Now out for a 2nd year.
Well, if you intentionally walk Brett Baty, you deserve to lose.
How about them ex-brewers coming through for ya? Houser with his finest outing of the season and Narvaez with the game winner.
Pay no attention to the fact that Houser's era improved to 7.34 and for Narvaez, it was his first hit at Citi this season. Thanks for paying these guys. I know 5.05 million for Houser and 7 million for Narvaez is lunch money for Stearns and Cohen, but in Milwaukee, that's a lot if bratwurst!
Painful indeed. Last news I read suggested Diaz might get a break from save situations until he figures it out. Wasn't he pretty bad right after Brodie traded for him and Cano? Then he turned it around in 2022. Maybe next year he'll find his mojo.
Gil has been amazing. Where did this guy come from? Was he in AAA last year? The Yanks are playing like a team without injuries... Life in the Bronx improved substantially when Judge started hitting. Not sure what they'll do with DJ when he comes back. And I guess Cole could always fill the long-relief, innings-eater role :)
My main point is that the Mets have much bigger issues than Butto vs Houser. With the biggest payroll in all of baseball, you got problems beyond the question of the 5th pitcher when Harrison Bader is leading your team in hitting. Not saying the Mets can't turn this season around, but they're in serious danger of playing irrelevant baseball in June if they don't pull their thumbs out quick-smart.
The only way Pete stays on this team in 2025 is if they make the playoffs this year. Too many expensive piles of steaming, stinking contracts to time-out or off-load before they can consider signing a .220 slugger for 300 million +.
Your manager is a big problem for me. Might be time to get the shovel and dig up Billy Martin.
It is a bit odd, the Baty/Vientos roster shuffle in NY. At some point those guys have to get the job or be moved on. It's been years since they came up, with too much hype of course, but it's been long enough to work out if and where they fit in the Mets future plans. Sometimes you have to wait a bit for the player to find their confidence and groove. Sometimes you have to let them go and move on to the next guy. That time has passed in Metville for Baty and Vientos IMO. By stringing them along with a rotating door to the minors, they're just delaying the decsion that needs to be made so that the roster can move on.
Stearns' attempted MO is the same as most successful teams in MLB: lock in a core of 4-5 stars and fill in the gaps with farm talent, cheap and aging veterans (Pham is killing it in Chicago) and FAs. IMO problem #1 in NY is that your core isn't getting the job done at all now, which is obvious and which you've detailed in lots of posts. Until problem #1 gets fixed, forget about the other problems. When Tyrone Taylor and Harrison Bader are leading the team in BA, you're not too far removed from the likes of the Angels. It's hard to believe these guys could be this awful, so maybe they'll snap out of it, hopefully before August for the fans sake.
Did I mention it is against the marlins.
Looks like your boys caught the Miami buzzsaw at the wrong time. I haven't seen todays Mets condensed game, but the game I saw a few days ago was pathetic. Defensive blunders, lack of concentration, zero energy and excitement. Losing is one thing- happens to the best teams. Playing consistently shabby baseball though, is inexcusable. I'd rather watch the A's than the Mets right now, but it's close.
Royals and the Brewers are excellent examples of the best in baseball: put a decent team on the field and the fans will turn up. The experience of being at the ballkpark sparks an energy that makes the night out a great time. I used to watch the Expos play in Jarry Park before they died in the cavernous tomb of Olympic Stadium. It was always a lot of fun- good crowds with no massive expectations of winning a world series....just a fun night at the park.
Royals ownership has been a tad cheap in recent years. Hopefully this season's moderate spending increase isn't just a play for public funding for a new stadium. KC fans deserve better.
That's a gift. Clearly the action of a well-raised boy!
At this point there's a lot of teams very happy to have passed on Chapman, Monty and Snell. Maybe Boras actually scored big for them?
Tough call on the Bohm HBP to tie it. Meanwhile Adames gets thrown out in at 3rd late in the game, down by 3, for the 3rd out.
Diaz hasn't been lights out, for sure this season. But he was virtually unhittable the season before the injury. Hard to imagine he could bounce back to that level.
Gasser put up 6 shut out innings for the Crew against the cards in his MLB debut a couple of days ago. His ERA at AAA ball was 5.75. Go figger.
Lot of uber low ERAs this season. Seth Lugo is the pitching equivalent of Brady Anderson in the Balco days.
Wouldn't it be a nice change for a Canadian team to win the Cup? The Montreal Canadians were the hockey equivalent of the Yankees when I was growing up, but their legend has faded with all the years of mediocrity.
Teams from Florida win Stanley Cups but can't put 25,000 fans in a baseball stadium.
I'll happily trade my Brewers score with the Mets result today! Mets play Atlanta tough...except late in September...
Now the Knicks and Rangers- I could see both of those teams not winning another game this season.
This season, Stanton could be approaching a PB for games played without a trip to the DL. The turtle pace doesn't matter- this is a guy who gets hurt walking back to the dugout after strike 3.
Rhys Hoskins giving the Crew what they have been lacking for years- a consistent thumper who can rise to the occasion late. Even Gary SANCHEZ had a great at bat tonight- HBP with the bases loaded to drive in a huge run. The guy is MONEY!
Adames with a 3 run bomb in the 9th with 2 outs wins it for the Crew at Kaufman! Makes up for yesterday a bit.
Ottavino can't slam the door. He's always been a guy who I wouldn't want to see out there in high leverage situations.
Mets better clutch up and get this W for Scott today. He definitely has impressed.
On the other hand the A's are going to be at .500 after play today, which to me is the biggest surprise in all of baseball. I mean this is a team that was slated for better than 100 losses. Not sure if it's the manager or the schedule or what, but for a club with a 63 million dollar payroll to put up the same record as a team with a 308 million dollar payroll, even after 1 month of the season, says that when it comes to building a roster, someone knows what they're doing. And someone doesn't!
There's a lot of contending teams in the bottom tier of the payroll ladder.
https://sports.betmgm.com/en/blog/mlb/mlb-teams-highest-payrolls-2023-bm15/
Pathetic franchise. Explains a lot about why Jeter and Kin Ng moved on so abruptly.
Didn't he used to pitch for the Yanks? Cashman berate him out of town?
Bucks fan first, but they've won it all very recently, so I'm happy.
Can't say I like the move to bring doc Rivers in to coach. Nor did the Lillard move make much sense. The team has its superstar in Giannis. Everyone else knew their roles. That's how you win.
Love getting that first win at Wrigley. 3-1 is a Brewer's score I'm used to. The new call up, Tyler Black, has been a spark this week, but we still need an innings eater or 2.
Marte should pitch! 2 missile strikes at the plate in the same game. Wow. Nice scrappy comeback today. Mets needed this one. Knicks? I'm not confident there. Looking for a redux of John Stark's 2-18 game 7 performance! Knicks have a real history of choking after the Clyde and Earl the Pearl days.
Uribe is a highly charged cat. You can see it on the mound in big moments. He's also super young, with little capacity to manage tight moments. Worse than all of that, his right cross is horrible!
Please. Just another small market team shaded by a MLB billboard player. You get used to this when you're a fan of any team outside of NY, LA, or sometimes Chicago.
After the game, however, crew chief Andy Fletcher owned up to it being the incorrect call.
"On the field, we got together and did the best that we could to come up with the correct answer. After looking at it off the field in replay, it appears that the call was missed," Fletcher told a pool reporter. "It should’ve been called interference because it wasn’t a natural part of his slide.
Hey, at least the umps conceded that they blew the call, which doesn't happen that often in baseball. IMO, for some hack reporter to try and make the play legitimate in the context of baseball tradition is just another sign that too many pRicks are paid to write about baseball in NY.
Great to see the O's back on top in the AL East. Without Soto, this Yankees team is just a continuation of the 2023 version.
Like the Brewers, your team is regressing to the norm. They weren't as bad as their first week suggest, nor as good as their 2nd and 3rd weeks.
You have a .500 team, give or take a few games. The hitting has been generally terrible from the guys you count on most, but that should improve too.
Wendle and Houser et al are role players. They're not going to make or break the season.
With 3 hits tonight, the Mets have plenty of ineptitude to go around.
Severino looking like CY material through 7 tonight. Definitely a guy who knows he needs a big year if he's going to get paid big $$ as a FA in 2025. Could be the bargain of the 2024 pitching acquisitions if this continues.
"starting"?
No Burnes or Woodruff.
If Wade Miley going down to TJ surgery is hugely consequential to your season... that's when you know you got serious pitching issues.