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Love the thought! Just not the history.
Don't rub it in. You still paying ex-brewer Narvaez?
I think idiocy is brewing in Milwaukee.
Back in internet reception after a few days away. Why pay Hoskins and then trade Burnes? I don't get it. No Burnes, no Woodruff.....need Fastball Freddy to pitch every 3rd day.
Somehow I thought Burnes would net a much bigger return in a trade. I get that 2024 is his final season under contract in Milwaukee, but I'm thinking teams knew he wanted out after last years comments by management....and teams around MLB know that the Brewers will always dump players in Burnes situation.
Looks like Counsell sure saw the writing on the wall
Hyperbole aside, I can't see how you can keep an exec on the payroll who has presided over a decline in PPS from $36 to just over $5 following 2 FDA approvals, for a product that is better than the current industry standard.
And saying the Mets will be competitive in 2024 is boiler plate BS. Who doesn't say that about their team?
I'm not ready to write off the Mets for 2024 just yet. There are some potent bats in your line up. Some holes, yes, but 84 wins got 2 teams into the post season last year and one of them played in the WS. That win total is certainly within reach for the Mets.
The problem Stearns has had to deal with is an inherited one from Eppler and co, who set up Mets fans in 2023 for a solid kick in the nuts. Cohen was all giddy in them early days as well and couldn't keep his big mouth or is shady wallet zipped.
The Mets haven't had a solid systemic organisation in decades. The Wilpon era was always year to year. Now you finally have a guy who can fix all of that mess. It ain't gonna happen by next Thursday. Or maybe by 2025, but I don't think you can doubt Stearns credentials based on 6 months on the job when he's still in the muddling-through-the-sewage stage of this rebuild.
They offered Yamamoto huge bucks, so they're willing to spend, but Yamamoto was never going to play in NY.
I don't think Stearns was the problem in Milwaukee. He was the architect of a great run. He established a system that should continue without him there to guide it along. That's the hope. Look at Tampa- they've lost a ton of execs to big market teams, but their system can't be faulted. It works year after year.
Hoskins is a case of the right player at the right time for a small market team that doesn't get too many cracks at a headline name. Best case scenario: Hoskins in on the Yankees IL in 2025, because that would mean he has had a big 2024 for the Crew and is going to sign a multi-year deal with a big market team next year.
This type of deal is easier to make with a hitter than with a batter IMO. There are a few starters out there in FA who once were all stars, but no one is in a rush to sign them. It's just a lot easier for a scout to watch a Cueto or Ryu throwing session and assess what he has left.
I hope so. You don't sign Hopkins if you plan to trade Burnes (I hope). Crew will need another arm in the rotation. Losing Woodruff is huge.
Brewers sign Hoskins! Same deal as Bellinger. Hope it works out like his did.
Good to see the crew splashing a little cash for a decent player!
Yup. I feel Abreu and Sheffield and Kent, who I never liked, are getting the flick for reasons that make no sense.
Not sure how you can include players who had great numbers over shorter careers but penalise the above 3 names because they were healthier.
Beltre was a no brainer. Gotta check the numbers on the other 2. Guess in Helton's case, you can't hold a guy's home ballpark against him. And back in the day, I remember thinking Mauer was a few more really good seasons shy of being a lock. Huge achievement! They must be stoked!
Bucs signed McCutchen for the same 1 year/5 million. I don't get it.....Joey Whiff is about a steady a player as can be expected: you know what you're getting year in and year out.
Nats sign Gallo for 1 year. 5 million bucks.
Nice work if you can get it.....
Putting almost 50 up against America's Team is a fine start! How bout them Cowboys!?
Yanks ink Stroman for 2 years/$37 million, which I guess is better value than Imanaga. Stroman sure parlayed 1/2 a good year into a nice payday. No doubt Montas' doctor gave him the once-over and declared him fully healed. Gotta give Stroman credit for his honesty:
New York is like the mecca of the world. I love excitement, the bright lights, competition, I love pressure. I always loved pitching here. I haven't necessarily pitched well. I always enjoyed it. Yankee lineups are brutal.
This is a great deal IMO, especially when compared to the years and $$ Nola, Ohtani and Yamamoto received. The Brewers were never going to pay for this guy, but I'm shocked the Mets let him go this cheaply, given their pitching needs. Sure Imanaga is 30, but his numbers in Japan speak for themselves. Nobody thought this guy was worth more than 53 million bucks for 4 seasons? Really? You'd prefer Severino or Lance Lynn? I don't get it.
Looks like guys who actually know how to pitch don't carry much weight these days in the analytics department if they can't blow the elbow out with 97 MPH 4 seamers.
Brings to mind Bob Uecker's line about cactching the knuckleball, though in Sanchez's case, you could insert any pitch:
Catching a knuckleball is easy. You just have to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.
You better hope Snell doesn't have a favorite third baseman!
Can't disagree with you. Sure, play the rookies, but not having some veteran back up would be a huge oversight, and your young talent had plenty of ABs last season to show that they can't hit MLB pitching yet. Baty, Vientos....I guess we'll see if another year helps, but all up, signing some kind of veteran back up is common sense, especially given their lack of consistency last season. Wendle at 2 million looks a lot better to me than IKF at 15 million for 2 years.
Bader at 10 million.... well good luck with that! Maybe he'll be the next Bellinger, lol.
When he was with Milwaukee, Stearns signed Jackie Bradley Jr to 2 year/ 24 million bucks.
Seems to have a weakness for defensive outfielders who can't hit their weight.
No Gleyber?
Look, the mess in Shea was punctuated by the absurd signings of Scherzer and Verlander for 86 boatloads of cash. Eppler bequeathed Stearns a lost pitching staff, with no long term or even medium term pieces in place. Consider yourself lucky Senga has worked out and Diaz will be back.
Cohen cracked the wallet for Yamamoto, but who wants to play in Flushing when you can play in LA? Can't blame Stearns for inheriting a slipshod operation and not fixing it in 3 months. Now after 3 years if no discernible progress has been made, that's the time for heads to roll in the front office. Til then, enjoy your 72 wins.
Fool me once, ummm, make that 4 times and counting. But hey, at least they "own" their PR blunders.
Glad to see Bader go to the Mets. Would hate to see the Brewers write a check for that guy.
I don't know why the Yanks are holding back on signing Hader. He's the best player at his position in all MLB by far left in the FA pool. The price is known, the years are pretty well known. What's not to like? Cashy holding out for a Chapman reunion?
The Red Sox are like many other teams in MLB: cashed up and ready to throw money around, but there's no where to throw it. The remaining FA pool this season features a lot of questions, and is bound to be overpaid. Bellinger, Chapman, Soler.....all either inconsistent throughout their careers or past their peak. Same with the pitchers, outside of Hader.
It's gonna end up being a bidding war for players you don't want, very much like the Giants last year. They missed out on the big guns and ended up paying Conforto and Haniger for lots of years and dollars, just to appear to be doing something to boost the team's chances.
Sox should re-sign JD and trade for Cease. They can re-evaluate at the all-star break and buy or sell then.
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because unless the spend wildly they will not be good until the late 20's at the earliest in my opinion.
Um, that spending wildly stuff didn't work out too well the last time the Mets tried it. Sure, it was all very exciting last year when Verlander signed and Correa almost signed. Your Angels GM at the time sold Cohen a nice chunk of swampland, which his big ego was all too happy to indulge in. Cohen couldn't get enough of the mic and the press photos. Well, nothing like a little humble pie for x-mas.
Look at it this way: you want to be a decent organisation, you're going to have to build from the bottom up. The Brewers GM had one decent shot at a big signing for 2024 and the next decade, but Yamamoto did what any rational FA would have done, which is to sign with the team that has a decent, solid and proven winning organisation. IMO panic-signing Snell or Montgomery would be a massive step backwards for the Mets, nothing more than a rinse and repeat of 2023, minus 50-75 million dollars. On the upside, at least your owner will open the wallet when the time is right, which isn't such a bad thing to look forward to. If the Mets were the Orioles last year, I have no doubt that Stearns/Cohen would have made the trade deadline moves to acquire the necessary pitchers so that a cinderella season wasn't wasted. As a Brewers fan, I can tell you that having a cheap owner who won't splurge a bit to help his team try and win a world series is a small market pain you'll never have to bear. However, I can't disagree with your assessment of the 2024 Mets: they will indeed be fighting it out with the Nats in a race to the bottom of the NL East.
And you should give Stearns a chance IMO. The guy has had the job for 3 months and you've done nothing but complain. You want a consistently strong organisation like Tampa or Houston, you're going to have to give it some time. Or you can pull an Eppler redux and hope to make the playoffs 4 times in the next 23 years again.
Edit: a double gets this to .06
Do what you're saying is that the Mets needed Vogelbach to accompany Stearns and Cohen on the big recruiting trip to Japan?
Well, if that rumour is true, Yamamoto chose the best option. Mets had nothing to offer but money, and to be honest, the same can be said about the Yankees, though not to the same degree.
All this money being slotted to a few players....I get that a sport's superstars should be compensated more than the journeymen, but this level of disparity is gonna kill the golden goose. I'm not sure what the solution here is, but enjoy the next few seasons before the CBA runs out.
How do you know the Tankees offered less? I haven't seen anything about the money involved for Yamamoto.
It's hard to believe Cohen didn't say "let me know your best offer and I'll add 20 million". The Mets had to have this guy, much more so than any other team in MLB and they simply couldn't close the deal. You might be lukewarm on him, but he was the cornerstone for the former Brewers GM's plan for the Mets' future. Yamamoto is no Verlander or Scherzer, guys who already have a ring and probably couldn't believe it when some idiot was willing to pay them 43 million a year. As much as I hope they fall hard next season, there's no better franchise to play for right now than the Dodgers. Their moves this offseason have guaranteed that that will be the case for years to come.
The deals they've announced are chump change at best, nothing like what Isaiah promised, what, 2 years ago, when he roostered up the company's prospects.
I'd be delighted to read a PR saying that Isaiah took a taxi around the Stellantis HQ building. Very happy to dump this POS on any dead cat bounce.
Hard to believe a double now gets the PPS to a whopping 8 cents.
How cheap can Milwaukee be? Granted Houser and Taylor are serviceable at best, but we got nothing back. This is nothing more than a chance to save a few bucks.
Yamamoto sure didn't buy into any of the NY mystique BS that Boone was trying to pump. And it looks like the Mets never had a chance. Wonder if the Dodgers will pay the sentimental $15 million to bring back Kershaw or if they'll pretend he doesn't exist?
There's a new Evil Empire in MLB. When it comes to where marquee players want to sign, Yanks are now 2nd tier at best, possibly lower. Mets? In the same bracket as the Red Sox.
Hard to believe, but the Mets may have to accept the fact that they're in the second tier of teams that high-end free agents want to sign with. It looks like it's LA and the Yanks atop the list, though LA might be in its own tier if they ink Yamamoto.
Then you have the Mets, Giants, Red Sox and possibly the Phils below them.
Certainly at the top end of the $$ scale, the high gloss players can afford to leave 10 million $$ plus on the table to sign with a team of their own choosing. I'm sure they'll make it up with endorsements.
The big names all cite a desire to win it all. Guess they're not seeing that in Flushing.
If the Crofelemer was not working then who would want to continue why keep taking a pill and continue to have diarrhea.
We have no idea what the drug did or didn't do for patients. Hope is a very powerful motivator though.
Pretty light on the details. A "majority" is as little as 50% plus one.
This wasn't an "overwhelming" majority or even a "large" majority. Better yet would have been the actual % of study participants who chose to continue, especially given the predictable cratering the stock price was going to take with this news.
She sure was a lot more enthusiastic talking up Halloween results. Then Thanksgiving.