The flexibilty of having options at first base with McNeil and Vientos is smart if Alonso walks. Adding Imai to the rotation while bulding bullpen depth makes sense for championship window. The Skubal trade scenario is intresting but would cost alot of prospects.
Reading that Cohen isn’t happy and wants Stearns to be aggressive in getting not one but possibly 2 front end starters is music to my ears. It’s not more obvious Stearns was landed on by the Cohen’s. You maybe need to read into it no further then when Cohen called out Mets fans on attendance and they heed the call giving the greatest attendance mark in history and they got to see this year up close and personal. I believe Cohen knows that the upcoming labor dispute is going to be a rough one and one that possibly kills a season if not most of it and he has given Stearns explicit terms to do whatever it takes to get top flight arms. If there is interest in Senga? Send him out and then they won’t need the 6 man rotation giving him that extra day rest while juggling to keep you other starters on their schedule. We all know McClean is easily 2/3 depending on what deals happen and honestly I’d keep him at 2 rewarding homegrown talent should be a priority no matter what MLB experience other arms have. Playoff rotations can be juggled and they can be swapped during the season too. I’m sorry. Letting Pete walk will be a something that haunts this organization. I feel it in my bones.
Maybe the conjecture about letting Alonso walk is the result of strategic leaks by the Mets to help in negotiations? Only 125 rbis, who needs him, haha! I don't get the talk about McLean or any pitcher being a 2 or 3 or a 4. It's just fodder for conversation, seems to me. However well you perform, that's your rank when a starting staff is discussed. For a while Peterson was our #1, now maybe #3. Assigning a number doesn't matter.
Yea. I guess you’re right about that for the most part but you know when you have a number 1 ace. Seaver was an ace. Doc was an ace. Jacob was an ace. So while 2-5 might be fodder for conversation. You know when you got a #1
If McLean pitches even close to as well as he did in his 8 starts (1 bad outing, 7 good ones), we have an ace. Btw, it looks like the Skubal talk is going to continue nonstop the whole winter whether I like it or not. Speculating about it is too tempting for any pundit. I just don't see how a contending team trades away one of the two best pitchers in baseball in his prime. I can see it if they falter badly in the first half of the upcoming season, but not over the winter.
It could take three top 10 prospects and one other 10-20 prospect for the Mets to acquire LHP Tarik Skubal (NY Post) -- HARD PASS
Tigers have no interest in trading him.
The flexibilty of having options at first base with McNeil and Vientos is smart if Alonso walks. Adding Imai to the rotation while bulding bullpen depth makes sense for championship window. The Skubal trade scenario is intresting but would cost alot of prospects.
Tigers have no interest in trading him.
Reading that Cohen isn’t happy and wants Stearns to be aggressive in getting not one but possibly 2 front end starters is music to my ears. It’s not more obvious Stearns was landed on by the Cohen’s. You maybe need to read into it no further then when Cohen called out Mets fans on attendance and they heed the call giving the greatest attendance mark in history and they got to see this year up close and personal. I believe Cohen knows that the upcoming labor dispute is going to be a rough one and one that possibly kills a season if not most of it and he has given Stearns explicit terms to do whatever it takes to get top flight arms. If there is interest in Senga? Send him out and then they won’t need the 6 man rotation giving him that extra day rest while juggling to keep you other starters on their schedule. We all know McClean is easily 2/3 depending on what deals happen and honestly I’d keep him at 2 rewarding homegrown talent should be a priority no matter what MLB experience other arms have. Playoff rotations can be juggled and they can be swapped during the season too. I’m sorry. Letting Pete walk will be a something that haunts this organization. I feel it in my bones.
Maybe the conjecture about letting Alonso walk is the result of strategic leaks by the Mets to help in negotiations? Only 125 rbis, who needs him, haha! I don't get the talk about McLean or any pitcher being a 2 or 3 or a 4. It's just fodder for conversation, seems to me. However well you perform, that's your rank when a starting staff is discussed. For a while Peterson was our #1, now maybe #3. Assigning a number doesn't matter.
Yea. I guess you’re right about that for the most part but you know when you have a number 1 ace. Seaver was an ace. Doc was an ace. Jacob was an ace. So while 2-5 might be fodder for conversation. You know when you got a #1
If McLean pitches even close to as well as he did in his 8 starts (1 bad outing, 7 good ones), we have an ace. Btw, it looks like the Skubal talk is going to continue nonstop the whole winter whether I like it or not. Speculating about it is too tempting for any pundit. I just don't see how a contending team trades away one of the two best pitchers in baseball in his prime. I can see it if they falter badly in the first half of the upcoming season, but not over the winter.
I firmly believe McClean is a stud and future Ace.