I don’t think Peralta is an ace but he’ll have a lot of value at the trade deadline. We should be able to get a high end prospect and more for him. Getting Polanco and maybe Alvarez back should help the lineup. Let’s go Knicks!
The Mets minor league system is not looking good at all this year. For all the patting themselves on the back for Ewing, Benge, and Morabito, they hit worse than a bad high school team. Little power, seems like everyone is barely hitting their weights. What the hell is going on
It is wild to continue to see some of the symmetrical asymmetry between 2024 and 2026. The basic W and L results are aligned, how they got there are slightly different. The ugly start in 2024 combo with the ugly 4-15 stretch from May 10 to May 29 which put them at 22-33 overall. These 2026 Mets slid to the 11 game under mark much quicker as we know through that diabolical 12 game losing streak in the heart of April.
Both teams had an absolutely awful loss in Marlins Park via closer melt downs with the 2024 team taking a game in which they scored 9 runs and lead by 4 runs in the 9th turning it into an extra inning walk off loss, and the 2026 team taking a 0-0 game and turning it into a 4-0 walk off loss in 9.
Through the end of May 2024 team, 24-33, 239 Runs Scored, 275 Runs Allowed; the 2026 team, 26-33, 239 Runs Scored, 252 Runs Allowed. Obviously this years team had the 2 extra games in March with the season starting earlier. Neither team was particularly good at scoring or preventing scoring at the same general markers.
The first difference that emerged for the 2024 team, on back to back nights in early June, David Peterson pitched into the 7th recording 6.2 innings and the next day Luis Severino got 24 outs as the starting pitcher. Severino continued that all month getting them through at minimum 6 innings every time out.
Given how much is missing from this offense and the schedule at hand, for the Mets of 2026 to do anything close to what the 2024 team did in June to get back to even, it is going to require the starting pitching to have a step up until the team can get to full strength. Can't expect everyone every time, but I don't think it is too much to ask of Peralta to get 6+ and then from there McLean has to right the ship and give you a few 6+ outings, and then sprinkle in a few from Scott, Manaea and whomever the 5th starter will be, but it has to happen. If it does then July becomes the month to lean on a return of the intended everyday players amping it up. It is a tall task and does not seem remotely believable with the lackluster ball we have seen thus far, but it did not seem very likely at all in 2024 either. Severino stepped up and the offense stepped up. In 2026 it is going to require the starting pitchers do the work near term. Then, if it plays out you have got to make a move for a horse near the deadline. You CANNOT waste a year of Juan Soto's prime and the waning years of Lindor.
Between losing holmes, and the evolution of senga and peterson into marginal pitchers, there's very little chance of things playing out as you describe. I'm afraid they will indeed be wasting a year of lindor and soto.
I don’t think Peralta is an ace but he’ll have a lot of value at the trade deadline. We should be able to get a high end prospect and more for him. Getting Polanco and maybe Alvarez back should help the lineup. Let’s go Knicks!
Why was AAA game only 7 innings?
The Mets minor league system is not looking good at all this year. For all the patting themselves on the back for Ewing, Benge, and Morabito, they hit worse than a bad high school team. Little power, seems like everyone is barely hitting their weights. What the hell is going on
It is wild to continue to see some of the symmetrical asymmetry between 2024 and 2026. The basic W and L results are aligned, how they got there are slightly different. The ugly start in 2024 combo with the ugly 4-15 stretch from May 10 to May 29 which put them at 22-33 overall. These 2026 Mets slid to the 11 game under mark much quicker as we know through that diabolical 12 game losing streak in the heart of April.
Both teams had an absolutely awful loss in Marlins Park via closer melt downs with the 2024 team taking a game in which they scored 9 runs and lead by 4 runs in the 9th turning it into an extra inning walk off loss, and the 2026 team taking a 0-0 game and turning it into a 4-0 walk off loss in 9.
Through the end of May 2024 team, 24-33, 239 Runs Scored, 275 Runs Allowed; the 2026 team, 26-33, 239 Runs Scored, 252 Runs Allowed. Obviously this years team had the 2 extra games in March with the season starting earlier. Neither team was particularly good at scoring or preventing scoring at the same general markers.
The first difference that emerged for the 2024 team, on back to back nights in early June, David Peterson pitched into the 7th recording 6.2 innings and the next day Luis Severino got 24 outs as the starting pitcher. Severino continued that all month getting them through at minimum 6 innings every time out.
Given how much is missing from this offense and the schedule at hand, for the Mets of 2026 to do anything close to what the 2024 team did in June to get back to even, it is going to require the starting pitching to have a step up until the team can get to full strength. Can't expect everyone every time, but I don't think it is too much to ask of Peralta to get 6+ and then from there McLean has to right the ship and give you a few 6+ outings, and then sprinkle in a few from Scott, Manaea and whomever the 5th starter will be, but it has to happen. If it does then July becomes the month to lean on a return of the intended everyday players amping it up. It is a tall task and does not seem remotely believable with the lackluster ball we have seen thus far, but it did not seem very likely at all in 2024 either. Severino stepped up and the offense stepped up. In 2026 it is going to require the starting pitchers do the work near term. Then, if it plays out you have got to make a move for a horse near the deadline. You CANNOT waste a year of Juan Soto's prime and the waning years of Lindor.
Between losing holmes, and the evolution of senga and peterson into marginal pitchers, there's very little chance of things playing out as you describe. I'm afraid they will indeed be wasting a year of lindor and soto.