Stearns seems to be balancing the need for immediate impact with long term development, which is the rigt approach. Keeping Senga in the rotation while giving Baty significant reps at third shows the organization is willing to bet on their talent bouncing back. The hesitation around Jett Williams is intresting too, especially with Ewing's rapid progres making him a potential trade chip without sacraficing too much future value.
I would keep Brandon Sproat, Jonah Tong and Carson Benge without hesitation. I do not want to continue seeing METS trading talented top prospects and see them excel with other Teams. I am done with Tylor Megill.
"I don’t disagree with anyone who encourages trading them both ahead of spring and getting the most of whatever present-day value they have." I do, because their bounce-back potential to their current trade value ratio (just made that up) is huge.
"I’m not fully convinced a Bellinger signing would be in the team’s best interest. He was fantastic last year, no doubt; however, his career history is the definition of ‘up-and-down.’ " Disagree here as well. I think he'd made this a dramatically better team. The hole in center can't be left unattended, there's no other good center fielders on the market, and it's far too optimistic to hink Benge
*...to think Benge is going to solve the problem, at least this year. It's fine for Stearns to talk him up, that's part of his job. My final grumble: Skubal is staying in Detroit; I wish we'd only speculate about stuff that has some reasonable chance of actually taking place.
From what I heard Stearns will be in the mix on any pitcher that will be traded or FA. I highly doubt that they trade the capital needed to get Skubal without getting a window to sign him long term attached. That’s just smart business. That number is the 326 million Cole has with the Yankees. Which means Tarik is looking at 350-400 easily. This is the state of baseball now. You figure franchise QB’s are getting 50 million a year and Ace’s are basically in the same breath. You’d easily give Skenes that just because of his age but a back to back Cy Young winner? Same to me. Should a Skubal trade materialize then I’d look at second base. Stearns said Baty is gonna be the third baseman. McNeil I feel is gone so I can see Bichette or Ketel Marte there. Great Gloves’ and an upgrade with the bat obviously. The payroll currently sits at 240 mil roughly. I’d expect it next year to be easily 350. If Diaz and Pete come back there’s 50 mil/yr there. A top of the rotation starter and scrap heap with the bullpen again until the trade deadline again. There ya’ go. I’ve laid out the whole thing. Easy Peasy. Unless Pete gets the 6+ years from someone else he should be back and I feel Diaz gets the 4/80-85 too.
I heard he’s better at second than short and Stearns had high praise for Kai. Like seriously high praise. I’m not sure how it translates as I think you are what you are when it comes to range but if there are tricks to the trade I guess we shall see. I believe the “run prevention” everyone is focused on because Stearns stressed it widely is more on the pitching side.
Stearns seems to be balancing the need for immediate impact with long term development, which is the rigt approach. Keeping Senga in the rotation while giving Baty significant reps at third shows the organization is willing to bet on their talent bouncing back. The hesitation around Jett Williams is intresting too, especially with Ewing's rapid progres making him a potential trade chip without sacraficing too much future value.
I would keep Brandon Sproat, Jonah Tong and Carson Benge without hesitation. I do not want to continue seeing METS trading talented top prospects and see them excel with other Teams. I am done with Tylor Megill.
"I don’t disagree with anyone who encourages trading them both ahead of spring and getting the most of whatever present-day value they have." I do, because their bounce-back potential to their current trade value ratio (just made that up) is huge.
"I’m not fully convinced a Bellinger signing would be in the team’s best interest. He was fantastic last year, no doubt; however, his career history is the definition of ‘up-and-down.’ " Disagree here as well. I think he'd made this a dramatically better team. The hole in center can't be left unattended, there's no other good center fielders on the market, and it's far too optimistic to hink Benge
*...to think Benge is going to solve the problem, at least this year. It's fine for Stearns to talk him up, that's part of his job. My final grumble: Skubal is staying in Detroit; I wish we'd only speculate about stuff that has some reasonable chance of actually taking place.
From what I heard Stearns will be in the mix on any pitcher that will be traded or FA. I highly doubt that they trade the capital needed to get Skubal without getting a window to sign him long term attached. That’s just smart business. That number is the 326 million Cole has with the Yankees. Which means Tarik is looking at 350-400 easily. This is the state of baseball now. You figure franchise QB’s are getting 50 million a year and Ace’s are basically in the same breath. You’d easily give Skenes that just because of his age but a back to back Cy Young winner? Same to me. Should a Skubal trade materialize then I’d look at second base. Stearns said Baty is gonna be the third baseman. McNeil I feel is gone so I can see Bichette or Ketel Marte there. Great Gloves’ and an upgrade with the bat obviously. The payroll currently sits at 240 mil roughly. I’d expect it next year to be easily 350. If Diaz and Pete come back there’s 50 mil/yr there. A top of the rotation starter and scrap heap with the bullpen again until the trade deadline again. There ya’ go. I’ve laid out the whole thing. Easy Peasy. Unless Pete gets the 6+ years from someone else he should be back and I feel Diaz gets the 4/80-85 too.
I've read in a few places that Bichette is a below average fielder, both at short and second.
I heard he’s better at second than short and Stearns had high praise for Kai. Like seriously high praise. I’m not sure how it translates as I think you are what you are when it comes to range but if there are tricks to the trade I guess we shall see. I believe the “run prevention” everyone is focused on because Stearns stressed it widely is more on the pitching side.
I'd love to be wrong about Bichette because he's a great hitter...and will also cost quite a lot.