Looking at Clifford and Mauricio murdering baseballs in AAA while Lambert blows guys away with 100 mph gas knowing he’s just wasting bullets there. Baty and Vientos are AAAA players and they are like blind a blind squirrel who finds his nut. Don’t the Mets need a first baseman? Clifford fits that bill. He also mashes baseballs. Mauricio needs to be given playing time when he’s called up again to really see what he’s got. Morabito is also hitting and actually has 3 HRs as he’s not been known to have power. That real issue here is none of the players brought in are known really to the fans. Polanco was a west coast player. Bichette played in Canada and Semein was down in Texas. Robert in Chicago. Everyone brought in is a mercenary and since they aren’t doing anything to help this team win Mets fans have no attachment to them which is creating even more harsher negativity than if this was happening with the core that was here last year. This team is not built to consistently score runs. They just aren’t. Everything has to go right every day for that to equal wins. You need to also not allow the other team to score more than you and the pitching isn’t there. Mendy needs to go. Stearns is the architect of this mess though. He screwed the pooch this off season and sold us a bag of shit.
"At the risk of sounding maudlin, these middling Mets certainly have a knack for cultivating misery en masse." Nice. Anything that gives me a chance to smile about the Mets is a good thing! You may be the only sportswriter in America who's acquainted with the world "maudlin".
I'd quibble that the questions about Senga and Peterson HAVE been answered, i.e., the answer is that they're no longer good pitchers. The big downside about starting Myers is that now you've lost your best (only?) long reliever. I was thinking they might call up Christian Scott. Btw, we should have a readers' vote: Which fact is more sorrowful, that Baty has one walk on the season or that Lindor has one rbi on the season?
Lindor. I understand the cold start, but his overall play has been unacceptable. Maybe starting in May, if we all put on our orange and blue colored glasses, we go an historic heater and win it all!
Looking at Clifford and Mauricio murdering baseballs in AAA while Lambert blows guys away with 100 mph gas knowing he’s just wasting bullets there. Baty and Vientos are AAAA players and they are like blind a blind squirrel who finds his nut. Don’t the Mets need a first baseman? Clifford fits that bill. He also mashes baseballs. Mauricio needs to be given playing time when he’s called up again to really see what he’s got. Morabito is also hitting and actually has 3 HRs as he’s not been known to have power. That real issue here is none of the players brought in are known really to the fans. Polanco was a west coast player. Bichette played in Canada and Semein was down in Texas. Robert in Chicago. Everyone brought in is a mercenary and since they aren’t doing anything to help this team win Mets fans have no attachment to them which is creating even more harsher negativity than if this was happening with the core that was here last year. This team is not built to consistently score runs. They just aren’t. Everything has to go right every day for that to equal wins. You need to also not allow the other team to score more than you and the pitching isn’t there. Mendy needs to go. Stearns is the architect of this mess though. He screwed the pooch this off season and sold us a bag of shit.
"At the risk of sounding maudlin, these middling Mets certainly have a knack for cultivating misery en masse." Nice. Anything that gives me a chance to smile about the Mets is a good thing! You may be the only sportswriter in America who's acquainted with the world "maudlin".
I'd quibble that the questions about Senga and Peterson HAVE been answered, i.e., the answer is that they're no longer good pitchers. The big downside about starting Myers is that now you've lost your best (only?) long reliever. I was thinking they might call up Christian Scott. Btw, we should have a readers' vote: Which fact is more sorrowful, that Baty has one walk on the season or that Lindor has one rbi on the season?
Lindor. I understand the cold start, but his overall play has been unacceptable. Maybe starting in May, if we all put on our orange and blue colored glasses, we go an historic heater and win it all!
....or not.