Excellent in-depth piece! It's striking to me that the 2025 Mets have a better record than 2024 Mets at this juncture. Just a day ago I was studying suicide techniques. Go Baty!
The kid looked good and not at all overmatched. He looked like he belonged or there. The walks will come around to bite him. Free passes are death in the bigs. The walks also added close to 30+ extra pitches which puts the Mets in the same
‘ol situation. Just another 5 innings pitcher. Again asking the bullpen to throw just about 1/2 of a game and the way this pen is performing making this kid to be some sort of savior is unkind to him and foolish for the team. He left with a one run advantage. Did anyone believe the pen was going to hold that up? I know I didn’t and if they didn’t tack on 2 more runs the HR Diaz allowed would been the dagger. There was your blown save and most likely extra innings and possibly another loss. I’m not trying to be Debbie Downer here it just so happened the pen didn’t fully implode and the Mets added some runs yesterday. It equaled a win and what this team should have been doing all along but hasn’t. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut. It’s gonna take more than one game for me to believe this is the turn around and the Mets need to play much better for the next month to show they are back.
One of the things that impressed the hell out of me was after he snagged the one hop come backer McLean DID NOT throw the ball in to center field, like some others might have!
For sure! The kid is a hell if an athlete. He was a QB too at OK. St. Plus he was a two way player on the diamond until last year when he just focused on pitching. So he didn’t panic and handled the play like any other baseball player would. That was a sick play though. It seemed it went through the pitching staff that day too as even Diaz made a couple of nice plays. You’re right though usually any other pitcher throws that into CF or just goes to first with it. Fantastic play. Even better it happened when his parents were being interviewed by Gelbs. His old man was just like yea he’s done that before. It’s what he does. We really might have something with him if he can cut down on the walks. Otherwise he will be a great 5 inning pitcher. Which lines up better for the bullpen.
Nolan McLean came as advertised. He looked the same to me yesterday as he did at AAA. Just totally unfazed by being on a big league mound.
I don't know how much he can give us the rest of the year, but pencil him in for the rotation next year. He's ready. Now we just need the rest of our starters to step up and get deeper. We're starting to hit again, mostly because Lindor is starting to hit again. Pitching needs to do its part.
By the way, if I didn't know better, I'd say Francisco woke up a couple days ago and all of a sudden his toe didn't hurt anymore. He's been hopping around the batter's box again, looking energized and dynamic, balanced and ready to put some wood on the ball. He's not just trying to hang in there.
If he gets going, everyone else will follow. We can still make a run. But our starting pitchers MUST be more effective and get deeper.
Bring up the pitchers to revamp the rotation! And play very good baseball the rest of the way! LET'S GO METS!
Excellent in-depth piece! It's striking to me that the 2025 Mets have a better record than 2024 Mets at this juncture. Just a day ago I was studying suicide techniques. Go Baty!
The kid looked good and not at all overmatched. He looked like he belonged or there. The walks will come around to bite him. Free passes are death in the bigs. The walks also added close to 30+ extra pitches which puts the Mets in the same
‘ol situation. Just another 5 innings pitcher. Again asking the bullpen to throw just about 1/2 of a game and the way this pen is performing making this kid to be some sort of savior is unkind to him and foolish for the team. He left with a one run advantage. Did anyone believe the pen was going to hold that up? I know I didn’t and if they didn’t tack on 2 more runs the HR Diaz allowed would been the dagger. There was your blown save and most likely extra innings and possibly another loss. I’m not trying to be Debbie Downer here it just so happened the pen didn’t fully implode and the Mets added some runs yesterday. It equaled a win and what this team should have been doing all along but hasn’t. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut. It’s gonna take more than one game for me to believe this is the turn around and the Mets need to play much better for the next month to show they are back.
One of the things that impressed the hell out of me was after he snagged the one hop come backer McLean DID NOT throw the ball in to center field, like some others might have!
For sure! The kid is a hell if an athlete. He was a QB too at OK. St. Plus he was a two way player on the diamond until last year when he just focused on pitching. So he didn’t panic and handled the play like any other baseball player would. That was a sick play though. It seemed it went through the pitching staff that day too as even Diaz made a couple of nice plays. You’re right though usually any other pitcher throws that into CF or just goes to first with it. Fantastic play. Even better it happened when his parents were being interviewed by Gelbs. His old man was just like yea he’s done that before. It’s what he does. We really might have something with him if he can cut down on the walks. Otherwise he will be a great 5 inning pitcher. Which lines up better for the bullpen.
I suspect Mets are among mlb leaders in errant throws and hit batsmen with bases loaded.
Nolan McLean came as advertised. He looked the same to me yesterday as he did at AAA. Just totally unfazed by being on a big league mound.
I don't know how much he can give us the rest of the year, but pencil him in for the rotation next year. He's ready. Now we just need the rest of our starters to step up and get deeper. We're starting to hit again, mostly because Lindor is starting to hit again. Pitching needs to do its part.
By the way, if I didn't know better, I'd say Francisco woke up a couple days ago and all of a sudden his toe didn't hurt anymore. He's been hopping around the batter's box again, looking energized and dynamic, balanced and ready to put some wood on the ball. He's not just trying to hang in there.
If he gets going, everyone else will follow. We can still make a run. But our starting pitchers MUST be more effective and get deeper.