Senga is a head case. If a hair on his arm is out of place he can’t land his pitches. I’d also be thinking something else is wrong with him. Bring up Tong. The kid has been unhittable in the minors and is still blowing AAA players away with a 0.00 ERA with very small numbers of innings pitched but the Mets can’t keep trotting this out there. Smash his toe with a barbell in the weight room. That’ll do it for him for the season. See ya’ in spring training. The kids are coming and it’s gonna be sick.
I don't think the Mets will win the division, though, of course, it's not impossible.
I think it's also pretty clear that they will get a wild card. Again, not impossible they somehow don't, but the Reds have a tough schedule & continuously have to fight uphill. They are now 2.5 back.
Once the Mets are in the playoffs, their starting rotation and pitching problems ease up some. They need less pitching. It does seem like it will partilaly rest on the rookie continuing to shine.
If the team hits, and who didn't think they had another streak of good hitting in them? (as noted, these things sometimes can't be explained) they have a chance. I think they will run into a wall in the playoffs at some point, but we can worry about that later.
Viento said that last year he looked for a specific zone to swing at, but over the winter decided, in an effort to improve this season, to widen that zone. The zone widening didn't work, and now he's back to his 2024 zone. He wasn't asked why it took him until August to figure out the zone mystery. I'm pretty sure that's what I heard him say, but I'd appreciate any corrections.
That is absolutely what Swaggy told Gelbs: he came in this year trying to cover the plate instead of zeroing in on his zone and jumping whatever came into it. Once he went back to hunting his pitch, it turned around.
Stearns definitely has his work cut out for him in the offseason. Montas going on the 60-day is almost certainly a ticket out of town, so we'll have to eat that contract. But at least it opens a slot.
One thing is becoming increasingly clear: building the rotation around Senga isn't working. It makes more sense to build it around Manaea (assuming he's healthy), Peterson and McLean next year. I was sold on Nolan before he even came up, but now I'm certain he belongs in the bigs.
If it turns out Holmes has made the transition successfully and can get to a 6 IP/GS average, same as Peterson right now, then that's four. At that point, Senga is a luxury fifth starter, with Megill, Scott and Canning coming back from injury, Tong coming up (I'm not big on Sproat's mechanics), and maybe another hidden gem in Jack Wenninger all looking for a shot.
But that's for next season. For now, we need to get through with what we have. We must assume at this point post-July 12 Kodai is what we're getting the rest of the way. That means everyone else has to pick up the slack.
Starting pitching is the sore spot of this team. Hopefully the offense will continue to explode . Can't have starting pitching not make it to the 6th or 7th inning and expect the pen to cover them every day.
Well I would not write off Senga completely, this is problem with signing japanese players. MLB teams cater to their cultural differences, and when they need to adapt, they fail. Senga needs to extra day of rest, if not more, so why try and make him go on regular rest. Bring of Tong, Sproat, evenMcGill coming back from rehab and slot them in there as your sixth starter.
Senga is a head case. If a hair on his arm is out of place he can’t land his pitches. I’d also be thinking something else is wrong with him. Bring up Tong. The kid has been unhittable in the minors and is still blowing AAA players away with a 0.00 ERA with very small numbers of innings pitched but the Mets can’t keep trotting this out there. Smash his toe with a barbell in the weight room. That’ll do it for him for the season. See ya’ in spring training. The kids are coming and it’s gonna be sick.
I don't think the Mets will win the division, though, of course, it's not impossible.
I think it's also pretty clear that they will get a wild card. Again, not impossible they somehow don't, but the Reds have a tough schedule & continuously have to fight uphill. They are now 2.5 back.
Once the Mets are in the playoffs, their starting rotation and pitching problems ease up some. They need less pitching. It does seem like it will partilaly rest on the rookie continuing to shine.
If the team hits, and who didn't think they had another streak of good hitting in them? (as noted, these things sometimes can't be explained) they have a chance. I think they will run into a wall in the playoffs at some point, but we can worry about that later.
Viento said that last year he looked for a specific zone to swing at, but over the winter decided, in an effort to improve this season, to widen that zone. The zone widening didn't work, and now he's back to his 2024 zone. He wasn't asked why it took him until August to figure out the zone mystery. I'm pretty sure that's what I heard him say, but I'd appreciate any corrections.
That is absolutely what Swaggy told Gelbs: he came in this year trying to cover the plate instead of zeroing in on his zone and jumping whatever came into it. Once he went back to hunting his pitch, it turned around.
Stearns definitely has his work cut out for him in the offseason. Montas going on the 60-day is almost certainly a ticket out of town, so we'll have to eat that contract. But at least it opens a slot.
One thing is becoming increasingly clear: building the rotation around Senga isn't working. It makes more sense to build it around Manaea (assuming he's healthy), Peterson and McLean next year. I was sold on Nolan before he even came up, but now I'm certain he belongs in the bigs.
If it turns out Holmes has made the transition successfully and can get to a 6 IP/GS average, same as Peterson right now, then that's four. At that point, Senga is a luxury fifth starter, with Megill, Scott and Canning coming back from injury, Tong coming up (I'm not big on Sproat's mechanics), and maybe another hidden gem in Jack Wenninger all looking for a shot.
But that's for next season. For now, we need to get through with what we have. We must assume at this point post-July 12 Kodai is what we're getting the rest of the way. That means everyone else has to pick up the slack.
Starting pitching is the sore spot of this team. Hopefully the offense will continue to explode . Can't have starting pitching not make it to the 6th or 7th inning and expect the pen to cover them every day.
Well I would not write off Senga completely, this is problem with signing japanese players. MLB teams cater to their cultural differences, and when they need to adapt, they fail. Senga needs to extra day of rest, if not more, so why try and make him go on regular rest. Bring of Tong, Sproat, evenMcGill coming back from rehab and slot them in there as your sixth starter.