I agree with us holding on to Senga. Give him another shot. Starters are just to hard to fine.
I believe we are very close to making an offer to Detroit for Skubal. Telling Mauricio to just play third in the winter league tells me Baty may be the one going to Detroit. They talked about Baty in the past. Detroit was courting Bregman but the cost may be prohibitive for Detroit. We get Skubal,
Detroit gets Baty and probably three or four other Mets. We then try for Bregman, if it doesn't happen we have Mauricio at third. I may be way out in centerfield with this. The frustration from the silence made me make some of my own noise.
Three big problems. I haven't seen a speck of real news about a Skubal trade. The other is that unless they get him signed to an extension, nobody is worth sending half a team away for a rental. Third: if you're Detroit, why do it? If you're not in the hunt next year as the trading deadline approaches, that's a different story.
I don't think Skubal is the trade, for the exact reasons Joel has pointed out. But if we're putting together a package for someone, my guess is Baty would be the centerpiece.
At this point, I don't want to lose him, though. If he goes, in my view it would have to be as part of a blockbuster, maybe for Tatis. Which almost certainly isn't going to happen (as much as I wish it would).
Methinks it's an easy decision to keep Senga for another shot, given how costly starting pitching is and the likelihood that they could only get peanuts for him after his last couple of years. "...one particular blade in the ever-churning rumor mill" prompted an in-depth study on my part and it is true that various modern-day mills use blades. Traditional mills used stones, not blades, and there's a bounty of idioms that derive from them: https://blog.bakewithzing.com/popular-stone-milling-idioms/. Stones or blades, Happy New Year and sign Tucker!
Let's keep Kodai. Yes, he hasn't exactly been an ironman. But when he's right, he's as good as anyone around. If he stays healthy, he can give us everything we need over 26 GS and 165 IP, provided he just pitches up to his normal level.
And just think of that: if we throw Manaea, Holmes, Peterson, Senga and McLean 26 GS apiece, that's 130 games. Make a deal for Freddy Peralta and his 32 GS and there you go. The tricky part is lining up the six-man with the calendar so no one goes too long between starts.
We know Senga can't lead the rotation, but if there's one guy who can flex according to the schedule, it's him. He just needs enough lead time to go through his routine so he lands on gameday at his peak. Which he knows how to do.
So, that makes him super valuable: a guy we can use kind of the way Casey Stengel used Whitey Ford back in the day. Stengel didn't care much about the rotation. He just penciled the Chairman in against the other team's No. 1 every series and worked the rest of the starts out around that.
That would be an intriguing way of going about it for us. Very intriguing indeed.
I’m with you here. When Senga is on he’s one of the top pitchers in the game but as Stearns said they cannot count on 30 starts from the guy and can he post every 5 days? The Mets have pitched him on 6 days rest as much as possible which screws with the rest of the rotation. If he needs to be included in a trade to get a real ace back then I’d be ok with that but to trade him just for the sake of getting him gone would be a mistake at this point. I think he understands now he needs to step up and did do everything for the sake of the team when he got demoted. Mebbe this is the wake up call he needed to bear down and pitch like his career is on the line because it it.
Let's indulge ourselves in a series of bouncebacks/repeats: Senga pitches like his first 13 starts, Vientos hits like it's 2024, Alvarez hits like when he returned to the bigs and stays on the field, Polanco repeats his 2025, Semien finds the fountain of youth, Baty repeats his 2nd half, Manea repeats 2024, Peterson repeats 2025 before August, Holmes discovers how to last past the 5th inning, Williams recovers his pre-2025 glory, and one of our blue-chip prospects turns out to be the real deal. That's only about ten "ifs". All we know for sure is that Soto and Lindor will do their part. That's why we need to sign Tucker. David Stearns, are you listening?
As of this last day of the year, the Mets are MIA in reference to improving the team for the 2026 season. It will take an almost impossible chain of events to get to 'improved'. 'Impossible' has happened before, you say. OK, lets see if David Stearns is up to the task. I feel he is aiming for later in the decade.
I agree with us holding on to Senga. Give him another shot. Starters are just to hard to fine.
I believe we are very close to making an offer to Detroit for Skubal. Telling Mauricio to just play third in the winter league tells me Baty may be the one going to Detroit. They talked about Baty in the past. Detroit was courting Bregman but the cost may be prohibitive for Detroit. We get Skubal,
Detroit gets Baty and probably three or four other Mets. We then try for Bregman, if it doesn't happen we have Mauricio at third. I may be way out in centerfield with this. The frustration from the silence made me make some of my own noise.
Three big problems. I haven't seen a speck of real news about a Skubal trade. The other is that unless they get him signed to an extension, nobody is worth sending half a team away for a rental. Third: if you're Detroit, why do it? If you're not in the hunt next year as the trading deadline approaches, that's a different story.
I don't think Skubal is the trade, for the exact reasons Joel has pointed out. But if we're putting together a package for someone, my guess is Baty would be the centerpiece.
At this point, I don't want to lose him, though. If he goes, in my view it would have to be as part of a blockbuster, maybe for Tatis. Which almost certainly isn't going to happen (as much as I wish it would).
Methinks it's an easy decision to keep Senga for another shot, given how costly starting pitching is and the likelihood that they could only get peanuts for him after his last couple of years. "...one particular blade in the ever-churning rumor mill" prompted an in-depth study on my part and it is true that various modern-day mills use blades. Traditional mills used stones, not blades, and there's a bounty of idioms that derive from them: https://blog.bakewithzing.com/popular-stone-milling-idioms/. Stones or blades, Happy New Year and sign Tucker!
Let's keep Kodai. Yes, he hasn't exactly been an ironman. But when he's right, he's as good as anyone around. If he stays healthy, he can give us everything we need over 26 GS and 165 IP, provided he just pitches up to his normal level.
And just think of that: if we throw Manaea, Holmes, Peterson, Senga and McLean 26 GS apiece, that's 130 games. Make a deal for Freddy Peralta and his 32 GS and there you go. The tricky part is lining up the six-man with the calendar so no one goes too long between starts.
We know Senga can't lead the rotation, but if there's one guy who can flex according to the schedule, it's him. He just needs enough lead time to go through his routine so he lands on gameday at his peak. Which he knows how to do.
So, that makes him super valuable: a guy we can use kind of the way Casey Stengel used Whitey Ford back in the day. Stengel didn't care much about the rotation. He just penciled the Chairman in against the other team's No. 1 every series and worked the rest of the starts out around that.
That would be an intriguing way of going about it for us. Very intriguing indeed.
I’m with you here. When Senga is on he’s one of the top pitchers in the game but as Stearns said they cannot count on 30 starts from the guy and can he post every 5 days? The Mets have pitched him on 6 days rest as much as possible which screws with the rest of the rotation. If he needs to be included in a trade to get a real ace back then I’d be ok with that but to trade him just for the sake of getting him gone would be a mistake at this point. I think he understands now he needs to step up and did do everything for the sake of the team when he got demoted. Mebbe this is the wake up call he needed to bear down and pitch like his career is on the line because it it.
Let's indulge ourselves in a series of bouncebacks/repeats: Senga pitches like his first 13 starts, Vientos hits like it's 2024, Alvarez hits like when he returned to the bigs and stays on the field, Polanco repeats his 2025, Semien finds the fountain of youth, Baty repeats his 2nd half, Manea repeats 2024, Peterson repeats 2025 before August, Holmes discovers how to last past the 5th inning, Williams recovers his pre-2025 glory, and one of our blue-chip prospects turns out to be the real deal. That's only about ten "ifs". All we know for sure is that Soto and Lindor will do their part. That's why we need to sign Tucker. David Stearns, are you listening?
That is a lot of “If’s”. I’m just asking/hoping for one here. Lol
As of this last day of the year, the Mets are MIA in reference to improving the team for the 2026 season. It will take an almost impossible chain of events to get to 'improved'. 'Impossible' has happened before, you say. OK, lets see if David Stearns is up to the task. I feel he is aiming for later in the decade.