Been a Mets fan for over 50 years and it is so frustrating. David Sterns makes too many bad roster decisions. So much dead money. Instead of having such a run prevention mentality. Which he didn't really accomplish. It was just a cover to get rid of Alonso and Nimmo. Get ball players who "know how to play with passion that really care" who are not overpriced veterans. There were solid ball players out there that could have filled our holes at first base and left field for a year or so until our youngsters were ready. There are so many teams out there that are fielding young, hungry, solid ball players with passion and are having success. Not as much success as the Dodgers at this point, but give their fans entertainment, a reason for hope and fun to watch and follow. David Sterns needs to re-think about the ball players he goes after. I have cancer and the Mets are playing as bad as I feel. I was hoping they could give me some joy this year.
It’s not that the Mets can’t hit balls out of the strike zone—it’s that they’re doing it way too often and with the wrong intent. They’re not “battling,” they’re just chasing. The numbers back that up—about 37% of their swings are at pitches outside the zone. That’s not controlled aggression—that’s undisciplined hitting.
Other teams will flick a pitch the other way, shorten up, maybe even go one-handed just to put it in play. The Mets? They’re taking full, max-effort swings like every pitch is supposed to leave the yard.
Look at guys like Luis Robert Jr. or Bo Bichette right now—when they expand the zone, it’s not to fight off a tough pitch, it’s to do damage on something you simply can’t drive.
That’s the difference:
Good teams expand the zone to survive the at-bat.
The Mets expand the zone trying to end it in one swing.
Until they start shortening up, using the whole field, and—radical idea—just trying to get a base hit, this “swing for the fences” approach is going to keep producing exactly what we’re seeing: weak contact, strikeouts, and empty innings.
After 40 years since the Mets last World Series title and over 50 years of Mets fandom I’ve come to the conclusion that us Mets fans just cannot have nice things. Sure, we can grab elite players with the name on their backs but never enough where it makes a difference. This team continues to make dumb decisions that cost games. Polanco for instance should have been out on the IL two weeks ago but no let’s allow him to keep playing to we know for sure this injury prevents him from even hitting. Why? Why? Why? How come even casual fans can see what is wrong here before management? We learned last season that every game does count. I guess might as well give away as many as they can early in the season so you need to play playoff baseball from August on just to get in. I’d also like to take this moment to call out NY sports beat writers. Jon Herman just put out a piece absolving Mendy of all this and said Mendy is a good manager and the Mets would be sorry if they fired him over this early season swoon. Does Heyman get money from the Mets to write that? Far as I can see I don’t hear that any other team is lining up to hire the guy if he gets let go. I surely don’t see “baseball savant” when looking at him and judging by some of the moves he has made during the years he’s been skipper I can show many instances where that moniker would be false. I guess Heyman needs to see Mendy drive this club into the ground longer before he changes his mind. I didn’t like the hire from the jump and am hating it even more now. He’s following Boone’s playbook to the letter but doesn’t have the players to get away with the stupid shit he does too. Recall Boone hasn’t won anything during his stint for the team in the Bronx either. Mendy won’t take this team there either.
Well, I guess you're ticked off just a tad! While you're bashing writers, let's bash Mike Puma whose idea of a sports story is to rant and rant about lindor and McNeil not being pals. As if they need to be or should be.
Been a Mets fan for over 50 years and it is so frustrating. David Sterns makes too many bad roster decisions. So much dead money. Instead of having such a run prevention mentality. Which he didn't really accomplish. It was just a cover to get rid of Alonso and Nimmo. Get ball players who "know how to play with passion that really care" who are not overpriced veterans. There were solid ball players out there that could have filled our holes at first base and left field for a year or so until our youngsters were ready. There are so many teams out there that are fielding young, hungry, solid ball players with passion and are having success. Not as much success as the Dodgers at this point, but give their fans entertainment, a reason for hope and fun to watch and follow. David Sterns needs to re-think about the ball players he goes after. I have cancer and the Mets are playing as bad as I feel. I was hoping they could give me some joy this year.
Sorry about your health problem. Yes, we look to the Mets for some pleasure but lately, nothing but pain is what we get.
The front office changed players, coaches, so does the obvious come next?
Sell the team back to the Wilpons?
It’s not that the Mets can’t hit balls out of the strike zone—it’s that they’re doing it way too often and with the wrong intent. They’re not “battling,” they’re just chasing. The numbers back that up—about 37% of their swings are at pitches outside the zone. That’s not controlled aggression—that’s undisciplined hitting.
Other teams will flick a pitch the other way, shorten up, maybe even go one-handed just to put it in play. The Mets? They’re taking full, max-effort swings like every pitch is supposed to leave the yard.
Look at guys like Luis Robert Jr. or Bo Bichette right now—when they expand the zone, it’s not to fight off a tough pitch, it’s to do damage on something you simply can’t drive.
That’s the difference:
Good teams expand the zone to survive the at-bat.
The Mets expand the zone trying to end it in one swing.
Until they start shortening up, using the whole field, and—radical idea—just trying to get a base hit, this “swing for the fences” approach is going to keep producing exactly what we’re seeing: weak contact, strikeouts, and empty innings.
When Stearns was preaching "run prevention", he was talking about preventing the OPPOSING team from scoring, right? Asking for a friend.
I'm not seeing a pitching staff that is playoff worthy
After 40 years since the Mets last World Series title and over 50 years of Mets fandom I’ve come to the conclusion that us Mets fans just cannot have nice things. Sure, we can grab elite players with the name on their backs but never enough where it makes a difference. This team continues to make dumb decisions that cost games. Polanco for instance should have been out on the IL two weeks ago but no let’s allow him to keep playing to we know for sure this injury prevents him from even hitting. Why? Why? Why? How come even casual fans can see what is wrong here before management? We learned last season that every game does count. I guess might as well give away as many as they can early in the season so you need to play playoff baseball from August on just to get in. I’d also like to take this moment to call out NY sports beat writers. Jon Herman just put out a piece absolving Mendy of all this and said Mendy is a good manager and the Mets would be sorry if they fired him over this early season swoon. Does Heyman get money from the Mets to write that? Far as I can see I don’t hear that any other team is lining up to hire the guy if he gets let go. I surely don’t see “baseball savant” when looking at him and judging by some of the moves he has made during the years he’s been skipper I can show many instances where that moniker would be false. I guess Heyman needs to see Mendy drive this club into the ground longer before he changes his mind. I didn’t like the hire from the jump and am hating it even more now. He’s following Boone’s playbook to the letter but doesn’t have the players to get away with the stupid shit he does too. Recall Boone hasn’t won anything during his stint for the team in the Bronx either. Mendy won’t take this team there either.
Well, I guess you're ticked off just a tad! While you're bashing writers, let's bash Mike Puma whose idea of a sports story is to rant and rant about lindor and McNeil not being pals. As if they need to be or should be.
fire mendy