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@SNYtv
@garykeithron
you had my daughter on the broadcast last night and you forgot to mention that she is adorable and perfect. An accidental oversight I am sure! Cc
@MetsBooth
@MikeJanela
Grey Worm: DONT TALK! YOURE MY PRISONER!
Tyrion: Ok.
Grey Worm: WE WILL NEVER RELEASE JON. WE OWN THIS CITY.
Sansa: Ok.
Grey Worm: Now, please select a King so we can release Jon and be on our way.
Lindor gets a lot of hate from this fanbase but boy does he go out there night after night and face the cameras. Nobody wants to do that, especially on a night like this. It reminds me of Wright.
Francisco Lindor has not made an All Star Game since 2019.
How bad is that?
Since 2019 he's 7th in MLB in WAR. Not among shortstops, but *overall*.
He's 24th in hits, he has 100 home runs.
He's 4th in MLB in defensive value, but has no Gold Gloves in that time as well.
Mets fans are so blessed, man. Our announcers will share their wisdom in a way that is classy, honest and insightful.
Michael Kay sounds like a WFAN caller.
Since this comment:
Nimmo: 22.2 WAR, .268/.380/.453, 133 OPS+
Stanton: 9.0 WAR, .244/.326/.485, 121 OPS+
Salaries over that time:
Nimmo: $54,029,253
Stanton: $199,000,000
Stanton has $66 million after this year.
$700 million man caught up in a scandal on day one, and $325 million man lit up for 5 runs in one inning in his MLB debut... only the Mets!! Snakebit!
#LOLMets
*taps earpiece*
I'm being informed that this is not the Mets.
@alwayssunny
And to think, nobody in the business would hire these guys back in the day. They persevered with the lowest budget on TV and have spent over a decade tackling the biggest issues in our society with unparalleled smarts. Bravo.
It took Steve Cohen just 18 months to wash the stench of the Wilpons off of this team.
This is literally quite exactly what many of us said would happen. We went from the worst owners in MLB to the best.
It’s a first step.
#LFGM
Francisco Lindor ranks in fWAR among all shortstops:
Since 2016: 1st
Since 2017: 1st
Since 2018: 1st
Since 2019: 1st
Since 2020: 2nd (Turner)
Since 2021: 2nd (Turner)
Since 2022: 1st
In 2023: 2nd (Franco)
Best shortstop in baseball. And he's still just 29 years old.
The Mets currently have a decent core with Lindor, Alonso, McNeil, Senga, Diaz, Alvarez and Baty.
They have 5 of MLB's Top 100 prospects as per Fangraphs (two added this week).
Gilbert, Acuna and Mauricio may be able to help as soon as next year.
It's good.
2017: payroll in bottom half of baseball
2018: enjoy first baseman Adrian Gonzalez
2019: we mortgaged the future for Robinson Cano
2020: we didn’t even call Wheeler
2021: we just offered Lindor a contract bigger than Betts
Half of MetsTwitter: these are the same, to me
World Renowned Scumbag Who Built His Life On Lying, Cheating, And Stealing From The Common Man Has Deleted His Twitter. Hopefully Jail Is Next. Fuck Steve Cohen. .
Sean Reid-Foley has a 0.00 ERA over 5.2 IP in Triple-A to go along with his 1.98 ERA over 13.2 IP in the Show. Mets need to bring this guy up and see what he can do, right?
A NORMAL TEAM:
*player opts out, they announce it after the game, wish the player well, it's hardly news*
THE METS:
*release statement before the game saying he's AWOL, make everyone fear for his safety, trash him in postgame presser*
In just over a year Cohen will have brought in Lindor, Scherzer, a well-regarded GM and manager (Eppler and Showalter?), created a top-flight analytics department, and run MLB's top payroll. This is baseball heaven, folks.
The Mets best players -- Alonso, Conforto, McNeil, Smith -- cost less than $6 million combined.
The best pitchers -- deGrom, Syndergaard, Wheeler, Lugo -- cost less than $35 million.
That the Mets can't build a winner around that is complete incompetence.
Steve Cohen is so rich that he could have paid the Mets entire 40-man payroll out of his own pocket since the year 2000, never earned a penny from ticket sales, ads, or TV, and STILL be one of the 50 wealthiest Americans with over $10 BILLION dollars remaining.
The 2015 Mets had a shortstop that cried, another shortstop whose leg was broken, an ace gutting through a full season post TJ, the return of Wright, plus Cespedes, Grandy, and Jake for a snakebit franchise. No contest.
It's not over yet, but Michael Conforto turning down a $100M+ extension from the Mets, and then turning down an $18.4M one year qualifying offer, may end up being one of the biggest contract blunders we've ever seen.
I'll spell it out for anyone who might be young and still have hope: they're crushing
@StevenACohen2
because (1) it gets cheap clicks and (2) he's not giving them the quid pro quo access that the Wilpons did.
Every week that goes by I become more convinced that Lindor deseves the C. He's out there every day, good or bad. He leads by example, never complains. He's a winner, and he never quits.
"I'm trying to get myself going. I'm trying to get the team going. I'm trying to get the fans going."
Francisco Lindor talks about his show of emotion after his spectacular play at shortstop:
Just did a legitimate double-take at this: Brandon Nimmo is 9th all-time among Mets position players in WAR.
He's tied for 6th in OPS+ with CARLOS BELTRAN and KEITH HERNANDEZ, 11th in walks, 17th in total bases.
Life really sneaks up on you. He's becoming an all-time Met.
Word is there are a couple Mets players concerned about the CBT, and one or two are arguing against accepting the MLB offer. Mets look destined to pay the biggest tax, and it’s possible they are concerned fourth tier relax could inhibit spending.
How good has Francisco Alvarez been, you ask?
His 161 wRC+ is 3rd in MLB among all catchers in May.
His framing grades out 87th percentile, and his pop time is 16th out of 55.
He can walk, and he can laser it 114 mph.
He has every chance to live up to the hype.
This is a dream come true. I just don't know how else to say it.
Cohen tried to bridge the gap with Scherzer and Verlander, giving them the highest AAV deals ever.
When that didn't work out, he pivoted and he spent the money necessary to get the best prospects possible.
Every time I watch a broadcast other than GKR, I understand why new fans don’t flock to baseball. It’s so generic, such meaningless drivel to fill air time.
The best pitcher in the world didn't even start pitching until the 2nd Half of his senior year.
He had Tommy John surgery six starts into his first minor league season.
He was never ranked as a Top 100 MLB prospect or even a Top 10 Mets prospect.
Defy expectations.
I love Max Scherzer and greatly respect his role as a player advocate but this is absolutely bush league behavior.
Don’t make a private conversation public because you’re mad.
Dude burned bridges, tarnished his legacy big time here.
"They're looking to compete now for 2025 and 2026. It was not gonna be a reload situation in New York. It was gonna be more of a transition in 2024."
Max Scherzer talks about his conversations with Billy Eppler and Steve Cohen around the trade deadline:
The Mets trotted out a lineup with five backups and/or minor leaguers, their cleanup guy got HBP in the face, the starter left with injury in the third... and they won. I’m telling you... team is blessed.
The Mets might have the HR King, the Batting Champion, and the Cy Young and finish fourth place in their division. I'm willing to bet no team has ever Metsed as hard as that in history.
Mets offered the QO to both Conforto and Syndergaard. When those guys declined, they went out and got Marte, Canha, and Escobar. They have the high offer on Scherzer and Gausman and had the same on Matz.
Cohen and Eppler are not messing around. It's a new day.
I have evaluated fast food chains all year. My official rankings:
Best 5:
1. Burger King
2. Sbarro
3. Panda Express
4. Subway
5. IHOP
Worst 5: (by FAR)
1. In-N-Out
2. Chick-fil-A
3. Firehouse Subs
4. Tim Hortons
5. Five Guys
I am a little sad for Fred Wilpon, who I think really loves baseball and the Mets. But that sadness is far outweighed by the joy I feel at Jeff Wilpon slinking ingloriously into oblivion, rightfully blamed for a miserable decade of baseball.
Good riddance.
I am still concerned by the Mets decision to bench Dom Smith yesterday. Dom has done everything the Mets have asked— pinch hit, play outfield— and he put up a 164 wRC+ and .616 SLG last year. To bench him on OD for Kevin Pillar? It’s a bad message.
Mike Piazza is canceled.
Now we can give all the glory to the one true King of the 90s-00s Mets, the one and only, the steroid free, the 6-for-6, the play whatever position you ask, the greatest:
Edgardo Alfonzo
*a decade goes by with the Mets not having an analytics department and run by the owner's idiot son*
NY Media: *mostly crickets*
*Cohen expands analytics deparment by 500% in one year*
Sherman: "The Mets analytics department is smaller than the Dodgers is"
I know it’s fun to make fun of the Dodgers and their beat reporters but they are absolutely right — this new playoff format is worse than the last one. It devalues the import of the regular season far too drastically.
Legitimately the best thing to happen to the franchise in a decade other than the 2015 World Series run.
The Mets have been small-market and run by an idiot son for ten years.
This changes everything.
BREAKING: The Sterling Partners and Steve Cohen are negotiating an agreement in which Cohen would increase his investment in the
#Mets
, per source. Fred Wilpon will remain Control Person and CEO for five years and Jeff Wilpon will remain COO for five-year period as well.
Brodie Van Wagenen says he's been using an inspirational Nelson Mandela quote in his approach to the final games of the 2020 season:
"I never lose; I either win or I learn"
A lot of people are sleeping on how great Pete Alonso's 2022 season was.
He was 3rd in MLB in HR, behind only Judge and Schwarber, 2nd in the NL.
He was 12th in all of MLB in wRC+. He played in 160 games and led MLB in RBI.
That's value that goes far beyond WAR.
Pete Alonso's decline:
Age 24: .260/.358/.583, 144 wRC+
Age 25-27: 1561 PA, .261/.345/.514, 134 wRC+
Age 28-29: 867 PA, .221/.316/.491, 121 wRC+
.380 xwOBA in 2019, .365 career, .339 today.
He's 29 years old. This might just be it.
Imagine being 27 years old, having spent five difficult years in the minors... leading all of MLB in hitting at .337 and getting your first year of MLB paychecks... your team screaming back into the playoff race... and getting this puppy.
That is Jeff McNeil's life right now.
The Mets only have approximately $20 million over the next 15 years owed to Bonilla. On Steve Cohen’s first day he should just pay it, wham. This side show is over, we’re here to win.
I have no issues with the Phillies themselves, but Phillies fans are the worst.
Quite the opposite with Atlanta. I'll always hate the Braves, but no issues with the fans.
Say what you will about the Mets. But we have, hands-down, the best fanbase in baseball.
Oh yes, we suffer and whine. There are bad ones among us. But overall, the most obsessive, optimistic, funniest fans.
It's wild that in the last year we went from shopping in the bargain bin for guys like Todd Frazier and BVW to shopping at Sotheby's for Francisco Lindor and Billy Beane and yet some people on here still think "same old Mets."
It's May 23rd. If Francisco Lindor didn't play another game this season, it would still be the 35th best season ever by a Mets shortstop (0.8 WAR). When he gets to 2.0 WAR he will be in the Top 20.
His "disappointing" 2021 was the 7th best ever in Mets history.
Explain to me like I'm five: is there a legal reason preventing the players from making their own league?
Because I'd much rather pay to watch Jacob deGrom and Mike Trout play in a college park than watch replacements in Citi Field.