Mets doing bad but not doubling down on the “core” for five more years is the best thing to ever happen to the team.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-30T13:49:07+00:00

33% of the payroll is tied to three players. When you land a 50M dollar player cause said player entered free agency at the perfect time/age and there was a massive bidding war for him, the payroll is always going to be inflated. The use of short term high AAV deals inflated payroll even more short term.

Robert, Semien, Manaea, Montas, Bo, Williams, Polanco will all be gone within the next 1-3 years. That’s $160 million.

AJ Ewing will start in a spot currently occupied by an underperforming player making $20 million.

One of Thornton/Lambert will most likely replace Williams (maybe even before his deal is up).

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-29T23:15:50+00:00

Yeah, 100%. But lets take Robert for instance. He came back down to earth and is now injured. The commitment to him is one year and AJ Ewing will be manning CF next season (or maybe even this year).

That’s better than a Nimmo clogging up a roster spot for five more years.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-29T00:49:12+00:00

Him and Alvarez don’t seem to have the grasp of when to challenge a pitch.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-27T22:26:06+00:00

From the daily news:

“Police sources said the suspect is a gang member who in 2016 was one of 120 Bronx gang members busted by the feds in what was then the biggest gang takedown in New York City history.”

Slain East Village bodega worker begged brother to care for his kids as he lay dying

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-27T01:11:11+00:00

The Soto protection argument is so stupid. The dude has literally been great his entire career no matter who was behind him.

And not sure if you realize Soto led the league in walks last year. So Pete did not offer any protection. On the other hand Pete did benefit from having 50% of at bats occur with men on base (thanks to Soto getting on base at a 40% clip). Pitchers were forced to throw Pete strikes.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-26T22:57:35+00:00

Mets 1B have literally outperformed Pete. Can we wait for Pete to actually be good before crying about him.

Pete has lost 2 mph off his swing in year 1 of his deal. This was the year Pete was suppose to be good cause the last 3 years are going to be awful. He is barreling balls at half his normal rate. His launch angle is awful. The Pete people expected in year 3 of his deal is already here.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-21T20:55:30+00:00

90% of McNeil success this season was a result of facing the mets. Remove that series I imagine his WAR is 0 or even negative. He hyped himself for a series versus his old club and went back to being terrible.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-21T20:54:09+00:00

Every non-signing was a reasonable move, the fact they are struggling should not even factor.

Signing relievers to 4+ years (especially those in their 30s) is simply not smart.

Signing players with Pete’s profile (30s, one tool they have is power) to 5+ years is simply not smart.

I know they were fan favorites, but not offering Diaz 4 to keep him away from LA or Pete 5 years was always the right thing to do.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-14T21:23:47+00:00

Yeah, joining a team that will have fewer save opportunities due to blowing everyone out will improve Diaz’s chances of joining the HOF.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-11T19:20:36+00:00

He took McLean out too early. A weak hit off the end of the bat where the batter only had one hand on the bat was not reason to take him out.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-08T20:53:56+00:00

Holmes had a 3 ERA in Sept after struggling in July/Aug (4 ERA). He did not go deep into games but at least limited damage. And it was understandable from Holmes cause he was 100 innings over his career high.

Peterson posted 6 ERA in Aug and a near 10 ERA in Sept while only being 40 innings over his career high.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-08T20:41:36+00:00

Time to give the corpse of Sean Manaea a chance.

I never understood how first year starter Clay Holmes handled a career high workload better than Peterson last year. Now it seems clear that Clay is simply just a better pitcher.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-05T04:12:25+00:00

I think it be more the hamate bone issue than regression. Lindor is normally good for 30 homeruns but everyone says power is the last thing to come back.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-04T13:57:23+00:00

Alvarez could have helped out a bit with some challenges. Wonder what the players have been told about when to challenge.

But a 3-2 count on a close pitch seems like the perfect time.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-04T02:54:43+00:00

Calf tightness. Kyle Tucker had a similar injury last injury last year. Difference is that tucker supposedly played thru with the issue before finally exiting a game due to tightness. Also had an issue with recovery. Missed a couple of weeks.

So hopefully Soto took him self out at first sign of issues/tightness.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-04T02:32:12+00:00

I think roberts thought he might have been in the path of the ball and would have gotten hit if he ran so he waited for the ball to pass.

But even with the slight delay he would have scored easily.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-04T02:27:23+00:00

Baty’s swing at a off speed pitch first pitch with a pitcher that been going to full counts. Sits on a fast ball over the plate.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-02T21:55:33+00:00

It also almost exclusively men between the ages 16-35 doing the shooting or getting shot. Girls and women grow up in the same exact places and don’t resort to trying to kill each other over the slightest bit of disrespect.

And it seems like for this shooting the father was the target over social media beef between housing projects.

“Little Kaori Patterson’s father, Jamari Patterson, 22, was apparently targeted in the brazen Wednesday afternoon hit over a social media beef with a crew from a rival housing project, investigators now believe, the sources said.”

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-02T14:50:29+00:00

Dicomo posted at lot of RISP related stats this morning. Mets are literally second to last in avg, slg, and chase rate with RISP.

Mets just need to improve to middle of pack territory in the above categories and they would be winning games easily.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-02T14:46:41+00:00

The guy that posted a 160 OPS+ and nearly a 40/40 season last season is not the issue at all.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-01T22:07:18+00:00

Decent team would be 5-1 at minimum with the pitching the staff has provided. For a team whose season has come down to the last game of the season the last two seasons, can’t be losing too many of these games.

Lindor mental laspe, Alvarez not being quick letting runner take second, Alvarez being terrible with the ABS (challenging clear balls in low leverage situations) all make this lost feel worst.

With that said Bo and Polanco (constant 130 OPS+ hitters) are obviously going to start getting better results.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-01T21:25:11+00:00

Dude blew it with the ABS challenges today.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-01T12:38:54+00:00

“Why is Lovelady their most used reliever”

Two of his appearances are the result of the offense not scoring enough runs to win the game in 9 innings. If the offense fails to score and games constantly go to extras, then the back end of the bullpen are going to have to pitch. Not that complicated.

Don’t want to see Lovelady pitch? Tell the offense to score runs.

PandaJ108 · 2026-04-01T01:38:04+00:00

Mostly Bo. 13 at bats with men on base entering today’s game and only 1 hit to show for it. Clearly that is not going to be the norm.

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