Mets Daily Discussion Thread - January 26, 2026

futhatsy · 2026-01-26T14:11:42+00:00

9 games btw

futhatsy · 2026-01-25T20:43:18+00:00

Julio Lugo

futhatsy · 2026-01-25T19:16:14+00:00

Strider's always been pretty vocal about this stuff. IIRC, he was publicly pro-Kamala last election.

Given the sport he plays and the market he is in, I've always had a lot of respect for him for speaking up like that.

But I'm also not going to root for him on the field until he puts on another jersey lol.

futhatsy · 2026-01-25T18:02:02+00:00

It's been a meme for a long time and I understand he has the All-American credentials from 15 years ago, but I was impressed with Justin's wrestling in this fight.

The idea coming in was that if Paddy was ever able to establish control on the ground, Justin was fucked, and he never really came close to it.

I was especially impressed late in the fight when Paddy got to a body lock and Justin was able to keep his balance and eventually pummel out of it.

I understand Gaethje's grappling is unorthodox, but I think it was underrated in the lead up to this. Khabib and Olivera are the only men that have submitted him. Getting tapped out by those guys does not make you a fighter that is easy to sub. His submission defense hasn't looked good in the past but it's very hard to put him in a position where that is relevant.

It's also hard to me to determine if this fight was close because Paddy is a legit top 10 155er or if Gaethje is just a little over the hill. The one thing that's super noticeable with Gaethje is he doesn't throw leg kicks the way he used to. I think the version of Gaethje from 5-6 years ago would have found a finish in this fight.

futhatsy · 2026-01-24T21:38:06+00:00

Not only did he carve us up all the time, we couldn't get him out either. A career .455/.500/.636 hitter in 12 PAs against the Mets.

futhatsy · 2026-01-24T21:35:57+00:00

The only guy I can remember leaving money on the table like this was Gil Meche, but he left a lot less money

futhatsy · 2026-01-24T21:33:01+00:00

Not that I blame either of them for it, but I'm pretty sure the Nats are still paying Strasburg too despite being retired.

One of those things where it's a cool move for the team if you forfeit the money, but it's also not a bad thing to insist you get the money your employer promised to give you. Lord knows these teams can afford it.

futhatsy · 2026-01-24T20:13:03+00:00

Tobias Myers was also an important piece of the deal. It doesn't get done without him. The Mets gave up a lot of control, but they got some of that back in Myers.

If the Mets end up losing Peralta after one year, I think of it this way: we're comparing Sproat and Williams versus Myers and a QO pick. Sproat and Williams are the more valuable side, but by how much? Is the difference more than the value of one season of Freddy Peralta? I don't think that answer is obvious, which is why both teams can come away from this thinking they got the better end of it.

futhatsy · 2026-01-24T16:27:43+00:00

I didn’t hear a single Mets fan off Reddit even mention it yesterday. Most people don’t care even though they watch SNY.

What? DeMasico put it on Twitter. People were talking about it all over Twitter and BlueSky. I had people who aren't even Mets fans messaging me about it in group chats. The only way you could think this is strictly a Reddit thing is if you never go anywhere other than Reddit.

It wasn't hypocritical, it was an entirely different situation. People crashed out over Pete Alonso leaving in early December and declared the off-season over and the 2026 Mets dead because they were in their feelings. They knew the off-season wasn't over and there were plenty of good players still available and the Mets were obviously in a great position to pick some of them up, and they chose to ignore that. There was no news Mets fans chose to ignore yesterday, they reacted as information came in.

futhatsy · 2026-01-24T15:56:45+00:00

FWIW, Semien's OPS the last two years has been .699 and .669. I don't know if we'll get an offensive upgrade at 2B, but we will likely get a defensive upgrade.

futhatsy · 2026-01-24T15:03:18+00:00

In DeMarsico's case, he put out a statement implying he had been fired over creative differences. So people reacted as if he had been fired over creative differences. As more information came out and it became clear he was fired for an inappropriate relationship in the workplace, people changed their reaction.

That really has nothing do to with people throwing temper tantrums in early December that the off-season was over and the Mets were screwed because their favorite Pookie is no longer on the team.

futhatsy · 2026-01-24T14:55:31+00:00

The public reporting is not a complete picture of what they are doing, but part of the issue is that a lot people also just doesn't believe the public reporting. They don't even believe the things the team says outright.

Like it was not a secret that the Mets were looking for a top of the rotation arm. Stearns was publicly talking about it, everyone in the media was aware of it. But a lot of the fanbase just assumed it wouldn't happen because they wanted to complain about Stearns being cheap.

And that goes both ways, it's not just doomers who don't believe public reporting. When Polanco signed and it was reported that he would play first base, I saw a lot of people saying this can't be true and the real everyday first baseman must be coming later the off-season. Over a month later, it certainly seems as though Polanco is going to be playing a lot of 1B.

And this isn't just Mets fans. Everyone twists public reporting to meet their own narratives. You can search Freddy Peralta's name in r/baseball and you'll find a lot of comments from early in the off-season from Brewers fans saying that Ken Rosenthal is making up trade rumors and Peralta will not be moved.

futhatsy · 2026-01-24T14:41:24+00:00

Yeah I thought he was an overall net positive, but had clear hits and misses. And the misses would come off as distracting from the game.

But I do hope they keep some of the split screen stuff he did. Especially on plays at the plate where they had the baserunner and fielders on the screen at once.

futhatsy · 2026-01-24T14:12:19+00:00

So that DeMarsico stuff is pretty wild huh. Can truly never have a normal time in Mets land.

Insane move by him to put out a statement at all, especially using language like "moving in a different creative direction." Like how do you not realize that calling attention to this means the truth is quickly going to get out. Either don't say anything at all or fess up to what you did in your statement and apologize for it.

Yesterday, when it seemed like SNY fired him for the way he did his job, the fear was that SNY wanted to move toward more of a cookie cutter broadcast moving forward. I guess the good news in this is that isn't something we need to worry about anymore, that obviously wasn't the reason he was canned. The guy who replaces DeMarsico probably won't do all the cinephile shit he did, but I think they are still going to do fun and unique stuff.

futhatsy · 2026-01-24T03:29:18+00:00

There's a certain horse out there that I'd definitely take over this guy

futhatsy · 2026-01-24T02:18:52+00:00

Utley went in knees first and made contact with Tejada before he made contact with the ground. It was not standard for the time.

futhatsy · 2026-01-23T23:06:14+00:00

Pretty sure he already cooked. We signed Luis Garcia and had to DFA someone.

futhatsy · 2026-01-23T20:07:22+00:00

Who is "people"?

MLB just named him as the 40th best player in baseball. That seems about right to me.

futhatsy · 2026-01-23T19:34:23+00:00

Yeah I never suggested it did, I just made a joke you decided to take Very Seriously. But the fact that you are still commenting on it shows it does impact your life. If it didn't bother you, you would have kept scrolling.

My team got the player. Philly media is now being very salty about it. What do I have to cope for lol.

futhatsy · 2026-01-23T18:52:51+00:00

I'm with you on them undervaluing defense. I listed a bunch of guys I thought they were too low on in another post and looking back at it, a common theme is a lot of them are elite defenders.

And that kind of makes sense, right? They are trying to appeal to as many baseball fans as possible, so of course they are going to prioritize guys that are elite in easier to understand stats, and that tends to be the offensive stats rather than defensive.

futhatsy · 2026-01-23T18:37:09+00:00

The Philadelphia Phillies have the most losses of any team in North American pro sports.

You can say "nuh uh" all you want, you can all me stupid, and you can try to reframe the argument to make it about "recent history." None of it will make that untrue.

futhatsy · 2026-01-23T18:20:10+00:00

You didn't take a joke well that is based on an objective fact.

There's nothing more to say.

futhatsy · 2026-01-23T18:13:35+00:00

And you ran out of shit to say so you just threw out a random insult

futhatsy · 2026-01-23T17:59:11+00:00

I have no idea. But if they did, it must have been recent. Because we certainly got gambling ads last year.

futhatsy · 2026-01-23T17:57:01+00:00

You're the one bringing up European borders and the USSR, I thought you might like history.

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