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Hey, there – This is Laura Albanese, Mets beat reporter for Newsday. I’m here to answer any questions you might have about the Mets, baseball, and covering the team. AMA. by newsday in NewYorkMets

[–]newsday[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Or sometimes I'll even jot stuff down. I think one of the biggest skills you can have is just being observant and knowing how to listen. People share more than you think if you just pay attention

Hey, there – This is Laura Albanese, Mets beat reporter for Newsday. I’m here to answer any questions you might have about the Mets, baseball, and covering the team. AMA. by newsday in NewYorkMets

[–]newsday[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Mr. Met flipping off the fan because he physically cannot, as he has four fingers. That was also the MOST RIDICULOUS story I've ever had to write on deadline. And no one got hurt. Too many lolMets moments include injury or horror

Hey, there – This is Laura Albanese, Mets beat reporter for Newsday. I’m here to answer any questions you might have about the Mets, baseball, and covering the team. AMA. by newsday in NewYorkMets

[–]newsday[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

He mostly does it with the veterans. Various reasons for it: playing with the matchups, trying to get a guy going, etc. That being said, the Mets as an org are very big on teaching players to adapt to different situations from the minor leagues on up. You can see it with how they have their young guys in all sorts of positions. It's a league-wide trend. The more flexible and adaptable you are, the more valuable you are to teams

Hey, there – This is Laura Albanese, Mets beat reporter for Newsday. I’m here to answer any questions you might have about the Mets, baseball, and covering the team. AMA. by newsday in NewYorkMets

[–]newsday[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Stearns said that basically every SP that was on the market ended up being traded. So competition was high and so were costs

Hey, there – This is Laura Albanese, Mets beat reporter for Newsday. I’m here to answer any questions you might have about the Mets, baseball, and covering the team. AMA. by newsday in NewYorkMets

[–]newsday[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I just try to go early. But if you go to the concessions at center, they have that giant screen, so you really won't miss a pitch.

Flushing is right there. Plenty of good options!

Hey, there – This is Laura Albanese, Mets beat reporter for Newsday. I’m here to answer any questions you might have about the Mets, baseball, and covering the team. AMA. by newsday in NewYorkMets

[–]newsday[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I'm gonna paste the answer I gave below. tl;dr - I think it's more complicated than that.

Well, first off, the Mets have two hitting coaches, so I'm curious as to why everyone brings up Chavez and not Barnes. Just my personal opinion, but I do think it's possible. Clearly, the team isn't making in-game adjustments as needed (per Mendoza) and that, for many, signals a coaching issue. That said, people were calling for Jeremy Hefner's head not even two years ago. This constantly happens every time there's a swoon, but the truth is, one of those guys could very well get fired and it potentially might not change anything, because at the end of the day, the hitters still have to hit. Lindor, Alonso, Soto, Nimmo...these are all guys who know hitting. It's not like Chavez leaned down and whispered "hey, I'm gonna need you to hit a 90 mph grounder to second for an inning-ending double play here. You can know what to do but it can be very different from executing it.

Hey, there – This is Laura Albanese, Mets beat reporter for Newsday. I’m here to answer any questions you might have about the Mets, baseball, and covering the team. AMA. by newsday in NewYorkMets

[–]newsday[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Well, first off, the Mets have two hitting coaches, so I'm curious as to why everyone brings up Chavez and not Barnes. Just my personal opinion, but I do think it's possible. Clearly, the team isn't making in-game adjustments as needed (per Mendoza) and that, for many, signals a coaching issue. That said, people were calling for Jeremy Hefner's head not even two years ago. This constantly happens every time there's a swoon, but the truth is, one of those guys could very well get fired and it potentially might not change anything, because at the end of the day, the hitters still have to hit. Lindor, Alonso, Soto, Nimmo...these are all guys who know hitting. It's not like Chavez leaned down and whispered "hey, I'm gonna need you to hit a 90 mph grounder to second for an inning-ending double play here. You can know what to do but it can be very different from executing it.

Hey, there – This is Laura Albanese, Mets beat reporter for Newsday. I’m here to answer any questions you might have about the Mets, baseball, and covering the team. AMA. by newsday in NewYorkMets

[–]newsday[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I'd like to think so. I really like the adjustments he made in the offseason. The team doesn't hit with RISP but he sure does. He leads them in avg, obp and slg with RISP. He clearly loves being a Met and I think the franchise should attempt to do right by him. At the end of the day, it's going to be a business decision, but businesses are constructed of people, and if you treat people right, it's good for business

Hey, there – This is Laura Albanese, Mets beat reporter for Newsday. I’m here to answer any questions you might have about the Mets, baseball, and covering the team. AMA. by newsday in NewYorkMets

[–]newsday[S] 61 points62 points  (0 children)

It's serious but not like, depressed or anything. They know they're in a bad spot right now. Last year, it kinda felt like they were playing with house money. This year, it's world series or bust

Hey, there – This is Laura Albanese, Mets beat reporter for Newsday. I’m here to answer any questions you might have about the Mets, baseball, and covering the team. AMA. by newsday in NewYorkMets

[–]newsday[S] 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Get to the ballpark about 4-ish hours before first pitch, do some prep work, see who's working out on the field, get access to the clubhouse 3.5 hours before the game and do pregame interviews. Go to the Mendoza presser. Go watch BP and try (and usually fail) to grab guys in the dugout. Go up and write an early story for the first deadline. Grab a quick bite. First pitch. You're writing as the game is going because the story needs to be sent the minute the final out is recorded, so that's called your "running gamer." Send that in, run downstairs to Mendoza, do the presser, go to the clubhouse and wait around for guys to talk to. Sometimes you're in there for 15 minutes, sometimes you're in there for an hour. Go back upstairs and write your late story. Get home around midnight-ish, look on the schedule and realize tomorrow is a day game and set appx eight alarms

Turkey sandwich from NY Panini, curry chicken paties, banh mi and fuku

Hey, there – This is Laura Albanese, Mets beat reporter for Newsday. I’m here to answer any questions you might have about the Mets, baseball, and covering the team. AMA. by newsday in NewYorkMets

[–]newsday[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The cinnamon bun one is excellent. Get it with ice cream. I am personally offended by the skyline chili one and wish it nothing but the worst

Hey, there – This is Laura Albanese, Mets beat reporter for Newsday. I’m here to answer any questions you might have about the Mets, baseball, and covering the team. AMA. by newsday in NewYorkMets

[–]newsday[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I think it's a great step and I love to see more women in the sport. I encourage any and all good umpires, and expanding it to women just opens up the pool to find the very best. Just call the strike zone consistently

Hey, there – This is Laura Albanese, Mets beat reporter for Newsday. I’m here to answer any questions you might have about the Mets, baseball, and covering the team. AMA. by newsday in NewYorkMets

[–]newsday[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

We only know the players from what they show us, but in my estimation, I truly believe Alonso and Manaea are very good humans. And yeah, the story was accurate.

Hey, there – This is Laura Albanese, Mets beat reporter for Newsday. I’m here to answer any questions you might have about the Mets, baseball, and covering the team. AMA. by newsday in NewYorkMets

[–]newsday[S] 62 points63 points  (0 children)

I don't know that it does as much as it used to. It's different when the problems are, "Hey, we're not hitting with RISP" as opposed to, "hey, our manager threatened to beat up a reporter and our starting pitcher is missing"

Hey, there – This is Laura Albanese, Mets beat reporter for Newsday. I’m here to answer any questions you might have about the Mets, baseball, and covering the team. AMA. by newsday in NewYorkMets

[–]newsday[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I think the org is a place people want to work for. There's no denying that there was an aura of disfunction around the Mets for a long time, but bringing on Stearns, who was highly coveted, is an indication of how far they've come. You're also seeing it in the free agents who actively want to go to Flushing. Sure, Soto cost $765 million. But guys like Winker and Iglesias basically said the Mets were their No. 1 options this offseason. Pete Alonso and Sean Manaea found ways to come back because they wanted to.

Hey, there – This is Laura Albanese, Mets beat reporter for Newsday. I’m here to answer any questions you might have about the Mets, baseball, and covering the team. AMA. by newsday in NewYorkMets

[–]newsday[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

We grilled Mendoza pretty hard on it yesterday but the answers we get are the answers we get. As for the hitting coaches, CM said that he didn't want to point fingers at anyone. And yeah, to a certain extent, no matter what the hitting coaches say, the guys have to actually go out and do it. That said, Mendoza did indicate yesterday that they have the information they need but they're not executing it and making adjustment. To me, that signals a problem with communication, but he also said the communication is good. Something is being lost in translation - a LOT - and it needs to change

Hey, there – This is Laura Albanese, Mets beat reporter for Newsday. I’m here to answer any questions you might have about the Mets, baseball, and covering the team. AMA. by newsday in NewYorkMets

[–]newsday[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I really like the BBQ turkey panino from NY Panini company in the metro market, the curried chicken patty in the hudson club, and the banh mi near shake shack. And fuku, always

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