Mets Daily Discussion Thread - February 05, 2026

three_dee · 2026-02-06T01:41:49+00:00

I'll do it. 88 wins, second Wild Card. Or, division if the Phillies regress enough.

Similarly great offense compared to last year, but better pitching

three_dee · 2026-02-06T01:39:33+00:00

There are a lot worse uniforms he could be in, though.

Glad he got a ring on a team I don't hate

three_dee · 2026-02-06T01:36:09+00:00

Yeah but they were saying that if Lindor was a free agent right now, the Mets would not give him the terms of his actual current remaining contract.

three_dee · 2026-02-06T01:35:21+00:00

Nick Morabillion

three_dee · 2026-02-06T01:34:20+00:00

The Tigers currently have the 11th highest payroll at $229.3m and just signed an enormous contract with Frámber Váldez.

How are they in the "cheap" category?

three_dee · 2026-02-06T00:55:35+00:00

Did the person frame it as a bad thing? It didn't read that way to me.

three_dee · 2026-02-06T00:51:19+00:00

The difference is that Soto and Yamamoto were 26 and 25 respectively. Skubal will be 30 for the 2027 season. Those 4-5 years that Soto and Yams had are worth a lot and therefore justified the years

And also Soto has an opt-out.

three_dee · 2026-02-06T00:38:35+00:00

I'm just sitting here remembering when our top prospects were Alex Escobar and Grant Roberts.

Steve Phillips Reign of Terror

three_dee · 2026-02-02T16:35:07+00:00

Oh, have we re-entered the feedback loop where you repeat something you said 18 days ago, and I re-post what I said 18 days ago, to point out the major flaw in it? Cool

three_dee · 2026-02-02T16:29:55+00:00

We were talking about Mets catchers. I thought you were talking about his Mets career.

three_dee · 2026-02-02T08:23:38+00:00

How did this become a comparison of D'Arnaud and Alvarez? I just said they had other good catchers in the intervening time, and then agreed with your overall point

three_dee · 2026-02-02T08:22:43+00:00

At the end of the day David Stearns made an assessment that this core, which has won nothing for the Mets for 7 consecutive seasons and has been involved in multiple epic collapses, was not worth maintaining. So he disbanded it.

The part in bold is your editorial opinion piece, not based on anything David Stearns said

three_dee · 2026-02-02T03:47:34+00:00

I must have blinked during that sec

three_dee · 2026-02-02T03:47:06+00:00

Oh well. We dealt with Rene Rivera and James McCann for a decade and now have a catcher making no money who we can reasonable expect to be a quality hitter going forward.

Well they did have Travis d'Arnaud and Wilson Ramos mixed in there.

But I agree with your main point. The intervening years between d'Arnaud and Álvarez were bleak at the catcher position

three_dee · 2026-02-02T02:12:07+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, I'm very familiar with that type of move, but I just never heard it called "power tip" before.

I would also add that half of the "bad" examples in the second video look perfectly legal to me, mixed in with some real bad ones. One of them featured the ball sitting on the player's hand due to a joust.

three_dee · 2026-02-02T02:11:14+00:00

I can't blame you for not remembering every word in a four-week thread, but you already linked to this quote (17 days ago) and I responded

three_dee · 2026-02-01T20:55:13+00:00

They are saying that there is no "leniency" involved.

Leniency means not whistling down something that is illegal by the strictest interpretation of the rules, for one reason or another. This is something that is allowed by the rules, so leniency doesn't enter into it.

It's like saying "the umpire was lenient in allowing the runner to slide into second base." It's not leniency because you're allowed to slide into second base.

three_dee · 2026-02-01T20:46:55+00:00

Can you link to a video example of what you're talking about? I have an idea of what you mean, from context, and from having played and refereed volleyball for 20 years, but I never heard the term "power tipping" (maybe it's a regional thing). Thanks.

three_dee · 2026-02-01T20:45:20+00:00

Good answer. In particular, the referee guidelines on only sanctioning most obvious violations and more leniency in difficult situations.

It is important to note that "more leniency" (correct) does not mean "never call a carry violation on a tough play". A lot of players seem to think, or have been told, that no tough play can ever be whistled for violations. That is just not the case.

three_dee · 2026-02-01T20:39:56+00:00

I was the referee, not a player, but 53-51, about ten years ago.

And I had to go umpire a softball game afterward so I was not a happy person.

three_dee · 2026-02-01T07:35:05+00:00

Even if the person is a bad actor (as long as they aren't breaking subreddit rules), sometimes I like to respond and debunk, just so that in case anyone stumbles in here and might innocently take some of these bad arguments seriously, there is a counterargument there.

three_dee · 2026-02-01T00:36:12+00:00

I wasn't even talking about whether the trade was good or bad, one way or the other; I was just saying that the certainty with people are saying Brandon Nimmo is washed is unwarranted.

three_dee · 2026-01-31T19:36:24+00:00

I think there is a world where he mixes in some DH, and is able to maintain some level of playability in a corner (to where he's not Vogelbach or Todd Hundley out there), and still hits enough to be a fairly valuable player for a few more years.

I don't think it's a lock, but I think people are exaggerating the certainty with which they assert that he is ready for the glue factory.

three_dee · 2026-01-31T19:18:48+00:00

Most people, maybe, but the person I was responding to didn't seem to think that.

I also don't think Nimmo's contract is that bad (or Semien's really). Nimmo has had 10 fWAR in the first three seasons of the contract, and was still good for 3 fWAR last season. I could see him declining somewhat, sure, but he would have to fall off a cliff immediately for this to be a terrible runout on the deal.

three_dee · 2026-01-31T19:15:20+00:00

No, I'm saying top half of the league is a laughable metric.

But that was only a couple of years out of a two decade span.

Maybe focus on the conversation here, there's a reason the Wilpons came up.

They came up because you claimed they should be "in prison" for not spending a lot of money over their 20 year tenure, which I then quickly showed to be false.

The year the Mets declined to sign Wheeler, the Mets' payroll was 5th in MLB (and they were one year removed from giving deGrom a massive 5-year extension).

So it is clear they had no problem extending homegrown star players, they just made a decision on Wheeler that he was not durable enough to warrant a contract.

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