Painfully familiar: the New York Mets (RIP Morbs)

Met's offense reminding me of the 2015 Royals team they lost to in the WS. A lot of contact all up and down the lineup.

What's going on with Guillorme? He's hitting .360/.455/.908 in 86 AB.

It’s impressive. This is the first time he’s really had any sort of consistent playing time since he came up in 2018. He could be a late bloomer offensively a la McNeil. He does fit well in this new look Mets offense which seems to focus on putting the ball into play as opposed to launch angle / power.

Bobby Bonilla day!

I never get tired of this story (at least until 2035).

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34168816/what-bobby-bonilla-day-explaining-why-former-met-gets-paid-119m-every-july-1

he should try to negotiate an extension while his value is still high

remember that brief golden moment when it seemed like dom smith had finally figured it out?

me neither

His 2020 was pretty incredible. They retroactively said he was playing with an injury in 2021, but his 2022 has been worse. JD Davis, who is in a similar season-long malaise, has had some great moments/clutch hits this season, where Dom has just looked lost. A trade may actually help him out in that he would get regular playing time and start fresh.

The team defense is so solid, especially compared to recent years.

30 games over .500!

Deadline pickups have been very good so far. Edwin Diaz has had a magical last two months. It feels like Showalter and Scherzer have shifted the clubhouse culture this year way more than anyone expected. There is a lot of chemistry on this team.

truly love putting on a squeeze play up four runs in the bottom of the eighth

I know starting pitching is a 5 inning affair these days, but the Mets have been wearing out starting pitching lately.

They were saying Mets batters see the most pitches in the first inning. They do make pitchers grind it out.

Love taking 4 out of 5 from the Braves.

#lgm

Braves’ starters worked a total of only 24 innings in the five games, as the Mets knocked them out early.

Topic of conversation today on Bill James's site: who is the oldest living Met? It's not someone famous--Dave Hillman, turns 95 in September.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hillmda01.shtml

the metsening

They should wait another two weeks for the full collapse for that real 07-08 vintage feel.

pirates to the rescue

it’s good medicine

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/09/mets-conducting-interviews-for-team-president-sandy-alderson-to-eventually-transition-to-advisory-role.html

it's a long shot, but i think everyone reading this should interview for the role of new york mets team president. trying doesn't hurt

Since when is Alonso hitting second?

With Marte out, Buck has put Alonso in the two hole when the Mets have been facing lefties lately.

Can’t imagine making your MLB debut in the biggest series of the year when you are 20 years old.

Did not know that.

UGH. This series is killing me so far.

Not good.

wonder what they're gonna do about these games, seeing as how it will never stop raining

Maybe they are waiting until the pain of this weekend subsides. Been a long time since I felt so acutely anguished by baseball.

:/

Yeah, it sucked.

I was thinking of trying to go a to a playoff game, but I might keep my powder dry.

101 wins, a combined no hitter, McNeil wins the MLB batting title, Alonso with a share of the MLB RBI crown, and mostly good vibes throughout the season. Some great comebacks and amazing work by Diaz. Hard to complain but wouldn’t have minded a game 163 tiebreaker since they ended up with same record as the Braves.

That's a pretty good summary of things.

also you have scherzer and degrom in the same starting rotation

also got awfully good results from chris bassitt and taijuan walker -- and it's pretty nice to have (arguably) your fifth-best starter, carlos carrasco, go 15-7

This is primo Mets, I gotta say.

Though I have the feeling they weren't coming back from 3-0 either.

guy behind me at citifield says he’s “done with baseball” and “might try like, books”

— blowing stop sign on bird scooter (@rachelmillman) October 10, 2022

You do have to quit this team at times. After 2006-2008, I checked out for a bit.

Only had two base runners all game tonight.

MLB playoff structure is the pits.

101 wins doesn’t get you what it used to back in the day. Blame inflation.

As much as it feels like their pitching let them down, their offense in the playoffs was just as ineffective as their offense the last six weeks.

i'm still glad to be rid of that dumb one-game playoff bs.

outscored 26-6 in milwaukee

nimmo 5-for-5 with a homer today, now hitting .349/.481/.476

So… Max Scherzer…

“That’s when we realized the level of stickiness on his hand was much worse than it was even in the initial inspection that had taken place two innings prior,” Bellino said. “So following the proper protocols, Phil immediately recognized it. Phil then asked me to come in to verify that the hand was too sticky. Both Phil and I touched his hand. As far as stickiness, level of stickiness, this was the stickiest that it has been since I’ve been inspecting hands, which now goes back three seasons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOq3S0VhHRQ

Max Scherzer: “I thought I was gonna get in front of a neutral arbitrator but I wasn't. It was going to be through MLB. So given that process, I really wasn't gonna come out on top. I’m gonna follow what the Mets wanted me to do, and that was accept the suspension.”

— Will Sammon (@WillSammon) April 21, 2023

This has been one crazy story.

"No one can explain what is too sticky," Boras said. "There are no units of stickiness to quantify. How do you appropriately enforce? MLB attempts to level the playing field by using standards that are not measurable. Further, one umpire has a stickiness standard that is different than all other umpires.

"Under this standard, players are not given due process of how to use an approved substance provided by the league," Boras added. "This reminds me of a local wine taster -- he likes what likes."

Nimmo is batting .536/.578/.756 over the last 9 games. Alonso is also torching the ball.

The pitching injury situation is a bit ominous but they are getting away with it at the moment. Great west coast trip so far.

yeah for a team that is supposed to be up shit creek 14-7 is p good