Painfully familiar: the New York Mets (RIP Morbs)

https://i.imgur.com/5WmGxFU.png

• degrom hit 102 last night
• meet the new bullpen
• jeff mcneil also thinks the vax is a personal decision; talk to him, alonso
• guillorme's throw was bad, but mccann still should have caught it
• missed keith going 'mmm'
• wish i didn't have to watch them on my computer using a vpn

been making me a tinge sad that morbs will never get to see lindor in a mets jersey, but i appreciate them remaining a continued source of amusement. keep it up boys

I hope they win at all.

And then come in last.

Painfully Familia

Who will actually smile more though, Lindor or Nimmo?

hbp blown-call walkoff, appropriate for a mets/marlins game

crunch otm. lots of tweets of ppl feeling bad for marlins fans, this isn't an emotion that actually exists in the universe

honestly ffs

If I owned the Mets Sandy Alderson would be fired by 9AM this morning. https://t.co/l5chQ6eyO6 pic.twitter.com/h13pYEnRxw

— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) April 16, 2021

Depressing.

otoh, DeGrom is doing DeGrom things: .53 ERA and .667 BA (early days).

2 fewer innings for the bullpen to blow it for degrom

HE GOT THE WIN

THE BOYHOOD DREAM HAS COME TRUE

Painfully familiar indeed. Only the Mets would lose to a very depleted Phillies lineup by way of a wild pitch strikeout of the pitcher that ending up scoring the 2 decisive runs.

Alvarado and Hoskins trying to start brawls with Smith and Castro was the insult on top of the cake, even had Ron Darling wishing the Mets would have given to the rage.

Ok maybe some karma for Alvarado and Hoskins tonight. Crazy game.

that ball bounced back like a homer imo

mets getting a ridic amount of dumb ump calls in their favor so far this year. morbs pulling strings upstairs or mlb bending over backwards to keep mets competitive. rojas is not exactly making me forget the shit for brains callaway years with his bullpen management. weird roster

hitting coaches fired lol

they get on base at a healthy clip, can't do anything to score mostly
not sure what that is but whatevs, chili the patsy here

This Donnie stuff is so stupid, unless Donnie is code for PEDs.

have to think that the general manager spelling his first name incorrectly and having a shitty last name contributed to the questionable decisionmaking

This guy who is up for the Mets is the weirdo pitcher from Everybody Wants Some!!

You gotta like that story; 27 yo career minor leaguer in his second at-bat gets the game winning infield hit in the bottom of the 10th.

Eureka it’s Mazeika!

Mets suck

Lol, when are you going back to booing Stanton along with the other bleacher creatures?

Who you kidding. Stanton gonna be the hero of NY if he keeps this up

Go jerk off to Susan Waldman you loon.

Only thing worse than a Yankees fan is a Dallas Cowboys fan.

calstars will at some point turn on every single yankee except cole and higgy before the season ends

Nah bro

Go jerk off to Susan Waldman you loon.

Only thing worse than a Yankees fan is a Dallas Cowboys fan.

I was born at the fry station at Mickey Mantle's Restaurant. Where you from?

Mazeika, king of the walk-off fielders choice.

Is Lindor Jason Bay 2.0? It's still early (it better be), but damn, he is lost.

He's walking a good amount and not striking out much. He rates pretty well in exit velocity and barrels. I think he'll figure it out but it's definitely been rough.

I also feel there is something about coming to the NY market that is a shift. But yeah, he hasn't hit well so far. His defense has been good though.

God, just saw Pillar in the dugout tonight and cringed. Looks brutal and glad he seems ok (aside from nasal fractures).

So many injuries and yet a lot of unexpected people coming through lately. This has been a very fun month so far.

this is a nice catch but i'm not sure it's enough to make up for being 0-for-5 with five strikeouts in your career

KHALIL LEE TO THE RESCUE!!! pic.twitter.com/69GtNN84dH

— SNY (@SNYtv) May 19, 2021

He's walking a good amount and not striking out much. He rates pretty well in exit velocity and barrels. I think he'll figure it out but it's definitely been rough.

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, May 17, 2021 8:23 PM (two days ago)

i love lindor and even tho he's a met i still have a hard time rooting for him to fail, but his slash numbers have been pretty concerning for a bit now even dating back to last season. his SLG percentage has fallen off a cliff and if he's not providing elite power at that position he's kinda just... a high AVG/low OBP shortstop getting into his 30s... it feels pretty dicey to me longterm. they really need him to be an MVP level player for the next 4-5 years because the back half of that contract is gonna be ugly given the type of player he is

'i love lindor but nevertheless i must bury him'

too soon

Over the last ten games he is batting .278/.341/.500, 132 wrc+

More or less, that’s the slash line of his best batting season.

Jacob deGrom is throwing 102 MPH...

Someone send help.

— Palm Beach Cardinals (@GoPBCardinals) May 20, 2021

deGrom needs his own thread:

ERA 0.71 IP 51.0 SO 82 WHIP 0.57

He is 9-for-20 at the plate this season, and he’s allowed only 22 hits in 51 innings on the mound. Put it another way:

Jacob deGrom's season:
4 runs, 3 RBI as a hitter (9-for-20, .450)
4 runs allowed in 51 innings as a pitcher.

— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) June 1, 2021

deGrom is going to do what Kluber and Donaldson looked like they might do (but almost certainly won't now): get into the HOF on an astounding peak value after the age of 27.

He still needs to play 3 more years to be eligible, and may need a Cy young / no hitter / post season heroics along the way to really seal the deal. But he is definitely on the path.

You think he needs another cy young?! He could tread water the next three years and I think he’d skate into the hall no problem.
I don’t like his odds of playoffs heroics with the Mets!

people want marte to get dfa'd but i'm not sure how much that'll help the logjam. that's also a lot of money to eat.

torrens is also seriously outplaying alvarez right now. i also heard alvarez's framing metrics are really bad this year but dunno how to check that myself

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https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/francisco-alvarez-682626?stats=statcast-r-hitting-mlb

when do catching stats normalize? most hitting stats normalize at about 200 PA and our man missed April

lol so alvy was 95th percentile in framing in 2023, 88th percentile in 2024 and now 6th percentile in 2025?

did the umps just collectively meet and decide to screw alvy? lol

Well, these things tend to work themselves out. Vientos looked like he might have injured his hamstring last night. I might use that as an excuse to send him down for an extended rehab to get his swag back.

and alvy got some pretty clutch hits too!

and looks like mauricio is heading up

Go LA

Someone finally says what we're all thinking

Alon so douche

Oh well, you'll get them next time, tiger.

lol

SNY just said pete has said before he loves playing at dodger stadium and loves LA... getting a sinking feeling of what if the dodgers make a run at pete next year

You know Pete ain’t so bad after all

i guess never say never w/ the dodgers but between freeman and ohtani they don't really any room in the line up for another $100m+ 1B/DH

have you seen freddie at first? he's doing the steph curry fall to protect his ankles except i think it's because his ankles don't bend anymore

have you seen pete at first

SNY just said pete has said before he loves playing at dodger stadium and loves LA... getting a sinking feeling of what if the dodgers make a run at pete next year

I will worry about next year next year with Pete. I just hope the big guy keeps this up.

have you seen pete at first

― mookieproof, Thursday, June 5, 2025 4:49 PM (one minute ago)

yeah all the time! he makes good diving plays and he makes good scoops. he gets dinged because he's incapable of throwing a ball to a pitcher covering at first

He waited out free agency and took a contract much smaller than he wanted just to be a Met this season…he’s retiring a Met if he can
― from…Peru? (gyac), Thursday, June 5, 2025 4:50 PM (one minute ago)

it's front loaded and got an opt out after this season, it's essentially another 'bet on yourself' contract

Yeah and he’s holding up his end to get the payday he wanted

have you seen freddie at first? he's doing the steph curry fall to protect his ankles except i think it's because his ankles don't bend anymore

― 龜, Thursday, June 5, 2025 4:47 PM (twelve minutes ago)

well he's signed thru 2027 while hitting .363/.429/.616 so unless ohtani is going back to playing the outfield there's not many ABs available for a 1B/DH on their roster

yeah i recognize that. but his ankles. he says he gets 1.5 hours of treatment on his ankle before every game just to be able to play. this is the play i was talking about where he just falls over:

https://www.mlb.com/video/dustin-may-in-play-out-s-to-juan-soto-78uzqn?partnerId=web_video-playback-page_video-share

what good is a hot bat if he can't even run to first in the future? unfortunately they can only pinch run for him once per game.

That's why he just hits home runs in the World Series. Problem solved.

Young Dodgers pitcher is a huge John Mayer fan whose favourite Mayer track is a 2007 deep cut and Mayer is in the crowd today. The deep cut fact might be the most embarrassing thing revealed on a broadcast in a while.

what good is a hot bat if he can't even run to first in the future? unfortunately they can only pinch run for him once per game.

― 龜, Thursday, June 5, 2025 5:16 PM (eleven minutes ago)

if it seemed like his career was ending this year i could see what you're getting at but he's leading the majors in 1B fWAR by over half a win, is 12th in overall position player fWAR...

i'm saying his career might end in a year because of his ankle!

Now, each day, the Dodgers begin the process of putting Freeman back together again with an hour and a half of treatment before he sets foot on the field to start his routine. After the game, he undergoes a series of contrasting temperatures (hot to cold and back) and sometimes a boot to preserve the state of the ankle. He wears a heavy wrap under his pants and lifts in his cleats to prevent his ankle from jamming against the top of the shoe.

because he is going to retire or be deemed medically unable to play?

Why is his ankle so fucked anyway? Because he played through it last autumn?

well, i think it'll be because his ankle is going to fall off and he'll need to get a prosthetic foot xp

Some keystone cops stuff by the Mets today. Been waiting 10 years for a corner infielder that can throw home.

sucks cause they executed an almost identical play to get ohtani out at home earlier in the series (also with reed garrett)

pete alonso rattles his sabr

https://archive.ph/sdgqm

mets pitching regressing to the mean

but maybe soto's bat is regressing to the mean as well?

He started shuffling!

pete's gone from one mental block (not being able to hit in a contract year) to another block (having the yips in throwing home or to first)

Mets might be one of the only teams in the league where its star players even acknowledge Pride
https://i.imgur.com/MYUMW87.jpeg

I was at the game today, despite the somewhat miserable weather for June. Mindy needed to take out Megill earlier before the game got away. Megill seems to be doing what he does every year - get off to a promising start, then revert to the back of his baseball card.

Still a fun time and decent crowd given the weather.

vibes not very good rn

Perfect time to be traveling and not able to see any games.

Everything falling apart at once.

i was gonna suggest we all go to a game, but i waited too long and will not be leaving my apt for the next three months

honestly we should! i uh, have a bunch of vouchers/discounts from being a flushin degenerate and would happily use them on an ilx outing. only catch would be it has to be a mon-thurs game

I’m down and can do a week night game with a little notice. I will warn you: my record for in-person games is not so good.

I’m in if mook buys all my beer

cannot afford that

Alvarez’s outfit makes him look like a rejected GI Joe action figure

honestly we should! i uh, have a bunch of vouchers/discounts from being a flushin degenerate and would happily use them on an ilx outing. only catch would be it has to be a mon-thurs game

You three should go, seeing ball with an ilxor is a great time (even though I have only done this once, though more if you count user ShariVari I guess)

i'm up for any game when it's not incredibly hot; m-th is fine; a day's notice is cool

Romano got that curly fro / stache ‘78 vibe