It seems fair to say that Mets fans really enjoyed the 2024 season, which featured an unexpected 89 wins during the regular season and a really unexpected trip to the NLCS, where they put up a better fight against the Dodgers than the Yankees did in the World Series.
There hasn't been much news about Raley. I recall seeing a headline that the Yankees were interested but that's about it.
I'd rather that the Mets took a shot with Raley than the one that they did with Drew Smith. But a lot was made about Smith's importance in the club house. But at least as a lefty, it seems like Raley will certainly get a shot somewhere.
I think the drive to bring back the band just shows how closely we bond with the events of a certain time. So many of our own relationships we would each battle for through anything, but the 24 Mets are never returning. Your admonitions remind us that the hands on a clock do not spin backwards. The moment the Dodgers beat us down, then it ended. There are reasons of course to resign certain players who perform a function that team needs objectively, but not just because we loved Grimace or OMG. And there’s nothing at all wrong with moving on and forging a new relationship with this years Mets. After all, there seems to be a lot to like. I constantly hear about reuniting with Iglesias but those that do fail to see hes going to cost millions, block the progress of youngins’, and ultimately spend a lot of time riding the pine - for 8M$? Nope.
Would be fun to plot the changes in BABIP for a high, medium, and low BABIP player to see how many ABs it takes to settle down to about average. Small sample sizes are a real issue in baseball, but for understood reasons. Streaks are exactly that, streaks. They defy averages both good and bad. So its time to be careful about just how good Clay Holmes is, or Blade Tidwell, or ____, or _____. As you said, spring training means nothing for numbers at all.
Im not fan of the pen and its construction. I dont like quantity over quality as an approach to pitching. Maybe it’s the new Moneyball, and I guess we’ll find out, but I think it stinks. And I do not like the look of the rotation one bit either. Senga is one shoulder strain away from being out for 6 months and then we’ll keep hearing about how great Canning and Megill and EaterX are as pitchers. Please.
There is a great article about the “Great 8” on MLB.com about who played for the 1975 and 1976 Big Red Machine. Now that was a gang to be reunited with so many future hall of famers. Today’s dollars dictate that you simply can’t bring the old gang back for another season because it will help your team. In the case of Iglesias, who we all loved last year, the total financial impact would be more than double the $8 million contract that he’d like to get. Well, I still believe he’d be a productive and needed player on their lineup this year, it’s time to go with the kids and all the growing pains that go with that.
I would have preferred Quintana at 1 year instead of Montas at 2 years. I don't think Winker would have been signed if Alonso signed earlier. Stearns would have had Baty as the left-handed DH instead.. Stanek should have been replaced by another free agent relief pitcher instead.
As far as recycles go, I was kind of hoping they'd take a flyer on Brooks Raley for a possible late season return.
There hasn't been much news about Raley. I recall seeing a headline that the Yankees were interested but that's about it.
I'd rather that the Mets took a shot with Raley than the one that they did with Drew Smith. But a lot was made about Smith's importance in the club house. But at least as a lefty, it seems like Raley will certainly get a shot somewhere.
I think the drive to bring back the band just shows how closely we bond with the events of a certain time. So many of our own relationships we would each battle for through anything, but the 24 Mets are never returning. Your admonitions remind us that the hands on a clock do not spin backwards. The moment the Dodgers beat us down, then it ended. There are reasons of course to resign certain players who perform a function that team needs objectively, but not just because we loved Grimace or OMG. And there’s nothing at all wrong with moving on and forging a new relationship with this years Mets. After all, there seems to be a lot to like. I constantly hear about reuniting with Iglesias but those that do fail to see hes going to cost millions, block the progress of youngins’, and ultimately spend a lot of time riding the pine - for 8M$? Nope.
Would be fun to plot the changes in BABIP for a high, medium, and low BABIP player to see how many ABs it takes to settle down to about average. Small sample sizes are a real issue in baseball, but for understood reasons. Streaks are exactly that, streaks. They defy averages both good and bad. So its time to be careful about just how good Clay Holmes is, or Blade Tidwell, or ____, or _____. As you said, spring training means nothing for numbers at all.
Im not fan of the pen and its construction. I dont like quantity over quality as an approach to pitching. Maybe it’s the new Moneyball, and I guess we’ll find out, but I think it stinks. And I do not like the look of the rotation one bit either. Senga is one shoulder strain away from being out for 6 months and then we’ll keep hearing about how great Canning and Megill and EaterX are as pitchers. Please.
My like is for the "EaterX" phrase, which needs to take its place besides "Granny" and "Rebuilding for it" as classic ChrisF lines.
Ill take it!
I agree with Chris, whatever the translation is!
Senga’s outing on Monday came after **battling a shoulder strain to start the spring.**
EaterX: Look I aint Joey Chestnut, but I know where my lane is, and I can cover those innings if you need me to.
There is a great article about the “Great 8” on MLB.com about who played for the 1975 and 1976 Big Red Machine. Now that was a gang to be reunited with so many future hall of famers. Today’s dollars dictate that you simply can’t bring the old gang back for another season because it will help your team. In the case of Iglesias, who we all loved last year, the total financial impact would be more than double the $8 million contract that he’d like to get. Well, I still believe he’d be a productive and needed player on their lineup this year, it’s time to go with the kids and all the growing pains that go with that.
I would have preferred Quintana at 1 year instead of Montas at 2 years. I don't think Winker would have been signed if Alonso signed earlier. Stearns would have had Baty as the left-handed DH instead.. Stanek should have been replaced by another free agent relief pitcher instead.