Thursday catch-all thread (7/3/25)
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Congratulations to Francisco Lindor on being named a starter in the All-Star game for the first time as a Met. Lindor has a .787 OPS and a 121 wRC+ so far this season. He and Trea Turner have had the best starts for an NL shortstop this season and you could flip a coin as to which one “deserves” to be the starter. Yet even if Turner won the starting job, Lindor would have made the team as a reserve. Now the question is how many of his teammates will join him in Atlanta. Three weeks ago you could have made the case for the Mets having at least five All-Stars. But injuries and ineffectiveness have cut into that number. Pete Alonso, Edwin Diaz and Juan Soto still have a shot to make the team. We’ll see if the Mets can put four players on the team. That would be nice.
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So Blade Tidwell has pitched in 4 games this year for the Mets. In the game against Pittsburgh he came on in relief and gave up a 3 run HR in his only inning. In his other 3 outings (2 starts and then as the bulk innings guy last night) he's been pretty good for the first 2 or 3 innings. In his first start against the Cardinals he gave up 2 runs in the first 3 innings and then got bombed for 4 in the 4th. Against the Phillies he pitched 3 scoreless and then gave up 2 in the 4th. Similar story last night, with 4 scoreless before giving up a couple of bombs in his 5th inning. Seems like Mendoza keeps him in an inning too long. Now while I realize you wouldn't expect the manager to pull his starter after 3 scoreless, it seems to me that Tidwell may be better suited as a multi-inning reliever. This is a small sample size for sure, but he's struggled the further he's gone into games, and outside of the Pittsburgh game, has been pretty good in his first few innings.
I think he may be better suited to relief and maybe in a role similar to what Kranick was in before he got hurt. I'd love to see how he'd do as a 5th or 6th inning guy and kept to 2 innings most of the time.
Clearly Lindor is deserving of his AS selection and a case can be made for Alonso and Diaz to be selected as well. That might bump Soto out of the running but with 20 HR and an OPS of .895 he would be a good reserve. Its' not hard to believe Acuna, Jr. got voted in based on the kind of player he is and not based on his 2025 stats that are good, but reflect a player who had been out for a long stretch to start the season. Thought they might give Mendoza a coaching role at the game based on how well the team did last year, but it's not going to happen. A month ago the Mets had a cast of starting pitchers who might have been considered, but going 4-14 knocked those chances to nil.
Need Peterson to win tonight and split the series with the Brewers. They have a tough three game series at home next against the Yankees and have to face Rodon and Fried. They better have their hitting shoes on as no one likes to lose to the Yankees.