OT: Official 2022 NY Mets Season And Post Season Thread
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Hustle !!!
Pitcher knew he had to hurry because Nimmo always runs to first !!!
Pitcher knew he had to hurry because Nimmo always runs to first !!!
1986 type win ! I sense Gary Carter had a lot to do with this win from up above and to celebrate Keith’s day !
Forget why they dumped d'Arnaud? He finished second in All Star voting.
They should have had the foresight he would blossom like Justin Turner and Daniel Murphy did. Maybe its the Mets? 🤷♂️
The training staff under the Coupons was iffy at best. A hang nail required surgery and a stint on the DL for 6 months. And the old management team was always looking for cheap guys as the answer to all of their problems.
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d'Arnaud missed almost the entire 2018 season with injuries, after having missed parts of every prior season in his Met tenure. Mets signed Wilson Ramos as his 2019 replacement. Then when d'Arnaud got off to a horrible start in 2019, they cut him loose. I can assure you that this decision prompted no outrage from Met fans at the time.
The Justin Turner decision was I think simply matter of Wilponian parsimony. He was arbitration eligible and the Mets didn't want to shell out $2MM for a utility guy. No one could have foreseen he'd develop into someone who'll get HOF votes. Also, there were whispers that the fun-loving Turner was considered a bad influence on Matt Harvey, who was "the franchise" at the time. How true that was, and to what degree it played into Met decision making, I cannot say.
At this close of the 2015 season, the Mets were done with Daniel Murphy, his very shaky glove, and his questionable baseball IQ. Yes he had an insane 2015 postseason (up to the WS, when he slumped). He was not an in-demand free agent and the Nats only signed him after their Plans A and B fell through.
Duda should have been traded and Murph put at 1b after 2015. Not 20/20 hindsight on my sight as I told everyone in my section that during 2015. Duda was too clumsy / too inconsistent and should have sealed his fate with that horrid throw to home in the world series
Murph was home grown and almost single handily carried Mets in post season and should have been respected more by Mets management and ownership as Wilpons did not like Murphys religious beliefs.
Quick no look trivia question. Who will be the last person to have worn #17 for the Mets. Some famous ones I remember were Felix Millan and didn't David Cone wear #17 for a while?
I know Fernando Tatis (the elder) wore it, not sure he was the last. EDIT - Looked it up, yes Tatis was the last.
As an irrelevant aside, I dislike the Mets practice of informally putting numbers out of circulation. Either retire it or not.
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Not one year was she’d for dArnaud. He was injured every year and was even injured last year. Good for him for having a great 2022 season.
Turner was an ok player but had no clue he would turn out to be a good player in LA. Maybe all he needed was to be at one regular spot instead of playing all over the place like he did in NY.
It was asinine that Murphy was let go after that 2015 regular season and playoffs. Maybe all he needed was to be at one regular spot instead of playing all over the place like he did in NY. He also did well first two years in Washington so it wasn’t a contract year fluke.
His first baseman got ejected for arguing balls and strikes after the third out. Mattingly got ejected after that.
After the 2015 season, no one really wanted Murphy. The guy whom both the Mets and Nats wanted was Ben Zobrist, who instead signed with the Cubs.
So both the Mets and Nats moved on to Plan B. For the Mets, that was Neil Walker. For the Nats, that was Brandon Phillips. Nats were all set to get Phillips in a trade with the Reds, but he vetoed it. That left the Nats with Plan C, namely Daniel Murphy.
Sometimes your best trades are the ones you don't make.
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I know it's just an expression, but a Met win would not be against the bookmaker odds. Game is either a pick-em or Mets are slight favorite.
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McCann to the 10 day IL. Buck expects him to be out much longer. Mazeika back up. No move on Marte. Yet. Fingers crossed big time.
time for the bum to retire........my 1973 classmate and graduate of the belleville h.s
Not to be mean, but McCann to the IL isn't a bad thing. Maybe it starts the ball for management to address one of the team's issues.
I think Walker couldn't pitch past a certain point in the season last year. He was still recovering from an injury. He wasn't stretched out. Walker probably can't go deeper (end of August) in the season if he is still pitching every five days. It might work to the Mets' advantage by skipping him once or twice after the all-star break to help last for the entire season.
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