I am informed that MLB teams that hit 3 or more homers in a game have a .783 winning percentage this season.
Therefore, there is only a 4.8% chance that a team could hit three homers in consecutive games, and lose them both.
As the Mets have just done.
2024 Mets: AGAINST ALL ODDS!
(Yes, I hate that song, too. But it seems appropriate.)
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Narvaez is a waste of oxygen
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Don't be silly. Oxygen is free.
How bad of an organization do you have to be to spend $20,000,000 (over 3 years) on a player so bad that, when the catcher Narvaez is nominally backing up gets hurt, he loses the job to…Nido??
I mean, I like Tomas. I've followed him since his days in the low minors. I was glad the Mets didn't lose him when they left him off of the 40-man roster over the winter.
But…they left him off the roster! And he still beats out Omar Minayez! FFS.
Narvaez is emblematic of how this team can have the highest payroll in baseball without seeming to have any big-ticket talent. Yes, Frankie "Uncontrollable Giggling" Lindor makes $34.1 mn per year. Nimmo and McNeil are well-paid. Pete has a $20 million ticket out of town. Senga got a lot of yen to ghost-fork himself. Edwin Diaz gets $20 million per.
But that's not a Yankees-esque Free Agency All-Stars line-up. What the Mets have done is pile on the over-stuffed mediocrity. Narvaez. Severed Arm. Bader. The Broken Corpse of Starling Marte. (And, on a lesser scale, Ottavino and Diekman and The Immortal Demetreus Jerome Stewart.)
It's not surprising that the Mets are therefore the Oldest Team in MLB, since they have developed exactly ZERO young studs since 2019. (Alvarez and Mauricio did well last season, but they are hurt.) Vientos is finally starting to show promise, but other teams have LOTS of young and hungry players, because they don't feel the need to overpay for every last has-been.
It is thus also not surprising that the Mets are the second-worst defensive team in MLB. Old crap is not exactly a recipe for defensive success.
(I still don't object to the Bobby Bragan Special Lineup. It's only been 5 games and the Mets have scored some runs. The 1-4 record seems mostly on the pitching staff, AFAICT.)