Mets

[Westheim]

Mets win! Mets win! Praise be! Ring the bells! Mets win!

Oh yes, and in the same game Soto came back from his calf injury, Lindor exited with a calf injury of his own.

That's how you know you're cursed and that you have to accept the 74-88 season coming at you.

[Hrycaj]

I hope this doesn't come off as trolling. I personally like when owners spend money. Steve Cohen has obviously done that. Is this an example though of a situation where you just can't throw money at the problem? What is going on with that clubhouse? Is it a Lindor thing? Soto? Both?

[Westheim]

It's a team where almost everybody plays out of position for some reason. Lindor is the shortstop, so all the other shortstops that they signed must go elsewhere and Bo Bichette at third has been *rough*.

There's no real first baseman. Pete got dumped, so it is Soup of the Day between a variety of misfits, including Jorge Polanco (not a first baseman), Brett Baty (no XP), Mark Vientos (horrible), and Jared Young (not much of anything). Robert jr. in center is something between casual and careless, also brittle, so every four days he must be on the bench. They even moved Soto from right to left for some stupid reason, so now Baty is moonlighting in rightfield, with ghastly results. Carson Benge was said to have a great arm, so he must play ... left. It's beyond brainless.

They then take that defensive decrepitude to the plate with them.

Then have Benge, hitting .136, bat leadoff. No, he doesn't walk. The only surprise is that he's not been dumped to Syracuse yet.

To solve ALL problems, they now brought back the 38-year-old corpse of Tommy Pham. So far he's 0-for-11.

The team costs about $325M and scores about 3.25 runs per game.

The entire front office should be fired, and then rehired, just so they can fire them again. Then maybe have a public flogging. I don't know. I can't make my Raccoons score either. But maybe don't sign a full team of shortstops and expect that it will somehow magically work out. Because it ******* doesn't.

The pitching is... *fair*. Senga and Peterson can't get anybody out. Nobody expected Senga to get anybody out anymore, though. And so far Clay Holmes starting has been the least of our problems.

[dsvitak]

Originally Posted by Westheim

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Then have Benge, hitting .136, bat leadoff. No, he doesn't walk. The only surprise is that he's not been dumped to Syracuse yet.
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For a dude with a .213 on base percentage, I had to check.

Yes...he had 11 PA's where he led off...but that little experiment went bye-bye, in a hurry.

58 of his 73 PA's, (80%) for the season, have him hitting 7th through 9th. The other four were him hitting 6th.

So...11 of 71 were him hitting 1st through 5th.

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by dsvitak

For a dude with a .213 on base percentage, I had to check.

Yes...he had 11 PA's where he led off...but that little experiment went bye-bye, in a hurry.

58 of his 73 PA's, (80%) for the season, have him hitting 7th through 9th. The other four were him hitting 6th.

So...11 of 71 were him hitting 1st through 5th.

Huh! Felt like he batted first for two weeks!

Turns out, time moves like glue when you watch the Mets...!