I will add: Dom Smith has been a disaster this year and -- oddly -- the fans don't seem to have noticed. For 2021, he can't field, run, hit for average or power. A huge fizzle. And he's the guy who stayed healthy! Figures.
>> Without a healthy deGrom, the Mets are, at best, a de facto, NL-East playoff team with long odds to beat the Milwaukee Brewers. In other words, they are more than one player away from being serious contenders. So it makes little sense why they decided to go halfway in at the deadline, acquiring a rental bat with high risk at the cost of a first round prospect, but without supplementing their pitching staff with serious talent. Either be realistic with deGrom’s health and punt on a season that requires him to be on the mound to be special — or make the necessary moves (massive investments in pitching) to truly give your team a chance to compete, even without him. The Mets did neither. <<
I did not like the Baez trade. However, I believe the Mets were in a delicate situation -- 1st place, Cohen's first year. My take is that they did not go "all in" because they had a fairly accurate take on the team (and, as I speculated earlier, an accurate take on Jake's health regardless of the pre-trade posturing). They didn't trade away Mauricio, Alvarez, Ginn. At the same time, I don't think the organization was in a position to do nothing just in terms of the fan base. So we made the one bad (misguided) trade for Baez, losing Crowe-Armstrong. Wish we didn't do that, but I understand that "doing nothing" was not really an option.
Lindor/Carrasco is the worst trade in Mets Histiry even with what they gave up; Alderson - No Murphy or Turner who both come back to kill sthe Mets. On Turner they didnt like he went out at night; Baez pickup - still dont get it. Cohen did nothing other then bring back ugly black jerseys - clueless. These Mets now owned by another idiot who is also cheap will never win another championship in my lieftime.
I will add: Dom Smith has been a disaster this year and -- oddly -- the fans don't seem to have noticed. For 2021, he can't field, run, hit for average or power. A huge fizzle. And he's the guy who stayed healthy! Figures.
>> Without a healthy deGrom, the Mets are, at best, a de facto, NL-East playoff team with long odds to beat the Milwaukee Brewers. In other words, they are more than one player away from being serious contenders. So it makes little sense why they decided to go halfway in at the deadline, acquiring a rental bat with high risk at the cost of a first round prospect, but without supplementing their pitching staff with serious talent. Either be realistic with deGrom’s health and punt on a season that requires him to be on the mound to be special — or make the necessary moves (massive investments in pitching) to truly give your team a chance to compete, even without him. The Mets did neither. <<
I did not like the Baez trade. However, I believe the Mets were in a delicate situation -- 1st place, Cohen's first year. My take is that they did not go "all in" because they had a fairly accurate take on the team (and, as I speculated earlier, an accurate take on Jake's health regardless of the pre-trade posturing). They didn't trade away Mauricio, Alvarez, Ginn. At the same time, I don't think the organization was in a position to do nothing just in terms of the fan base. So we made the one bad (misguided) trade for Baez, losing Crowe-Armstrong. Wish we didn't do that, but I understand that "doing nothing" was not really an option.
Lindor/Carrasco is the worst trade in Mets Histiry even with what they gave up; Alderson - No Murphy or Turner who both come back to kill sthe Mets. On Turner they didnt like he went out at night; Baez pickup - still dont get it. Cohen did nothing other then bring back ugly black jerseys - clueless. These Mets now owned by another idiot who is also cheap will never win another championship in my lieftime.