☀️ Good Morning:
That was a fun weekend of baseball.
And the Mets have been a fun team to watch lately.
After sweeping the Nationals, winning games in dramatic fashion, they have won nine of 12 since waving the white flag at the trade deadline.
They have now won as many as they have lost with Andy Green as interim manager.
It might not matter to the current season, but when you can win games behind pieces you expect to be part of the long-term solution, there is reason to feel optimistic.
🎧 LISTEN UP: I joined loyal Mets Fix reader Jeff Hysen on the National League Town podcast to discuss the current state of the team. Make sure you listen and follow Mr. Hysen for more great Mets content.
📰 ABOVE THE FOLD
3 RANDOM THOUGHTS
It’s been a little while since we caught up, so I figured we would get back into rhythm by catching up on a few things I’ve been thinking about over the past week.
❶ Free Agent Fails
There is an alternate reality where the Mets had retained Edwin Díaz and signed Kyle Tucker, turning more of the small-market ire directed towards the Dodgers at themselves.
In this alternate universe, Díaz might look a lot better than he has in Dodger blue. A theme of the 2026 season has been the difficulty of several top free agents getting acclimated in new places. Perhaps if the trumpets were still playing in Queens, he would still be comfortably closing games instead of blowing multiple saves in bunches, as he has done in Chavez Ravine.
Or maybe, the results would be the same, as it seems they were destined to be for Tucker after the market dynamics turned a pretty good player without much star power into a $240 million blockbuster.
⇢ Did the Mets luck out in missing on Díaz + Tucker? It’s hard to say this front office lucked into anything with the way this season has unfolded, but it’s hard not to have that thought when seeing how much the two big Dodger acquisitions have struggled. Not to mention, signing these players carries a lot of tax, quite literally, for teams like the Mets, both in cap obligations and public perception.
