These Mets were supposed to be different. Cohen’s arrival in November 2020 marked the beginning of a new era in Flushing. They had all the pieces. Their front office is helmed by president of baseball operations David Stearns, one of the most heralded executives in the sport. The lineup featured a three-headed monster of Soto, Lindor and Alonso. They all delivered phenomenal performances, combining for 112 home runs, 324 runs scored and 317 RBIs.
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Damn shame!
The pitching just absolutely collapsed.
I think their trajectory is still upward and this is just a blip. But also the fan base is absolutely insufferable so fuck em
Baseball is hard
Maybe next time they’ll invest in the rotation.
I don’t really hate the mets, but wow, is that wild .
They forgot one major thing. They’re the Mets.
Mets are going to Met. If they don’t *Met* in a season (see 2024), the bill comes due **with interest** (see 2025).
Remembering 2015 😊
In today’s game $$ doesn’t equate to wins-playoffs-championships…just doesn’t
We will take Lindor back if you don’t need him. Go Guards
Proof that you can’t just buy a championship team. They need better player development, especially with pitchers. Say what you want about the Yankees, but they have one of the best minor league pitching programs combined with big money talent.
2nd in their division and missing the playoffs by one game: DISASTER!
I get that 83-79 isn’t *great*, but come on
But we need a salary cap because these teams are buying championships /s
The importance of wise spending. Can’t just spend most in one gold bar
Ignoring the complete lack of starting pitching does that.
Question. When are the Mets not a disaster?
I still maintain that the Mets won’t win a championship with their high payroll. At some point cohen will get tired of it and lower payroll and then a scrappy Mets team will win the World Series.
Not our money to worry about. We as fans all hope for an ownership that is willing to invest this much into the team. Yes, you can have the huge financial backing AND be a smart organization that’s not boot strapped by a stingy owner. I see nothing wrong with the Mets’ attempt – better than being the Marlins or the Pirates.
Meet the Mets!
The best thing we had going for us was Timmy Trumpet and Mr. & Mrs. Met
🤣🤣🤣
Cohen refuses to accept the truth that most every team understands:
You can’t buy a WS. There are no shortcuts in baseball.
I’m gonna get downvoted to hell for this but whatever.
The take that the Mets are “buying a championship” is totally blown out of the water.
Our FO splurged on one guy who provided something that the lineup actually needed: a power bat. Besides Soto, the lineup we rolled out this season is very similar to the one we had last season that already made it to the NLCS. And a lot of the lineup features guys who have spent their whole career with the Mets and came up through our farm system.
It’s still an expensive lineup. But look at where a lot of that money is being spent: Lindor (who we traded for and then extended), Nimmo and McNeil (who are being overpaid but they’ve been with us for their whole careers), Marte (who we traded for and will most likely be leaving in the off-season), etc. Is it still “buying a championship” when a lot of those contracts are extensions for guys you traded for or developed yourself?
If you go back to early season predictions, no one had the Mets winning the World Series. In fact, most Mets fans didn’t. Because we all knew that the rotation was built out of sticks. And that wasn’t because we spent on Soto. David Stearns spent another off-season relying on our pitching lab to rehab guys coming off of injuries or who were disregarded by other teams. And for a couple of months it was working. But once injuries kicked in for Canning, Senga, Minter, Raley, etc, the weak foundation that everyone saw crumbled.
Before Stearns we did try giving out big contracts to aces in Verlander and Scherzer and it didn’t work. We also had three pitchers in our farm system that gave the FO reason to be optimistic and to not spend on big pitcher contracts. But the excuses have ran out. You need basically a rotation and a half nowadays to make it through the season and Stearns can no longer rely on these rehab projects.
It’s an expensive lineup, absolutely. But it’s *been* an expensive lineup. A lineup that was more so constructed out of trades and home development than just free agent spending. And the issues with it were not going to be solved by a guy who historically does not spend big on the problem areas the lineup had.
You don’t spend big and your owner gets shit for it. You get an owner that spends big and you still get shit for it. There’s no winning unless you just win.
Choosing Soto over better starting pitching will do that.
Just dont call him Frankie
Would there be a huge difference if the Mets lost in the first round of the playoffs?
Fans still get to see Lindor, Alonso, and Soto every time they go to the ballpark.
Just goes to show money can’t buy a championship ring
They tried to dumpster dive with pitching and then patch those holes with three rookies late in the season
Senga is a true 3/4 guy, McLean looks legit but you shouldn’t be counting on him as more than a 3 or 4 starter next year. They desperately need two front line starters (which they knew anyway a couple years ago). They’ll probably throw money at the problem over the winter
340 million dollar “disaster” for sold out stadiums all year long. Sure. Baseball is hard, money can’t buy a championship, I hate the Mets, but for Mets fans the season sucked, for Mets owners they have more than they started with.