Today is October 31st!
Happy Halloween! Game six of the World Series will be tonight in Toronto at 20:00 (8PM) eastern. Game 6 will feature a pitching rematch between starting pitchers Kevin Gausman of the Blue Jays and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Dodgers.
Tim Byrdak turns 52 today! The lefty reliever pitched for the Mets from 2011 to 2013 after pitching for the Royals, Orioles, Tigers and Astros. He also once showed up to spring training dressed as Hulk Hogan.
Steve Trachsel turns 55 today! The right handed starter pitched six years for the Mets from 2001 to 2006 after debuting with the Cubs in 1993. He will have a birthday cake tonight and blow out all the candles by Thanksgiving.
The Mets are hosting their annual MetsGiving Food Drive to benefit City Harvest on Thursday, November 13 from 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. at the Mets Team Store. City Harvest is New York City’s first and largest food rescue organization. This year, City Harvest will rescue more than 86 million pounds of nutritious, high-quality food that would otherwise go to waste and deliver it for free to hundreds of food pantries, soup kitchens and community partners across the five boroughs. Fans donating at least 10 non-perishable items will receive a voucher redeemable for two tickets to a select Monday – Thursday Mets home game in 2026. Fans will be limited to one ticket voucher. Fans who donate will also receive an exclusive 20% discount at the team store.
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MLB the show franchise mode is so easy to break because they don’t seem to care about actual trade value.
Life moves quickly in the What If? Scenario. The 2027 season has ended with another WS, though only at 110 wins as people suffered random injuries. Tong broke his arm in spring training somehow and other players have started regressing. Thankfully we soldiered through with our very resilient, decent lineup, okay defense, and very good, but slightly worse frontline pitching (kept all the good defenders everywhere except Lowe and Soto, remember that in this game Vientos and Alonso are decent).
I picked up Corey Julks as a cheap utility guy to replace Tyrone Taylor (who I traded) and also traded some junk for Taylor Rogers, so I now have the twins on the same team. Tyler Stephenson was cheap and replaced Luis Torrens. Shored up the minor league system with as many young C potential players as possible in the hopes of developing them.
At the deadline, though, the flaws of the game were apparent. I managed to trade Manea plus a few + prospects for Skubal. The former was having a good year, and Skubal a down year, and the prospects were what the tigers wanted (they signed him before he could be a real free agent) and the postseason was somehow easier, sweeping the NL series and only dropping one game to the Blue Jays (seemingly a very similar roster to now!).
The dumbest development happened once free agency started. I let a few folks like Joe Ryan go by giving him a qualifying offer to plump up the next draft, since Sproat and Tong are now OVR 78+. On a lark, I checked to see how much Skenes would be. As dumb luck would have it, Senga, who wasn’t injured and came off multiple years of good seasons, had one more year of team control. The pirates wanted him plus two of my good prospects, that I happened to have a bunch of extras for (catcher and this rando relief pitcher I scouted). So now, going into 2028, we’re looking at the ludicrous rotation of McLean, Skenes, Skubal, Tong, and Sproat.
Maybe OOTP Baseball would be more realistic. Let’s see how 2028 goes.