Maybe, just maybe, people don’t want to play for this franchise that continues to be a national embarrassment. If they want to try and win in NY, they have the Yankees. If they want to actually win, they have LA. Soto became a met because all he cares about is money. I bet you if Sterns matched the offer, he’d still be a Dodger. What exactly is the appeal of being a Met?
We’re gonna light him up in the nlcs. Stick a trumpet up his ass. let’s goo
I knew when we signed Williams Diaz was gone… Losing faith in Stearns with each passing day.
I have generally been a Stearns supporter, but this js malpractice. It’s not like the Dodgers gave him a massive overpay or a crazy term. To lose the most dominant closer in team history TO THE TEAM YOU’RE TRYING TO CATCH over what, $6 million over three years? Indefensible.
Damned shame.
On the bright side, I knocked down the sun sphere.
Honestly, who thought that we would legitimately re-sign Diaz after we brought in Williams first? I didn’t. The order should’ve been, shore up Edwin and THEN go after complimentary players but once Devin signed, I knew 39 was gone. Especially how they tried to justify the signing saying “this doesn’t mean that we’re out of signing Diaz”. Yes it did.
Losing Diaz, probably losing Pete. Traded nimmo. Any other fan favorites we wanna chase out of town?
I’m so shocked like are we really stuck with Williams as closer?
there goes our 2026 season
Bruh 69 million? We spent 51 million on williams but cant spend 69 mil on diaz?? Thr fuck is stearns doing man
Alrighty. New team I hate with a passion is now the Dodgers. Up there with the Braves, Phillies, Royals, and Yankees.
Everyone is putting this on Stearns. Have there been reports that he didn’t want Diaz or didn’t offer a better deal or are people assuming Stearns is cheap? Couldn’t it be that Diaz wanted a change or is chasing a WS that the Dodgers are in better position to give him?
The Mets’ offer to Diaz was literally the same as the Dodger’s but just 3mil less and there was “wiggle room” to negotiate. Dude just wanted out at this point.
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Go get Suarez then
This is absolute fucking bullshit. We spend millions on Soto and yet we let the best closer in MLB go because we nickel-and-dime him for a couple of million WHEN OUR PITCHING FUCKING SUCKS?? Jesus.
People seem to forget no matter what at any point, it is a players CHOICE to sign a contract into a place they may want to play, whether it’s community lifestyle school for kids WHATEVER it may be. Money talks of course but Edwin has made enough money where he at any point could say he wanted to go elsewhere for a bit cheaper.
Having said this, this fucking blows and the only person preventing our bullpen from allowing us to lose every game we had a late lead is now gone.
Yay
Fade the flair I guess? Fuck me.
Stearns is a disgrace for letting this happen
He wanted out. All his quotes from the off season hinted at it. I’m fine with it.
Good riddance. Go blow saves elsewhere
If Pete doesn’t return I may have to end my 29 straight years of Mets weekend pack… I’m a Mets fan not a sterns-guru fan
This news is depressing to me (especially him going to the Dodgers of all places), but the overreaction by Mets fans may be even more so. I get it, Diaz was a lock down closer for us last season, but that wasn’t going to fix our starting pitching carousel or our offense lacking the clutch hit. I’m not even close to writing off Stearns yet until I see the entire picture of what the Mets off-season becomes. There’s still a great chance that we go into opening day with a bullpen that is collectively better than last season, while addressing the starting pitching and offense as well. I think the overreaction here is more about the attachment to a player emotionally over the betterment of the team overall. The order of events doesn’t help either, and if some other bigger trades/deals happened in our favor before this, this would be much easier to stomach for us.
Jesus FUCKING CHRIST.
C’mon Seriously! This sucks.
Now it’s coming out that Diaz wanted to be gone, he didn’t even come back to the Mets to try according to Anthony Dicomo
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He definitely wanted to leave. Mets could have matched that easily. He didn’t give them the chance.
Sigh
Pay for future performance, not past memories. Mets have a lot of work to do but I’m not losing sleep over Edwin shopping the Mets offer to LAD and then signing with them.
I was okay with Diaz leaving I’m just mad it’s to the Dodgers.
What the fuck!?
Fans who think Diaz left over 3 million dollars are in denial. Diaz wanted to leave, just like DeGrom.
Until the Mets can show they are a yearly contender like the Dodgers, they Mets are going to be continually dumped and left at the wedding alter for a better situation. Players like Diaz already have all the money they need, a few million dollars doesn’t change how they are going to live, Diaz is already set for life. Diaz is getting older and realized that if he wanted to be a world champion, there was a better opportunity to do that with the Dodgers.
That’s the bottom line, you can lure a player like Soto with money, but you can’t lure a player who wants to win a World Series with money when he already has all the money he needs.
Stearns needs to fuck off!
The writing was on the scoreboard as soon as we signed Williams. Front office knew Diaz was gone.
I don’t blame Stearns for this like some others are. I have a strong feeling this is what Diaz wanted. Williams was a backup plan, and best case scenario, our setup man; he wasn’t meant to replace Diaz. I wouldn’t be shocked if we learn we had a bigger offer or at least matched it.
Just a feeling I have…
Does he take the trumpets and cool closing entrance with him?!?! I don’t even know who Williams is. Does he have aura to give me chills in the 9th? Dude better start Aura Farming
The rich (Dodgers) get richer. Even though Sasaki was lights out in the post-season, they still see him as a starter, otherwise they wouldn’t have signed Diaz.
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I’m gonna be sick
Wow. I’m sick.
Holy shit.
Maybe, just maybe, people don’t want to play for this franchise that continues to be a national embarrassment. If they want to try and win in NY, they have the Yankees. If they want to actually win, they have LA. Soto became a met because all he cares about is money. I bet you if Sterns matched the offer, he’d still be a Dodger. What exactly is the appeal of being a Met?
We’re gonna light him up in the nlcs. Stick a trumpet up his ass. let’s goo
I knew when we signed Williams Diaz was gone… Losing faith in Stearns with each passing day.
I have generally been a Stearns supporter, but this js malpractice. It’s not like the Dodgers gave him a massive overpay or a crazy term. To lose the most dominant closer in team history TO THE TEAM YOU’RE TRYING TO CATCH over what, $6 million over three years? Indefensible.
Damned shame.
On the bright side, I knocked down the sun sphere.
Honestly, who thought that we would legitimately re-sign Diaz after we brought in Williams first? I didn’t. The order should’ve been, shore up Edwin and THEN go after complimentary players but once Devin signed, I knew 39 was gone. Especially how they tried to justify the signing saying “this doesn’t mean that we’re out of signing Diaz”. Yes it did.
Losing Diaz, probably losing Pete. Traded nimmo. Any other fan favorites we wanna chase out of town?
I’m so shocked like are we really stuck with Williams as closer?
there goes our 2026 season
Bruh 69 million? We spent 51 million on williams but cant spend 69 mil on diaz?? Thr fuck is stearns doing man
Alrighty. New team I hate with a passion is now the Dodgers. Up there with the Braves, Phillies, Royals, and Yankees.
Everyone is putting this on Stearns. Have there been reports that he didn’t want Diaz or didn’t offer a better deal or are people assuming Stearns is cheap? Couldn’t it be that Diaz wanted a change or is chasing a WS that the Dodgers are in better position to give him?
The Mets’ offer to Diaz was literally the same as the Dodger’s but just 3mil less and there was “wiggle room” to negotiate. Dude just wanted out at this point.
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Go get Suarez then
This is absolute fucking bullshit. We spend millions on Soto and yet we let the best closer in MLB go because we nickel-and-dime him for a couple of million WHEN OUR PITCHING FUCKING SUCKS?? Jesus.
People seem to forget no matter what at any point, it is a players CHOICE to sign a contract into a place they may want to play, whether it’s community lifestyle school for kids WHATEVER it may be. Money talks of course but Edwin has made enough money where he at any point could say he wanted to go elsewhere for a bit cheaper.
Having said this, this fucking blows and the only person preventing our bullpen from allowing us to lose every game we had a late lead is now gone.
Yay
Fade the flair I guess? Fuck me.
Stearns is a disgrace for letting this happen
He wanted out. All his quotes from the off season hinted at it. I’m fine with it.
Good riddance. Go blow saves elsewhere
If Pete doesn’t return I may have to end my 29 straight years of Mets weekend pack… I’m a Mets fan not a sterns-guru fan
This news is depressing to me (especially him going to the Dodgers of all places), but the overreaction by Mets fans may be even more so. I get it, Diaz was a lock down closer for us last season, but that wasn’t going to fix our starting pitching carousel or our offense lacking the clutch hit. I’m not even close to writing off Stearns yet until I see the entire picture of what the Mets off-season becomes. There’s still a great chance that we go into opening day with a bullpen that is collectively better than last season, while addressing the starting pitching and offense as well. I think the overreaction here is more about the attachment to a player emotionally over the betterment of the team overall. The order of events doesn’t help either, and if some other bigger trades/deals happened in our favor before this, this would be much easier to stomach for us.
Jesus FUCKING CHRIST.
C’mon Seriously! This sucks.
Now it’s coming out that Diaz wanted to be gone, he didn’t even come back to the Mets to try according to Anthony Dicomo
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He definitely wanted to leave. Mets could have matched that easily. He didn’t give them the chance.
Sigh
Pay for future performance, not past memories. Mets have a lot of work to do but I’m not losing sleep over Edwin shopping the Mets offer to LAD and then signing with them.
I was okay with Diaz leaving I’m just mad it’s to the Dodgers.
What the fuck!?
Fans who think Diaz left over 3 million dollars are in denial. Diaz wanted to leave, just like DeGrom.
Until the Mets can show they are a yearly contender like the Dodgers, they Mets are going to be continually dumped and left at the wedding alter for a better situation. Players like Diaz already have all the money they need, a few million dollars doesn’t change how they are going to live, Diaz is already set for life. Diaz is getting older and realized that if he wanted to be a world champion, there was a better opportunity to do that with the Dodgers.
That’s the bottom line, you can lure a player like Soto with money, but you can’t lure a player who wants to win a World Series with money when he already has all the money he needs.
Stearns needs to fuck off!
The writing was on the scoreboard as soon as we signed Williams. Front office knew Diaz was gone.
I don’t blame Stearns for this like some others are. I have a strong feeling this is what Diaz wanted. Williams was a backup plan, and best case scenario, our setup man; he wasn’t meant to replace Diaz. I wouldn’t be shocked if we learn we had a bigger offer or at least matched it.
Just a feeling I have…
Does he take the trumpets and cool closing entrance with him?!?! I don’t even know who Williams is. Does he have aura to give me chills in the 9th? Dude better start Aura Farming
The rich (Dodgers) get richer. Even though Sasaki was lights out in the post-season, they still see him as a starter, otherwise they wouldn’t have signed Diaz.