Good lord, that is literally nothing in return, a teenager. McNeil must have been a genuine clubhouse cancer.
Bye Felicia
So yeah they just wanted him off the team it’s clear that Sterns hated this roster it was time to blow it up and put in his own roster together that’s been the very obvious goal of the offseason I can’t say I blame him this team has had issues for years probably the surprising success of 24 delayed Sterns ability to tear it down last year
am i the only one who read a’s as astros and was like how tf did we get yordan alvarez
Is Yordan Rodriguez supposed to be a good prospect or something?
Is that really the best return for a guy that won the batting title a couple of years ago a rookie ball pitcher? Good job sterns
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I’ll die on this hill, I don’t think the “locker room” was the issue, and if it was its because of the incompetent manager. Yet some fans apparently need to see more of Mendoza mismanage a bullpen and lineup.
Yordan should be here in 5 years. Salary dump
What did Jeff McNeil do to deserve this? Kill Stearns’ dog? Steal from a witch? Both?
The Mets paid to ship him off to the Athletics to end his career in a minor league ballpark. What an incredible insult.
David Stearns has a serious dislike of a certain demographic
I’m not exactly heartbroken by this.
17 and struck out 20 in 15.1 in his first season in pro ball. I’m interested. What kinda prospect is this guy?
Every trade somehow makes this team worse
He’s not a .300 hitter anymore and can’t get along with the Captain so good riddance.
I get we’re blowing up the team and rebuilding, but I feel like the returns for Nimmo and McNeil have been kind of underwhelming.
Are people forgetting that McNeil had a surgery to address thoracic outlet syndrome (the condition that wrecked Matt Harvey’s career)?
Oh no, they’re breaking up our playoff-missing dynasty.
Honestly 5 million I’m fine with, even tho its not my money.
This move is at least two years overdue. Clears money and space for a bigger move.
No more “Jeff Mcfeeble” rants from Frank the Tank :/
And I was going to post a question asking was Jeff McNeil so bad in centerfield? It made us get Mullins who didn’t do anything unfortunately when we could’ve traded for some other need. Just like Pete and Brandon, thank you for being a Met Jeff!
I can 100% support this move
Maybe it was time for Jeff to go but I was certainly hoping we’d get more than almost literally nothing for him.
Ok and in the same hour we find out we are in on Marte. Even if we don’t land him you see that they are making space with money and literal playing time for players they want. Nobody dumps a Daley and gets something great back.
Tell me how I should feel about the guy we got back
I knew we were trading him, I was right about the culture
The fact they found a taker for McNeil is nothing short of miraculous.
It was time for McNeil to go. If we’re being totally honest, it’s been time for him to go for a long while.
I know you’re not gonna believe me, but I swear I get the feeling that Stearns wasn’t happy with the core 🤭
Demolishing a team while spending money on the huge casino mega site.
I don’t know why. So far he has removed all the players that weren’t the problem last season, retained the dreadful bottom of the lineup, lost the best closer in MLB and failed to correct the disastrous dumpster rotation. Why would the fans be unhappy.
He just had that thoracic outlet surgery I’m surprised anyone took him.
McNeil had to go but not for nothing. His contract was so cheap, couldn’t he have stayed as a bench player!?
I get why fans on this thread are saying it’s better to dismantle the core than to trot out the same product that collapsed last year. Yes, McNeil just had a procedure that’s often the end of a player’s career.
I don’t know how McNeil plays over the rest of his contract, but here’s the issue: until we see a semblance of premeditated addition to this roster that somehow replaced the production of guys not signed and/or traded away, we’re either a) fielding a team incapable of producing the same number of runs than the team last year (which missed the playoffs), or b) the roster as currently constructed can somehow make up for the lost production.
Can vientos return to his 2024 form of given a chance to play every day with some margin of patience for a slow start? Will Baty continue to improve and help replace some of the production no longer on the team? Will Alverez put together a complete season to match his enormous potential? What does our rotation look like? Can Manaea prove 2024 is more than a fluke when the rest of his career clearly points to 2025 being a return to the norm. What’s wrong with Senga? Will Tong and Sproat continue to develop at the major league level? Will Clay Holmes continue to lengthen and build the stamina required to go deeper in games throughout the entire season? Is the pen better with Devin Williams and Luke Weaver than it was with Diaz, Tyler Rogers, and Ryan Hellsley?
My point is this: I know it’s early-ish in the off-season, but a team with two superstars in their prime and expectations to compete for a world series shouldn’t have more questions than answers up and down the roster. David Stearns can pull two all stars out of his ass and sign another to stupid money (if the years somehow align with his aversions to longer contracts) and it’s still not enough to field a complete team capable of contending. For the team to compete with the Dodgers, or even within their own division, it’s going to take a lot of the “let’s hope….” situations listed above (ie. Let’s hope Vientos returns to form”) to work out. And that begs the question of whether our inhouse options are better than taking the risk on whatever scraps are left on the free agent market or losing some of our promising prospects to swing a trade for someone better who won’t want more years and money than Stearns is willing to give to sign a long term extension.
I think he will hit well for Sacramento and if he finds his way back to being a constant contact hitter As will benefit with their current lineup. As for Mets, whats the scouting report on the kid? Maybe a diamond (aka Wheeler) in the rough?
For $10m, I’d stick him in LF. I don’t especially love McNeil at this point but he’s worth the pricetag.
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Good lord, that is literally nothing in return, a teenager. McNeil must have been a genuine clubhouse cancer.
Bye Felicia
So yeah they just wanted him off the team it’s clear that Sterns hated this roster it was time to blow it up and put in his own roster together that’s been the very obvious goal of the offseason I can’t say I blame him this team has had issues for years probably the surprising success of 24 delayed Sterns ability to tear it down last year
am i the only one who read a’s as astros and was like how tf did we get yordan alvarez
Is Yordan Rodriguez supposed to be a good prospect or something?
Is that really the best return for a guy that won the batting title a couple of years ago a rookie ball pitcher? Good job sterns
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I’ll die on this hill, I don’t think the “locker room” was the issue, and if it was its because of the incompetent manager. Yet some fans apparently need to see more of Mendoza mismanage a bullpen and lineup.
Yordan should be here in 5 years. Salary dump
What did Jeff McNeil do to deserve this? Kill Stearns’ dog? Steal from a witch? Both?
The Mets paid to ship him off to the Athletics to end his career in a minor league ballpark. What an incredible insult.
David Stearns has a serious dislike of a certain demographic
I’m not exactly heartbroken by this.
17 and struck out 20 in 15.1 in his first season in pro ball. I’m interested. What kinda prospect is this guy?
Every trade somehow makes this team worse
He’s not a .300 hitter anymore and can’t get along with the Captain so good riddance.
I get we’re blowing up the team and rebuilding, but I feel like the returns for Nimmo and McNeil have been kind of underwhelming.
Are people forgetting that McNeil had a surgery to address thoracic outlet syndrome (the condition that wrecked Matt Harvey’s career)?
Oh no, they’re breaking up our playoff-missing dynasty.
Honestly 5 million I’m fine with, even tho its not my money.
This move is at least two years overdue. Clears money and space for a bigger move.
No more “Jeff Mcfeeble” rants from Frank the Tank :/
And I was going to post a question asking was Jeff McNeil so bad in centerfield? It made us get Mullins who didn’t do anything unfortunately when we could’ve traded for some other need. Just like Pete and Brandon, thank you for being a Met Jeff!
I can 100% support this move
Maybe it was time for Jeff to go but I was certainly hoping we’d get more than almost literally nothing for him.
Ok and in the same hour we find out we are in on Marte. Even if we don’t land him you see that they are making space with money and literal playing time for players they want. Nobody dumps a Daley and gets something great back.
Tell me how I should feel about the guy we got back
I knew we were trading him, I was right about the culture
The fact they found a taker for McNeil is nothing short of miraculous.
It was time for McNeil to go. If we’re being totally honest, it’s been time for him to go for a long while.
I know you’re not gonna believe me, but I swear I get the feeling that Stearns wasn’t happy with the core 🤭
Demolishing a team while spending money on the huge casino mega site.
I don’t know why. So far he has removed all the players that weren’t the problem last season, retained the dreadful bottom of the lineup, lost the best closer in MLB and failed to correct the disastrous dumpster rotation. Why would the fans be unhappy.
He just had that thoracic outlet surgery I’m surprised anyone took him.
McNeil had to go but not for nothing. His contract was so cheap, couldn’t he have stayed as a bench player!?
I get why fans on this thread are saying it’s better to dismantle the core than to trot out the same product that collapsed last year. Yes, McNeil just had a procedure that’s often the end of a player’s career.
I don’t know how McNeil plays over the rest of his contract, but here’s the issue: until we see a semblance of premeditated addition to this roster that somehow replaced the production of guys not signed and/or traded away, we’re either a) fielding a team incapable of producing the same number of runs than the team last year (which missed the playoffs), or b) the roster as currently constructed can somehow make up for the lost production.
Can vientos return to his 2024 form of given a chance to play every day with some margin of patience for a slow start? Will Baty continue to improve and help replace some of the production no longer on the team? Will Alverez put together a complete season to match his enormous potential? What does our rotation look like? Can Manaea prove 2024 is more than a fluke when the rest of his career clearly points to 2025 being a return to the norm. What’s wrong with Senga? Will Tong and Sproat continue to develop at the major league level? Will Clay Holmes continue to lengthen and build the stamina required to go deeper in games throughout the entire season? Is the pen better with Devin Williams and Luke Weaver than it was with Diaz, Tyler Rogers, and Ryan Hellsley?
My point is this: I know it’s early-ish in the off-season, but a team with two superstars in their prime and expectations to compete for a world series shouldn’t have more questions than answers up and down the roster. David Stearns can pull two all stars out of his ass and sign another to stupid money (if the years somehow align with his aversions to longer contracts) and it’s still not enough to field a complete team capable of contending. For the team to compete with the Dodgers, or even within their own division, it’s going to take a lot of the “let’s hope….” situations listed above (ie. Let’s hope Vientos returns to form”) to work out. And that begs the question of whether our inhouse options are better than taking the risk on whatever scraps are left on the free agent market or losing some of our promising prospects to swing a trade for someone better who won’t want more years and money than Stearns is willing to give to sign a long term extension.
I think he will hit well for Sacramento and if he finds his way back to being a constant contact hitter As will benefit with their current lineup. As for Mets, whats the scouting report on the kid? Maybe a diamond (aka Wheeler) in the rough?
For $10m, I’d stick him in LF. I don’t especially love McNeil at this point but he’s worth the pricetag.