By metstradamus | September 1, 2020 11:14 pm
Tuesday’s game in Baltimore was the perfect juxtaposition of the Mets inability to craft a cohesive plan when it comes to baseball.
“We’ve acquired Todd Frazier, Robinson Chirinos, and Miguel Castro because we’re making a run at this thing this year. Oh, and Ariel Jurado is the starting pitcher tonight.” -Not an actual quote but you get it.
How do you justify to your fan base that you have a chance for this thing and you’re willing to throw away a decent prospect along with the money it’s going to cost in buyouts for next season for Frazier and Chirinos at the very least, while also not being able to find a pitcher better than Ariel Jurado?
Jurado’s appearance alone is hysterical because you had Walker Lockett on the team, and yeah we’re not going to pretend that Lockett is Max Scherzer here. But somehow a team that is so desperate for starting pitching that they’re stretching out one really good reliever and one reliever who hasn’t started regularly since his rookie season not only loses Walker Lockett, but somehow puts in his place somebody who is worse. And what’s scary about it is that it took a lot of work to do this!
In fairness, Lockett was awful. Career 8+ ERA, WHIP above 1.8. Not worthy of prime time. Sad to say, but I Hinn Jurado is the lesser of two evils.
ReplyDeleteAnd who needed Zach Wheeler anyway?
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