11/17/20

Metstradamus - Chess, Checkers, Or A Back Alley Game of Yahtzee?

 



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It’s all about perspective.

So the big news ’round these parts is that the Mets have expressed interest in free agent outfielder Marcell Ozuna. Ozuna had an excellent small sample size season, batting .338 with an OPS of 1.095, and led the league in HRs and RBI with 18 and 56. That’s the good news.

The bad news is that he’s a corner outfielder who does stuff like this:

First off, the Mets don’t even have a general manager yet, so how the scribes have figured out who the Mets are interested in already makes me laugh, but okay, let’s just go with this for a second.

I thought about how I would have reacted if this were, say, last year … if it were Brodie and Jeffy that came up with this hairbrained idea. No doubt about it, I’d be furious. But let’s be honest: We all would have seen through it as another leak to get the fans excited while there could be no possible chance that the Mets would pull the trigger on such a deal, even if Ozuna fit the Mets roster like the glove that he has problems using. Ozuna is projected by MLB Trade Rumors to sign for four years and $72 million dollars. Last years’s debt ridden hookah lounge would have never, ever made that deal no matter how much they decided to tease us about it.

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