The East race has finally been decided in the National league, and the Mets will play as a 4 seed against the 5th seed San Diego Padres to open their quest for a ring.
Who should be on the initial playoff roster for a three game wild card series at home? You only need three starters, and although you can carry up to 13 pitchers, you probably don't need that many. To make this a little easier, there are some players that 99% of us will agree upon, so let’s just consider the following guys as “in”:
Fielders: Nimmo, Marte, Lindor, Alonso, McNeil, Escobar, Canha, Guillorme.
Catchers: Nido, McCann
DH: Vogelbach
Pitchers: Scherzer, deGrom, Bassitt, Lugo, Ottavino, Diaz
In the 2022 MLB playoffs, teams must submit a 26-man roster prior to each series which must include no more than 13 pitchers. The roster can be different for each series.
There are eleven position players listed above, leaving two slots to fill. Candidates include:
Rostered: Darrin Ruf, Tyler Naquin, Terrance Gore, Mark Vientos, Brett Baty(IL) Dom Smith, Kahlil Lee, Michael Perez,
Others, like Francisco Alvarez, Nick Plummer, Travis Jankowski, and Daniel Palka were not on the 40-man roster or 60-day IL on August 31st and therefore could only be added through a special exception process.
There are six pitchers listed above, leaving seven slots to fill. Candidates include:
Mychal Givens(IL), Trevor May, Drew Smith, Tylor Megill, David Petersen, Trevor Williams, Joely Rodriguez, Carlos Carrasco, Tijuan Walker, Stephen Nogosek, Yoan Lopez, Tommy Hunter(IL), Alex Claudio, Jose Butto, Bryce Montez de Oca(IL).
So weigh in now with your choices; who fills the playoff roster to give the Mets the best chance to win a three game series against San Diego?
10 comments:
Alvy
Dom
Peterson
Trevor
Cookie
Walker
Drew
Nogo
I assume the Oca reference was done under the Brennan influence
Do we really need 13 pitchers for (at most) 3 games? I don't think so. 3 starters and 7 RPs should be plenty, though Cookie and Walker can be used as RPs.
Go for the bats, and hope Marte can be among them.
A more controversial view: we don't need Carrasco in a 3-game series. If our game 1 starter has a bad outing and we need long relief, Trevor Williams and David Peterson are accustomed to the role of quickly warming up and coming in. Carrasco has problems in the first inning when he is ineffective, so a relief role when we're already down is not the way to find out if this is his "good day". He would be useful in a 7 game series and maybe 5. But for now, I'm not sure that he OR Walker should take a spot of a chess piece we may need. So I'm going with the following bullpen additions: May, Smith, Peterson, Williams, Rodriguez, and Megill. That puts 12 in the pitching staff, leaving 14 position players. I'll take the 11 listed plus Gore, Naquin, and Smith. I want Alvarez instead of Smith, but I don't think he is elligible because he was not on the August 31st 40-man roster.
I believe you are right about Alvarez
Just cook the books like the politicians do, have him wear Ruf's number, and play him
Only need 11 pitchers. Ruf, Dom,and Alvarez. PH for Nido late in game,Guillorme too.
Alvarez, Alvarez, Al, Al, Alvarez.
Montes de Oca can hit Freddie Freeman, and level the odds against the Dodgers, He’s not too big to fail, he’s too big to fight.
I read a NY Post article last Thursday saying Mets could get Ally on playoff roster.
Megill over Lugo? Seriously??
And ahead of Givens, too??
Dream Rotate '23
1. Scherzer 2. Rodon 3. Syndergaard 4. Walker 5. Peterson (With a Six-Man being seriously reconsidered for 2023.) For this, maybe one from the Carlos Carrasco, Michael Wacha, or Tylor Megill grouping.
Joey Lucchese and Drew Smith in long relief/emergency starter role for injury substitution purpose. Then Syracuse' Joey Butto possibly a part of this bolstered depth program come second half after a solid first half for him.
Combined it gives the 2023 NY Mets better depth than it had in 2022. Edwin Diaz being an absolute must re-sign in the off season.
Bassitt and deGrom gone.
Jett Williams looks (to me) like a MLB shortstop in the making. Quick bat. Step-in approach too.
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