Your Prospects Are Easier to Find If You Don't Trade Them
In the stumbling Mets' summer of 2021, as Jake deGrom was absent with his latest malady, the Mets went all in at the trade deadline - sort of. Well, partly.
They traded my favorite prospect, Pete Crow Armstrong, and in return got a brief rental of Javy Baez. Who hit with some power, but was not nearly enough good stuff for a struggling team. He was always a strikeout machine, was getting older, and wisely was not retained.
He has sucked for the Detroit Tigers, post-Mets.
Stupid trade. I want my Crow back.
Petey the Crow is now in AA and is widely considered the best defensive CF in all of the minors, and he can hit well, with power, and run fast.
He is now ranked as baseball's # 14 prospect. (For perspective, Ronny Mauricio is the top Mets prospect at # 39).
By next spring, maybe Crow is top 5.
Stupid trade.
Jarred Kelenic was traded too, another Mets' former first rounder.
He struggled for a while with Seattle, but he is now with the Mariners in 2023 as just a 23 year old, with a .456 slug % and 9 steals so far in 73 games.
An OK trade, since the Mets got Sir Edwin (Patellar) Diaz, but as the Mets were already taking on $100 million on Cano's remaining contract, that should have precluded the Mets needing to give up a prospect as high quality as Kelenic.
So, calendar page flip flippantly, and it now is close to trade deadline of 2023.
Monsieur Brennan's Admonition Du Jour?
Just don't trade any of the top ones this year.
Or next year. Or in the years after that.
If you do, may a large Crow peck you, both painfully and repeatedly.
Keep The Kids.
Speaking of kids…
Christian Scott was brilliant again, and had 7 shutout innings in AA; he has supplanted Vasil and Hamel in my mind as the Mets’ hottest high minors starting pitching commodity.
In AAA, Mark Vientos has 2 hits and a walk in his “I’m much better than this league, what am I doing here?” reunion tour.
And C Nick Meyer (a rising .230 with a .270 June) who has just 1 PB and 1 error in 25 catching games, slammed 2 HRs last night. Maybe they trade Narvaez and call up Meyer next month.
Speaking further of kids…
The Mets have been so abysmal over the last 59 games that heading into today’s action, the team had fallen 17 games back, and 8.5 games back in the Wild Card race. As such, I plan henceforth to not write about the major league team until they return to being in the 2023 race.
Steve Cohen was clearly disappointed yesterday. Watch his video.
So…
Not about results…not about trades actual or potential…not about the opposition. Nada.
The Mets don’t deserve my time and attention. So they will not get any.
Stupid organization.
(But wait, they did unexpectedly win last night…so, maybe…)
(But after Wednesday's game, the Mets still have played 10 fewer games at home than on the road this year, which should help them in the last 82 games).
Amazing that in the first 80 games, the Mets have scored 358 runs (4.5 runs per game) despite more-minimal-than-anticipated run generation input (21 RBIs) from Jeff McNeil.
Of course, they have allowed 4.7, which is way too many RPGs.
But....they’ve 228 allowed in 45 road games, which is 5.1 runs per game. Which, considering that when you lose on the road, most times, the opponent is not hitting in the 9th inning, it makes that runs allowed per game worse.
But a much better 4.2 runs per game allowed at home...and in all of those games, the opposing team gets at least 9 innings.
So, a I’ll pontificate for a moment, rather than someone else, and note that there remains a slight, slender sliver of hope for 2023, given how many home games are left.
Edwin’s demise was the Mets’ demise. Period.
QUITTER…OR REALIST?
14 comments:
Caw-caw, caw-caw. Watch out for those Crows.
Steve said only one thing last night
Hold on to your hats come trade deadline time
I agree. Absent a sudden big win streak, very unlikely given 22-39 stretch, it should be the mother of all sell offs. Too bad Vasil is really struggling, so he is unlikely to be ready until 2024.
This year should be a wake up call. The oldest team is showing its age. Must get younger very soon.
So why is it so hard to just dump this team and move on? I've tried an Exorcist as a last resort but no luck I'm just stuck like the rest of you. Hey at least I get to read this site everyday as you guys tell it like it is and misery loves company even though it's probably to late for LGM!
but then again Lets Go Mets but in another direction works for me.
They need to either
1. Shut down Vasil for a turn do he can reboot in confidence
2. Send him to NYC for both arm and shoulder MRIs
Gary
Dumping eliminates maximum return during trading deadline
You never get equal return from DFAs
The Mets know they are loses this year.
Plan 2 has begun with the Esco trade
Everything in late June is quite vague - 3 to 4 weeks from now, each team's relative playoff and WS chances clarify. They will then look to deal. Mets will have customers. Mets will eat a lot.
What happened? Yeah they lost Diaz but it’s more than that. They won 101 games last year,they’ll be lucky to win 81 this year.
Two comments above: why don't they just get over it and dump this team; what happened when they won 101 games last year.
One answer to both: these are good players that are playing bad, not bad players playing bad. You can't just dump bad players with no return. You also can't just wait for them to start playing good either - there needs to be an event that shakes it up. Sometimes that is a manager firing - not this time. Sometimes it is the trade of a favorite player that you thought was untouchable. We will see what Steve/Billy are cooking up. Their press conferences were just to get you warmed up.
Paul agreed. Their ressers were to say, stick with us, we know this is not going well, we'll figure it out. What "it"is? Not apparent, yet.
As we wonder who the keepers are and who the rejects are, I’m willing to take a shot: Trade Cahna, Robertson, Carrasco, Vogelbach and Vientos. I don’t have time for guys that can’t play defense, and as Alonso is a proven player, Vientos is a dice roll. Yes, he can be a good player but the Mets need more than just marginal successes.
Canha,Carrasco,Vogelbach might bring back some more Triple A set up guys who have options.
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