LUIS ROBERT
Mets Injury Poster Child, Rehabbing For A Mere $125,000 Per Game
David Stearns said this on Tuesday:
“We absolutely have to look at our risk assessment on injured players,” Stearns said.
“We know we’re taking a level of risk when we bring players in with injury histories.”
“We’re feeling that risk right now, and it hasn’t helped that a number of our players have gotten hurt at the same time.”
“It’s not something that we necessarily anticipated, and it’s something we need to look at.”
Well…to that, I say…
You are the baseball decision maker for the franchise. You darned well have to do more than cross your fingers and acquire players with injury histories. You have to, to use your words, “necessarily anticipate”.
Montas, Robert, and Polanco are just 3 very expensive injured puppies that immediately come to mind in that regard.
Then Alvarez goes down, joining Lindor, Tauchman, Mauricio, and Young on the IL with extended stays.
Me? I prefer bumbling to crumbling.
Anyway…
In January, not knowing some of the newly acquired players anywhere near as well as the Mets should have known them, I wrote this:
“I will throw some numbers at you:
110, 127, 139, 138.
That’s how many games Luis Robert, Marcus Semien, Bo Bichette, and Jorge Polanco were in last year.
Collectively, employing my considerable mathematical skills, that comes out to 134 combined games that they were NOT in.
Or, looked at another way, they missed 27% of the 162 games.
So, for those concerned about where Baty and Vientos will get their ABs, those concerned citizens of Metsville should keep in mind that they no longer have to play on the same roster as Messrs. Nimmo and Alonso who, combined, missed just 7 games last year, or just 2% absence, for the percentage-minded among us.
The Iron Men of 2025 are gone. The Part Timers are here.”
How prescient that turned out to be.
Nimmo and Alonso combined missed just 2 games this season thru mid-week.
They were Iron Men in 2025, and are Men of Steel in 2026, too.
We have a team of Putty Men now. Men seemingly made of Clay.
David, I must say: naivety is not an intelligent strategic strength.
It can lead to franchise disaster.
Oh, and back to Alvarez…
Alvarez is hurt - again? I say…Trade him whenever his value is high.
Why? He will likely get hurt again…and again…and again.
Based on his track record.
He takes a licking and just stops ticking.
Oh, and…
Misery, it seems, loves company in Queens…
HOLMES JOINS THE METS’ FREAKY LENGTHY INJURY PANDEMIC
RED ALERT!!
NEXT MAN UP…
The Mets lost two on Friday night:
First, they lost 5-1 to the superior Yankees.
Then they lost Clay Holmes, too. How?
“Clay Holmes was pitching in the fourth inning at Citi Field when Yankees DH Spencer Jones struck him on the right leg with a 111.1 MPH comebacker. The right hander stayed on his feet, even going as far as to jog after the ball, before receiving a visit from Mendoza and a trainer - even then the concern did not immediately present itself. After a couple of warm-up pitches, Holmes said he was fine and remained in the game, throwing 6 straight balls but recovering to strike out two more batters.”
He then came out of the game, and got x-rayed.
He found out that he had a broken fibula.
I fib you not.
Everyone was surprised…
But not me. You see…
The curse is real. An inch to the right or left, and he’s just bruised.
Clay Holmes was not injury-prone.
He was healthy as a horse.
Now, he might return by late July.
A Devastating Blow.
I guess, as of Saturday AM, that Jack Wenninger is next starter up.
It is a matter of “Wenn”, not if.
If so, I have a suggestion for young Jack:
Wear body armor on the mound.
11 comments:
One simple improvement and a probable solutions to reducing the beds being used in the mash tent would be to avoid securing the services of players over 30
Using players from your own system
No age can prevent someone drilling a ball into your leg but far less youngins wind up on the IL.
Last night was led by the youngins
Vientos, Baty, Benge, and Ewing
The future of this team
Very true Mack. And the other factor is really to be cognizant. Lindor when he was running that day may have run the Mets right out of this season. I remain convinced that if Lindorhad just felt that pull starting and stopped running at second base rather than to come around all the way to the plate on a gimpy leg. He might’ve missed two weeks instead of two months?
Imagine for a second if Lindor, like Soto, just missed two weeks and he was returning to this lineup? I’d feel a whole lot better about this team.
Also, hearkening back to my article yesterday on the fences, did you notice that Bichette, after hitting .323 last year, is hitting .210? How much might the fences have to do with that?
I was wrong. When he was in his excruciating early swamp, I recommended that he be sent down. But he’s been on fire ever since. To have climbed all the way back to .245 from where he was is incredible. The other three young guys were mentioned? They all have such an incredible opportunity, with Polanco, Robert, Lindor, Tauchman, Young, and to a lesser extent Alvarez, since none of them are catchers, being out for extended periods. And, of course, Nemo, Alonso, and McNeil.In baseball the name of the game is next man up. They are getting their opportunity after many obstacles were moved out of the way
Suero has a .387 OBP after his .379 OBP last year. His batting average is low and his strikeouts are high, but he does get on base, and he’s only been up 1000 at bats so far in the minor leagues, so I would say that he’s got some runway in front of him in which to improve to major league caliber
You know it’s a bad game in Binghamton when Wyatt Young plays in the field . and also pitches an inning. He now has five minor league pitching outings in his career. And that’s not because he could pitch well. He’s the blowout guy. But he hasn’t been terrible. Four runs in four innings. A lot of Mets minor leaguers do worse.
Mack and Tom,
Is Sam Roberson, 17th round selections in 2025, a find or just another player who steals bases? He seems to be doing quite well thus far stealing bases.
Last night may have been a win for the Mets, but they looked pretty ugly doing it. This team cannot win a playoff game with the poor baseball they play, so no use striving for one. Dump all the veterans that we ruined this year, bring up the young guys, and reduce the team salary.
To me, Robertson is a AAAA roster fill
Paul, I’m not ready to throw in the towel but I am ready to fix a big problem. Mendoza isn’t who I hoped he would be. The Phillies made the move and they are at .500 today at 23-23. Weren’t they below the Mets? Stearns really lacks a backbone.
Gus
You can't blame him
Every decision comes through an earpiece
He makes no decisions
Gus has seen all this muscle pulls, and wants one more pull…Pull Mendoza.
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