Buck's 2022-2023 New York Mets

[SteveA]

1 hour ago, Just Regular said:

Night 1 of the 2nd half is probably giving Buck 2018 "dead team" flashbacks.

Man, a 1 hit shutout.

The vultures have to be circling at this point.

[Just Regular]

Like us, they salvaged a series finale to avoid being swept by LAD last weekend, as Scherzer pitched great, and now Verlander also has last night.

They have a getaway afternoon with the White Sox going for a sweep, and then a Red Sox-Yankees roadtrip before a 4-game home series with the Nationals before the deadline.

It'll be good theater if they are hot and still racing when Buck comes to OPACY soon after the deadline.

[Just Regular]

Olney on the Sunday night game reporting Buck gave him a quote today it is "obvious what we are facing".

[Just Regular]

Starling Marte's migraines are unfortunately lingering, so tonight Buck has DJ Stewart batting 6th as the most expensive team in MLB history works to stay in the race for 6th in a 15-team league.

[btdart20]

SDP and NYM took the payroll expenditures to extremes.  SDP put a few more chits in the pot.  NYM folded.

Will Buck 'retire' again at the end of the season avoiding the draining work of coaching during a rebuild?  If so, that will knock him down a peg or two in my mind.

 

Scherzer: Mets Planning 2024 As "A Kind Of Transitory Year" With Focus On 2025 And Beyond - MLB Trade Rumors

According to Scherzer, “I was like, ’OK, are we reloading for 2024?’  [Eppler] goes, ’No, we’re not.  Basically our vision now is for 2025-2026, ’25 at the earliest, more like ’26.  We’re going to be making trades around that.’  I was like, ’So the team is not going to be pursuing free agents this offseason or assemble a team that can compete for a World Series next year?’  He said, ’No, we’re not going to be signing the upper-echelon guys.  We’re going to be on the smaller deals within free agency. ‘24 is now looking to be more of a kind of transitory year.’ ”

A follow-up chat between Scherzer and Mets owner Steve Cohen took the same tack, which inspired Scherzer to waive his no-trade clause and approve the deal to the Rangers.  “That’s basically what Steve said: ’I never thought in a million years we’d be in this situation, being at the deadline and we’re actually selling.  But the math is the math.  And the math says this organization needs to retool.’  That was Steve saying that.  I said, ’I get it. I’m not here to say you’re wrong.’  It is what it is. I understand from Steve’s perspective that’s the direction he wants to take the team based on where everyone is at within their contracts, arbitration, free agency.  That was the new vision for the Mets.”

However, Scherzer also noted that “if they had said, ‘We’re going to hold on to all the ‘24 pieces,’ that would have been a different story.”

“But they were saying no, we’re going to be moving players that are under contract for 2024 before the deadline.  We walked through some players I had in mind who would be that.  It turned out it was much more extensive than that.  The players we ended up talking about who are free agents after ‘24, they were more substantial names.  Any player who was a free agent after 2024 at the right price could be moved right now at the deadline.  That’s a completely different vision from what everybody had in the clubhouse.  All the players had a vision of, we reload for 2024.  That was no longer the case.”

[Just Regular]

DJ Stewart batting 2nd today.

They don't even have TJ MacFarland to backfill innings anymore, so obviously because baseball, they are going to be the ones to snap the quirky unswept streak since the start of Adley's career.

[SteveA]

Earlier in the season, you would have expected this weekend's 4 game series between the Braves and Mets in New York to be a big series.

Three games in, the Braves have outscored the Mets 34-3.   Tomorrow, the entire nation gets to witness the carnage on Sunday Night Baseball.

[SteveA]

The Nationals have passed the Mets by a game.   Mets are now in last place.