On Sunday they avoided the sweep to the Rockies at home thanks to Neil Walker who came up with the big HR but things are not looking good for the Mets. The injuries have continue to cripple the Mets chances and at the moment it is hard to see the Mets making a run.
If the season ended today the Mets would be missing the playoffs but there is still plenty of time left in the season to make some improvements but I don't see it happening for the Mets in 2016. I'm not ready to give up on the Mets but sometimes you have to be realistic and accept that this may not be the Mets year. The Mets need a miracle at the trading deadline but I don't expect things to fall in place as it did in 2015.
This week alone you had Jose Reyes and Juan Lagares go to the DL and Yeonis Cespedes looks ready to join them any minute now. On top of that Abdrubal Cabrrera left the game yesterday and did not look good as he had to be helped off the field.
The offense Mets is in dire need and Met fans look for Sandy Alderson to pull another magic act again. But where do they go to upgrade? They have way to many problems when it comes to their everyday lineup which has fallen short this season and are lucky to have the pitching staff that has kept the Mets in the ballgame but how long can they continue to pitch their way out?
The Mets offense is about to collapse and their best bat has been playing on 1 leg for about 2 weeks now, Yeonis Cespedes is 1 injury away and as a Mets fan I pray that "La Potencia" can stay on the field even though I'm an Atheist.
Now on the other side of town the NY Yankees have made it official, by trading away Andrew Miller they have made it clear that they are moving forward and that there will be no more half stepping.
The Yankees are doing what most real Yankee fans want to see, they are loading up on young prospects and when you move on you are forced as an organization to make some real changes on the roster instead of playing and seeing the same old over the hill players that are holding them back. I understand lots of fans didn't want to see Andrew Miller go but it had to happen and not the Yankees have a bunch of prospects. One of the prospects the Yankees got is Clint Frazier who is a CF who they say has some speed and power and can be up as early as next year.
The Yankees are showing the fans that they ain't messing around no more and now if they want to really show the fans something they need to ahead and cut AROD next.
WFAN had a recent poll in which they asked fans if they want to see AROD get to 700 home runs and 75% said no, only 25% said yes. I think most real Yankee fans are sick and tired of seeing AROD still on the team chasing this BS home run record and I think they would prefer to see the Yankees do the right thing and cut AROD and end this fraud once and for all and I think it will happen in the next 2 weeks.
Without Miller and Chapman in the bullpen the Yankees are forced to bring up Luis Severino who will be working out of the bullpen along with the newly acquired Adam Warren and Tyler Clippard
as the revamp bullpen set things up for their new closer Dellin Betances.
as the revamp bullpen set things up for their new closer Dellin Betances.
If your a real OG Yankee fan and you were tired of the same old Yankees this was a good day. Hopefully the Yankees will be able to continue to unload some more old farts and get younger.
I understand that most Yankee fans have probably never seen the Yankees sell and all this may seem strange but hang in there cause this is the right thing to do.
I understand that most Yankee fans have probably never seen the Yankees sell and all this may seem strange but hang in there cause this is the right thing to do.
Now back to the Mets, I'm looking for Sandy to make some moves but all I'm hearing is Jay Bruce and I don't want Bruce, if I had my choice I would prefer the Mets stand pat but as I write this I am hearing that Jay Bruce is coming to Queens in exchange for Brandon Nimmo and a few lower level prospects.
Jay Bruce is another corner outfielder and the Mets have too many of those so where is he going to play? What the Mets need is a CF and Bruce is no CF, and at the moment the options in CF are Alejandro De Aza, Justin Ruggiano or Michael Conforto who is not a CF and who has been a huge disappointment. For now the Mets will have to deal with the log jam in the OF and make decisions as they go about but we'll see how what happens.
Now if the Mets can still get Jonathan Lucroy that would be great, what I'm hearing is that the Brewers want Dilson Herrera as part of the deal along with Travis d'Arnaud and I say do it cause Travis d'Arnaud is not the answer behind the plate so fix it.
But the Mets have more problems like who is going to play shortstop? Asdrubal Cabrerra came out of the game yesterday and he did not look good, Jose Reyes would had been fine filling in but he too went on the DL this week.
As you can see the Mets roster is sort of a mess but it's that time of the year where GM's make moves and try and fix things and Sandy Alderson has a lot of work to do to pull this one out.
With all that being said the Mets and Yanks hook up tonight as they get ready to play the 2016 Subway series. So NYC baseball fans, hang in there.
Jay Bruce is another corner outfielder and the Mets have too many of those so where is he going to play? What the Mets need is a CF and Bruce is no CF, and at the moment the options in CF are Alejandro De Aza, Justin Ruggiano or Michael Conforto who is not a CF and who has been a huge disappointment. For now the Mets will have to deal with the log jam in the OF and make decisions as they go about but we'll see how what happens.
Now if the Mets can still get Jonathan Lucroy that would be great, what I'm hearing is that the Brewers want Dilson Herrera as part of the deal along with Travis d'Arnaud and I say do it cause Travis d'Arnaud is not the answer behind the plate so fix it.
But the Mets have more problems like who is going to play shortstop? Asdrubal Cabrerra came out of the game yesterday and he did not look good, Jose Reyes would had been fine filling in but he too went on the DL this week.
As you can see the Mets roster is sort of a mess but it's that time of the year where GM's make moves and try and fix things and Sandy Alderson has a lot of work to do to pull this one out.
With all that being said the Mets and Yanks hook up tonight as they get ready to play the 2016 Subway series. So NYC baseball fans, hang in there.
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Well, as a Yankees fan I'm happy with today. Like I said before I was sad to see Miller go but it was the right move and the impressive haul the Yankees got for Chapman, Miller and Beltran finally have us on the right track. I saw this on MLB.com:MLB.com's
"Jim Callis believes that Yankees GM Brian Cashman may now have the best farm system in baseball. When Yanks fans watch their team next season, they're going to see loads of young talent that will stumble at times, but also has a chance to be part of the franchise's next great run."
Hard not to be excited about that, thinking about the guys the Yankees picked up and some of the guys on the team already and all the money coming off the books, Cashman has finally gotten the chance to do what he's been wanting to do for the last 5-6 years which is to get younger and restock for another run.
As for the Mets, they bring in Jay Bruce. Yet another corner outfielder who is also a home run hitter. Maybe he'll be able to spark this team but from what I've seen the Mets pen needs help. It'll be interesting to see what happens with the players that clear waivers, I think we'll still see guys get moved.
Nice win by the Yankees in the subway series opener.
I saw someone said they thought the Yankees have the best system, it was probably from this same article, I don't know if you can have the best system after a few trades but obviously they are a lot better. Like you said with the money coming off the books the Yankees have put themselves in a lot better position going forward.
I did not want Jay Bruce cause to me we already have a Jay bruce on the team and his name is Lucas Duda. I understand that Bruce is signed for next year so the Mets have him for about $13 mil in 2017, wondering if Duda is signed for 2017 cause if not I let him walk and replace his bat in the lineup with Bruce who I like a little better over Duda. Mets got Jonathan Niese back and the only reason I like that move is because they get rid of Antonio Bastardo who is signed for 2017 and has been awful.
Any team can used help in the pen and the Mets could use another arm but where they need help is with the everyday lineup staying healthy .
Nice way to even up the series, the real good guys won tonight.
The Mets should be winning. Anyways, I was looking at some stats...Curtis Granderson...Wow, I don't know how this is mathematically possible but he has 16 homers and 29 RBI's. That has to be historically bad.
The other thing I was looking at was the Mets schedule and they really have to make the playoffs. After these games with the Yankees, they have 17 more series left this season, 10 of those series are against teams that are under .500 and 18 games against teams that are currently in last place. Talk about a cream puff schedule, if the Mets don't make the playoffs then this season will be a colossal failure.
Granderson numbers don't ad up because most of his HR have been leading off a game. Still Granderson has had a bad year.
I said it b4 and I say it again, the Mets are lucky that they have that rotation otherwise the Mets would be losing a lot more, how are you going to say the Mets should be winning when half of the team in on the DL? With all the injuries they are lucky to still be in it.
And about the schedule being easy, nothing is easy, you still have to win the games, it would be a failure if the Mets had Harvey, Wright, Duda, and all the others playing but they don't so if they don't make it how is it a colossal failure when you have several key players not even playing?
You can say that if you want but I think I'm being more realistic here.
Bad? Thats beyond bad.
Grant it the Mets have had some injuries but overall, with that pitching staff they're still one of the best teams in the league so yeah they should be beating a lot of the teams they're playing in the next 2 months.
Well I hope you're right about the Mets just showing up and beating up on those bad teams in the next 2 months, but they still have to beat those bad teams that have nothing to play for but be spoilers and under those circumstances it ain't that easy as you make it out to be, especially when the Mets are not at 100%.
Speaking of Granderson, he just led off and hit another solo job, Lets go Mets!!!!
Nice win by the Yankees. Saw that Cespedes is on the DL, although that didn't stop him from going golfing yesterday. I'm just happy that the Yankees will at least get a split vs the Mets, although 3 out of 4 would be great.
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