Dec 09 2016 03:42 AM
Re: Post-Winter Meetings Confidence Check
| Zvon wrote: You mean a 20+ HR guy, cuz who give's a shit about the $$ save our owners. |
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Post-Winter Meetings Confidence Check
| 1. Terrible. We're fucked. We'll be sellers at the deadline. | 0 votes |
| 2. We are close, but not good enough. We will contend, but miss the playoffs. | 1 votes |
| 3. Good enough for the Wild Card, but not the Division. | 9 votes |
| 4. We are right there with the Nats. Division could go either way. | 6 votes |
| 5. We are favorites to win the Division. | 2 votes |
| Centerfield Dec 08 2016 05:11 PM |
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So the Winter Meetings are done. Not a lot happened there, but there were some good moves made get back to status quo heading into the meetings. Will that be enough? For all the goodwill of Walker and Cespedes, the Mets have made no additions to the team from the one that left the field in 2016. And in fact, they are actually looking to dump offense, rather than add it. Still, maybe Duda, d'Arnaud and Conforto bounce back. Tough to say. But I'm asking you to say it anyway!
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| Nymr83 Dec 08 2016 05:44 PM Re: Post-Winter Meetings Confidence Check |
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By virtue of health alone the 2017 Mets should be better than the 2016 version - but I don't think they've quite caught the Nationals.
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| A Boy Named Seo Dec 08 2016 06:03 PM Re: Post-Winter Meetings Confidence Check |
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Health is no given. My Cahn-fidence is currently luke-warm.
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| Lefty Specialist Dec 08 2016 06:37 PM Re: Post-Winter Meetings Confidence Check |
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All depends on the health of those arms. I'd feel better if Sandy had traded Bruce for something useful; but he got the Cespedes deal done, so he gets some zlack. For now.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 08 2016 07:08 PM Re: Post-Winter Meetings Confidence Check |
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I'm pleased he hasn't traded Bruce on the cheap.
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| Zvon Dec 08 2016 07:25 PM Re: Post-Winter Meetings Confidence Check |
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I think we are neck and neck with the Nats on paper (translation, injury free, everyone firing on all pistons). I can get behind rooting for those guys to play up to their potential if there are no more moves to up the offense. Throw Lags in if he is still here. I can't see the outfield as it now stands, something will have to be done there. If we keep Bruce I will have to root for him to be "The Good Bruce". But one thing I don't want to go through is the Flushing of Jason Bay II. So if we stick with him and he still sucks I'll be bitchin bout it as I root. I think we have 99.9% of the ingredients needed to get back to the big show. All off season I've been hoping for one thing. An additional bullpen arm that can be counted on. And the thing about that is if someone steps up we could possibly find that in-house. Sometimes the moves not made are the best moves.
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| Edgy MD Dec 08 2016 07:29 PM Re: Post-Winter Meetings Confidence Check |
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Yeah. The end of the winter meetings certainly isn't a real deadline.
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| Benjamin Grimm Dec 08 2016 07:48 PM Re: Post-Winter Meetings Confidence Check |
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I'm quite satisfied at this point. There's definitely more to come, but I think the Mets have a good team and I expect that they'll contend in 2017.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 08 2016 08:07 PM Re: Post-Winter Meetings Confidence Check |
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Yeah. Things need to go right, I wish they had a little more O we could count on, but I agree they have the raw material to contend. I tellya the thing that worries me is Walker. I don't believe he's going to hit like a $17 million guy
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| Zvon Dec 09 2016 12:13 AM Re: Post-Winter Meetings Confidence Check |
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You mean a 20+ HR guy, cuz who give's a shit about the $$ save our owners. I have to commend the Wilpon's as well, because I'm sure I said nasty things when they weren't spending what I though was appropriate. And re: "Things need to go right", even the best teams need the breaks to go their way. How would we be remembering the '86 Mets if that ball never trickled through Buckner's legs? I can see as usual I'm being over optimistic. But I do feel that comfortable with this team.
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| d'Kong76 Dec 09 2016 01:16 AM Re: Post-Winter Meetings Confidence Check |
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Does #3 include the fake playoffs like that one-and-done thing?
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| Edgy MD Dec 09 2016 03:42 AM Re: Post-Winter Meetings Confidence Check |
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| d'Kong76 Dec 09 2016 04:27 AM Re: Post-Winter Meetings Confidence Check |
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Guess this guy/gal thinks they're gettyimages?
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| Edgy MD Dec 09 2016 04:51 AM Re: Post-Winter Meetings Confidence Check |
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Whoah.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 09 2016 05:28 AM Re: Post-Winter Meetings Confidence Check |
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I mostly like what they've done so far. (Though sniffing around someone like Uehara before he went Cubbie, or going hard and fast on someone a little under-the-radar like Neftali Feliz-- a righty who's stronger against lefties-- might have been a good idea, too.) Or, rather, done AND not done (holding fast on Bruce/Granderson/whomever, if the deal's not there).
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