Salary cost is the balance of the $17M for 2025, $17M in 2026 and $21M in 2027, for his age-29, 30, and 31 seasons. That’s well below market rate for a pitcher of his caliber.

This is indeed the sort of player for whom you make an exception re: otherwise not trading prospects.

I haven’t been able to watch. Why is Diaz pitching the 8th inning of a tied game?

Good news/bad news: Springsteen will soon be releasing a “Lost Albums” box set consisting of 7 discs worth of material he recorded between the mid-80s and 2000s. Not sure if we have a ruling from the judges yet as to whether Lunchbucket will be obligated to continue this thread for an additional sev...

I was hoping the Mets would have traded for Alcantara before this game. Maybe before his next start against the Mets next week.

Before he was in Atlanta, Fredi Gonzalez was managing the Marlins for a while. By process of elimination, he must be #10.

Oops! I knew that. Good correction.

Mike Redmond, another one of the former-catcher-turned-managers should be #15.

Girardi is #6. Won Manager of the Year.

Cal Quantrill pitching for the Marlins tonight. Things I know about him: 1. Son of former MLB pitcher Paul. 2. Was at the center of a benches clearing incident last year in which Red Sox catcher Reese McGuire yelled at Quantrill and Quantrill responded by taunting McGuire about his prior criminal re...

80 games and ineligible for the postseason should the Braves make it.

Francisco Lindor announced this morning the birth of a son, so a roster move for parental leave wouldn’t be a surprise.

So there are three APPLE+ games this year? Thought the limit was two/team. Next year it'll probably be four. Year after that there'll be 40 They’ve only announced the Apple schedule through the end of June but yes, there are 3 Mets games including yesterday. The Dodgers also have 3. Not surprisingl...

At least we got them for opening day. There are two weekends coming up (vs LAD in May, at PHI in June) in which the Friday game is Apple, Saturday Fox, and Sunday ESPN.

Mets batted first so it’s an easy call that Soto is first here.

If Mets were in the field first I’d still go Soto because of batting order as suggested above.

Lindor SS
Soto RF
Alonso 1B
Nimmo LF
Vientos 3B
Winker DH
Taylor CF
Baty 2B
Torrens C
Megill P

1,253. Juan Soto
1,254. Clay Holmes

(Do we need a new thread for this year?)

DiComo reporting that Blackburn will start the year on the IL, with Brazoban and Kranick both making the team.

Bring back Randall Simon and it might be funny.

The Mets have announced that their 2025 season ticket packages have sold out. The team also says that it has its highest recorded membership base in franchise history entering the season Source SNY No offense to Metirish who’s reporting the news but I find both of those claims hard to believe: 1. T...

Oh no

1. Please, can this team just for once, have an original idea? This is like when they were playing Sweet Caroline.

2. Those costumes are hideous

3. If this replaces the “Queens Crew,” still a net positive.

But overall, this is just bad.

1. What will the Mets' record be? 104-58 2. Predict the NL East standings from 1 to 5: Mets, Braves (WC), Phillies (WC), Nationals, Marlins 3. Will the Mets make the playoffs (if so, as the division champ or 1st, 2nd, or 3rd WC)? Division Champs 4. If so, how far will they go? WS Champs (sweep; beat...

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:14 am I would assume Canning and Megill, but I guess that Senga not being ready for Opening Day doesn't necessarily rule him out of the entire series?

I’m guessing that they wait until the second series to use Senga - maybe the final game against the Marlins in that series.

Britton reports that (1) Senga won’t be ready for opening day and (2) Mets had previously expressed interest in not putting Peterson up against the Astros.

I think that they may be intending to give Baty a shot as their full-time DH for the first six weeks of the season. What makes you think the Winker/Marte platoon won’t happen? I haven't checked lately, but Baty seemed to be outperforming them with the bat considerably this spring. So why not check?...

roger_that wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 6:46 am I think that they may be intending to give Baty a shot as their full-time DH for the first six weeks of the season.

What makes you think the Winker/Marte platoon won’t happen?

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Mon Mar 03, 2025 10:38 pm(Who is the short, bearded guy in that photo, standing between Quintana and Manaea?)

Eddy Alvarez, I think.

I think the photo is probably from the September 11 solo homer in Toronto to break up the no-hitter/tie the game in the 9th inning.