It seems pretty obvious that this team has already given up - there isn't the slightest sense of urgency from them, and there hasn't been throughout this collapse. Just more evidence for how over his head Rojas is in this job. Baez hits a ground ball on a swing that apparently messes up his side or back. He's out, but with his sparkling Mets .176/.222/.353 stat line, I can't imagine why anyone would care. I didn't expect much from him, but I didn't think he would be as bad as anyone in the majors, either.
Boooooooo. Boooooooo. Boooooo. Boooooo. Nah. I'm just not one to mush losing into the faces of longtime suffering NY Mets fans. You're supposed to be a classy New York pinstripes Yankees fan Bic. You don't know what losing in baseball really feels like (as do Mets and Devil Rays fans) because let's be honest here your spoiled $Yankees$ Franchise has only ever witnessed 21 seasons of below .500 baseball in comparison to 98 years of .500 and above winning baseball. Telling Mets fans how they "play in the worst division in baseball" how they'd be "8 games out of 1st place in any other division", how they'll be "lucky to even make a wildcard" imo is classless. Trust me when I say Mets fans longtime suffering Mets fans do not need (you) to remind them of what losing "feels like". so my best advice for you is to remove yourself from their Mets thread and go have fun with your spoiled Yankees fan base. PS: Your Yankees have damn near a billion dollar payroll but yet can't even beat the POOR Rays anymore (eliminated by us during the playoffs last year) and now in 3rd place and 5.5 games back of a no payroll poor Rays Franchise (you really have no reason to brag anymore) and haven't won a World Series since 2009 of 12 years ago (despite being a fan of the best team $$$$$ can buy). You haven't WITNESSED a below .500 losing Yankees team since the NBA Dream Team of 1992 of 29 years ago so imo it's just not cool to remind Mets fans of their losing while mushing their longtime suffering fans face in it (just my opinion and to each our own but I'm disappointed in you as a baseball fan).
Wheeler has retired 18 men in a row, you're losing 3-0, and your 2-3-4 hitters are coming up in the 7th. Not a single one takes a strike. This team doesn't have the slightest idea how to play baseball, and obviously no one on the coaching staff has explained it to them.
Don’t worry they plan to stock the analytics dept with more nerds this off season… Sandy will let them figure out why none of these guys can hit pitches high in the zone! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Pretty obvious it isn't the fault of the analytics guys, since the most basic analytics are consistently ignored by these players and the manager. That's the manager's fault, not the nerds' fault. It wouldn't have mattered in this game, since they're completely overmatched. That reflects the other reason why Rojas needs to be fired - he is incapable of making the players give a damn. They haven't shown the slightest energy in weeks.
Rojas isn't the only one that needs to be gone. Cohen needs to send Bargain Basement Sandy on his way too and revamp the entire FO/CS. Rojas was an awful hire when Giraldi was the obvious choice and now we get to pay the price of watching Rojas learn on the job.
This team has imploded! I hope Baez is ok but giving up a top pick for him didn't make any sense to me. Seemed like a move just to make a move. He'll run into a HR every once and a while but never was a fix for the Mets problem. Needed a contact hitter which he isn't. Parlaying that top pick(+)for a pitcher that not an AARP member and just someone who can get the ball in play would have been better.
Sandy & his nerds show up again & the results are exactly the same. You don’t see that? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
They pulled Tovar out of the Syracuse game so King K Baez is probably done for a while. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
I rather lose every game 9-8 than 2-1 or 3-1. This shit is getting old.. I hated Rojas since the start of the season. Glad to see more people around here getting on his case. I remember people were talking about him for Coach of The Year! HA!
If you only started hating him at the start of this season, you were late to the party. My first negative post about him was on August 3, 2020 (their 11th game of the season), and my posts full on blasting him started on August 19 (their 26th game). I can recall one, maybe two, times that I pointed to something positive that he has done as manager. I certainly don't recall anyone here ever suggesting that he was a candidate for Manager of the Year, or even was above average. Alonso claimed after yesterday's game that in a couple of weeks everyone will forget the past week, because the Mets will be back on top and in control. Let's just say that I have my doubts, but welcome him proving me wrong.
Sorry if you took my post as me meaning people around here on TGG saying he was a COTY candidate. I listen to NY sports radio from 4am to 5 pm everyday. The amount of callers praising this guy was absurd. He’s abysmal. I should have been more clear. Gotta take care of the Nats series. Only thing to look forward about that series is that Schwarber is gone
I figured that had to be it, since everyone on here has been off the Rojas train pretty much from the start. I'm amazed if anyone thought anything good about him at any point - he is so obviously over his head, and has been from the start. The team peaked on June 19 when they were 9 games over .500, and even that was only a 92-win pace. It had nothing to do with Rojas, and I can't believe anyone thought that it did - it was purely because of performances from three starters that were vastly better than they had ever been in their careers. The pre/post June 19 splits are amazing (deGrom: 0.54 ERA to 2.52; Stroman 2.35 to 3.80; Walker 2.12 to 6.70), and demonstrate that no one on the coaching staff has a clue about pitching. The incompetence for the last two years at the plate shows that they have no clue about that, either. When Dom Smith said at the All-Star break that the Mets were going to have a great second half because the hitting would come around and the pitching was great, I posted here that regression to the mean of the pitching was actually the more likely scenario. That's what happened, just more evidence that Rojas adds nothing of value. He wasn't the guy Cohen actually wanted, so maybe the next guy will be better.
Mets overcome poor pitching by Carrasco and Hill to win yesterday's suspended game 8-7. First time scoring that many runs in a game in 31 games. They need Stroman to completely shut down the AAA-level Nat'nals in the nightcap, and root for the Dodgers and Reds.
Stroman masterful for 5 innings and then completely runs out of gas. One run scores, but Loup, with some help from Alonso, shuts it down. Bottom of the 6th in the first game of a Little League doubleheader, Mets up 4-1.
