Its gonna be hard to explain away such a massively underperfoming team that shows no sense of urgency. Team is a reflection of its manager.
It is truly incredible how bad this team is with runners on base and (especially) with runners in scoring position. They've been bad all season (and last season, too, of course), but it is off-the-charts awful in the last few weeks.
Another game, another game farther behind the Braves. Five losses in a row, under .500 for the first time in three months.
Could it be that the Mets are actually playing at their level now? This might be what the Mets really are in '21. A mediocre team with its collective head in the sand.
The manager sucks and needs to go..........but, 1 through 8 in the line-up was no help at all. Sadly, this is where we need a solid GM to fix this mess and my faith in Sandy to make it happen is zero.
Shocking that Familia comes in in the bottom of the 11th, and 4 pitches later the free runner scores on a single to tie the game.
Man on second, two outs, tie game, Crawford, who is hitting .400 for the last two months, coming up. Rojas doesn't intentionally walk him. What a moron. Edit: He waits until it's 2-0 and then puts him on. I guess he thinks that makes him a tactical genius.
Pillar with a three-run HR in the top of the 12th. It's been a long time since we could say something like that.
They continue to use Familia is high leverage situations when he has continuously proven he CANNOT do it.
Citifield should be almost empty by the time the Mets return from this trainwreck of a road trip. Send a message this sort of play will not be tolerated and all the "high hopes" are a mirage. Time to clean house again and yeah, that included Alderson on down to Rojas.
Collectively this team can not hit: Nimmo-Love this kid, but, there's a question of his durability. McNeil-off year or is this who he is? And he's another guy who can't seem to stay off the DL. Conforto-Awful year and yet another guy who always seems to get hurt. Solid fielder. QO? I'm afraid he'd accept it. I forget how it all works with the draft pick, etc. Alonso-Typical power hitter, okay defensively, and a team leader. A keeper. Smith-This one baffles me a bit. I thought he'd be around .300 hitter with a little more pop. He's not an LF so he's a liability out there. Would we get any value trading him down the line? Lindor-We're stuck with, hopefully, he wakes the hell up Baez-A mistake and I can't stand him and in no way do I give him an extension. McCann-I knew nothing of this guy before we signed him. Another mistake but we're stuck him, too. If anyone else in this line-up was hitting, he would go a bit unnoticed. Personally, I like our depth on the bench. Davis, Pillar, Villar, Peraza, and Drury.
Phase 1 of the Baez experience has of course been a dismal failure, and anyone who follows this thread knows that I am not the slightest bit surprised by that. It's actually Phase 2 that has me more worried - the one where Lindor pushes them to re-sign him, and they do because they want to keep a guy they're stuck with for years happy.
I don't see them keeping things as they are. Cohen loves Sandy so we're gonna be stuck with small-ball Alderson for the foreseeable future no matter what the record is. Rojas and his entire staff has to go. Then there's the roster pruning that must take place. I wonder if the Mets should have had a fire sale like the Nationals did..
It really is time to get rid of home plate umpires calling balls and strikes. So many of them are so bad it's absolutely ridiculous. McNeil just got robbed on a 3-2 pitch that was clearly a ball, but it's way more universal than that. This guy tonight is a joke, but so many of them are. The technology now exists to have balls and strikes called automatically, and that is what should be done.
JD Davis has been up 5 times this season with the bases loaded. He has struck out all 5 times. That ended the 8th, and of course the Mets went down 1-2-3 in the 9th to lose once again. Now 6 games out of first.
