Kevin

AS Roma, NY Mets (Juan Soto’s team). Born in Belfast, living in America.

[Kevin @IrishRomanista]

@DannyAbriano Nah, 2023 was worse. This year injuries ravaged them to explain why the record is so bad - 2023 was coming off a way better season and had no rational explanation beyond everyone sucking

[Kevin @IrishRomanista]

@MostlyMetsies @oneshiningmets And I’m saying that retaining a ‘decent’ but not great first baseman should never be a priority, especially on a horrible contract, and I think it was probably one of the easy decisions Stearns has had, and one where basically any GM makes the identical choice

[Kevin @IrishRomanista]

@MostlyMetsies @oneshiningmets Pete is a 3 WAR first baseman, which is ~fine but not especially great, already clearly en route to being a ~1 WAR DH, who wants to be paid like a star for five years

[Kevin @IrishRomanista]

@MostlyMetsies @oneshiningmets Again, your view is basically that only the Baltimore Orioles could understand Pete Alonso’s value and even they took a year to see it, and I suggest you think about why every other team in baseball plus them a year earlier knew this deal is awful!

[Kevin @IrishRomanista]

@MostlyMetsies @oneshiningmets As you’ve noted, the Mets have tons of money. What they care about is roster spots and not being committed to deadweight. Again, no team in baseball thinks the Alonso contract was good, not even the Orioles

[Kevin @IrishRomanista]

@MostlyMetsies @oneshiningmets They did not let him go over $, they let him go over term. They have been very clear on this. They were happy to give him a 2 year deal at a high AAV, but he wants a long term contract because he is a smart guy who knows he will be washed soon and needs to cover those years now

[Kevin @IrishRomanista]

@MostlyMetsies @oneshiningmets Your issue isn’t just with the Mets but with the 29 other teams that laughed in his face with his contract demands in 24 and the 28 who did the same in 25 because their GM wasn’t on the hot seat

[Kevin @IrishRomanista]

@MostlyMetsies @oneshiningmets His contract is worse than literally every one of those, and some of those are bad contracts. He’s a solid but not star level offensive first baseman who will be an actively bad DH in no time, and that’s why nobody except a desperate GM would pay him this

[Kevin @IrishRomanista]

@MostlyMetsies @oneshiningmets “They have other bad contracts now” - sure, that’s not an argument for adding one more which is even worse!

[Kevin @IrishRomanista]

@MostlyMetsies @oneshiningmets They could have ‘afforded’ him financially, sure, but doing so would have meant a horrible contract which would have damaged the team for years to come. They got unlucky on the replacements / could have chosen better, sure. They were 100% right not to re-sign Pete on that deal

[Kevin @IrishRomanista]

@MostlyMetsies @oneshiningmets Maybe Pete will in fact defy every single known trend and indeed his own already declining metrics and be worth the deal. It’s not impossible! But it’s pretty unlikely

[Kevin @IrishRomanista]

@MostlyMetsies @oneshiningmets Several of these were also terrible deals, but more importantly, you can’t say who he does or doesn’t outperform until the deals are *over*, that’s the point. It’s a deal 29 MLB teams looked at and said “hell no”, after 30 did the same a year earlier.

[Kevin @IrishRomanista]

@MostlyMetsies @oneshiningmets He got an enormous overpay given the years, from a desperate team. Which is totally fine and good for him! The Mets offered him plenty of money too, but he wanted more years

[Kevin @IrishRomanista]

@MostlyMetsies @oneshiningmets If Pete wanted badly enough to be a Met, he would be a Met. He wanted to be paid what he felt he was due instead and that’s totally fair and absolutely his right, but it was his choice!

[Kevin @IrishRomanista]

@MostlyMetsies @oneshiningmets How was he disrespected? No other team wanted to come close to the Orioles figure, which he got because their GM was on the hot seat and looking desperately for short term impact moves to keep his job after a disaster season

[Kevin @IrishRomanista]

@BaseballWRLD_ He’s a perfectly good player right now who’s going to be a mediocre player in two years and is being paid like a star

[Kevin @IrishRomanista]

@BaseballWRLD_ It’s very funny that you had to wait until late June for him to even post numbers in “what you would expect from a pretty solid non-star first baseman”, and there’s every chance he regresses back to below that again

[Nick @_Ceyzey]

This is so funny from Ken.

“To be clear, Carlos Mendoza did not use his club’s biggest strength enough, and for that, he is to be commended.”

[Kevin @IrishRomanista]

@TeamThirstTrap Extra funny when the manager is one of the most obviously deserving of being fired we’ve seen