@WhitMerrifield The amount of people who haven’t played competitive baseball since age 8 telling an MLB All-Star that he’s wrong about base running is WILD.
@martinonyc Then the Mets’ management is stupider than we thought. The difference between the Mets and the Reds is the difference between Mendoza and Francona.
@michaelgbaron@glenn76833403 Anybody who’s played this game at a competitive level knows exactly what the problem is. The whole team is pressing, trying to throw 110mph, get 6 outs on every ground ball, or hit a 5-run HR every AB. And the more you try not to press, the harder you press.
@PSLToFlushing I wonder how many complainers actually thought “Hey, why doesn’t Stearns trade Vientos for Paul Skenes?” 🙄. People don’t think about what these teams might have been asking for the SP they were offering. You have to balance the success of this season with long-term results.
@mikemayer22 I’m sure that all of the SP they were looking at would have cost them McClean, Tong, or Sproat. I’m fine with keeping them to not get one of the available SP.
@thebenchesclear I’m reading this as “The team doesn’t care how how I feel, because they don’t have to. They have to care about the product on the field, and my feeling don’t affect the decisions about whether I play or get traded.” And he’s right.
@_MetsMetrics Baty could be really damn good if he puts it all together, but he’s still too streaky. That league average bat comes from three weeks of scorching hot and three weeks of ice cold.
@Sprint2First Baty is the outlier for me, but the other three are free swingers with too many holes in their swings. Vientos and Alvarez were great until the league figured out how to pitch them, and they haven’t adjusted.