MatTheMetsFan

Francisco Lindor is a top 3 player in baseball ⚾️ #LGM #LFGM

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

Look up what happened to Johan Santana after his 134 pitch no hitter on June 1st 2012

[Not Gaetti @notgaetti]

Drop whatever you're doing, folks

You wanna know why I'm tough on Peter Bendix?

You wanna know why John VanderWal and other former MLB players are apoplectic over the increasingly vice-like grip of analytics on in-game baseball decisions?

It's because the Bendix playbook includes the possibility of pulling a pitcher with a perfect game in progress through 7 innings and sitting at just 92 pitches, depriving him of the exceedingly rare opportunity to pursue baseball immortality on a night where everything was working and couldn't be touched.

A generation ago, this would have been inconceivable.

You don't have to reach too far back to grasp an era in which it would have been a foregone conclusion that Eury Perez would go back out there for the 8th, and if he remained perfect, then again for the 9th. Short of a grievous injury or losing the perfect game, nothing would stop him from taking the mound and chasing those last six outs, and nothing would stop his manager from letting him.

It might have taken him 120 or 125 pitches, or about *half* as many as Nolan Ryan was known to throw during some of his wilder outings. Perez is a 23-year-old professional athlete standing 6'8" with a body and mechanics that have been finely tuned for the very specific task of throwing a baseball; he'd live to fight another day, and to make his next scheduled start. (Kids are resilient, and even more so when they have the benefit of the best training, nutrition, therapies, and recovery that professional sports can offer.)

Perez deserved the opportunity to chase greatness tonight and to finish what he started, but when the strings are being pulled by folks that never threw a baseball and don't know what it feels like to be in that flow state, to feel invincible and unhittable, to know you can't be touched... this is what happens.

Perez left the game with an 8-0 lead after throwing his 7 perfect innings, and Miami barely hung on to win the ballgame by just ONE run after their bullpen gave up 5 runs in the 8th and 3 more in the 9th. Because the Marlins ultimately won the game 9-8, half of you still think Peter Bendix is a genius. (It's that half of the population that John VanderWal is mad at.)

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

If he were on the Mets, they’d have suspended him for 3 years and docked the Mets 1st round picks for 17 years.

[Underdog MLB @UnderdogMLB]

Edwin Díaz said he hasn't heard anything from MLB regarding the report linking him to cockfighting, via @FabianArdaya:

"I wasn't doing nothing illegal. So they didn't reach to me."

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

@UnderdogMLB @JimSalisbury215 Ask @freddyperalta

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

Being a Mets fan

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

WHAT IS IT CALLED WHEN YOU CANNOT TAKE IT ANYMORE BUT YOU KEEP TAKING IT?

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

Different Categories of get off my team:

GET AWAY FROM ME:

Baty
Wagaman
Peralta
Senga
Semien
Vientos
Melendez
Manaea
Taylor

Pay down the contract, might get back an okay prospect:

Myers
Minter
Bichette
Raley
Holmes
Williams
Brazobán
Weaver
Robert Jr.
Polanco

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

Players I want to see either designated for assignment or traded for literally anything:

Minter
Bichette
Baty
Raley
Holmes
Williams
Wagaman
Peralta
Brazobán
Polanco
Senga
Weaver
Robert Jr.
Semien
Vientos
Melendez
Manaea
Myers
Taylor

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

I will not care as long as these players are on the team

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

Players I want to see either designated for assignment or traded for literally anything:

Minter
Bichette
Baty
Raley
Holmes
Williams
Wagaman
Peralta
Brazobán
Polanco
Senga
Weaver
Robert Jr.
Semien
Vientos
Melendez
Manaea
Myers
Taylor

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

Yankees fans are watching a 48-38 team hit a rough stretch. Must be nice.

I’m watching Semien, Baty, Vientos and Melendez combine for -1.7 fWAR, eat up 31% of our plate appearances, and drag us to 36-51.

WE ARE NOT THE SAME

[BronxBmbrz @BronxBmbrz]

It just sucks how you invest all your wellbeing into a sports team and they just do stuff like this

I get bad stretches are very normal but what the yankees are doing is almost impossible

I just want to see my team do well and I’m so tired man

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

@AndThatsBB You can’t have Brett Baty, I’m sorry.

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

Obviously hindsight is 20/20 but theoretical lineup:

C Alvarez
1B Alonso
2B Arraez
SS Lindor
3B Okamoto
LF Soto
CF Ewing
RF Benge
DH Nimmo

[. @MustBeCharm]

Mfers will see what Benge & Ewing doing & cry about Nimmo lmaooo

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

@Ben_Yoel You’re a special kind of stupid eh?

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

Mendoza was a good start. These guys next.

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

Players I want to see either designated for assignment or traded for literally anything:

Minter
Bichette
Baty
Raley
Holmes
Williams
Wagaman
Peralta
Brazobán
Polanco
Senga
Weaver
Robert Jr.
Semien
Vientos
Melendez
Manaea
Myers
Taylor

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

Trade every single one and if nobody wants them, DFA them.

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

Players I want to see either designated for assignment or traded for literally anything:

Minter
Bichette
Baty
Raley
Holmes
Williams
Wagaman
Peralta
Brazobán
Polanco
Senga
Weaver
Robert Jr.
Semien
Vientos
Melendez
Manaea
Myers
Taylor

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

If the Mets eat all of these contracts and Bo Bichette opts out, they’re looking at eating roughly $267 million. If Bichette opts in, that number jumps to about $351 million.

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

Players I want to see either designated for assignment or traded for literally anything:

Minter
Bichette
Baty
Raley
Holmes
Williams
Wagaman
Peralta
Brazobán
Polanco
Senga
Weaver
Robert Jr.
Semien
Vientos
Melendez
Manaea
Myers
Taylor

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

@Masterflip_ I love how they had 6 errors last night and there were also several other plays like this that weren’t officially errors but were definitely playable.

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

Players I want to see either designated for assignment or traded for literally anything:

Minter
Bichette
Baty
Raley
Holmes
Williams
Wagaman
Peralta
Brazobán
Polanco
Senga
Weaver
Robert Jr.
Semien
Vientos
Melendez
Manaea
Myers
Taylor

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

@CookedByGrimace Oh and Vientos

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

@CookedByGrimace Agreed but also trade Bichette, Brazoban, Weaver and Williams.

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

@LGM20026 @Mets Hey it’s my birthday too! Happy birthday king!

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

@runwildkian This made me laugh and then made me really sad

[MatTheMetsFan @MatTheMetsFan]

@SleeperJets @ZackBlatt @preheatoven350 these freaking idiots get paid for this