As the decade comes to a close and everyone else does their All Decade Teams I thought I’d take a look back at Your Bad Takes! Here’s the 2010’s You Were Wrong Bad Takes Mets Team.
SP – Matt Harvey. The Next Seaver was 34-37 in Queens. Ed Lynch was 38-40.
1B – Ike Davis. Sometimes the fans lose their mind for a power hitting first baseman. Sometimes the media anoints someone before they’ve earned it.
2B – Jordany Valdespin/Dilson Herrera (Platoon) – You: “Man, if we can just et Murphy out of here with his crappy defense and his even worse base running. We have Valdespin/Herrera and they’ve had one good game filling in and….”
SS – Ruben Tejada – I don’t really like this name here, and to be fair I don’t think any of you had a bad take on SS this decade, but I had to name someone so I will just pretend one of you said he’d be an All Star…even if you didn’t say that.
3B – Jose Reyes – You: “This is great! Jose will be back, hitting triples, stealing bases, and lighting up the dugout with his smile!”
LF – Jason Bay – this is on all of us even me. None of us saw this coming. But I needed a LFer.
CF – Angel Pagan – much like the Tejada entry I am being harsh here, but you did kind of lose your mind about his defense for a while and were happy when the Mets signed him to a long term deal. Willie Mays much?
RF – Jay Bruce. You: “Man, I hate the way Jay Bruce is hitting these 29 HRs in 103 games here in 2017. This guy is the worst, Get rid of him!”
C – Travis d’Arnaud – You: “Well, I didn’t want to lose DIckey but at least we solved our catching problem for a decade.”
CP – Sugar Diaz – You: “No, the former agent didn’t bring in his buddy Cano, Cano was just the throw in to get this elite closer! Our bullpen issues are solved”
Manager – Mickey Callaway. Singular call-out of Howie Rose here for daring to compare this guy to Gil Hodges. Howie, I cannot believe YOU of all people invoked Gil’s name.
Worst Decision Of The Decade – sure we destroyed our ace but at least we got t-shirts. You: “It had nothing to do with the pitch count. Someone stepped on his foot and that messed up his mechanics and….” Listen to yourself, you sound like a crazy person.
Biggest Trade You Didn’t Want To Make – R.A. Dickey for what turned out to be Syndergaard. You wanted to keep an aging knuckler off a Cinderella Season when you needed to rebuild. Sigh.