I think I am ready to declare Francisco Lindor my favorite Mets player because he unserstands how broken the sport is!
This is from a wonderful profile in Sports Illustrated that you should read. You can’t help but love the guy.
“I do worry,” he says. “I worry that we won’t have the freedom to play the game the way we want to play the game. . . . I was worried that the game was going to go to so much analytics that it was going to take over it. Well, it took over. You saw it in the World Series.
“Now it’s like I have to look in the dugout to know where to play. They take starting pitchers out in the third inning. They do matchups according to computers. The front office is managing. You see GMs making more money than managers. That should tell you who is running the team. I just want the freedom to play the game.”
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UPDATED FAVORITE METS
1. Lindor
2. Dom
3. Thor (my #1 follower)
4. JDG
5. Yamamoto for converting to LGMism.
25. Vulgar Pete
26. The Big Zero
