My friends the Mets, realizing the error of their ways in not informing bloggers about the acquisition of Chris Bassitt, wanted to make sure you saw this revised Spring Training Schedule.
Updated 2022 Mets Spring Training Schedule
Mets add Chris Bassitt to rotation
The Mets continued to bring in players who neither booed their fans nor were complicit in their silence (that’s you Pete, that’s you Jake) – giving fans some new options to root for.
I nearby declare my Fan Group the Bassitt Hounds.
The Mets also chose not to share this information with bloggers. Whatever Mets.
It’s going to suck when the Mets win 119 regular season games and then plays team with a left handed lineup. Right now the rotation is all righties. Good righties, but all righties.
METS ACQUIRE ALL-STAR RHP CHRIS BASSITT
LUSHING, N.Y., March 12, 2022 — The New York Mets tonight acquired All-Star RHP Chris Bassitt from the Oakland Athletics in exchange for minor leaguers RHP J.T. Ginn and RHP Adam Oller.
Bassitt was named to the American League All-Star team and finished 10th in the Cy Young voting last year. The 6–5, 217-pounder went 12–4 with a 3.15 ERA (55 earned runs/157.1 innings) and 159 strikeouts in 27 starts. Bassitt led the AL with a .750 winning percentage. He was leading the AL in wins (12) and innings (151.0) before he missed a month of the season when he was hit in the face by a line drive on August 17. Bassitt returned to the mound in late September to make two starts.
Bassitt is 27–11 with a 3.26 ERA in 66 games, 63 starts over the last three years. He ranked second in the AL in winning percentage (.711), third in ERA, fifth in opponents OPS (.661) and eighth in wins during that span (min. 300 innings).
He is one of nine pitchers since 2020 with 200 or more innings and an ERA under 3.00.
Bassitt established a career-lows in opponents batting average (.218) and opponents on-base percentage (.278) in 2021. Per ESPN Stats, he had the fifth-lowest batting average allowed (.185) on 4-seamers in 2021 among starting pitchers. Bassitt also worked 7.0 innings or more 11 times last year, tied for the fifth-most in the majors.
The Toledo, OH native went 5–2 with a 2.29 ERA (16 earned runs/63.0 innings) in 11 starts during the shortened 2020 campaign, finishing eighth in the AL Cy Young voting.
For his career, Bassitt is 31–25 with a 3.47 ERA (214 earned runs/555.2 innings) and 504 strikeouts in 106 games, 93 starts over parts of seven major league seasons with the Athletics and White Sox.
Ginn, 22, was originally drafted by the Mets in the second round of the 2020 First-Year Player Draft out of Mississippi State University. He appeared in 18 games between Single-A St. Lucie and High-A Brooklyn last year, combining to go 5–5 with a 3.33 ERA (31 earned runs/92.0 innings) with 22 walks and 81 strikeouts. Ginn was ranked as the 6th-best prospect in the organization according to Baseball America.
Oller, 27, was selected by the Mets in the Triple-A phase of the 2019 Rule 5 Draft from the Giants. He made 23 starts between Double-A Binghamton and Triple-A Syracuse in 2021, posting a 9–4 record with a 3.45 ERA (46 earned runs/120.0 innings) with 47 walks and 138 punchouts. He was selected to the 40-Man roster following the season.
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Mets making Season Ticket Holders repurchase the canceled games?
Can you just NOT repurchase the cold April games?
we’re gonna have to repurchase the five uncanceled games. that’s a hell of a way to treat fans and full season ticket holders who are putting up with this shit. @metspolice @mets pic.twitter.com/JiRMR4hBLV
— uɐʎɹ (@_RF30) March 11, 2022
Baseball is back baby…and I don’t care
For all the accusations over the decades of me being “negative” – if you want to tag this one negative, go right ahead.
Yesterday around 2:45pm there were the usual cries from people who were never going to watch baseball again, and by 3:01 people were lying up to fly to Denver to watch a Mets game and get a t-shirt. All of this has happened before and will happen again.
My reaction is somewhere between “drat” and “whatever” – it is definitely not “oh goodie, baseball is back!”
As I type this, I realize that the thought of attending Opening Day never entered my mind as a temptation. Between 1980 and 2015 I think I missed two OD’s, both because I couldn’t get out of work as an adult. Then in 2016 the Mets greatly jacked the OD price because of all the True Blue 2015 Mets Fans they wanted to be friends with, so I broke the habit. I often preach to the Mets about breaking habits. The Mets don’t care. The Mets do their thing. No Opening Day for me, and I don’t care. No Opening Day for my son – and he REALLY doesn’t care – but that’s not Steve’s problem, it will be Steve’s kids’ problem.
Speaking of Steve, suddenly he was on twitter again. Nobody likes a victory lap more than Steve. Steve also likes to hide out on twitter when things aren’t good. I get it Steve, I see who you are.
The @Mets account looked like idiots – they were hyping Max Scherzer after not mentioning the guy’s name for three months. I understand why, I get it, but it makes you look like idiots.
12 teams in the playoffs now? Whatever. I used to care, whatever have 12, 14, 16. 30, whatever.
Ads on the uniforms? Hey you wanna wear a Crypto Patch go ahead. Whatever.
At least ghost runners are gone.
9 inning doubleheaders are back because I guess pitchers got stronger or Covid is over or whatever the reason was in the first place. (Now the record book is even more screwy)
Speaking of screwy record books, I imagine everyone is “wise” enough to look the other way on steroids this year. I could see a certain someone hit 80 HRs this year. You guys just act like it’s normal. Robinson Cano will homer twice in the first three games and everyone will love him again. That’s how this all goes.
I saw someone mention that in 2023 teams will play EVERY team at least once. I did some lazy math: So 15 games against AL west, 15 vs AL central and 15 vs AL west is 45 games.
That leaves 117.
Play 30 against NL West and 30 against NL Central. That leaves 57.
Play 12 (two home series, two away) against the other 4 teams in the division takes up 48 more games.
Now there are 9 games to place.
Let’s play the Yankees twice because money.
That leaves 6 mystery games. Dunno. Don’t care.
Apple TV+ deal. Whatever. Please stop whining about this. You’re gonna watch it. They could put the games on Putinvision and you will pay for it and watch it.
Bigger Bases. Whatever.
And that’s that. In the span of just 6 years the Mets and MLB have taken me from having 1 5 game plan and caring about this all day to whatever I am now.
Your sport is dying. The baseball mafia was even showing cracks this week, although they will have amnesia about that today.
Oh, and your players booed the fans. Baez is gone, but the guys who said nothing about it are still here. I don’t forget. You broke the bond with the fans and I will never forgive you.
As I told @mediagoon last night – this is all just a TV show to me now. If I feel like watching I will watch, and if I don’t, I won’t – and my life is sailing along just fine.
Baseball is back baby.