Category: mets

I’m trying to be better about posting more, but have been super-duper busy.  This post today is based on a notion I have had for weeks, but haven’t had the time to flesh out my thoughts.  I asked the MetsPoliceBot AI to flesh out my notion.  If some of the stats here are wrong take it up with “him” but I think spiritually it feels right.

There’s a problem nobody at 41 Seaver Way wants to talk about – innings. Or more specifically, the lack of them.ake Kodai Senga. Our Japanese ace threw just 5.1 innings in 2024 due to shoulder issues. FIVE AND A THIRD. That’s not a typo. The guy who was supposed to anchor our rotation barely pitched enough to cover a single start. And now we’re expecting him to be a workhorse in 2025? Come on.

Then there’s Clay Holmes, our big bullpen acquisition. He managed 63 innings for the Yankees last year. Respectable for a reliever, but he’s just one man, and are we realistically expecting him to triple his career high and pitch into October?

To be fair, the modern MLB starter is throwing fewer innings than ever. In 2024, only 10 pitchers in all of baseball threw 180+ innings.  (Is that right? Ask the AI, I am too lazy.)   Just a decade ago in 2014, that number was 34. Go back to 2004, and 43 pitchers cleared that mark.

The average MLB starter now gives you about 5.1 innings per start. Do the math: a full-time starter making 30 starts gives you around 155 innings – and that’s assuming perfect health, which we know is as rare at Citi Field as a drama-free season.

So now we’re supposed to believe Senga can jump from 5.1 innings to… what exactly? Even 120 innings would be a massive leap. And that’s still 40-60 innings short of what you need from a top-rotation arm.

But hey look it’s Juan Soto and a flash documentary.  Stop asking questions!

One thing that will help – missing the playoffs.  Then you don’t have to worry about those pesky extra 5 starts at the end of the year on tired arms.  Oh, and ask Matt Harvey’s career how THAT goes.

This could have been a good cap.

The dark green on looks cool on this black (?) cap.  Is the bill green too?  Hard to tell.  Anyway, it kinda feels like a good old fashioned NYC Irish Bar.

But it is ruined.  We don’t need it to say New York Mets and we DEFINITELY don’t need it in Try Hard “Celtic” font.

This could have been cool, but I hate it.  Kind of like Francisco Lindor.

Another year has gone by, and once again it is time to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by acting civilized and looking at the green stuff the Mets have worn over the years.

As always, we begin with the Green Murph.  This is still far and away the best look the Mets have had in green.

The one above is not mine, but actually Nick’s.  Nick is not messing around. He also has the Kid 8 patch on his 28 who emailed me a few jersey pics.

Nick really brought his A game. Here is a 1985 version via Mitchell & Ness. If you don’t know who 18 was on the 1985 Mets then you are in the middle of the wrong post for your level of nerdiness.

This next one Nick says is late 1980’s, but MBTN shows Mark Carreon wearing 45 in 1990 – regardless, Lukas is gonna lose his mind when he sees the font.

The next one Nick says is early 1990’s. Hubie Brooks? D.J. Dozier?

Next, Nick shares his 2006 Joe Smith.  Black ruins everything Steve, doesn’t it?

And finally Nick has this 2008 style. I think I boycotted these or wasn’t in jersey-mania mode yet. You know who #5 is right?  And boy wasn’t the whole thing with the different color sides awful?

This next one wasn’t an on-field one, but it’s back from when the Mets did Player’s Choice jerseys (those were cool fun) and this is one of my favorite possessions which I got for $30 in the team shop the year Murph was out and you Ike Hypers thought we’d never see Murph again.  This is my favorite Mets jersey which I own.

You can see the cool front here…

 

Here are some Mets caps from over the years.    I find the third one “racist” (for this post lets just use the word to mean perpetuating a stereotype, and we can parse language some other day).

People get mad at me for calling out this cap.  (It’s cool to be racist as long as its Mr. Met being racist or something.)   I would like to point out that the Mets have not broken this out in a few years.  Bravo Inclusive Mets.

The first one cap is boring and the middle one an abomination.

 

Again, good job by the Mets moving away from that ill-advised stunt cap.

This was the boring 2016 cap.  Looks like this is a league wide template and everyone gets white on green. Zzzz. At least it doesn’t have a stereotype.

 

For 2017, this cap

And for 2018 which is not as nice as 2017’s.

 

Here’s my not-inexpensive Green Reds Seaver.  I don’t think I have worn it, maybe once, because I am afraid to get it dirty.

 

 

Here’s a screen grab I took in 2015.  There is that yucky racist Mr. O’Met.  Again, for those of you who get mad why don’t you imagine what that cap would look like on say Cinco De Mayo or Chinese New Year and tell me it’s still cool.

Fortunately this cap seems to have disappeared as people become more aware of the issues.  Good job everyone!

 

This is my old Original Irish Night cap I have from way back at Shea whenever they did Original Irish Night.

And here’s probably the best of the Irish caps.  The Irish hybrid.  And yeah that’s Regis Philbin!

 

This is the 2019 cap.

And the 2020 and 2021 cap.

Here are, in order,  the 2022, 2023 and 2024 caps, each worse than the one before

For 2025, the MLB Shop is selling this.  We’ll see what the Mets wind up wearing.   They’ve had better, but they’ve definitely had worse (see the above three, and the racist one).   I have bigger uniform fights to fight, so I’m fine with this.

The best of the set is the “Regis Philbin” combo.  The Mets should do this.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, and remember don’t embarrass my Irish ancestors by acting like a buffoon.

Remember the time the Stupid Cheap Wilpons signed a reliever from the Yankees and then named him the Opening Day starter because they didn’t sign any starting pitching?  You guys would have been so mad.  But Alex does it and you guys are fine.

(Alex is mentioned as owner in every press release.  She gets the credit, she gets the blame.)

Gothamist is reporting:

The New York City Council overwhelmingly approved a series of zoning changes for Metropolitan Park, a proposed $8 billion casino and entertainment complex near Citi Field in Queens.

The 41-2 vote constituted the final step in the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure process for the project. The proposal still faces hurdles in the state Legislature as part of a protracted casino license review process running through 2025.

Man, if I were Elon Musk I would retire some numbers in a hurry to reverse all this bad press I am getting.

Why do we have to build a casino?  Why can’t we just make the PARK nicer.  Whatever you plan to do with the casino parking, let’s do that, and then with all the extra space we can plant some trees and grass and make the neighbor beautiful, because I am told this is what this is about, right?