Maybe Mets flip flops are the ultimate gift. You’re excited to use them in April. By August you’ve kind of lost interest and come September you have no use for them.
Fun Fact: you can sleep on planes now
Awwww the poor Mets got in “after 5am” and have to play baseball at 7pm. Life is SO HARD.
Let’s see you land at 5:59am and get to your swanky home at 8am. You sleep until 2pm, which is 6 hours which is not unheard of, and then you make your way to the ballpark for 4.
Then you have to stand on grass in ten minute shifts (alternating with sitting down for 10 minutes) AND you might have to bat once an hour.
Oh man, this is torture. I feel so bad for these guys and their bullt in excuse.
Imagine if they ever have a baby.
Does Gary Cohen think Pete Alonso is a Net Negative for the Mets?
Daniel Murphy, 2015’s Net Negative, had an OPS of .770 in 2015. He also had a WAR of 1.9 Gary didn’t like how he played baseball, and the Mets let Murphy walk.
Here in 2024, Pete Alonso has an OPS of .767. He has a WAR of 1.3
I used to hear a lot about WAR and OPS, but now that people realize Pete isn’t good at baseball, suddenly all anyone wants to do is talk about home runs without context.
Pete does have 19 HRs, which is 16th best in MLB, although not as many as 1B Christian Walker (22) or 1B Josh Naylor (22) or 1B Bryce Harper (22) but anyway keep on telling yourself the Mets can’t win without Pete. Also keep believing Gary is good at evaluating talent.
Pete has been diminishing returns since his rookie year. The Mets shoudl have traded high many times, now they are either going to Trade Low, or even more stupidly not trade at all, or even more stupidly than that, bring Pete back.
The smartest version of the Pete scenario that I have heard is that he accepts the Mets Qualifying Offer this off-season and hopes to have a better season next year. That will just waste another summer in Queens, but hey we didn’t win during the Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump or Biden administrations, so what’s one more year, right Steve?
Back to you Gare. Let me know your thoughts.
Trade Pete Alonso
Here’s a sentence you don’t say every day: Bleacher Report gets it! They write..
Jon Heyman of the New York Post reported, “The Mets continue to seek bullpen help, as they remain a buyer for now. That means Pete Alonso appears to be staying.”
That would be a mistake for two reasons, the most obvious being that if the team cannot get a deal done with its slugger, he will be free to sign elsewhere this offseason with the Mets getting no compensation in return.
He has also experienced steadily declining OPS and WAR since his breakout rookie campaign. Since his first season in the league, his OPS has dropped from .941 to .772 while he went from five wins above replacement to just 1.1 this season. (Via Bleacher Report)
Pete Alonso All Star T-Shirt still $45
Best Seller! Who doesn’t want to forget Pete striking out in the All Star Game? I sure don’t.