What's Next for the Mets? | Anthony DiComo

[@jdl1986now]

Pete should have taken the extension the Mets offered him in 2023, which was reported as seven years for $158 million.

[@3rdFloor]

Easy to sit here with hindsight glasses and say that. Had he hit 50 homeruns this year & had a OPS of 900 it would look different. Sometimes you do what Soto did and other times it doesn’t pan out. You think Soto wishes he signed with the Nationals for 300 million? lol

[@johnstrawb3521]

Good for us that he did not. He's a 3/60m tier player. His decline is obvious and diComo is a dolt. 3.8, 2.8, 2.1 fWAR since 2022 is a player with a decent chance of never again putting up even one useful season. ---DiComo's answer? Make an absurdly counterproductive signing when the Mets ALREADY have a better 1Bman in Vientos.

[@BKDBut]

Vientos isn't a 1B

[@johnstrawb3521]

@@3rdFloor That's nonsensical. A 29 year old Pete was NOT that kind of player. He was never putting up a .900 OPS at that age, never hitting 50 HR again. Even his superb 2019 was goosed by the juiced ball. Players like Pete rarely, RARELY age well. It will take a fool of a GM, or Steve Cohen playing GM, to sign him now. Consider that even a GM as bad as Billy Eppler wouldn't go beyond $158m.

[@johnstrawb3521]

@@BKDBut You don't even know the players---Vientos has already played a half season at 1B in pro ball, and was respectable, certainly better than he was at 3B, and certainly better than Pete.

[@1metts]

Alvarez will shine this year, he had second year slump and will be top notch, Soto will help to

[@user-hh5rn4jz6o]

Boras is the roadblock

[@redpillbrotherhood110]

Mets need to bring Alonso back, or maybe sign Bregman for 3B then have Vientos as 1B. Then sign Burnes and then ideally either Pivetta or Manaea

[@mikemugs7]

I'm just thankful you're not our GM

[@fr2ncm9]

Word has it that he Cardinals are actively shopping Jordan Montgomery. He has a really good career track record and has shown that he can pitch in big games. Supposedly, they tried to shop him to the Cubs for Bellinger and got turned down. Perhaps they can swap him for Jeff McNeil or Jose Buto. Castillo is not going to come cheap.

[@ArtofFreeSpeech]

I don't know why it's so obvious that the Mets should overpay Alonso when no other team is willing to overpay him. The Walker signing sets a good baseline for what Pete should get.

[@homerunhitters333]

PETE ALONSO IS THE GREATEST OFFENSIVE FORCE IN BASEBALL AND HAS HIT MORE HOMERUNS AND RBI IN HIS 6-YEAR CAREER THAN JUDGE, OHTANI, AND SOTO. ALONSO IS SUPERIOR TO WALKER.

[@markbatcho60]

Alonso was maybe 5th best hitter on Mets for most of the year….he is not worth more than $75 mil over 3 years…if Christian Walker is only worth $60 mil over 3 years….why is Alonso worth much more than that…

[@redpillbrotherhood110]

Agree, Alonso's price is too much. If I was the Mets, I would have signed Walker for what he just signed for instead of Alonso. But maybe they'll recover by signing Bregman and playing Vientos at 1B, then possibly moving Vientos to DH if their prospect Clifford works out

[@leam89]

Age is a major factor

[@donuts0101]

Lest we forget that Mets swept the Yankees this past season

[@johnstrawb3521]

Yeah, a two game series is genuinely predictive.

[@BKDBut]

​@@johnstrawb3521There were 4 games

[@cgtz9526]

​@@johnstrawb3521 they swept the Yankees in 4 games

[@mikemugs7]

Genuinely who cares about the Yankees, they'll be relevant for 2 more years. We need to worry about the Braves, Phillies and Dodgers

[@InfinateRadiant]

We NEED Sasaki or Burnes. I would love to have Pete back. He fills that hole. I think he’s coming back. I don’t think anyone else wants him for the price he’s asking

[@michaelmcchesney6645]

I am a Mets fan, but I don't know if I would pick the Mets in a Subway series. At least not yet. I don't think the Mets have the pitching. I can't believe I'm saying this, but the Yankees have much better starting pitchers with Gerrit Cole, Max Fried, Luis Gil, and Carlos Rodon. The Mets have Kodai Senga (returning from missing a season), David Peterson (who had a great half-season), and Clay Holmes trying to be a starter. If the Mets sign Sean Manea or David Stearns trades for a high-quality starter, I will be more optimistic about their chances. Actually, let me rephrase that. When the Mets do one of those things, I'll be optimistic because Stearns will do one, if not both. I am even hopeful the Mets could sign Roki Sasaki. The odds are against it, but I can come up with a pretty good pitch for him to sign with the Mets. First, I think Sasaki is willing to forego a Yamamoto-like contract because he expects to make a lot of money from endorsements. NYC is the biggest media market in the world. The only team that would give him a better chance to pitch in the postseason every single season than the Mets would be the Dodgers. However, if he signs with the Dodgers, he'd only be the third-biggest Japanese player on the team. If he signs with the Mets, he will get the chance to pitch to Ohtani during the regular season, and there would be a good chance every year that he would also pitch against him in the postseason. I am sure that not only does Sasaki want to pitch against Ohtani in big spots, but there is no matchup the Japanese media and public want to see more than Sasaki against Ohtani. Yes, the Yankees could provide the chance to pitch against him in the World Series, but the odds are against a replay of the 2024 Series in any given year, while the Mets and Dodgers are likely to make the postseason every year. Finally, if I had been writing the Mets pitch video, I would have been sure to include footage of the way NYC fell in love with Doc Gooden at the start of his career. Obviously, this would include the West 42nd Street mural morphing into a Sasaki mural. Or would that have been too much?

[@xstugee]

What's the next step for the Mets?....I would say aside from Soto, the way things are "not" moving at all. the next step will be now to wait till NEXT YEAR!

[@johnstrawb3521]

@xstugee It's mid-December and 30 of the top 50 FAs remain unsigned. To project to at least 90 wins the Mets need one more good SP, a good bullpen arm, and a solid DH----but you want to run around with your hair on fire.

[@BKDBut]

No Mets targets have been signed or traded for except the VERY low target of Eovaldi Mets are still $70 mil below the final threshold Mets have plenty of prospects to make some mid range trades

[@upandin]

1B market hasn't produced much big $. Position is not valued the same in modern analytics

[@gabrielv.2647]

Another hitter? Not SP? Or RP? Haha the angels can prove to you that you can have an amazing lineup but with no SP Or RP and having a balance of all 3 you ain't going no where. All these comments tell me either Mets fans still high off the Soto sign they haven't come back down to reality, give em the ring already haha

[@BKDBut]

Every Mets fan says Alonso & Manaea You clearly don't know what Mets fans say, so don't try to say what they do

[@RandomGuy42016]

Pitching depth is getting deeper and deeper. David Stearns finds ways of making these low risk high reward arms work. Nobody expected Manaea or Sevy to be as good as they were. As a Mets fan, you just gotta trust the process.

[@KenFlanders-r7t]

PETE has most HRs since 2019 by far only second to MVP Judge! He loves NYM and fans love him! Im not suggesting to overpay but certainly they can meet in middle- unless the jack*** agent Boras destroys negotiating in good faith?! Get another SP as well is a must! LGFM!!!!!

[@ghostlover951]

Mets need a lot of help ...as of right now.. they are barely a wild card team

[@miguelrosado7014]

For the next come up Met you gentlemen forget about Acuña? About to be a mere 20 and already last year showed us he is definitely an Acuña? Lol cmon guys! Mauricio is another one i think will at least get called up for 20-40 games or so. We'll see

[@fr2ncm9]

The Mets shouldn't give Alonso more than 4 years. They have a good fallback in Mark Vientos. If Alonso had had just one bad year, it would be one thing, but two bad years in a row is pretty telling.

[@Standdividedfalltogether]

Yep. Cuz two worked out let’s build an entire rotation and pen off of projects and try to win a WS. Smfh I’m sure it’ll work out just like that every year. So tired of this hearing this plan for pitching

[@tenarvaez]

Bring Back Alonso and Iglesias. Sign Burnes and Sasaki.

[@theballpolitic3896]

Pete's comp is less than Walker. $20 million per is going to be a stretch for Pete. Lucky for Pete he's 3 years younger. Unlucky for Pete is his numbers indicate a declining player.

[@ScottyBraun-FoulTerritory]

get Pete deal done!

[@lteric631]

Pete is on the other side of 30 and had a down year. A large percentage of his homers came with the game out of reach…meaningless homers. His batting average was awful, and he strikeouts a ton. He won’t protect Soto…pitchers will just pitch to him, he’s not a tough out. Let’s get Bregman.

[@YouMeandHumanity]

Padre Pete soon.

[@BKDBut]

Lol

[@Brhoward31]

Francisco Alvarez has a couple years to find his ffooting

[@ShahrooziFashion]

Let’s resign Alonso and Winker. Then let’s get Burnes, Castillo, a strong bullpen arm, and Bregman

[@kingpinballer242]

This show is so Anti-Mets is unbelievable.

[@eemoreau]

Go get Pete Alonso he’s a True Met! Make him happier!!! Go Polar Bear 🐻‍❄️! ! !

[@ArtofFreeSpeech]

Maybe you should blame Alonso for asking for more than he's worth.

[@johnstrawb3521]

@eemoreau A 'true Met'? The Mets made Pete a generous offer of 7/158m---an absurdly generous offer, really, and he turned it down. "I'm a true blue Met! As long as you pay me more than anyone else!!" Pete's just another greedhead who got Boras to be his agent, Boras lied to him about his value, Pete was just dull enough to believe him, and here we are.

[@Str8Maddeness]

Alonso has a giant hole in his bat. He's not a power hitter. He's a guy who sometimes hits with power.

[@eldiablony274]

🤦🏻‍♂️

[@thelawnmewer]

What?

[@homerunhitters333]

LMAOOOOOOOOOO HOW MUCH IS DAVID STEARNS PAYING U TO SPEW THIS NONSENSE???

[@santosavila9312]

Agreed agreed agreed. He is no Bregman who sprays the ball everywhere, go get me him for third and go get Santana for first base as a stop gap for Vlad Jr. Go move MV to DH and you ll see an offense that rakes

[@NickM-s8l]

Huh……..Wait…….What???!!! Was this meant as sarcasm?

[@nycveneto]

all that money only to finish being the phillies and braves lmao

[@jwvvvv]

Neither the Phillies nor the Braves made it to the National League Championship Series. The Mets did.

[@Brhoward31]

Also CURRENTLY, The Yankees wash the Mets. Idk wtf this guy is talking about. I'm a Met fan before people start jumping on me Pause

[@GHKim-bo9mf]

The Mets => The World Series?😢 The Dodgers will continuously WIN World Series 🎉 The Mets are overrated 🙄

[@Debi61]

Go get polar bear.

[@joselopezmoya9786]

PET'S signing with the METS is a MUST. STEARNS has been pussy footing too long. GET THE FREACKING ALONSO DEAL DONE ALREADY !!!

[@jorgeatehortua148]

Sign Alonso and sign Santander to be the DH to protect Alonso and eventually Clifford takes over at 1b and Alonso slides to DH

[@Str8Maddeness]

Alonso can't hit!! You really want his .220 BA at DH? C'mon!

[@homerunhitters333]

​@@Str8MaddenessALONSO IS THE GREATEST OFFENSIVE FORCE IN BASEBALL WHO HAS HIT MORE HR AND RBI IN THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME THAN JUDGE, OHTANI, AND SOTO.

[@joshuachelette6277]

Yea his batting average is never top of the line but look at his numbers he rolls out of bed and gives you 40 hrs 100 to 115 rbi a year a down year for pete would be career years for a lot of people 30 35 hr 85 to 95 RBIs and that's a disappointing year for pete lol

[@BKDBut]

​@@Str8Maddenesshis avg doesn't matter. His SLG and ops do. His homers and RBIs do.

[@bruce5402]

No starting rotation and a shaky bullpen. Currently no one not even close to back Soto like Judge but this guy thinks the mets are better. Obviously a bias writer and probably should open his eyes to see reality. What a joke of an episode

[@BKDBut]

Did you know that Soto was good before Judge was behind him? You should look at his "protection" throughout his career and stop blowing Judge

[@bruce5402]

@BKDBut are you a pervert? Your comment is out of line. By the way, that is my point. Who is Soto's protection with the Mets? You never answered that question

[@user-jv9qz2bu1r]

polar bear is a crappy fielder

[@eemoreau]

You wrong! PUNTO !!! Now everyone is a Pete Alonso expert! Blah Blah Blah! The Polar Bear 🐻‍❄️ is the right fit now with the Dominican Dominant Bomber Juan Soto! His the new man the Mets needed! let’s go Mets !!! FantasticoMets.69.

[@bigdaddyrips5566]

He's good going to the bag and he's an elite scooper. Crappy is very harsh

[@kenthall7971]

Stearns is incompetant, all he cares about a minor league garbage for DEPTH. Cohen needs to tell him to do his job

[@eemoreau]

Go get Pete Alonso he’s a True Met! Make him happier!!! Go Polar Bear 🐻‍❄️! ! !

[@johnstrawb3521]

If Pete's a "true Met," offer him 1/30m.