Im in a good spot… Im not going backward [with the injury], Im moving forward.
Thats the good part.
That sounds bad for any pitcher.
It’s even worse when the guy is almost 39 years old.
This Mets season has been an unmitigated disaster.
They are currently in the easiest stretch of the entire season.
I thought they’d go 9-4 against the likes of the Tigers, Rockies, Reds and Nationals.
They’ve started this stretch off going 1-5.
Yesterday’s game featured a Daniel Vogelbach base running error by being too aggressive.
That’s hard to do when you are far closer to 300 pounds than 200.
The Rockies have an 86 OPS+.
They scored 13 runs against the Mets in Citi Field yesterday.
The Mets are 3-11 in their last 14 games.
This is a waking nightmare.
Can you throw enough money where you’re free to win a World Series team instantly?
The 1997 Marlins pulled it off.
They spent that previous off-season acquiring Bobby Bonilla, Moises Alou, Devon White and Alex Fernandez.
Obviously the owner Wayne Huizenga blew it all up immediately after the World Series…but it did work.
The Marlins had won it all.
He got his ring.
Steve Cohen tried a similar tactic last off-season with the Mets.
Now, the 2022 Mets won 101 games.
They were also built on the fragile or old arms of Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer.
He replaced fragility with more age and got Justin Verlander.
Everything seems to be breaking apart in real time.
Not what you want to hear from a guy born in the first term of the Reagan administration.
This Mets team can not win without Scherzer and Verlander having good seasons.
The bottom of the lineup has some massive holes.
Vogelbach is not the key issue but one of several.
They also have a minor league that is stocked with hitters but almost completely barren with pitchers.
If you take Senga out (and he shouldn’t count), it’s all hitters.
The bad news the best pitching option in the minor league organization might be a man named Jose Butto.
That’s really his name.
I know things aren’t as dire as it feels.
This isn’t the Oakland A’s or Kansas City Royals.
Verlander could wind up being exactly what this rotation needs.
I just didn’t expect to be focused on the Wild Card standings before Memorial Day.
The real silver lining is Steve Cohen.
I don’t blame him at all for this mess.
He did everything he could to put the best team out there for 2023 that he could.
It just doesn’t happen overnight.
The time it did in 1997, it fell apart just as quickly.
I’ll keep this on repeat until this series against the Reds starts tomorrow.
They can’t play any worse than they did against the Rockies, right?
