No but I can understand the larger picture here. The whining from Mets fans is so annoying especially considering everyone's age.
Zak - after a few days- I believe this is what most long time fans are going through. Our heads are doing our best to believe Stearns has an ultimate plan to make this team a potential WS champ. This year, building into 2027. Heck- that is what he is paid for. So- sure, let's see if his plan all makes sense and it gets us our champion team.
OK- Nimmo trade, we get it. Run protection and sort of an even deal. Even though we are paying an older player more.
OK - we get it. This core, has not done it (so he says) - oh but hold on. Why is the lineup the only part of the core. Somehow, when pitching is good, the core is GREAT. But when the pitching sucks- the core must get broken up.
Diaz- yes, we all know RP's - you just never know what you get from one year to the next. And no way you give a guy more than 3 years if he is in his 30's. But damn- Diaz is saying what he is saying but if Stearns went to him with the 3/66 and actually showed he wanted him...good chance he is still here - ok, so be it...
Now Pete - Feels like Stearns made up this "run protection" mantra ONLY to not sign Pete. Played the game last year against Pete and won. Played it again this year(so we thought) but lost(so we thought) - ends up all their "We want Pete back" was BS. They never offered. Why Met fans are pissed - you are too young before but we all saw this pay out before. And it really sucks for us long timers and not the madden era analytics, fantasy fans. Baseball is one of the few sports that hold emotion and almost a romanticism. Team has been around for 60+ years and outside of Wright, we just never keep our homegrown guys. There is a reason why we never had a player hit 300 HR or 1000 RBI for us. And that just pisses us off. - And dammit- Pete carried this team for most of the year, still plays every single day and no sign there will be a breakdown over the next 3 years. If he declines in year 4/5, so be it.
But ok- again, in Stearns we trust and he should be allowed to do what he is hired for. So, we are now saying- go ahead and go do it. Here is the problem, Stearns has not shown us, as Met fans, that he has any f-ing clue how to win a trade or evaluate MLB players. Sure, it looks like he may be a great player development guy but he has yet to make any good moves for an actual player.
And you look around- at our farm system and FA's and potential trades - this guy who has proven nothing to us- doesn't have any real answers that any of us mortals can see to make us a WS champ in the next year or two. And nothing outside of days that McLean is pitching to even make us want to go to a game.
So, it is on him now and the clock is ticking.
So- yes, it is 50% emotional and 50% you haven't shown us a damn thing yet. And it may not even be that bad if he didn't always have that condescending smirk on his face. Also- very telling thing about all 3 players that are gone- all 3 made it a point that they wanted to play for a winner.
