I think every Mets fan had hopes the Williams signing was the precursor to resigning Diaz. Seeing the Diaz deal, I can't think anything but Stearns completely screwed the pooch on this entire situation.
It is incredibly frustrating because I think Stearns is a good baseball mind, but his moves generally feel much more forward looking than trying to compete now. For a smaller market team this makes sense, but with Cohen's backing I do not think that is necessary. I could see a world where there is a separation before his vision is fully realized and then the next GM seems like a genius because a lot of the groundwork Stearns laid.
Not saying you're wrong, but these comments do feel a little strange to me when he made the NLCS year 1 and then had a huge payroll year 2. It shouldn't be surprising that there's a big shakeup to a roster that showed it can't win. It seems like 90% of fans want Stearns gone when he's one of the best front office executives in baseball
I definitely do not want Sterns gone, but he made the NLCS with a roster mostly in place. I will give him credit that he did a great job building a pitching staff for 2024.
And the Mets said they'd go higher. Seems pretty clear that this was a Diaz choice not a Mets choice. So I have no complaints anymore, time to build a bullpen without him
With Nimmo yes. I think putting aside the fan attachment it was a logical move to make. His contract is not great and only getting worse as his defense declines. You also have Soto locked into a corner OF spot with subpar defense and Benge coming up who are both LH hitters as well. Semien, Lindor, Baty is now a very good defensive infield which should help.
If they want to blow it up and reshape the roster in the image of youth then fine I get it. It sucks, but I can understand the vision. However, if they are going to commit to a youth movement why trade Nimmo for aging Semien instead of prospects? Tough offseason so far.
The answer is that nobody was touching Nimmo's contract without sending another big contract back
Well let's see ONE of those because right now we got bubkus.
I agree that you can not spend 3 years on a rebuild and are worse across the board right now, but can get behind an approach of a reset year. Spend the year to really evaluate the prospects in the majors and then know what your gaps will be going forward and spend a bit more emphatically next offseason.
So do 28 other teams. Nobody looks like they have a good team right now except the Dodgers, it's December 10th
Was hoping we'd bring him back but none of those guys are MLB players
