What can the New York Mets do to become a contender again?
The biggest change they can make is obtaining durable and above-average position players.Their starting pitchers are good enough to go deep into games. Jacob deGrom will probably never have another season like his 2018 season, but despite that, he will go out there and throw 6+ innings of (at most) 3 run ball in most starts for the next few years. Noah Syndergaard and Zach Wheeler are capable of doing this as well. As far as the bullpen goes, having 2–3 reliable options would be sufficient, so acquiring a solid reliever would be a smart move.But over the past 2–3 years, their biggest problem has been position players getting injured. David Wright aside, the Mets were without Yoenis Cespedes for much of 2017 and 2018, they were without Michael Conforto for a little while, they lost Jay Bruce for a bit, and they have been without T.J. Rivera since the end of 2017 due to Tommy John surgery (fun fact - I have the baseball that was used to get T.J. Rivera out in his first MLB at bat).What the Mets really need is a position player who can step up and essentially fill the role that David Wright previously had. They wouldn’t have to be the face of the team (since that role is pretty much deGrom’s at this point), but they should be a player who has a 30/100/.280+ slashline for a few years, a player who the Mets can build their lineup around (sort of like a 2018 Alex Bregman, dare I say).
When will the New York Mets be a playoff contending team again?
2014-2015 unless the Wilpons sell the team in which case maybe earlier.
Do you think the New York Mets can contend for a championship in 2019?
Ohhhhh the Mets. The amazin's will surely contend for a championship in 2019… if deGrom, Thor, and Wheeler all remain healthy and produce at a high rate (or at their career levels). The same goes for Conforto, Nimmo, Cano, McNeill, Familia, Lagares, Edwin Diaz, and Wilson Ramos. They all need to remain fairly healthy and produce at career levels, at the least. Lugo will play a pivotal role in the bullpen and Rosario will need to live up to his potential.A lot needs to go right for the Mets in order for them to contend with the Phillies, Braves, and the Nats. Brodie did a great job creating depth, allowing the Mets to absorb such an injury to maybe one or two of their regulars. However, if two or more of their stars (Nimmo, Cano, Ramos, etc) go down for a significant amount of time, the Mets will have a difficult time creating and scoring runs. Now if one of deGrom, Thor, or Wheeler gets hit with the injury bug for a huge chunk of the season, the Mets will encounter a ton of adversity due to their inadequate pitching depth beyond Matz Vargas, Santiago, and Oswalt.My short answer to this question: HEALTH. As with any Major league team, health dictates success, and if the Mets can avoid long term injuries and receive career average numbers from their starters and lineup, they'll be right in the thick of a pennant race for the next 6 months. It'll be fun to watch; 2019, here we come!
Thoughts on the Miami Marlins giving their entire team to the Blue Jays?
There are reports that the Marlins have traded Jose Reyes, Josh Johnson, Mark Buerhle, Emilio Bonifacio, and John Buck to the Blue Jays for prospects. If that's true, wow. BQ: Will the Marlins average Over/Under 17 fans per game next year?
How would the 1985 Mets have fared in that year's postseason?
They would have lost on a walk off home run in game seven of their series against the Los Angeles Dodgers that year after scoring an equal amount of runs in the series. If you compress and collate their regular season series against the Dodgers they lost multiple games on walkoff home runs, scored the same amount of runs and lost the season series by a single game winning five and losing seven splitting the games at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles evenly and losing the games played at Shea Stadium by a game. I say this because we have no actual real world data to make us assume that the postseason would have results any different. The Royals would then proceed to beat the Dodgers in five games to win the World Series because based on the real 1985 NLCS and that year’s real World Series because if the Dodgers couldn’t get the Cardinals to seven games and at least win three games against them assuming they could get the champions to six as well is seemingly hubris.
How many World Series Championships will Robinson Cano win?
None, unless the Mets trade him to a contender, which isn’t likely.The Mets are in a division that is currently dominated by the Nationals, Braves, and now the Phillies. The Mets may have improved over this past off season, but the Nationals, Braves, and Phillies are built to last for many years, with loaded rosters and with farm systems overflowing with talent. Cano’s best season are behind him, and by the time he breaks down completely, maybe the Mets will be a contender.
New York Mets: Beltran gets the big hit?
The Detroit series would have been a tough one, but one I think we could have won. Regardless, I think the confidence of pulling out the Cardinal series would have given the team the "swagger" to have avoided the 07 and 08 collapses.Unfortunately, the terrible product we have seen since would have happened anyway with the Wilpons caught up in the Madoff mess. It's obvious even now that they don't have too much lingering debt to properly finance the franchise and MLB should force them to sell, as they did with McCourt and the Dodgers.