{"id":834390,"date":"2018-08-01T03:27:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T07:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=834390"},"modified":"2018-08-01T03:27:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T07:27:01","slug":"the-insignificance-mets-suffer-worst-loss-in-franchise-history-m1d1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/the-insignificance-mets-suffer-worst-loss-in-franchise-history-m1d1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Insignificance"},"content":{"rendered":"
I made the argument before the game, and I stand by it, that these two months following the trade deadline, which started with Tuesday night’s game, would probably be the least significant two months of baseball in franchise history. Reason being, with a new GM supposedly<\/strong><\/em> taking the reins for next season, that person isn’t going to judge anybody on the strength of these last two months.<\/p>\n The best argument that I think someone came up with, from a development standpoint, was whether Amed Rosario can keep his current walk rate up. And I thought, well jeez, that’s a riveting reason to watch two months of Mets baseball. Amed Rosario taking pitches. And if these two months are so crucial for his development, then what the hell were the last four months about?<\/p>\n The other guy from last year’s up and comers, Dom Smith, is lost. He isn’t all of a sudden going to come up and make an impact. Partly because he stinks, and partly because the Mets did him no favors. And I don’t expect that to start now. So who else do we have to find out about? Jeff McNeil is the guy that everyone is excited about. But let’s not forget: He’s 26, and he’s the 20th ranked prospect in the organization. He’s not Mike Trout, so let’s pump the brakes on him a little bit. Peter Alonso is a nice prospect but he isn’t coming up this season. And the one guy I’d like to see more of coming out of that bullpen is Drew Smith. The rest of them? I’m not going to trust what they do in August and September … especially September. Remember when we made a huge deal out of what Travis d’Arnaud and Kevin Plawecki did in September last year? Pepperidge Farm remembers. And Pepperidge Farm is pissed that you took valuable time which could have been spent making Double Mint Milanos to think about Travis F***ing d’Arnaud.<\/p>\n But the most frequent answer I got was “JACOB dEGROM’S CY YOUNG CHANCES!!!” Look, you want to watch a master at his craft work up and down … in and out … that’s a great reason to watch deGrom pitch this season, as long as you turn it off in the eighth inning before the bullpen blows it. You want to see him win a Cy Young, turn on MLB Network on that Wednesday in November when they make the announcement. And guess what: He’s not winning the award!<\/em><\/strong> Not unless his ERA sinks to about 1.12 and Max Scherzer quite baseball tomorrow to run for public office. Max Scherzer leads the league in enough categories (H\/9, K\/9, WHIP, K’s, IP) to offset the ones that deGrom leads in (ERA, ERA+, FIP,) while Scherzer is going to be much more relevant going forward than deGrom this season. (The Mets might as well play in American Samoa the rest of the year, that’s how relevant they are.) You want to blame somebody, blame the everyday players and the bullpen. They took deGrom’s 2018 Cy Young Award and threw it in the trash and set it on fire.<\/p>\n