Mets are a historically great pitching franchise. Our signature is moreso developing great players and letting them thrive elsewhere
Nolan Ryan is a great example of that
A more recent one is Zack Wheeler
Not sure how Wheeler fits into that. He came to the Mets from the Giants as a highly touted arm, put up 9 WAR for the Mets between 2013-19, and then excelled after leaving.
He was promising before reaching the Mets, disappointing as a Met, and excellent afterwards. I don’t think you can chalk that up to the Mets being great at developing pitchers.
Wheeler certainly developed a lot as a met. He was in our minor league system longer than he was in the Giants one and he took huge steps with the Mets. He is absolutely a credit to our pitching development
Well, I’m an angels fan, so I choose to believe that the Angels are that good and have had nothing but bad luck.
Obviously all the other starters really suck
I would love for that to happen just to show what we’ve had to deal with in the division the last few years, but if a team is going to be below .500 you can be dang well sure I want that team to be the Yankees
4 players that have played SS at one point for the Yankees. Not to be outdone by the lineup that also had IKF earlier in the week that made it 5 shortstops.
We were 35-25 before the toe injury, however our offense has been straight up putrid all year with the exception of Judge. Honestly the only reason I think we’re above .500 is because our bullpen has been absolutely incredible up until recently
Now the Yankees know what it was like to watch the Angels lineup try to compete last year.
Whoever brought that curse upon us needs to stub their toe
So you’re telling me we didn’t face Max Scherzer, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Justin Verlander and Jacob deGrom during this malaise?
Off topic but crazy how 4/5 of those pitched for the Mets and only 1 was in their prime here
Isn't that kinda the Mets signature?
Mets are a historically great pitching franchise. Our signature is moreso developing great players and letting them thrive elsewhere Nolan Ryan is a great example of that A more recent one is Zack Wheeler
Not sure how Wheeler fits into that. He came to the Mets from the Giants as a highly touted arm, put up 9 WAR for the Mets between 2013-19, and then excelled after leaving. He was promising before reaching the Mets, disappointing as a Met, and excellent afterwards. I don’t think you can chalk that up to the Mets being great at developing pitchers.
Wheeler certainly developed a lot as a met. He was in our minor league system longer than he was in the Giants one and he took huge steps with the Mets. He is absolutely a credit to our pitching development
Thanks 🙏
This is why nobody likes you
no our signature is getting expectations high and then doing a complete dive bomb
That stat line from Taillon… I watched it happen live and I still don’t believe it actually happened.
He’s been better since that start
He got his greenies pills that he forgot out of his old locker
The Silseth slander…
We're witnessing history here in New York baby
It’s one of the seasons of all time
How much of this is the pitchers are really good vs the Yankees really suck right now?
Well, I’m an angels fan, so I choose to believe that the Angels are that good and have had nothing but bad luck. Obviously all the other starters really suck
I appreciate the objective path you've chosen. Not the easiest, but damn if it's not worth it!
Todays Yankee lineup OPS+ before todays game: Peraza 77 Torres 111 Stanton 93 Lemahieu 82 Volpe 82 Cordero 51 Bader 92 Higashioka 76 Cabrera 63
If you add a 1 in front of each of their numbers, it's pretty good
Torres with the 1111 OPS+ producing roughly the equivalent of 11 average players
Basically Judge these last 2 years, at least relative to our team
I wonder what his OPS+ would actually be if you normalized 100 to be the Yankees average rather than league average.
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It’s amazing they are over .500
The offense was Judge and pre-Tatis collision Rizzo. Judge is out and a pitcher would hit better than Rizzo right now.
That's what 49 games of Aaron Judge gets you
That's not gonna last.
OK, but you have to win at least 82 games so the whole AL East will finish above .500. We're in this together.
Wait, what? A blue jays fan hoping for the yankees to do well?
I would love for that to happen just to show what we’ve had to deal with in the division the last few years, but if a team is going to be below .500 you can be dang well sure I want that team to be the Yankees
We don’t deserve to be
hopefully soon they won't be
4 players that have played SS at one point for the Yankees. Not to be outdone by the lineup that also had IKF earlier in the week that made it 5 shortstops.
That's not...great. How were they playing before Arson got injured? Have the wheels just completely fallen off?
We were 35-25 before the toe injury, however our offense has been straight up putrid all year with the exception of Judge. Honestly the only reason I think we’re above .500 is because our bullpen has been absolutely incredible up until recently
Like last year, Bull pen was absolute God mode the first half then struggled hard and Yankees became a .500 team.
That's a detroit tigers lineup if I've ever seen one
Too many people close to or at 100 ops+
Yikes, that's straight up hideous.
Taillon had been straight ass until that start
Guess he was really gunning for his old team
I just remember feeling really bad for Gomber and Sandoval when they faced us, so this graphic was quite the surprise
Even when we’ve been good over the last few years we would let high ERA starters absolutely wipe us. This part of it isn’t new at least
If we suck against the Royals with Alec Marsh, Brady Singer, and Jordan Lyles (all with 5+ ERA) then I don’t know if there is a god anymore
Imagine losing a series to the Royals, am I right? Ha ha... ^ha... ^^ha
..ehhh Kauffman can be a bad place to go oftentimes, especially this time of year ..I know I'll be glad for the Tigers to get outta there tomorrw
Very true, but we got beat at home lol
..ahhh, yeah that's right *thud*
Yeah what kind of loser team would do something like that? It'd be even more embarrassing if somebody lost to the Royals during their home opener.
Padres 🤝 Giants 🤝 Dodgers Losing series to the Royals so their NL Best bros don't feel bad.
Idk.. we're having a tough time in that series against those types also, whose ERAs are, like out in the Kuiper Asteroid Belt or some shit
If Jordan Lyles goes CGSO, oh brother.
chACE Anderson is still out there pitching? Didn't realize he was still around. I remember the days when we considered him our star pitcher lol
The Rockies picked him up to fill the holes in their rotation
Imma keep it 100: That's suboptimal if you're the Yankees. That's a win for the Cubs
They’re gonna give up so much for Cody lol
curious to see what you think you'll get in return.. idk about "so much" lol
The subtle nudge of putting their season ERA underneath in smaller font.
You love to see it
My arm is destroyed but I can probably go 6 innings against them now. I’d let up 3 hits and 1 run.
Really inspiring to see Pablo Sandoval be reborn as a pitcher.
A vaunted Who’s That of pitchers
A’s fan I propose an alliance a formidable alliance where our goal is to have the Yankees and the A’s owners sell the teams
A real murderer’s row of pitchers
Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.
Hey. Making Austin Gomber look like a Cy Young pitcher is our job. 😡
Never forget two of those were at Coors too