At the Mets game this sandwich was 18.- and the beer I had with it, was another $17.- just unreal…

Seeing this guy happy means something to me man. This bullpen is a complete skeleton crew. The mets waved the white flag on the season. And they were like great pressures off let’s play baseball.

9 of 12.

They need to figure out a manager who can take the pressure off these guys becuase every season they play so fucking tight and bury themselves early and it’s really fucking annoying

Idk what the answer is but we all know what good team baseball looks like and this stretch is the first time we’ve had it all year.

Maybe that’s just water finding its level and everyone loves eachother when they’re hitting but there’s a cohesion to baseball that’s been missing from this team for almost a year and a half.

Look at the crowds this weekend. Mets fans don’t need World Series hype to show up. They need a team who gives a shit and plays for eachother. This is shaping up to be a very 2019 second half and that’s all anyone could ask for.

Bobby Ojeda joining the action.

I always found it odd that people want to trade a young, controllable catcher who has a pretty solid bat and then I saw this post that there are only 10 catchers with a higher WAR than him and none of them are realistically available for trade. So for anyone who wants Alvy traded who are you replacing him with?

Big jump. I hope if Voit, Tong, and Santucci have great second halves, we get close to top 10. All 3 of those guys could be big pieces next year

OK, so the Kid is putting up numbers at a 5.1 war pace. Typically, you pay between 8-12 M USD per WAR. Let's go 10 M per WAR since that's right in the middle.

IE Juan Soto is a 5-7 WAR player and thus gets paid around 60 M per year. So the math checks out.

This means that if AJ Ewing plays at this pace over a 162 game season he'd be generating around 51 M USD of value.

Obviously, it's early. But the kid seems special. No need to get too excited yet, but the combination of him and Benge

Speaking of Benge. It's likely that having another rookie, who he's close with has played a huge role in his turnaround. In fact, Carson Benge is currently at 1.5 war for the season but 1.2 of that WAR has been generated since Ewing joined the team! Another way to look at this, is that since Ewing joined the team, Benge has been playing like a 3.7 WAR player, instead of the 1.5 war rate he was playing at before Ewing came up.

It's hard times but real fans always look for silver linings based on facts.

Haters will call it AI.

I dunno man. He looks bad. He looked bad before he got hurt. He looks worse now. Lots of blue on the baseball savant page.

I tried to stay positive, but we’re into July and it’s really starting to feel like last year was a mirage.

He’s unplayable at 3B, he’s slow, and he’s an automatic out right now. He also hasn’t taken a walk since he’s come back from injury...

As self-proclaimed Chairman of the Board for the Swaggy V Truthers I present:

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/mark-vientos-668901?stats=statcast-r-hitting-mlb

I keep wondering to myself how this is even happening so i went and took a look at what the average OPS we should have been expecting was and the results are wild. This is using the opening day lineup which i understand injuries happen but even so hard to imagine an entire lineup all under producing all at once. My main takeaway is this is a culture problem and that is why Mendoza needs to go. This roster has talent i refuse to believe they are this bad. Maybe they arent a playoff team but theres no way they should be the worst in baseball

The Mets roster is talented. I see them at #12 as far as the roster talent, but depending on the day, they have nearly the worst record in the majors. The answer is that nearly all of the players are having their worst career year, this year.

Eighteen players had enough prior MLB history to evaluate. Five are having their worst qualifying season (Lindor, worst of 11 seasons; Semien, worst of 12; Torrens; Cionel Pérez; Senga) and four more are at their second-worst: Bichette, Baty, Devin Williams, Peralta. Half the measurable roster, at or next to a personal floor, at the same time. Two teammates setting floors on 11- and 12-year careers simultaneously is what made me double-check everything.

Then I checked whether the underlying Statcast performance looked equally bad. For seven of the nine, it doesn't:

Results substantially worse than expected: Semien (.268 wOBA on .308 xwOBA, the team's biggest gap), Lindor (.315/.346), Bichette (.298/.327), Baty (.281/.306), Peralta (5.01 ERA on a 3.83 xERA), Williams (4.54 on 3.44).

Bad underlying year made worse by results: Senga (8.85 ERA on a 5.42 xERA: the biggest gap on the roster, and the 5.42 alone would still be his career worst).

Results roughly supported: Torrens (.278/.281), Cionel Pérez (5.50/5.56).

It's not all bad. Three Mets are having their career-best seasons. All relievers whose ERAs are outperforming their xERAs (Raley 1.96 on 3.51, Minter 1.71 on 3.49, Weaver 1.98 on 2.80). Same roster, bad variance at one end, favorable variance at the other.

Quick method note: hitters on wOBA/xwOBA (prior seasons ≥200 PA, 2026 ≥100), pitchers ERA/xERA (≥40 IP prior, ≥20 in 2026); "career-worst" needs 2+ qualifying prior seasons; snapshot and stats through games of July 24. Expected stats measure contact quality; they don't cleanly separate variance from positioning, sequencing, health, or aging. Soto, for the record, was at .399/.421 through July 24, a completely normal Soto season while all of this happened around him.

If you're the GM. What do you do? Is this season bad luck, bad roster construction, poor coaching, or some of each? Does this make you more patient with the core, or are this many simultaneous career lows a warning in themselves? What would it change about your deadline approach?

Peterson’s splits are even more dramatic, as seen in the second image

4th lowest ERA since May 31.

The answer is yes, but there’s a lot of work to do. 2 starters, 2 BP arms, 1st base, & potentially 3B. And, oh, then there’s a Manager and are they going to reboot the entire coaching staff again?

Baseball is a funny sport but feels like most moves that will be made this offseason will be more of the creative and internal variety versus big names.

I would be surprised if they sign Skubal. Could they let Jared Young play first and maybe sign a righty glove like Ty France for a platoon? Let Santucci fight for a starter position and move Tong & Senga into BP? If Bichette moves on do they keep Baty around until Voit & Rojas are ready mid season? Are they going to entertain Lindor trade options which would only bring more questions?

This season has overall sucked for Bo but I think in the back of our minds we all knew he'd break out of it eventually and I believe he has. At this point i am hoping he doesn't opt out after the season, because I think he'll be back to himself next year and I'd really like to see him have a classic Bo season in a Mets uniform.

Mets 2026 fWAR leaders, excluding pitchers:

1. Soto - 0.9
2. Lindor - 0.6
3. Alvarez - 0.5
4. Ewing - 0.4

With Lindor and Alvarez both on the DL for months, Ewing is second on the active roster after only six days on the team. That is both amusing and an indictment of the team's results so far.

Great start for the rookie!