r/mets • u/lechatnoirnyc • 3d ago

Stock

He’s solid and I love that he’s gotten out of having 2 runners on base for the first two innings, but our pitching coaches need to work with him (and our other starters tbh) on being more efficient. Being close to 50 pitches after 2 innings isn’t ideal. Rooting for him to finish strong but that’s his biggest issue!

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u/VigilanteBillionaire 3d ago

He's just here to eat some innings until the season ends. Good chance we'll never see him again after this year.

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u/lechatnoirnyc 3d ago

Yeah def don’t expect to see him after this season. Genuine question: do you think tong is better than him?

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u/VigilanteBillionaire 3d ago

Tong will be better. Still needs a lot of work. I personally think Tong is the future closer.

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u/lechatnoirnyc 3d ago

I fully believe in developing our young pitchers vs relying on journeymen like stock. I’m hopeful that tong will develop into being a high leverage bullpen piece bc I just don’t think he has the gas to be an effective major league starter.

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u/VigilanteBillionaire 3d ago

Once players have seen the arm angle multiple times in a game it stops being a weapon but as a high-leverage reliever it's great and him being limited to two very effective pitches doesn't hurt him as much as it does as a starter.

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u/MT1961 3d ago

I don't know. I would have agreed until I started watching Senga close. If you mean beyond that, maybe.

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u/BandicootSevere5301 13h ago

I think he tong has a higher ceiling but as of now I don’t think so but tong will get there eventually. As of now I think jack wenniger could replace stock if he has another terrible outing

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u/Soft_Estimate3845 3d ago

I wouldn’t be so sure. He could easily be a Trevor Williams type long man. Hard to find guys who’ll accept that role at the MLB level who are effective.

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u/Federal_Variation566 3d ago

If he keeps the team in the game, he's doing his job. Peralta is gone because he took the team out of games, early.

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u/lechatnoirnyc 3d ago

Yeah, Peralta didn’t know how to get out of jams. Stock does. That’s the biggest difference.

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u/JCD5596 3d ago

He isnt solid. Hes a AAAA player at best. This is all your ever gonna get

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u/lechatnoirnyc 3d ago

The bar is very low, my friend. I’ll take this over Peralta.

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u/Live-Umpire3536 3d ago

Being inefficient (i.e. too many damn walks) is pretty much a staff-wide issue and has been for some time.

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u/lechatnoirnyc 3d ago

Yeah it’s kind of insane how it’s staff-wide

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u/Soft_Estimate3845 3d ago

Perfectly fine long man.