Got back in to baseball card collecting and jumping in to breaks and my main pic for teams are the Mets. They've been good to me to say the least.

Hey does anyone have a rough ball park price on season tickets for the Mets 2025 season? If anyone has season tickets what’s the perks ect.

LETS GO METS! ⚾️

Laiky Uribe from the Dodgers is now our Assistant International Scouting Director. Back in September, we hired James Kang as our new Director of International Scouting from Cleveland (but was with the Dodgers for three years before last).

Just wanted to post this because its these types of Cohen investments that will be huge dividends down the line, moreso than some player acquisitions we discuss.

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Or put more simply, how can we match the production of 2024 in 2025?

There are 6 positions where we can potentially make changes compared to 2024. We absolutely wont make upgrades to all 6 positions but upgrades in one position have downstream effects to the other positions.

CF, RF, 1B, DH, 2B,3B

How much value did the Mets get from those 6 positions in 2024?

2024 Value in WAR-
1B- 2.1
CF- 2.6
RF- 1.6
2B -3.6
DH - 0.5
3B - 4.7
Total- 15.1

2025 Fangraphs Depth Chart Projected value in WAR(with no signings)-
1B Mark Vientos - 2.4
2B Acuna/Mcneil - 2.1
CF Taylor/Gilbert - 2.1
RF Jeff/Marte - 1.1
DH - 0.9
3B Baty- 2.2
Total - 11.3

Add Soto - + 6 War (Soto to RF, Marte to DH)

Add Pete- + 1.8 WAR (Add Pete, Move Mark back to 3B)

Add Christian Walker- +1.8 WAR

Add Bregman - +1.4 WAR

Add Santander - +1.4 WAR

Bellinger (CF) - +0.2 WAR

Gleyber Torres - +0.5 WAR

Joc Pederson - +1 WAR

Scenarios-
Sign Pete/Walker, Santander, and Gleyber = +3.7, 15 total WAR

Sign Pete/Walker and Soto = + 7.3, 19.1 total WAR

Takeaways-

• This is completely meaningless. They are numbers on a page and not real life.

• Fangraphs really likes Taylor, Baty and Acuna. It does not like Pete lol.

• Sign soto. He fits this team like a glove.

Disclaimer- I am using fangraphs projections here which are meaningless and do not reflect real life. I also took liberties with the some numbers here and there depending on PAs and stuff. This is just for my own enjoyment but I thought I’d share in case anyone was interested. Please don’t come at me, this was all napkin math.

If people enjoyed this, next I’ll look at pitchers and players they can go after in the trade market. Also if there’s anyone I missed you’d like to see, let me know.

Edit: I believe I screwed up the 2024 3B and 2B values because for some reason fangraphs applies Iglesias total WAR to both positions when I look at 2B and 3B WAR. I’m too lazy to fix it but keep that in mind.

What do you think the Mets lineup and rotation could look like next year? Here’s my take:

1. Francisco Lindor - SS
2. Mark Vientos - DH/1B
3. Juan Soto - RF
4. Pete Alonso - 1B/DH
5. Brandon Nimmo - LF
6. R. Mauricio/B. Baty battle - 3B
7. Drew Gilbert - CF
8. LuisAngel Acuña - 2B
9. Francisco Alvarez - C

Bench:

1. Jeff McNeil - IF/OF
2. Tyrone Taylor - OF
3. Luis Torrens - C
4. Loser of Mauricio/Baty battle - IF

Starting Pitchers:

1. Senga
2. Bieber
3. Fried
4. Severino
5. Peterson
6. Butto

Bullpen:

1. Megill
2. Stanek
3. Garrett
4. Suter
5. T. Scott
6. D. Nuñez
7. Diaz

Would love to hear some good stories for why folks love their favorite Met.

I’ve been a fan for my whole life and truth be told, I haven’t quite decided on who my favorite is.

LFGM

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Feel free to discuss whatever you want in this thread.

Ok genuine question, let’s say I was to post a funny meme or video making fun of the Phillies after they lose to the Mets. Is that allowed here or no? I’m just curious. I like to have fun on Reddit. This subreddit seems super serious all the time so I’m just curious. Thanks :) LGM

I just watched the 5th inning debacle. What a horror.

The first error by Judge was bad…but shit happens and you (and your team) move on. I think he catches that fly ball from Hernandez 9/10 times. But all those errors were in his head. It would’ve taken a great, but not spectacular, play. He makes that catch, they escape disaster.

out of some plaster of paris and a dream

STL is looking to cut back payroll, and has Gray signed to a backloaded deal. They owe him at least $65m over the next two years. Helsley is one of the best relievers in the game, with a 1.83 ERA over his past three seasons. He saved an MLB-best 49 games in 2024 while pitching to a 2.04 ERA with a 29.7% strikeout rate, 8.6% walk rate and a fastball that averaged 99.6 mph. He is also a free agent after next season, and is expected to cost around $7m in 2025.

Mets could essentially "buy" a solid mid-tier starter and excellent reliever from St Louis in exchange for taking on Gray's contract, in exchange for some mid-level prospects (ie, guys ranked 10-30 on MiLB's list).

Jeeesh! Oh wow FUNDIES tsk tsk

Edit All the responses are so good😂. And my bad, cause I should have said hear GKR in the fifth

I don't really like to spend too much time pondering these hypotheticals, but now seems as good a time as any, and I'm just curious everyone here's thoughts on this one.

I feel pretty strongly that the Mets would've beaten the Yankees had we made it to the World Series, but I'm unsure about the Padres. As some of my Brooklyn fam are still big Dodgers fans, I watch them fairly often, and I had been saying that they were the only team that really 'scared me' - and that I'd rather play the Padres, just knowing how stacked the Dodgers hitting was. But I didn't really watch a ton of Padres games, and a lot of friends/ family were saying they were the more difficult matchup for us. Do you believe this is an accurate assessment? Obviously the Dodgers won it all, so that part goes without saying, but the Padres were also real close to getting by them...

Any thoughts on this are welcome.

*Also want to add that I'm really proud of our team this year! Whatever the future brings, this will go down as one of the most exciting post-seasons I've ever seen. Still jamming OMG with my fam when I take them to school in the AM - Let's Go Mets!

Stearns said it best - we have a tremendous opportunity this offseason with tons of both open payroll and mlb ready or near ready prospects

Here’s what I want to see

2 SP

1 - Trade for Garrett Crochet - yes this will cost prospects - Gilbert Clifford and sproat I don’t want to deal. I would make jett Mauricio, Acuna,Tidwell and tong available to be centerpieces of a trade. I’d lock Crochet up long term.

2. Corbin Burnes

Burnes, crochett, senga, Peterson, butto with depth of Blackburn, megil, sproat, vasil and hamel is a serious starting rotation

Bullpen - trade for Devin Williams - he is an Elite arm - then let Stearns cook

Diaz, Williams, Garrett are a solid trio - then let Stearns do his thing

Lineup -

A- make a $550 mil offer to Soto and see if he bites… I don’t think he will.

B - Offer Alonso - 3 years $84. If he accepts great… if not… it wasn’t meant to be - sign the Walker guy from Arizona.

C - If neither accept then I am waiting to see who over played their hand in FA and will sign the shorter term prove it deal…

C Alvarez, SS Lindor, 3b Vientos, LF nimmo Are locked in their spots

I think 2nd will be won by a prospect in spring training - Mauricio, Jett, Baty and acuna can fight it out - McNeil is the fallback plan.

CF - I’d like to see Gilbert win the spot. Taylor will be the defensive replacement and 4th OF

Right - marte - may need help here

DH - Clifford is the long term plan, but wouldn’t mind signing a masher that can also play RF

Thoughts?

Blake Snell 3.12 era, 2.43 fip, 1.048 whip, 12.5 so9

Corbin Burnes 2.92 era, 3.55 fip, 1.096 whip, 8.4 so9

Betts, obviously