2021 Mets Thread

[SixFeetDeep]

10 years 341M

[IATA]

From Joel Sherman:

Hear that Lindor contact is straight 10 years. No opt outs. #mets

Hear that there are about $50M worth of deferrals in this Lindor deal #Mets

Lindor is receiving a partial no trade clause #Mets

Hear that Lindor signing bonus is $21M #Mets

The $341M would be $1M more than Tatis Jr. for the most ever for a SS and the third largest total ever given behind only Trout and Betts.

[Andrew Ryan]

Hell yes

[CatoTheElder]

Opening day postponed due to Nationals players contracting COVID...again.

[SixFeetDeep]

https://twitter.com/snytv/status/1380257230419857408?s=21

You know it’s bad when it’s the Home team’s announcers saying they should reverse the call

[mj2sexay]

What a total farce.

If I were Donnie Baseball, the next time Conforto steps up to the dish he's getting a fastball right between the numbers from whoever's on the mound.

[d sw0rdz]

uhh, that's not a conforto thing. a lot of players in the mlb try to eliminate the strike zone and may try to game 'averting HBPs' to try to get on base. they even had the replay to get the call right. that's an umpiring issue and a rule issue

[Andrew Ryan]

Derek Dietrich says hello

[SixFeetDeep]

uhh, that's not a conforto thing. a lot of players in the mlb try to eliminate the strike zone and may try to game 'averting HBPs' to try to get on base. they even had the replay to get the call right. that's an umpiring issue and a rule issue

They said it’s not a reviewable call

[SixFeetDeep]

Derek Dietrich says hello

Crowding the plate or leaning out over it are not the same as deliberately extending your elbow into the pitch. In the strike zone.

[delavan]

https://twitter.com/snytv/status/1380257230419857408?s=21

You know it’s bad when it’s the Home team’s announcers saying they should reverse the call

Yup.

"He stuck his elbow right into that pitch." 

Cheap(t) win.

[Andrew Ryan]

Crowding the plate or leaning out over it are not the same as deliberately extending your elbow into the pitch. In the strike zone.

Couldn't agree more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sENLPHKJeqo&ab_channel=CloseCallSports

[Andrew Ryan]

Before anyone accuses me of cherrypicking or drawing false equivalences, one of the distinct pleasures of watching far too many Mets/Marlins games over the years was getting to watch Derek Dietrich deliberately lean into pitches (whether they were inside of the strike zone or not). I was only meaning to point out the irony of this happening to the Marlins.

[IATA]

Just take the W and admit he fucked around to get it. Then we can forget about the super cheap play and move on.

[d sw0rdz]

our 'leaning in and getting hit' view is conforto's or a gillion other players' 'i was actually posturing my body away from that pitch and it hit me' cop out

again, it happens all the time. there are a lot of things broken with the game but this easily doesn't have to be one of them. enforce the rule better/make the calls right. that not being a reviewable/changeable call again leads to this being a systems issue