My thing is that he's going to want $25M a season. He's a Boras client. Cohen can spend all he wants, but is he going to spend 300M? Probably not.
His defensive metrics went way above average. He was superb defensively, I think you’re under valuing that. And his OBP is the same as Canha’s is a bit disingenuous, he had 53 XBH, 71 BB, and 66 RBI this year. That’s really valuable.Nimmo had the same OBP as Canha. His defense as a CF has improved to about average and has no arm. IMO he should only play LF as Marte is better in CF and is all around the better player. I agree with the notion that he will cost more than he is worth to replace since he somehow has a 5.5 WAR.But unless the Mets make a trade or sign Judge I don't see any one out there to replace him.
Canha and Nimmo had same OBP which was the stat you referred to. Nimmo had a 130 OPS+ as a leadoff hitter while Canha had a 122 OPS+ hitting 7th. I don't know if OPS+ takes that into account.
Next year the Mets lineup is Lindor Marte Canha Baty/Escobar McCann/Alvarez Alonso McNeill are set. So either resign Nimmo or trade for a high end corner OF and sign a real DH. Can make some bigger moves but the pitching staff needs a lot of attention too. Probably have to resign degrom Diaz and a replacement for cookie.
Canha doesn't scare anyone. I'd rather have McNeill in the 3 hole. Or he hits 2nd and Lindor 3rd or 5th. They need another legit big power bat. Maybe Judge is just a wet dream, but no one is afraid enough of the batting order to have to pitch to Alonso. Hopefully Alvarez develops quickly to provide additional power and Baty becomes another McNeill.
My opinion? Alonso should slim down a bit. That might actually help him hit for more power, especially opposite field power. He's become too bulky.
Mets need to sign Alonso long term and telling him he's a sucky defender by signing an expensive first baseman isn't going to help with the negotiations.
If they land ohtani then dont you think he becomes an almost everyday dh with what he will get paid and then pete is married to 1b long term? i honestly dont know what they do bc this roster is horribly flawed and is going to get worse but cost more money very quickly. i just dont like how this is setup to move forward
Yes. They're a dynasty in the making.
I loved it. I felt like six was the perfect number of actually deserving teams, baseball every day, all on the line. More please.
I don't disagree with you but you don't need 162 games to separate the top 12 of 30 teams. It's the same for NHL and NBA - the regular season is too long.
I don't disagree. Again, baseball every day is very much my jam, but I can't disagree.
I also like the fact that the NFL and MLB playoffs last a month so the games feel more intense. Playng a 6 month regular season to get an extra home game isn't a very good incentive, especially when home advantage isn't very important to NHL and MLB playoff series.
They should have just done what soccer did from the beginning which is make regular season titles a thing. The ship has sailed on that now.
They used to have that until they created divisions. I like a lot of the way soccer works - top team wins the title, top 4-5 are invited to champions league and even my hammers earned a Euro invite. I liked it better when FA cup winners also got a champions league invite (at least I think they did). Winning the lower leagues is a nice piece of hardware but the top 2 auto-promote so there can sometimes be shenanigans. I like promotion/relegation but that'll never happen here and probably a good thing for me as the mets jets knicks and rangers would have been in the 3rd division.
Home advantage isn’t important in the NHL? Last change is a big deal, as evidenced by the Rangers-Hurricanes series last year.
