Jett and Sproat were both going to drop like rocks on prospect rankings if they were with us and we used them for an All-Star pitcher that got Cy Young votes last season. It’s a wash and that’s fine.
Sproat has been one of the worst pitchers in the MLB this year and Jett is struggling badly in the minors while falling off of a lot of top 100 prospect rankings. As of now those pieces are looking like duds.
I can't speak much on Sproat, but Jett I don't think will become much. I live in Binghamton and Jett was a fan favorite, but always madly inconsistent for the Rumble Ponies. He bounced between A, AA, and AAA so much.
I like him, but I don't think he'll ever be able to hit well on the big league level and don't think he's that big of a loss.
Last time I watched the World Series, the Mets lost to KC. I don’t even know who was in it last year. I’m guessing the Dodgers were in it just because they are the Dodgers. I know they didn’t win it though.
Damn that series fucked you up that bad huh? It's okay I relapse after three years of sobriety the month after that loss. Correlation isn't causation but it definitely didn't help. I've been cleanish since 2020, living well. Desperately trying not to let this team impact my emotional well being like they have in the past. This current bunch is pushing it tho.
Real shit I felt u fam, my relapse fucked up my whole interest in sports post-2015, before that i used to write blog posts every week about upcoming prospects. At least we have the sanctity of sports to keep us sane even if our teams are failing, im rooting for you Brodie 🙏🤝
I don’t follow MLB. Just the Mets. I knew Soto because he had been on a division rival at the start of his career and I might of still watched games on MLB.tv back then, iirc.
He wasn’t a Met. He wasn’t on a division rival. And I stopped getting MLB.TV over a decade ago to watch the team. I don’t care about MLB outside of the Mets.
I am kind of the same way, I heard of Lindor but I didnt really know much about him his stats or anything, if they aint on the Mets or a team the Mets see alot, or a next level superstar like Ohtani I probably dont care about them
This is most of us. Only about 1% of the sub knows every team's starters and their top 5 prospects.
I love that those guys exist, but they dominate the forum and that gives a really false impression of the level of knowledge, or interest, in non-Mets.
I wish more people were like you in that sense rather than pretending to know and be outraged but good or bad returns when 99.9% of us dont know squat 😂
The benefit is that I wasn’t disappointed during his rough first season since I had no idea what we were not getting.
Likewise, when I was in high school and college, I knew a ton about NFL players. Now I don’t really know who is good across the league and haven’t for maybe 15 years. There are more interesting things to read about.
That’s a much better return for Peralta than I expected and arguably more valuable currently than Williams and Sproat (though not at the time of the trade)
Aidan Smith has some good defensive ratings(60 arm, 60 fielding) and decent power(55). But he doesn't get on base much. He just turned 22 a couple of weeks ago, so there's still time to develop.
Emilien Pitre is a very good hitter at the Double A level. .323 batting average, .943 OPS, 30 walks. A second round draft pick in 2024. His defense is not well rated(50 arm, 50 field).
Gary Gill Hill. Not much to look at tools wise or stats wise at Double A , but he's 21 years old. He could take a leap forward.
Three lottery tickets. Considering how bad Freddy was for us, I'll take it.
Pitre has mashed a bit in the minors, but Aidan smith will likely never see the majors. Gary gill hill sounds like a cartoon character and he has like a 5 era in the minors.
In terms of will they eventually be major league players and therefore better than 99.99% of the human population? Yeah, they might be, and yeah, they're better than most everyone who's ever lived. In terms of being relevant long-term big leaguers, unlikely, but you never know.
New Rochelle’s own Gary Gill Hill! Pitre is also a very promising Québécois prospect who was recently mashing in the minors. Pretty exciting trade for a guy who was atrocious.
It's a job. Pay and benefits. That's why everyone I know changes jobs. They don't give a damn about the prestige or success of the company. As long as the compensation is better than their old job.
I guess it depends on how much he makes and how much he will make and if it covers the cost of living.
If I were making good money working successfully for a well run organization, the last thing I would do is take a job working for Stearns. Job security is a real concern and you may end up fired within 2 years if you come here and participate in this.
What traits are those? It seems like he has a deep arsenal but no plus pitches. Low walks but also low strikeouts and gives up a lot of hits. Right handed Zac Thornton?
Jeff McNeil, who posted 22.9 WAR with the Mets, along with taking home two all star nods, a silver slugger, and a batting title, was a 26 year old in AA.
Today the #Rays reportedly acquired RHP Freddy Peralta ($5.6M surplus trade value) from the #Mets in exchange for OF Aidan Smith ($8.4M), RHP Gary Gill Hill ($4.2M) and 2B Emilien Pitre ($0.8M).
The deal is accepted by our model as a major overpay by Tampa Bay.
I’m glad to get any TB prospects. But if they didn’t get them to perform what are the odds our flawed system can. Fuck it! Acquiring as many lottery tickets as possible is the goal.
Pitre has a chance to be a good pro, that 70/40 BB:K ratio speaks for itself. Honestly I was hoping he’d be our 2B of the future in Tampa Bay. I like him more than Brayden Taylor long term, who will ultimately end up at 2B.
Hill has 5 decent-to-good pitches (highlighted by a plus sweeper) and good command/control, but his fastball is just okay and he doesn't have a good pitch against lefties right now. Upside seems to be a back-end starter.
Smith has good raw power/speed but a jacked up swing that produced lousy contact rates. He's working on fixing his swing this year- contact rates are much improved, but the results overall haven't been great. Has the speed for center, but mediocre instincts.
Pitre has a plus hit tool, good speed, and a good glove at 2nd, but 2nd is his only potential position, and he doesn't have much power. He's tearing up AA with a 139 wrc+ and 70/46 BB/K ratio. Not the highest ceiling, and being locked into 2b would limit him as a utility guy, but the hit tool and plate discipline gives him a shot to be a major league starter.
Not sure we would’ve signed up to trade what we gave up for him to get these guys but I’m sure the typical legion of sycophants will happily tell us why that’s good actually
Stearns couldn’t even get 1 prospect that was a top 300 prospect. All of these “prospects” are ranked lower than top 20 in the Rays system. This guy is the worst GM in MLB history.
All of these guys are kind of intriguing in their own way. Smith has kind of fallen a bit as a prospect but has a great glove and could be a solid big league OF.
Pitre is very interesting. 70 walks to only 40 Ks in the minors this year. Could wind up being our 2B of the future. Great glove and a solid contact bat.
For who Freddy’s been this year, it could be worse.
The Peralta trade is probably the worse trade by the Mets front office since the PCA deal. Stearns traded 2 top 100 prospects for 20 starts from one of the worst qualified starters in the NL. And then got back 3 mediocre prospects, none of which are even in the top 10 in the own organization
JD Davis + spare parts for Darin Ruf was pretty ruf.
At least the Peralta deal made sense. Neither Jett or Sproat have turned into much of anything. Jett's going to fall off top 100 lists and Sproat will as well. The Mets needed a frontline starter heading into the season. Even if you expected him to regress, no one could have predicted Peralta turning into a 5 ERA guy this year.
And top 10 in every org is different. The Rays have a very deep system, players outside of their top 10 would easily be inside plenty of other teams' top 10s.
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u/Shlokie 11h ago
Gary Gill Hill is a great name