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He’s a caricature.

Pham and Bartolo Jr. have no place in a lineup over any of the prospects

Two of his tools are a knife and a fork.

Now that Buck has cooled Vientos off when he does actually start him once he'll probably struggle. The way to ruin a hitting prospect here.

Stubborness

Uncle Steve is NOT a meddling owner.

Anymore....why does he hate Vientos or better yet what is to love about Vogelbach. Cut Pham leave McNeil in LF bring up Mauricio at 2nd bury Vogelbach as pH only Canha as 4th of

The Vogelbach story last year was cute but come on already. Can we be a serious franchise for once. Is it because our name ends in “ETS”?

Buck is terrible and needs to go.

after this one. So weird how they are handling this.

Call Vientos up if Bucks not going to play him? This is idiotic, per usual with the Mets. Cohen needs to step in

In comment 16123918 Metnut said:

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after this one. So weird how they are handling this.

Yeah, because we are facing two LHPs over the next three games. Hes platooning them when he should just be playing Vientos most of the time. It’s tiresome.

of all the clutch home runs that carried the Mets to the division title and deep into the playoffs. Buck knows the Mets couldn’t have done it without him.

Oh… wait…

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sounds like the name of a horse

Hard tonight.
Let's hope it keeps up

Real outside the box thinking, Buck.

Lindor have a good gzme 2-4 hr 4 rbi 2 runs scored 5-2 game. Keep it going

Can't say he's never given up a run to rockies.

Nice to see him and Verlander get rolling

In comment 16123898 Optimus-NY said:

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Two of his tools are a knife and a fork.

Good 1 Optimus-NY!

We'd all be better off if he replaced those tools with chop sticks

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In comment 16123898 Optimus-NY said: Quote: Two of his tools are a knife and a fork. Good 1 Optimus-NY! We'd all be better off if he replaced those tools with chop sticks

I can't take credit for that one. I saw it in the comments section of an article from the NY Post. The Pillsbury Batboy moniker is mine though!

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In comment 16123898 Optimus-NY said: Quote: Two of his tools are a knife and a fork. Good 1 Optimus-NY! We'd all be better off if he replaced those tools with chop sticks

Good one about the chop sticks. How did the Pirates organization allow him to develop with them looking like that? Lose some weight and have some pride in being a professional athlete. Worse yet, the Pirates were ok with it.

first to go. Then Slogobach

In comment 16124023 Optimus-NY said:

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In comment 16124019 Dr. D said: Quote: In comment 16123898 Optimus-NY said: Quote: Two of his tools are a knife and a fork. Good 1 Optimus-NY! We'd all be better off if he replaced those tools with chop sticks Good one about the chop sticks. How did the Pirates organization allow him to develop with them looking like that? Lose some weight and have some pride in being a professional athlete. Worse yet, the Pirates were ok with it.

He could look like John Kruk or Tony Gwinn and it wouldn't matter. He's just not that good.

as much as they have while wasting a young guy on the bench.

as if the actual results don't make that plainly obvious enough, or the logic of wasting time on 2 dead ends only signed for a few more months vs a young guy with 6+ years of control, here's another proof point of their philosophy not working - they tried the same "run them out" philosophy last year with JDD and Dom Smith basically through July. How did that work out? JDD started hitting the second he was gone but not a minute before.

in a million ways people know when their role in an organization is hanging by a thread. when there is no way they are getting another contract there and at risk for being replaced any day by someone else. some people are unaffected by that but it would seem this mets regime continues to be unable to judge that.

And to not play Vientos in hitter's parks like Wrigley Field or Coors is mind boggling.

The only possible reason might be -- they're trying to preserve Mark's trade value, to get something for him in a deadline deal.

But this 'braintrust' is not that smart.

In comment 16124058 Named Later said:

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And to not play Vientos in hitter's parks like Wrigley Field or Coors is mind boggling. The only possible reason might be -- they're trying to preserve Mark's trade value, to get something for him in a deadline deal. But this 'braintrust' is not that smart.

That would be odd, unless they're playing chess and we're playing checkers (lol).

there is only 1 rationale for playing the guys they are playing, and that is that they think they are good and can help them win.

they havent been good and they havent helped them win so to date they are wrong.

they can either continue being wrong or try something so obvious it helped them win 2 games last week. this shouldnt be a hard decision.

"Is trying to figure out who to keep that's why they are playing" nonsense Pham and fatboy are the same players they have always been.
Both need to go.

The Mets - while are still performing under expectations are still very much alive and have a chance to make this a successful season. I hope Buck's stubbornness or Eppler's shortcomings do not prevent this team from qualifying for the playoffs and beyond.

I am also curious if there is a disagreement between Buck and Billy or are they both responsible for curious decisions like too many at-bats for Vogelbach and Pham.

Eppler made these terrible moves and Buck obviously supported them and now they are trying to prove themselves right but unfortunately all they are doing is proving themselves more and more wrong.

Vientos could take a while to get up to speed, it is essential he play regularly so he learns to handle ML pitching.

Eppler and Buck can't leave soon enough.

In comment 16124073 Vanzetti said:

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Eppler made these terrible moves and Buck obviously supported them and now they are trying to prove themselves right but unfortunately all they are doing is proving themselves more and more wrong. Vientos could take a while to get up to speed, it is essential he play regularly so he learns to handle ML pitching. Eppler and Buck can't leave soon enough.

THIS. They're in saving face mode now. They won't admit they're wrong and are doubling down on these failed experiments. They can't be trusted going forward and need to be gone.