Welcome to this best-of-five National League Division Series thread between the 6th seeded Mets (89-73) & the 2nd seeded N.L. East Champion Phillies (95-67). The Mets beat the Brewers by the hairs on their chinny-chin-chins in the NLWS two days ago
despite losing the season series to them during the regular season. The Phillies, like the Brewers, won the regular season series against the Mets
7 games to 6. The Mets will be looking for some payback against the Phillies the same way they did against the Brewers. Click
HERE to read a preview of this Playoff Series. Enjoy 😊!
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Mets @ Phillies: Game 1 –⚾Senga (R) vs. Wheeler (R)⚾– 4:08 pm EDT
Starting Lineups for both clubs today.
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Probable Starting Pitcher Matchups for today & tomorrow against the Phillies in the city of co-called Brotherly Love.
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Notes:
-Today’s game will be televised on
FOX, but tomorrow afternoon’s game will be televised on
FS1.
-The weather forecast for today's game at Citizen’s Bank Park is excellent. Click
HERE to keep updated & see the Hourly AccuWeather Reports from there.
-These two teams are VERY familiar with each other. The Mets are now going to be back in their own time-zone for the first time in approximately two weeks when they played their last home game on the 22nd of September. Click
HERE too see the Mets’ 26-man roster for the NLDS against the Phillies.
-Click
HERE to see the list of the Mets’ roster transactions so far in October.
-Click
HERE to see the Mets' 26-man active playoff roster for this series.
-The Mets' 4-man bench for today’s game will consist of
Torrens (R), Martinez (R), Acuña (R), & Bader (R). 
i think the dodgers are the better matchup but selfishly i want to go to a game in SD and see the revenge tour continue. go pads!
Let’s. Fucking. Go!!
As soon as he got wired up and started hitting the zone with the fast ball his slider came naturally.
Diaz needs to be used as much as possible.
We are so close.
Lets fucking go Mets
Let’s. Fucking. Go!!
Good on you, Coop.
Demons buried
Let’s. Fucking. Go!!
fuck yea Cooper. Love to see it. Lets go brother !
Oh my God.
Oh my God indeed.
But I'm ready to say it now: Francisco Lindor is the best SS in Mets history
But I'm ready to say it now: Francisco Lindor is the best SS in Mets history
getting very close to not just being the best SS in Mets history. who is the better position player? his heroics this past 9 days may have already surpassed piazza.
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have just been a pain in the balls to some people here. Mea culpa. Renewed faith in this team and leadership.
Let’s. Fucking. Go!!
fuck yea Cooper. Love to see it. Lets go brother !
Yo brother....we were all wrong back at 0-5 and 11 games under in May!
My sons continually give me crap for my treatment of Francisco Lindor....I was killing him at the start of the season while others were citing his annual poor/slow starts.
I was wrong, wrong, wrong...and it's never felt so good!
I even cancelled my 20 game tix for this year, though there were other logistical reasons beside my lack of faith in the team DS had put together. I'm back in for 2025, BTW, same seats as I had previously.
We're Met fans...long suffering Met fans. Bu we're part of Mets Nation.
What a ride..
OMG, Amazin', LFGM
Francisco Lindor is everything we thought he was when we made the move for him and more.
How about Steve Cohen? Brings in Stearns who brings in Mendoza and here we are.
No matter what happens over the next month, we are in great hands.
Happy to be here, but now go win the NLCS!
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Have a special place in my heart for Jose Reyes. He will always be one of my favorite Mets and I still think letting him go was one of biggest mistakes ever. If he stayed with them and stayed healthy, maybe it would be different...
But I'm ready to say it now: Francisco Lindor is the best SS in Mets history
getting very close to not just being the best SS in Mets history. who is the better position player? his heroics this past 9 days may have already surpassed piazza.
I’m not quite ready to put him ahead of DW. But he’s definitely getting close.
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Also our change to series threads was the real catalyst to the Mets turn around lol!!
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Have a special place in my heart for Jose Reyes. He will always be one of my favorite Mets and I still think letting him go was one of biggest mistakes ever. If he stayed with them and stayed healthy, maybe it would be different...
But I'm ready to say it now: Francisco Lindor is the best SS in Mets history
getting very close to not just being the best SS in Mets history. who is the better position player? his heroics this past 9 days may have already surpassed piazza.
Piazza, Beltran, as great as they were, I think mentally for me will always be just a little behind a homegrown player like Strawberry or Wright. If they (Piazza or Beltran) had won a WS it may be different.
Piazza's HR after 9-11 is one of the best moments in any sport at any time for me outside of Miracle on Ice (but I was little for Miracle on Ice).
Wright is a lot like Lindor to me, and hearing them say last night that Lindor needs to stretch/prep for 40 minutes before every game just to take the field made me very worried for his future. I know they say it's back spasms right now, but I also know it didn't start with spinal stenosis for Wright. Reyes is always going to be tainted for now because he's a piece of shit. I do profess to separate on-field and off-field and I do, if Reyes could perform and he was legally allowed to I'd welcome him on my team, but doesn't mean he gets a spot in my pantheon of players.
Anyway, I'm just enjoying this ride. I was very critical of the start to the season, but I was one of the few of us who did actually bet the over on the win total, lol and a WS win definitely can change how I think of a player and where they go on my personal Mets Mt. Rushmore.
good topic though.
Also our change to series threads was the real catalyst to the Mets turn around lol!!
Yeah, who can forget the series thread change, lol! Gotta add Grimace, Glizzy Iggy, OMG, the Rally Pimp, etc. to the list!
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I saw a stat last night from June 1 to the end of the season the Mets were the best team in baseball. Over the final 4 months of a 6 month season they were #1. They still needed to win a game on the last day of the season just to qualify for the wild card.
The Mets were at 24-33 .421 on May 31st. Closer to last place in the NL than to the last wild card spot. 4.5 games out of a WC spot with 8 teams to pass to make it.
Let hope they keep it going and make this season into a Disney movie.
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have just been a pain in the balls to some people here. Mea culpa. Renewed faith in this team and leadership.
Let’s. Fucking. Go!!
fuck yea Cooper. Love to see it. Lets go brother !
Yo brother....we were all wrong back at 0-5 and 11 games under in May!
My sons continually give me crap for my treatment of Francisco Lindor....I was killing him at the start of the season while others were citing his annual poor/slow starts.
I was wrong, wrong, wrong...and it's never felt so good!
I even cancelled my 20 game tix for this year, though there were other logistical reasons beside my lack of faith in the team DS had put together. I'm back in for 2025, BTW, same seats as I had previously.
We're Met fans...long suffering Met fans. Bu we're part of Mets Nation.
What a ride..
OMG, Amazin', LFGM
I will say this, the Stanek/Garret we are seeing now were not the players we saw 4 weeks ago. However I stand by my statement before...
Garret was overworked and needed a rest from high leverage and Stanek was working on pitches like a slider/sweeper so he seemed less effective.
But now it's time to do what you do best and he's throwing HEAT and Garret is back to using his nasty curve.
I think this is a strategy Hefner has had all season which makes sense for development purposes ..... but now we are here and everyone is using their A+ stuff and look a lot better. Same with the SP's
Stanek has a ring. I don't think that experience can be over-stated. We have seen players wilt with jitters under the intense playoff spotlight so many times. Having someone reliable is invaluable.
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that said i dont think any of them ever hit the highs that piazza hit as a true MVP candidate who carried them on a multi-season postseason run that got to a WS (and 100% yes 9/11 homer too was just as big). until lindor this last week.
2 more prime years and lindor is 2nd on the mets all time war list to wright but in 600+ fewer games as a met, and with a somewhat reasonable chance to catch him.
100%. marte has contributed too, and obviously acuna was big when lindor was out. some good eppler fingerprints on this run that can blunt the sting of 2023's failures. i think he was even the one that found garrett right?
Eppler seemingly was an excellent recruiter. So much so i wonder if the Mets would have gotten at least a cursory look from Ohtani last offseason and maybe even a better shot at Yamamoto.
Obviously doesn't matter given where we've ended up, though that possibly decides the next series one way or the other lol.
I also think they lead the league in unlikeable characters, though J. Winker helps the Mets in that category.
But, the Dodgers have Ohtani and Betts and a hobbled Freeman.
Their pitching staff is a mess, but a two days off will help them...glad LA won last night which means a game 5 Friday, two days before the NLCS begins
Tough call, but I think I'd rather face Los Angeles.
The Padres scare me; Darvish (who owns the Mets) Cease, King plus Tatis, Machado, etc...
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Garrett predates Stearns, just as Elian Pena (2025) if he becomes a star will be an "Eppler" addition... Mets were in on Pena pre-Eppler but without getting complicated, an Eppler addition.
Eppler seemingly was an excellent recruiter. So much so i wonder if the Mets would have gotten at least a cursory look from Ohtani last offseason and maybe even a better shot at Yamamoto.
Obviously doesn't matter given where we've ended up, though that possibly decides the next series one way or the other lol.
What should be apparent by now, is that the WC bias by Japanese players is very hard to overcome (Murakami has publicly said he intends to sign with a west coast team or... the Yankees). Obviously, there are some outliers but it's very much real. That being said, when it comes to FA, some are simply better "recruiters" than others and Eppler seemed to be good at that part of the job.
I do think the Mets bring in a GM this off-season (that's not to say Stearns is or isn't a good recruiter, hard to even tell at this point, as the Brewers didn't spend on FA's and the Mets didn't chase big FA this off-season)
It's expected he will replace Acuna.
i get sending him to AFL to play on Friday but having him play b2b on saturday too seems a little unnecessary unless they arent going to start him on sunday.
iglesias has struggled and had some really bad at bats yesterday. mcneil starting against righties could be a big add. Yu and 1 of Flaherty/Yamamoto are likely starting for SD/LA on Friday.
probably lines up king for game 1 if Padres advance.
or the other of Flaherty/Yamamoto for LAD if they advance.
lifetime mcneil is:
3/6 vs king
1/3 vs flaherty
0/3 vs yamamoto
iglesias 0/5 vs flaherty, 1/4 vs king, hasnt faced yamamoto.
iglesias hit .402 with a 184 rc vs lefties on the year. .301 with a 112 rc vs righties. for his career he's an 83 rc vs righties, 110 vs lefties. he's had a magical season but may be best served platooned vs lefties.
I agree that having him as an option vs RHP could be a really big help. Not sure Mendoza will sit Iglesias though.