2020-21 Offseason Outlook Series

Will this free agent prediction for those guys be like your “Even in 60 games, the Marlins will be 15 games out of fourth place; 25 games out of first” prediction?

I’m actually surprised that the Mets would need Springer with the great Nimmo on their team. Or Bauer, when they have the greatest pitching staff in MLB history. And whatever happened to all that “Ramos is the guy who solidifies the Mets catching” statements from Mets fans?

You clearly don’t know what hitting better is. Hitting a baseball is the process of swinging the bat and getting a hit. Keeping the bat on your shoulders is not hitting. A guy that has a mediocre batting average and a high OBP is a guy that is not a good hitter. He’s a guy that walks. Those guys are ineffective against pitchers that throw strikes to make them swing. Nimmo is not a guy that hits much to get on base. It’s all about getting walks in PAs where the pitcher can’t throw strikes. At least know what the stats mean when you try to make statements.

As for better than our OFs, Nimmo would not start for us. He lacks so many things that we look for in players. 1), the ability to hit his way onto base. 2) Despite having nice speed, he is a bad base runner, which is a key part of our offense since we play small ball. 3) he sucks on defense.

See, one of the biggest knocks about being to focused on analytics, is that people who do that tend to have a cookie-cutter concept of what makes a player or team good. There is no understood concept of looking for specific analytics with the target of finding players that fit into a specific type of philosophy of baseball play. That’s the problem of you analytics guys who didn’t play much, if at all….and as a result, don’t know the actual play of the game.

If you had a concept of things, instead of trying to go with your failed efforts of evaluating things, maybe you need to look at what was the cause of results that you failed at. The Marlins are expected to not be successful through a 162-game season the same way that they were in 60 games, but if you take an understood analysis of them, you would see why they made the playoffs and validated their season with winning a round….and why many of us felt they had a legitimate chance to finish out of the basement in a 162-game season prior to the Covid shutdowns. Here’s some things you fail to see in the Marlins in comparison to the Marlins that will have to be considered before you start blabbering about 2021.

1) Marlins are far more superior in base running and manufacturing runs than the Mets.

2) Marlins are far superior defensively than the Mets.

3) Mets have deGrom and not much else. Marlins will be playing with young kids pitching, but we have a lot of them that we can rotate throughout the season. Depth favors the Marlins in the pitching department. Of course, we will have the dilemma of not overworking our kids. On the Mets side, they have to add at least two SPs to your mix that carry the top of the rotation. Even with Stroman and Syndergaard in tow, you can’t guarantee those two will pitch better than the kids we have.

4) Marlins have many intangibles that the Mets don’t have. One of the Mets biggest flaws is that, while they have many hitters that are individually successful, but don’t mesh well into any kind of offensive execution other than hoping for collective hot streaks.

5) Marlins are under no pressure while the Mets always are under pressure.

As for your additions, how many guys do you think can be in a lineup and on the field? Your team will have to trade players to make room for any additions.

And I’ll note your latest prediction since you showed your genius this year. But I’m guessing you won’t be looking for me if it doesn’t go well…because you pulled off that disappearing act this year when the Mets faltered all season long.

They have some DHs too.

I’m trying to understand how being a failed Minor Leaguer is an insult on a sports blog site.

Old School nonsense? Yeah, let’s see how well Nimmo does against the pitchers that throw strikes and force him to swing. Not so good.

Guess which type of pitchers are on p[layoff teams.

His .258 career BA says he doesn’t succeed when he’s forced to swing.

Not a surprise the Mets haven’t seen the playoffs with him as a starting player.