Michael Drago

If Buttó or Gilbert/Tidwell were enough to make the deal happen, it would have been Buttó or Gilbert/Tidwell and not all three.

A different [*cough* smarter *cough*] team probably would have asked for just one or two of the Mets’ better prospects (probably not one of the very top guys but maybe AJ Ewing or Jacob Reimer or someone of that ilk) and if those are the two options I will take this one instead.

“If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you’d have invented Facebook.”

Buttó has also been good at times but the lack of options makes him a hard guy to roster if he’s not gonna be more consistent. And see prior point re: Mets pitching development.

It wouldn’t shock me if Tidwell became a decent major league reliever. The Mets are also theoretically well on their way to being an org that can develop those kinds of guys fairly easily.

People would have been upset if this deal had been just Gilbert for Rogers and he might be the guy I’m least upset about losing of the three.

I’m a bit surprised that the Mets are giving up all three of these guys in the one deal but I also don’t think giving up any of them individually is anything to be upset about and if you do you might just not be listening to the right people about the Mets’ farm system.

If Ronny Mauricio and Brett Baty are still playing against lefties after the deadline something has gone horribly, horribly wrong.

I paid ten bucks for WiFi on our plane to San Francisco so I could watch that game. And if I had only been able to see Francisco Alvarez’s homer… dayenu.

Very excited to have another Philadelphia sports team to hate.

Is Keith gonna be emotionally prepared to go call a baseball game in twenty minutes amidst everything or is Ron gonna need to call in to do it?

I’m just Reed, and I’m enough
And I’ve got such awesome stuff.
So hey, check me out, yeah, I’m just Reed

They are decidedly not allowed to do this during the ceremony itself at our school but once the ceremony is done they no longer belong to us and may make whatever terrible decisions they want to with their lives.

My take on tonight’s baseball game and this weekend’s Subway Series in general is that the Knicks play game one of the Eastern Conference Finals at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night.

I did this. 🥹

Mitchell Robinson Eastern Conference Finals appearances: 1

Joel Embiid Eastern Conference Finals appearances: 0

How can you not be romantic about basketball?

Brett Baty, you had my curiosity. Now you have my attention.

Any idea where he would rank amongst pitching prospects now if he were still eligible?

I think the concern more than anything else is whether or not he’s actually healthy and if that’s contributing to his struggles

If Jesse Winker needs to go on the IL, there will be an all-out war between the Brett Baty girlies and the Jared Young nerds. There will be no escaping the chaos. Friendships will be destroyed. Choose your side now and may God have mercy on us all.

David Stearns is watching, Knicks. Finish this for him.

Are you saying you won’t get matching jerseys with me when the Mets do a Jets tribute for their next City Connects?

It was really nice for the Mets to debut their A lineup in Washington DC so I can see it in-person.

I absolutely would not, given the power/speed that Julio provides

Never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or a Mets fan how much they spent on the NYON drop.

Do you think a tiny piece of Gary Cohen’s soul dies each time he’s forced to say “tonight’s game is brought to you by MooMoo”?

I was very confused when Clayton McCullough - a seemingly well-regarded coach on a good team - decided to accept the manager job for one of the worst franchises in baseball. I am less confused now.

On the one hand yes but on the other hand despite all the frustrations of the past couple days the Marlins are genuinely awful and will be for the foreseeable future.