Mets Pitching Rotation and Upcoming Schedule

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Start selling on Depop, where taste recognizes taste. Fair or not. And this may not sound fair, it's just the reality of it. They just need him to carry the team. With Ju out, sometimes it's when your slumps hit and it's when you get hot that really matter. And with Soto out, they need Lindore to be hot. They need Lindore to carry the team. They need Lindor to not go two for 12, to not come up small in big spots, to not make defensive miscu es. And I don't know. I don't know if it's gonna come out that he has a concussion. It's again something Tiki and I talked about the other day. We've mentioned it a little bit here on the Rico Bronya. That is that the reason is that possible? Has it been misdiagnosed from that second game of the season when he took that nasty hit? And if it does come out, I'll feel bad, but I won't take away these net negatives because look, as long as you're on the field, we're gonna be judging you based on the results, and the results are just not good enough. Yeah, listen, and I'm sorry, um I know that Francisco Lindore his goal is to spot every day every game. Like that's his goal. Now, I know that um that's important for him because I guess that shows his leadership. That shows he's going out there. Which is why where Craig has said multiple times, like he's making mistakes. Maybe it's time to bench him. You know, I think that would take he that would take he would take it personal Yeah, I I had mentioned when he committed uh man, I'm trying to remember the mistake. Oh, yeah, the forgetting the amount of outs mistake. My point was, and it's it's a little bit different than that, so I don't want to say it's the same thing because it's not. My thought was you had a chance to send a message to the rest of the room by benching him off of that. But also knowing that Lindor is more than I guess the right guy to not take it personal. If Carlos Mendoza said, hey, dude, it is unacceptable that you forgot how many outs there were. We're going to bench you. But by the way, Francisco, I'm doing it not only because it's not acceptable, but because I think it's going to send a great message to the rest of the room that if I bench you, I can bench anybody . I think doing it now, you could do it. Like right now, this team they've lost eight in a row. Like, I don't think any idea is a bad idea. Like, I can't sit here and say, Well, that's a stupid idea. Like, what's a bad idea ? Obviously, the Mets don't have great options, so anytime we talk about benching somebody, you always have to think about who's playing instead of them, and that's not ideal. But I think the goal is you're trying to spark a team, you're trying to get this team going. And, you know, right now it's why we talk about firing the manager. You know, we don't talk about firing the manager because it's Carlos Mendoza's fault. It is David Stearns' fault. We all know that. We don't have to say that every day. Oh, obviously. Excuse me. If the team's not good enough, whose fault is that? The guy who built it? The architect. That's who. Yeah. But the But that doesn't spark a team in the middle of the season. That doesn't do anything. No. And what are you gonna do? Give the the the the this honor to Kai Korea and all of a sudden that's gonna change. I don't I don't think this team is gonna change overnight because Kai Correa takes over and Calls Mendoza gets fired. Yeah, but you know what, Hoff, we've seen way too many examples where it does. Like I think in Philadelphia, when they fire Joe Giordi, do you think that Philly fans probably said the same thing? Like, oh, Rob Thompson, what's that gonna do? Right. Obviously, guys have to play better. And this lineup feels awful right now, but the baseball history is l ittered with managerial changes, sparking teams. And again, that doesn't mean I'm at midnight yet. I'm not. I'm just reminding people whenever they say it's not his fault. No one's saying it's his fault. I mean, we're saying it's his fault for individual things like bullpen handling or lineup decisions or or things like that. But the overall issues with the Mets right now is that they're not good enough. Right now, luckily , they have a chance to turn it around. And luckily, they have an off day because God knows I needed an off day. All right. I need an off day. The team needs an off day. And they go to Chicago to play the Cubs, who just won a series against the Philadelphia Phillies. It is going to be Edward Cabrera on Friday, Jamison Tyone on Saturday, and Javier Asad on Sunday. So three right-hand ers against the Mets this weekend. Senga, Per alta, and Peterson . It is a big start for Senga because Senga is coming off of one of his worst starts as a New York map. It was bad. And I think that Senga had some good momentum coming his way based on how he looked in spring training and how he looked in his first few starts. You felt good about Kodai. And his last start against the A's was a disaster. So this is a big one, I think for, him. Because if the Mets are going to be good, and I mean sustainably good , what will their identity be? It will be good starting pitching. That's what it would be, in my opinion. And it is the exact opposite of what I said last year, because last year from the beginning of the year on, it was they need to score about five runs per game. They need to be a top four offense in the national league. They were not. It wasn't their main issue. But why I would argue that even though their pitching obviously derailed them in the second half of the season, their identity needed to be their offense, and it wasn't good enough. The Mets identity in 2026, if they're gonna have any success, to me would be their starting pitching. They have an ace in waiting if he isn't there already in N olan McLean. They've got a proven borderline ace in Freddie Peralta . Clay Holmes continues to be good. I've barely mentioned it, but in this finale against the Dodgers, five innings, two runs. He did his freaking job. He kept them in the game. He eliminated any concerns about the hamstring stuff. He threw 88 pitches. Clay Holmes did his freaking job. And he's a middle of the back of the rotation arm . The X factors, though, if you believe McLean is a stud and you believe Peralta is who he is, and we're good with Clay Holmes being a solid five to six inning two-run performer, it's Kodai Sangha. Kodai Sangha is the difference between the Mets having a good rotation with some questions to a really good rotation. And so they need him on Friday against a Cub team that I think is really talented and is starting to wake up . Sen ga, Peralta, and Peterson, another off day. And then they play six games at home. That's actually nine games at home, but it's six games at home, six games at home in a row before they have an off day. Mets are dealing with a lot of these off days now. They've got three off days in the next , let's see, three. They play nine games, and there are three off days. So I guess that means three off days in 12 days, if my math is correct, which will help. It would allow M toendy be more aggressive with his bullpen. It gives them more time to get Soto back. And remember what Mendy said on the broadcast on ESPN, which I didn't think was a terrible broadcast. There were some things that were said that were odd . I'm not going to get into it now, because we've already done an hour on the Rico, and I'm not going to waste everyone's time with opinions on the broadcast . But he said they expect Soto back on the next homestand. Again, it is a nine-game homestand. So that could be, it's not going to be the Minnesota Series. Is it the weekend against the Rockies? Or is it more realistically the week after against the Nationals, where they play Tuesday night, Wednesday night, and Thursday afternoon. By the way, if you want to see Nolan McLean, which is my strategy as a Met fan when I convince my wife I want to go to this game or that game. Nolan McLean is scheduled to pitch Tuesday night against the Twins, the opener of the homestand, and then he's scheduled to pitch Sunday afternoon against the Col orado Rockies, the finale of that series against Colorado. So if you're planning ahead, which I may be doing.