The Mets are designating reliever Jorge López for assignment, reports Joel Sherman of the New York Post (X link). The move comes after the right-hander tossed his glove into the stands following a rough outing this afternoon against the Dodgers. After the game, López said he didn’t regret the incident and called the Mets “the worst team in probably the whole f***ing MLB” (video provided on X by SNY).
López, a native of Puerto Rico, conducted his postgame media scrum in English. While it was initially unclear whether he intended to call the Mets “the worst team” in the league or if called himself “the worst teammate,” he answered “probably” to a follow-up question when asked whether he called the Mets “the worst team.” MLB.com’s Anthony DiComo tweets that López subsequently indicated he intended to criticize both himself and the club — calling himself the worst teammate on the league’s worst team.
The Mets may very well have been prepared to move on from López even before his comments. Called on to pitch in the eighth inning with the team trailing 5-3, he surrendered a double to Miguel Vargas that scored a pair of inherited runners. López retired Mookie Betts before serving up a two-run homer to Shohei Ohtani. He was ejected during the next at-bat after arguing with third base umpire Ramon De Jesus on a check swing. López flipped his glove over the protective netting on his way off the field. After the game, manager Carlos Mendoza called López’s behavior “not acceptable” and said the team would address it internally (video from SNY).
A veteran of nine MLB seasons, López inked a $2MM free agent deal with the Mets in December. This afternoon notwithstanding, he had serviceable run prevention numbers. In 26 1/3 innings, he turned in a 3.76 earned run average. López only punched out 17.2% of opponents while walking nearly 10% of batters faced. While he probably wouldn’t have been cut loose if not for today’s glove toss and postgame comments, it wasn’t a resoundingly impressive performance either.
López was an All-Star with the Orioles back in 2022, when he turned in a 1.68 ERA with 19 saves in 48 1/3 frames for Baltimore. The O’s controversially traded him to the Twins at the deadline. López’s production plummeted after the deal, as he turned in a 4.81 ERA in Minnesota. He continued to struggle after being swapped to the Marlins last summer and in a late-season return to Baltimore.
The Mets are riding a three-game losing streak and have dropped 19 of 26 this month. They’re a season-worst 11 games below .500 and ahead of only the Rockies and Marlins in the National League. The bullpen entered play today with a 4.42 ERA in May, ranking 21st in MLB. They lost the struggling Edwin Díaz to the injured list before the game. Adam Ottavino, Reed Garrett and Jake Diekman are taking high-leverage work.
Designate Ottavino please. I can’t watch him any longer.
Babe Ruth is coming out of retirement so Ottavino has someone to strike out
Makes sense since he was knocked out of the top 10 all time batting averages. Sitting at 13 now like that pig-faced ogre deserves.
CarIdeas
“Makes sense since he was knocked out of the top 10 all time batting averages. Sitting at 13 now like that pig-faced ogre deserves.”
Rubes look at batting average.
Knowledgable people (don’t look at batting average at all) look at batting average plus. Ruth is 55th with a career batting average plus of 119. Ty Cobb leads at 133.
Not sure why @ no good above is angry with Babe Ruth but the Babe could probably still hit about .320 off most pitchers in MLB.
I’m not angry. I loved him in that twilight zone episode at the hospital.
Im saying he will come back to get back in the top 10. Unfortunately hitting .320 won’t raise his lifetime .342 average (math and such).
Which shows how diluted the talent was back then. Tony Gwynn not even top 20 I believe, and he was probably the best pure hitter ever.
Edit he’s 23rd! Insane
That’s a bold faced lie. Pitchers didn’t throw 100 in babes day
There were generations of great pitchers in the Negro Leagues that Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, Foxx, Wagner and other greats of their eras never had to hit against.
It’s no coincidence that nobody has hit over .400 or come close to Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hit streak since MLB was integrated.
I think he’s just P.O.’d that Cohen only paid him 2 million bucks to stink and he gave everybody else at least 1o million.
He just missed Bob Feller in 1936 who some claimed threw 110. His fasted pitch recorded was 107.6!
100% of the Negro numbers are 100% BS. Wille Mays played as a 16 year old. Hitting 466 off a teenager is not the same as facing Walter Johnson. The Babe and Williams were the greatest hitters ever. Period. Josh who?
That’s your opinion, and there’s not enough time or space list all the players and facts that make you seem astonishingly ignorant and/or uninformed.
Sir, I do not understand what your screen name is referring to…granted that’s my problem, not yours, but could you elucidate??
It was just about the only sport going at that point. Now there are so many options. Like ice hockey, lacrosse, and curling.
Top guys could play, middle to bottom in that league could not. Your point is valid.
Babe hit a softer ball with an inferior piece of wood in his hands. Today’s hitters would complain about both.
Babe also didn’t wear arm protection, good shoes or an ear flap on his helmet.
It works both ways. There were great pitchers that Josh Gibson never had to face. There were many differences that make just listing the stats together a difficult fix. I sincerely doubt the playing fields were of similar quality, or the score keeping at the same level. As the leagues were separate, its impossible to compare the players on equal footing. Its much the same as adding the Mexican League stats in, or the Japanese League stats. As much as the movement to erase past history has grown, the Major Leagues took their time integrating the game. There were some ugly times. Including the Negro League stats into MLB history now, doesn’t change that the players weren’t allowed to play in MLB then. It just lets MLB cover it all with white wash.
If Negro League stats count for MLB, the USFL, CFL and XFL stats count for NFL. Not happening.
The best of the best in the Negro leagues should be recognized in Cooperstown. MLB numbers count in MLB, other leagues count in other leagues.
You know, you could just not count them yourself. No one is stopping you. ♂️
No, but they pitched. Today they just throw as hard as they can and it’s either served up fat or they can’t throw a strike. Pitching now days is horrible.
nwwh- Yes. And???
Weggie it’s more complicated. First, imagine if your guy Reggie Jackson wore an elbow guard, hand guard and had a better grip on the bat. How sick would his stats be?
Pitchers aren’t allowed to build innings or else media will say they were overused. There’s more to it than that, but this is our new reality.
That’s part of it, sure. But a lot smaller part than you are giving it credit, integration is so far from the only reason that players don’t hit like that anymore. The game, the physical abilities of players, the improvement of training facilities and health knowledge, ability to consistently produce and manipulate the current baseballs, etc etc. Big picture, pitchers have benefited from these changes more than hitters, plain and simple.
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I cann9t believe fathom how anyone who,watches baseball thinks this
Have you seen what pitchers make pitches do?
Add to this that in bygone eras, pitchers routinely knew they owned the inside corners and had no problem brushing back hitters or knocking them down to back them off the plate or prevent them from digging in. That seems to be a non-starter in the world of today’s multi millionaire contracts. Wonder how Gibson, Koufax, Drysdale or even Pedro or Clemens would do today. Every game would feature brawls over pitches one off the plate
However, given that African American players currently make up 6.1% of MLB–and that the number of African American pitchers is even lower–other, more significant factors are probably in play.
@Macattack We are not allowed to criticize MLB’s piss poor decisions
@it’shappening Stop making so much sense it’s kiilling me!!
@Hubert: However, given that Latino players make up 30.2% of MLB, that means 36.3%, or more than a third, would not have been playing prior to integration in 1947, before which Latino players made up less than 1%.
Mac Attack
Not sure if these are strong racist vibes or strong it ignorance vibes, not that there’s not a ton of overlap there.
The dearth of people of African decent in MLB has more to do with cultural and social economic reasons than physical ones
Exactly. We don’t hear anyone say the DR produces so many ballplayers because “those people are good at baseball.” That would be ignorant. It doesn’t take a lot of intelligence to know it’s a result of baseball being played religiously in the DR because it is seen as one of the few ways to get off the island.
But other forms of the same brand of ignorance, you will hear. All the time. The reason why is not mysterious.
Lol MLB stats already include six leagues, clown
Kids provide the pool of adults from which professionals come.
Black kids don’t have access to equipment, playing fields or quality coaching, but with a net a ball and 100 square feet of concrete, you’ve got a basketball game.
So they are playing basketball.
No mystery at all. Black adults aren’t playing baseball because they didn’t play as kids and never developed the extreme skills needed.
They play Basketball because they did.
Simple as that.
See my comment above.
Blue – Of course you’re right about integration, but there are so many different factors that need to be taken into consideration when attempting to compare quality of pitching then and now.
Do you think the pitchers were much much better during the two Dead Ball eras?
As for your comment regarding Ted’s .406 season, think of it this way …. even the best pitchers of that era, such as Bob Feller, were easier to face back then because they threw 340 innings and usually on just 3 days rest.
So facing a tired Feller in the 8th or 9th inning was much easier than facing max-effort relievers throwing over 100MPH who usually pitch just a couple innings a week.
And BTW, relievers back then typically sucked …. that’s why they weren’t starting pitchers.
Look at the difference in BP usage:
2023 – 1.32 WHIP and 9.12 K/9
1941 – 1.55 WHIP and 3.35 K/9
FPG: Valid points, but IMO the overriding factor was that integration, starting with Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby, greatly broadened and deepened the talent pool from which MLB teams selected players.
It’s known that increasing the talent pool raises the quality and performance of those selected.
This happens in academia and industry, and it happened in MLB and other professional sports.
@ignorant. No problem, friend. It’s from this sketch.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=8YDpvMYk5jA&pp=ygURbm8g…
Enjoy
People are forced to go to the xfl or cfl because they lack skills. Players were forced into the Negro League because they didn’t have “correct” skin color.
Pretty bad comparison.
What a racist moron
Sewald
But, you repeat yourself
It’s a great comparison, because as unfortunate as your kind made it possible to divide players by skin color back then (yes, you read that correct), the leagues are different. As much as you’d want to re-correct the history people like you destroyed, it can’t happen.
Pretty bad world view CarIdeas.
Blue – I was responding to the belief that pitching is so much better these days because of integration, and that you yourself said great MLB hitters never had to face the great African American pitchers prior to 1947.
Yes of course there’s a wider pool of pitching talent today, but there’s also a wider pool of hitting talent as well ….. so you saying nobody has hit .400 or had a 56-game hitting streak because of today’s player diversity doesn’t really make sense.
Level of talent goes across the board no matter what the year.
Babe Ruth never had to face a Pedro Martinez or Bob Gibson, but Satchel Paige never had to face an Ohtani or Ichiro either.
But good pitching generally beats good hitting, as we see often in postseason play.
@itshappening. All of what you said makes zero sense and doesn’t address the fact your comparison is dumb.
Sorry you get upset when people of color are recognized for their achievements. Stay in Missouri.
CarIdeas it appears you are lost. The only person here that’s upset is you. My comparison was spot-on, and you still haven’t acknowledged your part in this overcompensation.
People like you are the problem, and people like you are the reason we are here in the first place. Take a look in the mirror before you sling more ignorant and incompetent assessments as your ideology is what made this happen a long time ago. I await your next stupid thought.
I see. You are lacking the bare minimum of intelligence required to make a cogent argument. But, I’m sure you feel smart repeating your nonsense that has zero basis on reality.
I repeat, stay in Missouri.
I found that its_happening is one of those commenters best dealt with by the Mute button.
It’s quite pleasant not reading his drivel, especially the ad hominem attacks.
The problem with the mute button is it also blots out commenters who you haven’t muted.
Your lack of self realization is appalling, NoIdeas. Let’s start from the top.
To put two separate leagues counted as one is simply impossible to do. Only people who don’t live in-reality would feel different. Unfortunate that players before 1947 did not get an opportunity to play in MLB.
That lack of reality that you clearly possess shows your ideology – the very ideology that put society where it was prior to 1947 in the first place. Where you stand today is where you would have stood then; on the wrong side of history.
You started the attack, then you ran away. Mute me all you want, it’s guys like you and where you stand that put us in the position to count stats that do not reflect what actually happened in MLB. Your kind divides like it did back then.
Reality: Negro Leagues was not MLB. I didn’t ask for it, but it is reality. When you’re ready to face that, wake up and join us in realville.
Acceptable collateral damage, as they say in the military.
The best part about this is that Its_Happening is apparently a Blue Jays fan… Not sure about the Missouri part.
What the guy fails to understand is many black QBs were not given opportunities to play in the NFL and were forced to play CFL like Warren Moon and others. What was done wasn’t right. However, those wanting to erase history are bound to repeat it. Guys like NoGood want that to feel good about his side of the aisle pushing the divide in the very first place.
He’ll toss his glove in the stands next week
There is no point in integrating the stats because all it does is provide closure to families that had a Negro league player (is it really closure or do they just want to be recognized for something)
It mainly just confuses fans going to baseballreference because they might be like “oh babe Ruth did not have the gold italicized text josh Gibson was the best player ever because he has the gold text wait but he played in less than a 4th of Ruth’s games uhh”
What some call closure, others call opener.
I also wouldn’t worry so much about fans becoming even more confused about stats than they are already.
Well, after those post game comments…
“Worst Team in Probably the Whole F–king MLB”
At least he doesn’t have to play for the worst team in MLB anymore
Wrong. He actually calls himself the worst teammate. Listen again. So many people spreading this misinformation
The reporter came back to him to clarify and when asked if he said they’re the worst team he said “probably”. This is not the hill to die on…
To be frank, I don’t think even Lopez knows what he said and why he said that. Everything was lost in translation.
You could hear him say teammate if you listen carefully, but even after they tried to clarify, he just went along with it and just said yes, like he didn’t understand the question. I don’t know, maybe I’m giving him too much benefit of the doubt,
I think if he wasn’t able to understand English well enough to understand the clarifying question then he would have had an interpreter on him
Listen to his response to a question right before the clarification question. His English is bad and his responses made no sense.
I didn’t know he played for the White Sox.
After all this, he’s about to! If he needs a lower stress environment, he’ll have one there.
A harsher punishment than DFAing for that comment would’ve been to sentence him to pitch for the Mets the rest of the season.
umm..hello… no offense to the Mets, but last time we checked, we’re still in MLB, and we REALLY suck.
Maybe we’ll sign you so you can get the true South Side experience..
Love,
Chicago White Sox
What a stud
He didn’t lie ♂️
The Anaheim Halos and Chicago WS might have something to say about that remark.
As long as the Rockies play, his claim is in error.
There is a simple solution for the Angels. New owner. The Mets just got one already.
What if the Mets just constantly rebuild but sign people like JD Martinez to 1 year expensive deals just to trade them for even more prospects
This is a new type of rebuild the Mets could look like the orioles but even more stacked
@sad
Eh, they might occasionally run into a James Shields for Fernando Tatis Jr. trade out of sheer luck. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be a particularly successful strategy.
Even if the Mets ate his entire salary, players like JD Martinez aren’t particularly valuable, so the ceiling of the prospects would be much lower than the Orioles’ players. And given the unreliability of prospect capital, they’d have to get reeeeeaaaaally lucky to hit on even a few of the better prospects they’d receive.
James shields out of retirement to eat Mets innings incoming?
If you apply wins per payroll, its not close.
Lopez just was interviewed about throwing his glove into the Stands which was caught by a Japanese Yankee fan. He called the Mets the worst team in the fking MLB. Wow.
He was barking at the 3B Umpire about a check swing and he was tossed.
There is a serious problem in the Mets clubhouse which has been there for years. Hmmm
nypost.com/2024/05/29/sports/jorge-lopez-throws-me…
I hate the Mets but wow this guy is a POS. Hope he never plays again. My nine year old son knows how to control his anger better than this “adult.”
Look for the Braves to sign him where all the Mets DFA’s wind up. LOL
I hope not lol. Still somehow better though!
I would love that. 1. That doesn’t fly in ATL 2.that dude is fire when he’s in it.
Good gosh drama queen. He threw a glove. Wow big deal.
Drama queen? Lol yeah, sure. The guy who comments on a 30 year old acting like a toddler is the drama queen. Not the guy who stomps off the mound like a spoiled child whose mom refuses to buy him a matchbox car, throws his glove into the stands, and then calls his Own team “the worst team in MLB”. He’s totally a fantastic teammate and amazing person right? How dare I criticize his behavior.
You can criticize but hope he never plays again? That’s insane…….
More Relievers to HOF! Have you ever played team sports? What exactly about him throwing his gloves in the stands makes him a bad teammate? He made a crappy decision in a heated moment… And tbh… He threw his glove into the crowd… Who cares, someone went home with an awesome souvenir…
And he didn’t exactly say that. You should probably watch the video and you’ll understand there was some language barriers in that interview.
Soooooooooooooooo yeah, you’re being a bit of a drama queen
Why anyone would be mad about a player throwing their glove in the stands is beyond me. Most of us would elbow our moms for a glove
Your son doesn’t grind out 162 game seasons and trains year round get off your high horse and shut up
@kmk agreed. This dude’s son doesn’t grind. Doubt his kid could even throw a glove over the fan net…pathetic. Kid probably isn’t tossing his glove to fans because he doesn’t even have fans to begin with.
I blame the parents.
I blame society.
I blame the Stanford Prison Experiment
I blame the Flat Earth Society.
@kmk
Relax. He was disparaging. He was not calling his child a model citizen or anything, so it was an apt comparison to make.
But if we’re going to lack nuance, then…
“Your son doesn’t grind out 162 game seasons”,
Neither does Lopez. He sits on a bench for 80+ games a season, then throws an inning or two at a time. That is hardly “grinding”. And most players who play more innings and games don’t behave this way, so what’s Lopez’s excuse?
He’s playing for “the worst f#($ing team in baseball”?
@disadvantage Lopez’s excuse for… what, exactly? Being human?
Omigod, that man got upset! Cover the children’s eyes!
Some of you fine lot need to mature—getting upset and speaking honestly are not sins. They’re not even crimes. They don’t warrant shock, outrage, or condemnation.
Might be that this unfamiliarity with human emotion is what causes Americans in general to go from zero to 160 when they show any feeling at all beyond bland geniality.
You must not be a fan of Bryce Harper then, the biggest man-child in all of baseball.
grow up. His kid has bone cancer and he has had two rough years trying to deal with that. You’re half the man he is.
He was smiling the whole time he was getting shelled. Although i agree with him on his comments about the Mets, good luck getting another shot with another team.
Bad team, Worse teammate!
Ah, the clown strikes again! Tell me more about the teams you’ve been on, and now you would deal with your kid having a serious, possibly terminal, cancer!
If you sell that online you could probably get close to full retail price!
That glove will be worth a pretty penny on eBay
Anyone here still remember joe from impractical jokers stealing Noah Syndergaard pregame balls
Guess the Gatorade bucket was dosed with Truth Serum.
Thor losing his balls explains pretty much everything.
If you heard the latest, apologies are due to Lopez who is stressed out due to a family matter. Sending nothing but prayers to the family. Maybe we (myself at times included) should refrain from jumping on the bandwagon.
Only in corporatized America would throwing your glove into the stands not be considered colorful.
He has a heavy accent, he said he was the worst teammate…
Not that he shouldn’t have been DFA’d though
He was asked again to clarify and he doubled down and said he probably called the Mets the worst team. The reporter wanted to make sure he didn’t roast the guy over a misspeak/misunderstanding. It was a terrible look for him. I’m not in charge of handing out contracts but if I were I’d be very leery of signing this guy. The glove toss wasn’t a great look, but following it up with no remorse and burying the team was a bridge too far.
Oh god you’re right just saw his full interview. That was the most pathetic and embarrassing thing I’ve ever seen from an athlete
Latrelle Sprewell enters chat
Oh man, you are correct! I’d forgotten about him and PJ. That was so bad…
Nobody outside of NYC tabloids or Dumb Sportsball Fans will get the connection.
Shut up. His kid has cancer and his teammates are a joke.
Remorse is not a thing anymore. Blaming your behavior on someone else or claiming somebody else is worse — now that’s a thing for today.
I’m pretty sure Mendoza would’ve immediately spoken with him as soon as the game was over about the ejection and glove. He probably did and knew the media was going to interview Lopez. All Lopez had to say was “no comment”. Now he’s gone.
Yeah, you have to figure the manager and the PR people both got in his ear before the locker room opened. He’s either crazy or he wanted to get cut. No comment would have worked but even better would have been something like “I just lost my cool, sorry for making a scene”.
Worst teammate on the worst team in Fk’n MLB. Sounds like a true winner.
Shut up. His kid has cancer. The Mets are a team of d-bags. Lopez doesn’t owe them loyalty.
Friedman will pick him up as part of his churn the pen tactics.
Take your chair and sit in the corner, son. I’ll tell you when you can come back.
Can’t help but wonder where this team would be – at least mentally – if Buck was still here.
Idk if that would mean much. This core needs to be dismantled and we need to start over
Buck? “Manager of the Year” for choking away the NL East after they were in first place all summer long? Then got smoked, at home, by San Diego in the wild-card round?
Such is the legacy of LOLmets.
According to David Stearns the Mets are a playoff team. Then they are the worst playoff team I’ve ever seen. They are probably the worst Mets team I have ever seen ( been watching them since 1967 ) and they are the most expensive team. LMAO
“They are probably the worst Mets team I have ever seen ( been watching them since 1967 )”
In that case I invite you to scan your memory banks for the 1977-1980 Mets. But be warned – make sure you have a rabies vaccine before doing so.
Gomez Toth.
You are probably right but I left NYC for University in Chicago after 1973 and didn’t return until 1982 so I missed those years.
I timed it right lol. Had full Season tickets at Shea from 1987 – 1993 the year I couldn’t take them any more LOL
You got to witness “The Worst Team Money Can Buy”. Who can forget Bret Saberhagen spraying bleach on two reporters in the clubhouse? Or better yet, Bobby Bonilla telling a tabloid writer, “I’ll hurt you. I’ll show you The Bronx.”
ChuckyNJ.
I sure did.
Tony Fernandez playing poorly to get traded, Vince Coleman firecrackers, Bobby Bonilla wearing earplugs to cancel out the loud booing. The Braves young core taking over the division. The worst of times.
Mets arent going nowhere anyway. They should start selling off whatever small pieces other teams might actually want which probably wont be much. I read in the paper that the owner says they are contenders he must be doing quaaludes.
This has got to be one of the most toxic implosions I have ever seen.
Ever.
I mean, this team was a 3rd WC team from the start. But as a Mets fan, I am now rooting for 100 losses just to see what happens next.
Cohen’s Clowns.
Probably wanted to see if he could catch a ride with the Dodgers
Baltimore needs bullpen arms. Just sayin….
Literally no one remembers his 2nd stint there last season
“You can’t go home (a 3rd time) again” -Thomas Wolfe
O’s need more good bullpen pieces, not just more bullpen pieces.
Mac – The O’s can have Jansen and Martin by the trade deadline, and they won’t even have to give up much to get them.
Good way to get away from this crappy team and keep his $2 million while being signed by team with actual talent. Smartest guy on the team
Based
This guy went out like the guy in Halfbaked. He’s a hero.
*pointing at teammates* “f you, f you, f you…”
*points at slice of NY style pizza* “You’re cool, I’m out!”
No way NY style blows.
3rd stint with the o’s?
Did the Twins break him? he went from all-star closer to broken middle reliever on their watch.
When asked for clarity whether he meant worst as in talent or teammates he said “probably both.”
The LOLMets stuff is overplayed, but they certainly are a disaster. There is just something going on in Queens.
*teammate
He has an ERA of 3.12. Not sure why Mets fans who claim to want to win would want this guy off the team. He threw a glove yipty doo. Lot of drama over nothing. Fans and ownership trying to blame this guy for the teams problems.
It’s kind of cool that a fan got a glove. It’s not like he threw it to hurt someone. He tossed it over the netting.
VonPurpleHayes,
It was a Yankee Japanese fan there to watch Ohtani who caught the glove.
How you doing?
You know I have been right for years about these Mets.
I know all about the Mets.
Good to see you Robrock. Yanks Phillies WS this year? Let’s do it.
VonPurpleHayes,
Ok keeping it local Yanks Phillies WS I am good.
I invite you to party with me to watch this.
You think it’s about throwing the glove? LMAO if he just threw his glove nobody would care. It’s about being a terrible teammate and crapping on his own team to the media. Did you not read that part or are you that inept to understand why he was booted off the team?
I watched it live on SNY. Certainly seemed to me he was trying to insult himself and things were misheard, but whatever.
My point wasn’t that he should or shouldn’t be DFAed. I just don’t think he did anything that outrageous. Dude was pissed.
8th inning meltdown + ejected for arguing a checked swing + throw glove over the netting + dis your own ballclub while talking to their TV channel. It’s that last act that got him DFA’d.
@relievers
If you’re talking about @blackpink, he thinks Lopez is a good pitcher because his ERA was shiny… except that he was looking at Lopez’s ERA BEFORE he gave up 2 runs in less than an inning (to say nothing of the 2 inherited runs he allowed) and then imploded into a tantrum.
So yes, he is that inept to understand why they booted him off the team.
What’s up with my fellow PR’s just sucking at NY and then complaining about it. Francisco Lindor, Javier Baez and now Lopez. Step up and stop complaining.
How about the Mets stop being an awful organization?
He’s not wrong… the Mets are flat out bad. Even the transactions they made in the offseason leaves me head scratching.
All true, but when your employer is paying you $2m, it might not hurt to have a tiny bit of class
How was he not showing “class?”
Just by asking the question and looking at your user name, I think you might be in the same boat.
Just by being useless to this thread and looking at your username, I think you might have a microphallus.
I would like to go ahead and RSVP as a “no” to your 12th birthday party. I do hope someone gifts you an adult sense of humor though.
“Even the transactions they made in the offseason leaves me head scratching.”
Some of the transactions in-season are head-scratching, too. Sent Butto to the minors (7 starts, 3.08 ERA, 1..132 WHIP, 9 K/9) but kept Adrian Houser (7 starts, 8.55 ERA, 1.782 WHIP, 5.9 K/9) on the roster and let him start another game. Baffling. I get trying to build up Houser’s value but he’s been awful.
Quintana hasn’t been much better, either. Butto being in the minors makes no sense.
It’s just ironic that they desperately need pitching while they traded both Scherzer and Verlander, yet still claimed they wanted to compete. They could have kept one of them. Trading both was waving a white flag, as they did not get a lot of MLB ready talent back.
The entire point of the trades was to “buy” prospects. It made sense then and makes sense now.
I think this goes back 2 years ago. They let Bassit and Walker go. Walker isn’t great, but the Mets could certainly use him. I was baffled when they let both go.
It didn’t make sense for the Mets to trade both Scherzer and Verlander when they were still trying to compete. They were set up to win, despite having a bad year. They tore it all up.
I guess if it was a full rebuild it would have made sense, but they should have traded Alonso and Lindor if that were the case and not resigned Nimmo.
I didn’t see a consistent motive behind their moves.
It was a soft reset, if you will. They were able to restock their farm at the cost of only money. Then they signed a bunch of one-year deals to possibly compete. If you ignore the luxury tax (which Cohen has done), it makes perfect sense. Stearns will sell off pieces again at the deadline if the Mets are out of it. They’ll spend again in this upcoming free agent market which is much better than the previous one.
The problem now is, their entire core isn’t doing well. Diaz could be a huge bust if he doesn’t come back around. Same can be said about McNeil. Lindor is having a bad year, but I could see him bouncing back.
So, while it was smart to restock the farm, I think they need a bigger rebuild than they thought before they can just plug in FA signings.
McNeil has always been overrated. He was another guy they could’ve shipped while his value was high.
@VonPurpleHayes Agreed, now that we can see how their season is going. Cohen isn’t going to maintain another $300MM payroll for a sub .500 team.
He’ll be alright. He still has that sitcom on tv with his kids.
That post game Lopez interview had to be one of the most awkward and confusing media scrums in recent memory. The dude seemed defeated and apathetic. The Mets are in a bad place right now, and I can’t see an MLB team giving Lopez anything more than a minor league deal right now.
Classic Mets. Although I think the Angels and Rockies might even be worse organizations than them
To his defense Marte made a piss poor effort of an attempt in RF when he was pitching. Lopez looked unhappy about it
Dollar Tree David and Mendunce strike again. Looks like I was right again. I said the Mets would win at most 72 games before the season started. Lets see if guys like OldDerbyBastard, Robrock, or Von finally admit they were wrong
I didn’t have the Mets being good. But I said I wouldn’t be shocked if they were. I saw them competing for that last wild card spot, which to be fair, they still are. It’s not even June yet. I saw the Mets in the 75-80 range. They can still do that.
You can’t be referring to me as I have been preaching how bad the Mets are to anyone who listens.
For the record I am always right except for one time I was wrong about Ryne Sandberg who Dallas Green brought to the Cubs from the Phillies and proclaimed him a future HOF.
He was right of course but prior to being the Cubs GM he was in charge of the Phils system.
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As a Mets fan I agree with him. This team is pathetic. They all need to go. We were just as well off with the Wilpons. It’s a clown show and now we added Bozo the Stearns to the mix.
Jerry Stearns and Steve Costanza make this team resemble a comedy act, not a professional baseball team
False reporting. Lopez clearly calls himself the “worst teammate”. He does not say worst team. Listen again and fix your fake report.
bklynny67
It’s not how the majority of the mainstream media are reporting it, and as you’d be well aware the media are ALWAYS right about a whole range of topics.
That’ll fix things.
Didn’t Jason Vargas do something similar in an interview where he nearly came to blows with a reporter during an interview and was traded away soon after?
LOLMETS
Time to return to Baltimore – the only place he and his family have ever felt comfortable. The dude is under huge stress over his son’s health and he made it clear they wanted to stay. Not saying he’ll find 98 again but worth a minor league contract and see if Os can work their magic to resurrect his career.
Truly bizarre behavior. I remember when he pitched for the Royals, and he wasn’t very good. But I’m sure he was considered a really good teammate.
Must End The Season
I make 2 predictions probably both of them wrong, but who cares this is the internet.
1. Lopez is lights out the rest of the season for whoever picks him up.
2. This is the kick in the pants the Mets need and start to play actual baseball.
Just trade everyone now before they get hurt or do something like this
Phillies should sign him— instant fan favorite
“The Orioles controversially traded Lopez at the 2022 All Star break.” What in the world does that mean? Felix Bautista was waiting in the wings. They were offered the Twins best starting pitching prospect (Povich) who’s now the best starter inthe IL. Cano, who was a solid reliever on the Cuban National team and was an AL All Star 11 months later. And…two international pitching prospects who are looking very good. Where is the controversy, except on the Twins side. Predictably Jorge was back with the Os a year later and watch them give him another shot (which they should).
The O’s were squarely in the hunt for a wild card spot in 2022 after losing at least 108 each in 2021, 2019, and 2018. The fans did not want to break up the good vibes.
Of course, no one could have foreseen it work out for them like this.
Orioles had gone into the All-star break that year on a big winning streak. They were squarely in the hunt for a Wild Card spot. Hindsight is 20-20, but they traded Lopez when he had a 238 ERA+ and had the potential to go on a run. They had a rough September which led to them falling out of contention, but if you go back and look at the comments on the article when they did trade him, there was a non-insignificant amount of fans not too pleased with the move.
The comments on the Orioles blog were mixed. Everything else you say is false. The Orioles were .500 at the AS break and on 8.2 when Lopez was traded and 4 games over afterwards. They were behind 8 other teams at the AS break and passed 2 of them in September. Longest losing streak in September was 3. And they went on a run immediately after trading Jorge, going 19-9 in the first 28 games.
Bautista was the de facto closer after Lopez lost an extra inning game a week before the deadline. Jorge had recovered from a disastrous June earlier in July and his trade value was peaking.
Elias traded Jorge because of the package. He wanted Cano, but coveted Povich. Only bad GMs make trades with one year in their heads. Elias has built a team exploiting bad GMs.
Os fans fell into 3 camps in 2021-22, AA (after Adley): (1) we’re getting there, go for it now, (2) look at the farm, we’ll be great in 2023 or 2024, think about that and (3) trust in Mike and Sig. Pretty much everyone’s been in Camp 3 since the 2022 off season.
I swear that the O’s were only like 2 or 3 games out of a Wild Card when they traded Lopez on August 2nd. That might be my mistake.
3 behind, in 8th. Not really the point. Bautista had a 1.3 ERA and was striking out nearly half of the batters he faced. Jorge was a closer to the market, a depth guy for the Os (Tate was good in 2022 and Baker and Krehbiel was in the mix. It was the package. Jorge had real value. But not enough to pass on Povich, Cano and two solid young intl prospects.
My primary point was that the MLR and fan focus on the deadline as buying and selling proven talent in neat categories like team “buyers” and “sellers” is silly. But GMs are addicted to it, too. You would think the Mancini and Lopez 2022 deals would cure the addiction, but it’s obviously not as simple as it should be.
There were a non insignificant amount of Os fans back then?
At the time I was mad as an Os fan. The Mancini deal seemed good but I didn’t like anything about the Lopez deal, especially when you consider the Os were in the mix. I was very wrong. That was a tremendous trade by Elias.
By best starter in the IL is that shorthand for the Injured List? Illinois? Or the Indian league?
I assume International League
Aha. Kinda like IHOP
At least Lopez threw the glove to a better pitcher.
5.36 career ERA. I know the Mets are in a bad way right now, but this isn’t the guy to get self-righteous
The red mist claims another victim. Probably” might have been a bad choice when it comes to clarification. Good luck Jorge.
I’ve felt bad for this guy and Trey Mancini. Orioles got some really good young arms. These 2 guys careers really crashed and burned since then.
You’re a bad pitcher on the worst team in MLB. Enjoy oakland!
Oakland has a better record than Mets and they did NOT have to spend much to do it.
Maybe the Angels.
He took a different way of saying “Trade Me”
You know what they say, if you’re a knucklehead who is a good player, then a lot can be forgiven. However, if you’re a knucklehead who is only a marginal player, that combination is ripe for a DFA or a release.
What a great way to stage an escape
He’s not a knucklehead though. His kid has cancer and he was on a team full of d-bags.
At least the Dave Kingman wannabee didn’t sign the 150+ million dollar deal. Don’t think the mets have any bad contracts. Can be good in 3 years
Liberalsteve
Can be good in 3 years
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The team has a 2024 payroll of $344M, and a CBT of $94M, and they might be good in three years?
That is just plain ugly.
as a mets fan, we are used to these garbage, on and off the field. this organization has a storied history of being losers.
what i find is why the rest of baseball is so happy to pile on. do know how much effort it takes to stick with a team that constantly disappoints and embarrasses its fans?
youd think that fans of teams, maybe outside of the braves/phillies/yankees would have some sympathy. but nope, everyone loves to crap all over us suffering fans. i pesonally always routed for the sox and cubs, because i could identify with them.
On another weird Mets matter……did Met fans think it was odd that Antoine Richardson gave the out signal to the 1st base ump on Chapmans game ending play against the Giants ?
I was a bit stunned as a viewer. Did he forget what jersey he was wearing ?
Forgiveness. Guy messed up, still deserves a second chance. A few teams could use him.
People earn a second chance only when they take responsibility for messing up. Admit you done wrong, apologize sincerely and accept responsibility and the consequences. That earns you a second chance, no one has a right to a second chance in my opinion unless they take responsibility for their errors. A second chance should be about being better when faced with similar situations. I don’t buy “just boys being boys”, “heat of the moment”, or other lame excuses. As the blues group Safire used to sing “fess up when you mess up, it’s no time to lie”. Unfortunately, I realize that my opinion is a minority opinion when I look around America today.
He has a kid undergoing cancer treatment…
Best sports ‘highlight’ of the year in 2024, it will be hard to beat.
Lopez came in with men on base and tried a pick off to 3rd but Baty wasn’t ready for it. That set the tone pretty good…
He clearly said teammate. I guess he shouldve just gotten an interpreter, no pun intended
O’s turned him and some greenbacks into Cano, Povich, and 2 decent pitching prospects at 2021 deadline. Definition of Great Trade.
Maury?
Povich? They should have held out for Springer. Or Judge (Judy)
When keeping it real goes wrong
Right?
#LOLMets
He should play for the Jets next
Welcome to Atlanta, Jorge.
It looked like a group of Yankee fans who got the glove, which I thought summarized how things are going for the Mets and their fans at the moment. They can’t even get a nice souvenir!
Separately, seems odd to release him based on his comment, if that’s why they released him.
Not “clearly” at all.
Pretty rich coming from a guy with a career ERA of nearly 5 and a half.
Who was an all star in 2022 and has a sub-4 this year
Oh, c’mon, the Mets are the 5th worst team in MLB. Worst team is the ChiSox. Clearly, the guy doesn’t check the standings.
That glove worked on his hand like a Charm. Then he threw it away to Minnesota.
Might as well take a flier on Baur. It’s already a circus!
Dude has a career 5.42 ERA and 1.48 WHIP and has been in the league 10 seasons. That is impressive.
The Mets should keep him as a punishment.
To who?
They should trade Lindor because the Mets will suck for many years and he can’t carry a team
The Mets continue to implode. And it is delicious
Royals should bring him back