Bartolo Colon did not give the Mets a good start tonight, as he had his shortest start as a Met, going 2 and 1/3 innings, letting up 10 hits and six runs. The Mets could not come back, and would lose 7-3.
- The Mets and Brewers announced that Carlos Gomez will most likely be heading to the Mets, for Zack Wheeler and Wilmer Flores. Terry Collins had Flores play the whole game, even though it seemed that Flores knew he was traded, and was emotional in the field. Ruben Tejada was on the bench and came on for Flores in the bottom of the ninth. Truly one of the weirdest things that has happened this season.
- Lucas Duda‘s bat is heating up as he hit three homers tonight. Sadly there was no one on base, so all the homers were solo shots.
- The Mets offense (outside of Duda) did not produce, as Flores and Eric Campbell each had a hit. Michael Conforto struggled as he struck out three times, but why is he batting fifth if the organization does not want him to be viewed as the savior?
- Alex Torres and Sean Gilmartin pitched multiple scoreless innings, and Hansel Robles pitched a scoreless ninth. Bobby Parnell let up a run in his inning of work.
The Mets lost a game on the Washington Nationals, and are now two games behind the leaders. Jon Niese will pitch against Andrew Cashner tomorrow afternoon, as the Mets look to begin another winning streak.
I should be happy tonight that the Mets tried to make a big deal to help the club win.
Instead I want to throw up after seeing what the organization allowed to happen to Flores.
Inexcusable….
I thought the organization would have learned from the 3AM firing of Willie Randolph. Instead they take a joyous night and turn it into a Public Relations blunder. Would it have been so hard for TC to pull Flores and give him a hug of thanks in the dugout? The stadium fans knew and gave Flores a hand when he batted and then again another hand after he grounded out. It wasn’t Flores fault that the GM insisted he was a SS. Thank you Wilmer for being a class act and giving your best in an impossible situation.
The trade is everything one could hope for in a pennant drive. The Mets improved their weakest offensive position. They traded a player who lost his starting role in Flores. Jon Niese was not getting fair trade value so they traded a pitcher that wasn’t in the immediate plans instead. They kept Lagares for the future.
Sandy, it took awhile but a Met fan could not ask for more. Now go work on your public relations.
I actually feel that we can now compete with the Nationals. I am looking forward to the weekend. LGM
Well back to the drawing board.
So no deal…. Wow
At least we keep those two guys. At this point it’s refreshing to know Alderson had the guts to make the deal. Maybe cespedes or Bruce will become the big move
I think Wheeler-Flores was too much so I’m not devastated that the deal fell through. It’ll be curious to see what the snag was.
Flores stays 🙂
The best deals are the ones you don’t make! Love it!
Have to listen to Collins’ press conference. So what you’ve been traded and sobbing? “No one took me out when I was sobbing”.
As reported on MLB Network , it seems the Mets nixed this deal.
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Apparently Wheeler Medicals.
He just got fixed. The guys on The Network speculated that the Mets nixed this deal due to Gomez’s medicals.
Confirming @Ken_Rosenthal, it’s #Mets who backed out of deal for Gomez because of degenerative condition in his hips
I was ready to finally proclaim a victory for Alderson and I wake up to no deal… What a freaking idiot. It would have been the steal of a century to give up those 2 crappy pieces for Gomez
Not if his leg is ready to fall off at the hip. 🙂
Name, what I found myself thinking is why would a player that is going for free agency next year not go all out to bank? The Mets would benefit from that. So, why nix the deal? You’re right that these two pieces were spare parts. Therefore, was the nixing financially motivated or were the Mets hearing something else that spooked them which obviously they aren’t going to say? Either way, last night was very odd and difficult to swallow.
Just watched the Collins rant.
He was awful, insensitive, stupid — an embarrassment.
He acts like he’s so helpless in these situations and he just doesn’t understand what’s going on around him.
Needed to pull Flores whether a deal had been finalized or not. What would have been so hard to bring in Tejada?
Kind of pathetic to see the oldest manager in baseball complaining about the interwebs.