Buckle Up Everyone, Because It Sounds Like The Mets May Be Getting Ready To Trade Noah Syndergaard

I am fighting every urge in my body to not include the cliche gif of The Joker saying “Here We Go” at the beginning of this blog. But I don’t really know how else to explain the feelings of terror rifling through my body as the chaos of the first trade deadline with Brodie in charge* is about to unfold.

*I know Jeff Wilpon is always technically in charge, hence why a fucking agent is this team’s GM

Now obviously I am worried for whatever deal the Mets make for useful veterans like Zack Wheeler, Todd Frazier, and any other lucky son of a bitch that can escape the sinking ship in Flushing for a real franchise. I figure it will include a couple of middling prospects that on paper don’t seem like enough for whoever the Mets traded before the all-important Cash Considerations gets sent to Queens as well.

However the true fear I have is for when the Mets inevitably trade the 26-year-old flamethrower with a career 3.21 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, and almost 10 K/9 under team control for two more years. I know that Noah has been a frustrating player to watch. He loves giving back runs his teams score for him the next half inning, doesn’t seem to get outs as efficient as he should with the electric stuff he has, and has been more Loki than Thor this season.

But those career numbers are still legit for a guy that already has shown up big in the few big games he has been in. I know that Noah’s struggles are real. But they were also real for guys like Hansel Robles and Travis d’Arnaud in orange and blue. Once those guys put on the colors of a baseball team that wasn’t run like a circus, they magically became real Major League players. The only difference is that Noah has more talent than both of those guys and could go from a frustrating young player to a stud ace once he has people who know what they are doing at the top of the org chart.

Which brings us to the real reason the Mets are probably shopping Noah: Because he calls out the donkeys that run this team like a 3rd class franchise like he did when the Mets had their team jet-setting all over the country before Opening Day in Washington DC while other teams got ready for the 162 game marathon they were about to embark on. I’m sure the front office views him as Matt Harvey 2.0 except without the arm or bladder issues. However, everything about how fucked up this franchise is can be summed up as true by this tweet.

I don’t know if this is true. But there is not a rational Mets fan on the planet that would be surprised if it was. The fact a “big market team“ like the Mets (HEAVY emphasis on the quotes) are even thinking about trading a player like Noah is a red flag, let alone the fact that team never spent big on offense while all their young arms were dirt cheap is bad enough. But being scared to deal with teams simply because they are better at analytics is downright horrifying.

To be honest, I don’t even care about the names that will be mentioned in a Noah trade because I have reached a point of no confidence with this front office after this offseason. They traded two of their best prospects for a closer with one great year under his belt and a 36-year old 2nd basemen with one of the worst contracts in baseball to block their best pure hitter, signed a dead guy in Jed Lowrie to bury that pure hitter down one more spot, and built a roster so poorly that has some of the best players on the team are playing out of position on a nightly basis just to get their bats in the lineup. THAT’S the front office that is going to trade a guy that can be an absolute stud if he puts everything together over the next few years? It’s honestly becoming hilarious just how fucked up this franchise is. Sad as well. But definitely hilarious as well. The Mets are pretty much just an annual dark comedy on the level of Fargo at this point and that will never stop until the Wilpons sell the fucking team.