Not that you’d necessarily want to, but you can’t buy a ticket to a Mets game this year. Well you can buy packages of 20 or 40 or 81 games, but the old-school a la cart single-game ticket window hasn’t opened yet, and they’re not saying when.
Speaking as someone accustomed to creating my own season ticket one game at a time, that’s unusual. Individual tickets went up for sale in the first week of December last year, and several years before that. The last time I can remember tickets going on sale this late in the year, they were playing at Shea Stadium, and we lined up by Gate D on a frigid Sunday morning. Tim Teufel was there to make it all worth it.
It’s almost as if they knew that surrendering their most popular players through trades and free agency was going to do something to demand, and now, they must hustle to make it up.
I like Bo Bichette and happy the Mets got him and not Tucker. Right handed hitter, a batting champion candidate, hits lots of doubles. I’m not entirely okay with yanking third base out from under Baty when he’d finally had a decent year, but he hits well enough to play left.
The Mets still need a pitcher. There are the top-shelf free agents like Framber Valdez but I kinda like the under-the-radar guys too. He struggled early last year with an injury but Zac Gallen has been pretty good for years. I’m also not afraid to bring in Justin Verlander or Max Scherzer again. I think the young staff could use the right veteran, a la Orel Hershiser in 1999. Besides I’ve never even heard of our pitching coach, Justin Willard. They don’t even have a mugshot of him on the official site.
As noted in the comments it will be interesting to see what number they issue to Bichette, having assigned his No. 11 already to a different incoming free agent, Jorge Polanco. I feel like the Mets are too deferential to numerical identities formed on other teams. Neither the Rangers nor Orioles nor Dodgers replicated the respective jersey numbers of Alonso, Nimmo and Diaz, though it seems like they let them pick (To be fair, Frank Robinson and Roy Campanella may have something to with it, but I digress–I’d be happy to see Bo Bichette take up something new).
Diaz by the way is tempting the baseball gods by choosing No. 3. All relievers stop being effective at some point.
Bichette was assigned #19
Mets plan to retire #15 for Beltran if he has a Mets cap in the HOF. I don’t agree with this at all.
Acuna traded for Robert Jr. I wonder if Simien gives up #10 for #2 and Bichette takes #10 instead of #19. I imagine Robert Jr. will wear #88 as he did with the White Sox.
Thanks for the updates. I totally agree–number retirement as a thing has to stop
Dante Bichette wore a few numbers in his career. One of them was 11, and one was 19. I think Bo keeps #19, that Semien keeps #10, and Mauricio switches from #0 to #2, which he wore a lot in the minors. I say that Benge gets #3 right away, and doesn’t get the high spring training number. He wore #3 in college. Williams still doesn’t have a number assignment–maybe trying to make a deal with Megill for #38.
Why don’t you just buy tickets on a secondary market app like SeatGeek? They’re always available and you can often get better seats than from the Mets.
I don’t like to support the secondary economy. Why reward some guy who bought tickets to a game he won’t attend? When that happens to me I give my tickets to a friend.
It’s a matter of supply and demand. I go for the best availability. You or anyone else deciding not to support “the secondary economy” won’t make it go away.
Robert Jr. is wearing #88
Peralta I imagine keeps #51. Taylor can’t take #36, so #39 makes sense.
MLB The Show 2025’s updated roster has Williams in 39 and Megill in 46.
My guess is that wrong. If Megill switches to 46, then Williams would be in 38. I also think 46 will go to Kimberly. We will find out shortly!
Kimbrel not Kimberly!
Mets.com has Freddy in his 51, Devin in 38 and Tobias in 32. Still has Tylor MeGill in 38.