Smart move and only had to do 3 years

A perfectly useful starter if you only need him to go 2 innings with your season on the line.

he seemed to like it in Queens, and I wonder of his agent was behind the insistence on 4 years.
now Bassitt has left the Mets and he only got 3 years.

that said, the Blue Jays are a good organization so it's not like he has been sentenced to oblivion.

A perfectly useful starter if you only need him to go 2 innings with your season on the line.

With the Mets season on line that weekend in Atlanta, Lindor had two singles and whiffed five times in 13 plate appearances but yeah sure, Bassitt's a bum for not getting through the third inning that Sunday.

With the Mets season on line that weekend in Atlanta, Lindor had two singles and whiffed five times in 13 plate appearances but yeah sure, Bassitt's a bum for not getting through the third inning that Sunday.

More than one person can suck at a time.

More than one person can suck at a time.

:sighs whistfully:

A perfectly useful starter if you only need him to go 2 innings with your season on the line.

I can't believe anyone's takeaway from that weekend is the blame Chris Freaking Bassitt instead of deGrom and Scherzer. The guys making $35-40M a year are the ones supposed to be the aces, not the journeyman.

Bassitt had his hot and cold streaks, but he was very good for the Mets overall this season and this is an excellent deal for Toronto.

Good luck to him.

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Journeymen don't get paid 21 million a year.
Or, at least they shouldn't.

#7
Journeymen don't get paid 21 million a year.
Or, at least they shouldn't.

He didn't until now. You may have noticed that the current FA market is a bit frothy.

This is fine. I like Bassitt and don't dislike the Jays.

Like all threads, this is about the Mets. Referencing "more than one person can suck at a time," and various names thrown under buses, I won't name names but will tell ya that, for me, this is the game (at Oakland, September 24) when it all fell apart. And by "fell apart," I mean not winning the division, which for me is the only thing that matters. The playoffs/World Series are stupid low sample-size money-makers. It's all about the 162 and losing 10-4 to the freakin' A's screwed that up irrevocably. Saving grace for me is that I didn't have to watch any games with San Diego. Because, see 162 thing.

More germane to this particular thread. I like Bassitt. He kept the pitching staff together with good, long starts while other starters were getting knocked out early (or certain strategies were employed to "save them for the playoffs." Best to him moving forward.

“Journeyman” is selling Bassitt pretty short. He’s about a 3 win pitcher with a 118 career ERA+ who made the 2021 all star team and received CY votes in two seasons.