{"id":59495,"date":"2020-09-03T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/michael-conforto-expectations-too-high-because-of-game-like-this\/"},"modified":"2020-09-03T12:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T09:42:00","slug":"michael-conforto-expectations-too-high-because-of-game-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/michael-conforto-expectations-too-high-because-of-game-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"#Michael Conforto expectations too high because of game like this"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Michael Conforto expectations too high because of game<\/a> like this<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n This, in some ways, is the problem, if you can really call it a problem. There are these games, like this game, when Michael Conforto can make you believe he is one of the top two or three hitters in baseball. The power. The willingness \u2014 the skill \u2014 to go the other way.<\/p>\n

And man, oh man. That swing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat swing,\u201d Terry Collins had said, five years ago, when Conforto first showed up at Citi Field, \u201cis a thing of beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n

And there are days when that swing allows you to get a little carried away. Days like this. Days when he goes 4-for-5 and he drives in five runs, when he hits one home run the other way and nearly hits two more to dead-center and to right. Days when that swing is so hypnotizing, so mesmerizing, so breathtaking.<\/p>\n

The problem \u2014 if you can really call it a problem \u2014 isn\u2019t with Conforto. It\u2019s with those of us who see that swing and forecast him to be something he might never be. He has, at various times in his five years with the Mets, been projected a batting champion in waiting, an MVP in waiting, a top-10 MLB player in waiting.<\/p>\n

And if that\u2019s the standard \u2026 well, you\u2019re still waiting. He\u2019s hitting .331 for the season after just about single-handedly ending the Mets\u2019 five-game losing streak, doing his part to hammer the Orioles at Camden Yards, 9-4. But he\u2019s never hit higher than .279 in the big leagues. He\u2019s never received even one MVP vote. He\u2019s made one All-Star team.<\/p>\n

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Michael Conforto belts a double during the Mets\u2019 9-4 win over the Orioles.<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If your expectation for Conforto was somewhere near the intersection of Mike Trout Boulevard and Mookie Betts Way \u2026 well, he has fallen short of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always felt like I\u2019m a guy who could spray the ball around and be a tougher out,\u201d Conforto said. \u201cIn this game you have to stay hungry, have to stay humble have to keep working and try to get better every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

(FULL DISCLOSURE: I have been one of those who\u2019ve judged Conforto, throughout his career, by those impossibly high standards and, truthfully, that\u2019s never fair for any player.) <\/em><\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the thing: It is OK to not be what Reggie Jackson used to playfully call himself, a \u201csuper-duper-star.\u201d It is OK to be a very good player, to have a lifetime OPS of 127, to have gotten better every year and to have, at age 27, the best years of your career still sitting ahead of you, waiting for you.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s OK to be very good. And no sin to not be Mike Trout.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe doesn\u2019t swing at a lot of [bad pitches] and his bat is in the zone for a long time,\u201d said Michael Wacha, who started Wednesday\u2019s game for the Mets and has faced him plenty as an opponent. \u201cYou have to make your pitch but even then he has a chance to get good wood on it. He\u2019s just a tough out.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is why one of the first things the Steve Cohen Administration should do when it moves into the corporate offices on Tom Seaver Way is to try and lock Conforto up to an extension. Make him a Met into his 30s. <\/p>\n

This will in no way be easy. Conforto\u2019s agent is Scott Boras, and it is his way to encourage his clients to test free agency, especially when they are but a year away, as Conforto will soon be. There\u2019s no reason to believe he\u2019d make an exception here.<\/p>\n

Still, Conforto is exactly the kind of player about whom Mets fans have always most fretted under the Wilpon\/Katz stewardship, homegrown players who aren\u2019t taken care of, who aren\u2019t paid, wind up elsewhere. Think Daniel Murphy. Think Zack Wheeler. Think Jose Reyes. <\/p>\n

The reason Mets fans have fallen over themselves embracing Cohen is because of his deep-deep pockets and the presumption he will not let a player he wants slip away \u2014 whether that\u2019s a free agent or a player on his team. And since we know Cohen is a Mets fan, we might also assume that his feelings for Conforto are similar to most of the flock.<\/p>\n

So even if Conforto does opt to test the market, it is a good bet Cohen will make and meet that market if he wants Conforto to stay. The new owner\u2019s arrival removes a reliable source of anxiety from ever-anxious Mets fans, and this is just one reason why.<\/p>\n

So they can simply enjoy watching a player getting better and better. That\u2019s a lot more fun than worrying about what he\u2019ll look like in a Braves uniform.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis swing is so effective,\u201d said Luis Rojas, another manager who sees what we all see, who sees that swing and swoons, who sees that swing and wonders just what might be. Which is fine. But so is what it already is. It is wise to remember that now.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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