Peace Out Yo

In this year of 2020 things just keep getting stranger and stranger. Sports in 2020 has been just as strange, just look at everything going on around Major League Baseball. A lot of teams have missed playing time because the players are getting hit with Covid. But the one thing that's more surprising of all (although it really isn't if you ask us Mets fans) is the saga of Yoenis Cespedes over the last 24 hours.

Before we get into it, lets give a little refreshing backstory. New York picked him up in a trade at the deadline in 2015. He (and Daniel Murphy as well) got red hot at the right time, and the Mets road that play all the way to the World Series, losing to the Royals in 5 games. 2016 he was good but not quite the same level as he was the year before. Then get got a new contract and wasn't able to stay healthy, missing the better part of the next three seasons with a variety of injuries.

Now we get to finally starting the 2020 season. He was supposedly healthy and looked good, driving in the only run on opening day with a home run, his first long ball in two years. Then he got into a bit of a slump. Then Sunday happened. He was reportedly being given a day off, but he never showed up at the ballpark in Atlanta for the game between the Mets and Braves. No show, no call, no text, nothing. Reports were running ramp as to what happened. We finally got an answer from the Mets as General Manager Brodie Van Wangenen told everybody that Cespedes had opted out of the rest of the season due to COVID.

Here's my take on this. It was a chicken way out and don't let the door hit you too hard in the ass on the way out. Look I'll give Yo credit for what he managed to do here in New York at the start, for that first year and a half he was worth every penny the team was paying him. Then the injuries took over and he wasn't the same player. He also spent way too much time doing his own thing away from the game and wasn't making any strides, at least as it looked from where I sit, to get back out on the field. He does, starts to struggle, and then decides to pack his bags and go home. It was a cheap way out and the end of a frustrating relationship that Yo had with the Mets and this fanbase. When he was on the field and playing, he could be one of the very best in the game. Then again, he was never fully there outside of the first year and a half here.

Now I'm starting to see why the A's Tigers and Red Sox were so easy to give up on him and trade him. All I can say is this, if Cespedes wants to play baseball next season, his attitude better change. There been a few different stories flying around, and hopefully we can have a bit clearer picture by the time we discuss on the next show, but this is something that just seems like its typical Mets. Cespedes better get a change in attitude or no team is going to want to work with him. Yo what you did in the start of your time in the Blue and Orange was magical and I thank you for that. But the last few years have been more of a headache then they are worth. Don't lit the door hit you too hard on the way home