During a Q&A with season-ticket holders at Citi Field this afternoon, Sandy Alderson addressed the team's payroll, their ballpark's dimensions, and his team's mental approach.
This afternoon, the Mets assembled a panel comprising GM Sandy Alderson, manager Terry Collins, Matt Harvey, Jon Niese, and Jacob deGrom to answer questions from season-ticket holders. A couple of fans in attendance, @ludichrisspeed and @zschonbrun, were kind enough to share many of the questions on Twitter, and we've collected the best of them here.
Sandy says they've enlisted the help of a "mental skills coach". #MetsQandA
— Swing and a Chris (@ludichrisspeed) June 14, 2014Sandy compares home runs to a rare mineral, says homeruns equate to wins, in response to a Q about building a speed team. #MetsQandA
— Swing and a Chris (@ludichrisspeed) June 14, 2014At pre game #MetsQandA with fans, Sandy Alderson again says team will look into moving fences in at Citi Field during off-season
— Zach Schonbrun (@zschonbrun) June 14, 2014Alderson asked about trading pitchers for power: "You can never have enough pitching." #MetsQandA
— Zach Schonbrun (@zschonbrun) June 14, 2014Sandy hasn't been on Twitter for a while, and is ignoring your tweets. #MetsQandA
— Swing and a Chris (@ludichrisspeed) June 14, 2014Alderson asked if #Mets will increase payroll. "That's something we'll deal with in the off-season," he says #MetsQandA
— Zach Schonbrun (@zschonbrun) June 14, 2014A lot of talk about being close from Sandy. Mostly groans from the crowd. #MetsQandA
— Swing and a Chris (@ludichrisspeed) June 14, 2014Jacob DeGrom uses Three Minute Miracle to tend to those luscious locks. No it wasn't my question. #MetsQandA
— Swing and a Chris (@ludichrisspeed) June 14, 2014And this observation about the fans who were asking questions:
Older fans seem obsessed with having speed and playing to the ballpark. #MetsQandA
— Swing and a Chris (@ludichrisspeed) June 14, 2014