输到崩溃的梅子球迷
今天齐声在球场高喊Pete Alonso
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The Mets are falling to 12 games under .500 in late June and the crowd is chanti
ng “PETE ALONSO”
The Mets wanted Milwaukee with money. It’s not as easy as it sounds
大都会想用金钱复制酿酒人模式，但事情没那么简单
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NEW YORK — Baseball has a way of upending logical assumptions. When a leader sh
ows he can win with a low-budget roster, then certainly he can win with a big-bu
dget roster, too. More money, more winning, right?
纽约——棒球总是能颠覆人们自认合理的推论，一位管理者若能以低薪资阵容赢球，那么理
论上也应该能靠高薪资阵容赢球，花更多钱，就能赢更多比赛，对吧？
“The benefit of this job is we have access to the entire player universe,” Dav
id Stearns, the president of baseball operations for the New York Mets, said Tue
sday at Citi Field. “Anyone who’s playing baseball anywhere, we have the poten
tial to acquire. That’s very different than some other markets and certainly wh
ere I came from.”
纽约大都会棒球事务总裁David Stearns周二在花旗球场表示：
“这份工作的优势在于，我们可以接触到整个棒球世界的球员，无论任何地方、任何联盟，
只要有人在打棒球，我们都有机会把他网罗进来，这和其他市场完全不同，也和我过去待过
的地方很不一样”
Stearns came from Milwaukee, where he built teams shrewdly and handed them to ma
nager Craig Counsell, who usually steered them to the playoffs. The Mets poached
Stearns from the Milwaukee Brewers in October 2023, a month before the Chicago
Cubs did so with Counsell.
Stearns来自密尔瓦基，在那里他精明地打造球队，再交给总教练Craig Counsell带领，而C
ounsell通常都能率队打进季后赛，大都会在2023年10月从酿酒人挖走Stearns，而一个月后
，芝加哥小熊也挖走了Counsell
The Mets won a wild card in 2024, then missed the playoffs last season at 83-79.
The Cubs went 83-79 to miss the playoffs in 2024, then won a wild card last sea
son.
大都会在2024年取得外卡资格，但上季以83胜79败无缘季后赛，小熊则是在2024年同样以83
胜79败错失季后赛，却在上季拿下外卡席位
This year has been unkind to both. The Mets are buried in last place in the Nati
onal League East. The Cubs recently played 10 series in a row without winning an
y. They have a better record than the Mets but no clear pathway to a pennant.
今年对两队而言都相当艰难，大都会深陷国联东区垫底，小熊最近更曾连续10个系列赛未能
取胜，虽然小熊战绩优于大都会，但看不出有任何明确争冠道路
“You need to get contributions from all over your roster,” Counsell said Tuesd
ay. “That’s what baseball shows you all the time. We can’t give the ball to L
eBron James. In baseball, everybody’s got to share it.”
Counsell周二表示：
“你必须让整个阵容都做出贡献，棒球一直都在告诉我们这件事，我们没办法把球一直交给
LeBron James，在棒球里每个人都必须分担责任”
In Flushing, LeBron James translates to Juan Soto. The Mets would love to send S
oto to the plate all game long. They have nobody else hitting much, and even Sot
o checked out early in Tuesday’s miserable 9-6 loss — he has tightness in the
left side of his back and was gone after four innings.
在法拉盛，所谓的“LeBron James”就是Juan Soto，大都会巴不得每个打席都由他上去打
，但除了他之外，几乎没有人能稳定打击，甚至在周二那场败给小熊9比6的比赛中，Soto也
提前退场——因为左侧背部紧绷，他只打了四局便离开
The Mets entered the game with the NL’s second-worst offense, better than only
the San Diego Padres, another big-money lineup gone bust. The Cubs don’t spend
quite as much as the Mets or Padres, but their payroll still ranks among MLB’s
top 10. Their highest-paid players, 32-year-old infielders Alex Bregman and Dans
by Swanson, have hit well below their standards.
大都会赛前拥有国联第二差的进攻火力，只比另一支重金打造却失败的球队——圣地牙哥教
士——稍好一些，小熊虽然不像大都会或教士花得那么多，但团队薪资仍名列大联盟前十，
而队中最高薪的两位32岁内野手曼Alex Bregman与Dansby Swanson，本季表现都远低于预期
The Brewers don’t have these kinds of problems. They won with Stearns and Couns
ell in charge, and still win with Matt Arnold and Pat Murphy. They get the best
from players such as Willy Adames, let desperate big-market teams (in Adames’ c
ase, the San Francisco Giants) pay for the decline phase, and sell high to acqui
re or develop younger, cheaper, often more productive replacements.
酿酒人则没有这类问题，他们在Stearns与Counsell掌权时能赢球，换成Matt Arnold与Pat
Murphy后依然持续获胜
他们懂得榨出像Willy Adames这类球员的最佳价值，然后让急于补强的大市场球队（例如旧
金山巨人）去承担球员下滑期的风险，再利用这些资源培养或换回更年轻、更便宜，而且往
往更有生产力的替代者
It’s not that all players in their 30s are bad bets, but the exceptions tend to
be future Hall of Famers and/or members of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The rest, i
nvariably, end up limiting how the rest of the roster functions.
并非所有30岁以上的球员都是错误投资，但真正成功的例外，通常是未来名人堂球员，或者
是洛杉矶道奇的成员，至于其他人最终往往会成为限制整体阵容运作的负担
“If you’re building a good small-market team, you do have more optionality in
terms of, like, ‘If this doesn’t work, we can do this,’” Counsell said. “Wh
en you’re committing resources to free agents, that’s your guy. But every team
tries to build depth.”
Counsell说：
“如果你是在打造一支成功的小市场球队，你会拥有更多选择空间，例如‘如果这个方案失
败了，我们还有另一个方案’，但当你把大量资源投入自由球员时，那就是你押注的人选了
，不过每支球队都会试图建立阵容深度”
The Cubs have won seven of their last 10 after bludgeoning Kodai Senga on Tuesda
y, but fate keeps depleting them; ther starter, Edward Cabrera, left the game o
n a cart with a hamstring/adductor strain. At least Matthew Boyd will return Thu
rsday, and strong fielding is a constant.
小熊在周二痛击千贺滉大后，近10场赢了7场，但命运仍持续打击他们，先发投手Edward Ca
brera因腿后肌与内收肌拉伤，被推车送离球场，好消息是Matthew Boyd将于周四归队，而
稳定的守备依旧是球队优势
“I think good teams always feel like they always have an identity; that’s just
a label we put on good teams,” Counsell said. “This team is the same team as
last year, essentially: We play great defense. You can not be happy with our rec
ord, but we play great defense, and that was true last year as well.”
Counsell表示：
“我认为强队总会让人觉得他们有鲜明的球队特色，而那其实只是大家给强队贴上的标签，
这支球队本质上和去年一样——我们守备非常好，你可以对战绩不满意，但我们的守备真的
很好，而去年也是如此。”
The Mets tried to bolster their defense in the fall by trading outfielder Brando
n Nimmo to the Texas Rangers for Gold Glove second baseman Marcus Semien. But Se
mien, 35, has declined offensively in each of the last three seasons, and is sig
ned through 2028 at an average of $25 million per year.
大都会去年休赛季为了提升防守，把外野手Brandon Nimmo交易到德州游骑兵，换来金手套
二垒手Marcus Semien
但35岁的Semien已经连续三个球季进攻表现下滑，而且合约将持续到2028年，平均年薪高达
2500万美元
Bo Bichette, 28, should still be in his prime; that is why Stearns gave him $42
million per season after losing the Kyle Tucker bidding (could you imagine Tucke
r in New York?) to the Dodgers. Though Bichette had a .900 OPS in June before Tu
esday, his strikeout rate is up, his walk rate is down, and his season on-base p
ercentage is below .300.
28岁的Bo Bichette理应仍在巅峰期，因此Stearns在争夺Kyle Tucker败给道奇后，仍以年
薪4200万美元签下他（你能想像Tucker穿上大都会球衣吗？）
虽然Bichette在周二之前的6月OPS达到0.900，但他的三振率上升、保送率下降，整季上垒
率甚至低于3成
“I think we’re going to look up at the end of the year and see a pretty good s
eason for Bo,” Stearns said, though by then it might not matter.
Stearns说：
“我认为等到球季结束回头看时，我们会发现Bo其实打出了一个相当不错的球季”
只是到了那时候，或许已经没有意义了
Other offseason additions, center fielder Luis Robert Jr. and Opening Day first
baseman Jorge Polanco, have been sidelined by injuries since April. Polanco’s A
chilles problem has been especially vexing — “Some good days, not-so-good some
others,” manager Carlos Mendoza said — but the Mets got what they paid for.
其他休赛季补强，包括中外野手Luis Robert Jr与开幕战一垒手Jorge Polanco，自4月以来
都因伤缺阵
Polanco的阿基里斯腱伤势尤其令人头痛，总教练Carlos Mendoza表示：
“有些日子状况不错，但有些日子就没那么好”
不过某种程度上，大都会其实只是得到了他们所购买的风险
They dumped redoubtable first baseman Pete Alonso — who has played in every gam
e for the Baltimore Orioles — and thought they had a bargain in Polanco at two
years and $40 million. With Soto and Francisco Lindor under contract well into t
heir 30s, the impulse for a short-term contract was understandable.
他们放弃了强打一垒手Pete Alonso——而Alonso如今在金莺场场出赛——并认为以2年4000
万美元签下Polanco是一笔划算交易
考量到Soto与Lindor的长约都将延续至30多岁，大都会偏好短约补强的思维其实可以理解
But Polanco’s injury history, like that of Robert, made him a bad bet. So was f
ragile starter Frankie Montas, who got a two-year, $34 million deal before last
season and needed Tommy John surgery after seven starts.
然而Polanco与Robert的伤病史，使他们成为高风险赌注
同样的还有玻璃体质的先发投手Frankie Montas，他在上季前签下2年3400万美元合约，结
果只先发7场便接受Tommy John手术
“I think we have to evaluate how we’re assessing injury risk as it relates to
the entirety of our roster,” Stearns said. “There are definitely some guys who
have had previous injury history. We’ve also had some players who have spent p
rolonged periods on the injury list this year who have been among the most durab
le players in all of baseball. So we’ve kind of been hit by all sides of it.
Stearns表示：
“我认为我们必须重新检视，如何评估整体阵容的伤病风险，有些球员确实有过伤病史，但
今年也有一些过去公认最耐战的球员长期进入伤兵名单，所以我们几乎是从各个方面都受到
打击”
“But whenever you bring in a player with injury history, we are aware there’s
heightened injury risk. In many cases, we thought we were insulated by that risk
in certain areas of our roster with other players, and then we haven’t been.”
“但只要引进有伤病史的球员，我们就知道风险会提高，很多时候我们认为阵容中的其他球
员足以分散这种风险，但事实证明并没有”
Even with a healthy lineup, though, these Mets would not be able to overcome the
ir shoddy rotation. Senga and David Peterson have been abysmal, Clay Holmes and
Christian Scott are hurt, and free-agent-to-be Freddy Peralta has a 4.83 ERA.
即使打线完全健康，这支大都会恐怕也无法克服他们糟糕的先发轮值
千贺滉大与David Peterson表现惨不忍睹； Clay Holmes与Christian Scott受伤缺阵；而
即将成为自由球员的Freddy Peralta防御率高达4.83
The Brewers will almost certainly win big on that deal. Though the Mets lost aga
in Tuesday, Brandon Sproat — traded with Jett Williams for Peralta and Tobias M
yers — had the best start of his career with six shutout innings (one hit, no w
alks, 10 strikeouts) in Cincinnati.
酿酒人几乎肯定会在这笔交易中大获全胜
尽管大都会周二再次吞败，但被交易至酿酒人的Brandon Sproat——与Jett Williams——
在辛辛那提缴出生涯最佳先发内容：6局无失分、仅被敲1安、无保送、送出10次三振
Sproat has mostly struggled this season, but the Brewers will give him a chance
to reach his potential. They don’t spend much, so that is the smart play. The M
ets’ spending power gives them options, but limits them, too — even if Stearns
can’t say it.
Sproat本季大部分时间表现挣扎，但酿酒人愿意给他时间兑现天赋
由于他们无法靠砸钱补强，因此培养潜力球员才是最聪明的策略，反观大都会庞大的财力虽
然带来选择，却也同时形成束缚——即使Stearns不会亲口承认这点
“It requires me and us as an organization to do our work a little bit different
ly,” he said of the Mets’ vast resources. “But that’s awesome.”
谈到大都会庞大的资源时，Stearns表示：
“这确实要求我和整个球团用不同的方式工作，但这也是一件很棒的事”
Their offseason work has flopped, and though Stearns said he has not given up on
2026, that is only a function of the calendar.
他们休赛季的操作已经宣告失败，而尽管 Stearns表示他还没有放弃 2026 年，但那也只是
因为现在的时间点还没走到必须正式放弃的地步。
In the weeks before the Aug. 3 trading deadline, the Mets must aggressively buil
d for the future.
在8月3日交易大限前的这几周，大都会必须积极地着眼未来进行布局。
Maybe accessing a different sector of the player universe will help.
或许把目光投向另一个不同的球员市场，会有所帮助
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