Baseball Twitter Roller Coaster

Because Twitter is fun and so are graphs, I have tweet volume graphs from my Twitter scraper that collects tweets with the team-specific nicknames and Twitter handles. After a trade (or non-trade), the data can be collected and a graphical picture of the reaction can be produced. The graph represents the volume of sampled tweets that contained the specific keywords: Mets, Gomez, Flores and Hamels. “Tears” is a collection of any tweets which mentioned either “tears” or “crying”, since Flores was in tears as he took the field.

Here are the reactions to the Gomez non-trade and Hamels trade last night:

And here’s the timeline of necessary tweets:
[All times are EDT.]

July 29
9:00 PM

Deal with #Brewers is done pending physicals. Gomez to #Mets

— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) July 30, 2015

Per @Joelsherman1, #Mets getting Carlos Gomez for Wheeler and Flores. Pending review of medicals.

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 30, 2015

9:45 PM

Holy cow. Flores literally has tears in his eyes right now at shortstop.

— Marc Carig (@MarcCarig) July 30, 2015

9:54 PM

Asked official involved with Gomez trade why Flores is still in game. Reply: “No deal is done. The entire world has jumped the gun.”

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 30, 2015

10:15 PM

#Rangers have agreement to acquire Cole Hamels from #Phillies, source confirms to @FOXSports. @Sullivan_Ranger first to report.

— Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) July 30, 2015

10:55 PM

Alderson just told #Mets’ writers “there is no trade” for Gomez and that a deal “will not transpire.”

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 30, 2015

July 30
12:13 AM

Sources: #Mets backed out of trade due to concern over hip issue with #Brewers’ Gomez.

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 30, 2015

Some of the times were rounded if there wasn’t a clear single tweet that caused the peak on Twitter.