Who’s the Mets’ biggest rival, the team you enjoy beating most? Your answer might depend upon when you first got into the game. To me it’s always nice to beat the Cubs. Maybe it’s not the same as it was…
Could we put together a division made up of the different Mets eras? Who would be victorious? What team would finish in last? How competitive would the different eras be? Let’s start with developing the 25-man roster for the Mets…
No names. Pick which player you would want if you could only get one: Player A: Age 26, 248 PA, .329/.381/.471/.852, .359 BABIP, 7/8 SB Player B: Age 23, 249 PA, .314/.341/.423/.764, .362 BABIP, 8/13 SB My choice is the second player just based on what we see above. There…
Yesterday the New York Post published an article by Mike Puma in which he talked to two anonymous “talent evaluators with strong knowledge of the NL East,” to discuss which club in the division had the best rotation. On the…
In a normal year, we see pitchers leave Spring Training and get babied once the regular season starts. There are two thoughts behind this – 1) There arms haven’t build up the necessary stamina. 2) The weather is usually cold…
Things are never as easy as they seem. And that point is driven home more than ever in the uncertainty of our new Covid world. The Mets announced their preliminary summer camp roster and it was hard not to notice…
Do you know who the Mets’ player representative to the MLBPA is? Off the top of my head there was a blank but after looking it up and hearing the name, it rang a bell. Give up yet – ok,…
There are things we’d like to be able to do in our job but we don’t for a variety of reasons. Maybe the owners don’t provide us with enough resources. Or maybe our bosses institute policies that are absurd but…
Major League Baseball’s proposed 60-game season is tentatively set to start in less than a month, but it’s certainly more than simply a shortened version of the marathon we’ve grown accustomed to over the last century. Beyond the reduced number…
In their 58-year history, the Mets have made 68 first round picks. We’ve had a few years with no top round pick and a few where we had more than one, hence the big, crooked number. Of those 68 picks,…
They’re running a poll on MetsBlog about who the team’s leadoff hitter should be. The good news is that Brandon Nimmo is the overwhelming favorite, garnering over 80% of the votes among the three candidates. The bad news is that…
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