If nothing else, hopefully having the team’s top minor league affiliate in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League the past several years has taught individuals the need for context. An .800 OPS in the International League is a different beast than the same mark in the PCL. Perhaps nowhere is context needed more than with the [...]
Thanks for reading Mets360! This site exists for me to escape the non-stop complaining I experience in other areas of my life. Try to be civil and not so depressing while you’re here and we’ll get along just fine. Furthermore, this is not a democracy; at best it’s a benevolent dictatorship. Here are the rules [...]
Here's hoping all the days ahead Won't be as bitter as the ones behind you. Be an optimist instead, And somehow happiness will find you. Forget what happened yesterday, I know that better things are on the way.
Perhaps dealing with relentness negativity for weeks at a time has left me with a weakened immune system. Regardless, the result is that I have the flu. Generally I don't get sick and this is easily the worst I've felt since coming down with pneumonia back in late 2012. There's no way I can contribute [...]
Brandon Nimmo played Santa at the Christmas party and the Santa jinx is more powerful than anything Sports Illustrated ever could imagine.
Some fans equate rooting for the Mets with suffering. While not one of those people, I still don’t like to miss a chance for an article idea. So, let’s start with a quote from someone who truly suffered, Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl, who also was a neurologist and psychiatrist who aligned with existential analysis. He [...]
When Marc Carig wrote the piece in late summer about how all was not rosy with Terry Collins’ stewardship, some fans felt it was nothing more than a hit piece orchestrated by the owners. Well, now Carig is taking aim at the owners. So, apparently one of three things is true. A) Carig was not [...]
With the sixth overall pick in the Rule 5 Draft on Thursday, the Mets selected - wait for it - righty reliever Burch Smith from the Tampa Bay Rays. Smith missed two years with TJ surgery but returned to play at three levels in 2017. He fanned 19 batters in 16.1 IP at Triple-A Durham [...]
The Mets said they would sign a reliever and while many thought it would be Bryan Shaw it turned out to be Anthony Swarzak. While Shaw allegedly gets 3/$27, the Mets got Swarzak for 2/$14. Of course, Shaw has a longer track record of good pitching. Last year was the first year where Swarzak was [...]
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. is a wonderful place, which every fan should go to at least once in their life. The exhibits are great and you’d be hard pressed to find a more picturesque place than Cooperstown. Of course, we hear most about the Hall around the annual [...]
Rumors are the lifeblood of the offseason and there's no better place for them than the Winter Meetings. There's been some buzz about Matt Harvey being on the block. At first we heard about him for an unspecified reliever. Now there's talk (supposedly not serious) about a swap of Harvey for Jurickson Profar, a middle [...]
Chemistry, intangibles, things that don’t show up in the box score. We’ve heard these and other phrases a million times throughout the years. Some people dismiss these out of hand while others assign mythic qualities to them. My beliefs align much closer to the former. However, anyone who’s been in any kind of work environment [...]