This time last year you could see my photo on the Robert Gsellman bandwagon and heck, it’s possible the picture was taken from near the driver’s seat. Seemingly from out of nowhere he came up and got the pitcher’s dream combination of strikeouts and ground balls and made improvement in his walk rate, too. After [...]
Due to the uncertainty of the health of the Mets’ starting pitchers, most fans would prefer if the team added a starter who could give the team, at the very least, 30 starts and 180 or so innings. Because of the team’s limited financial ability, most have turned away from the very top of the [...]
The 2018 season will be the 10th year in which the Mets have called Citi Field home. No one doubts that the ballpark is a whole lot nicer than Shea Stadium and with the 2015 and 2016 seasons, the park has seen both meaningful games in September and playoff baseball, incredibly important factors for the [...]
A Thanksgiving essay
Recently, the indispensable Jeff Zimmerman released his annual DL information for all MLB clubs. For me, the nice part about this year’s information is that Jeff included both his usual bar chart and the actual numbers, eliminating the need to ballpark what the actual number was. In 2017, the Mets lost a total of 1,487 [...]
Juan Lagares is a terrific defensive player. Unfortunately, he’s not much of a threat with the bat in his hands. He doesn’t walk and he doesn’t hit for power, making him totally dependent on the singles falling in to be a productive player. In his best offensive year to date, Lagares needed a .341 BABIP [...]
While everyone’s attention is on the GM Meetings, mine are focused more on an internal issue. While important groundwork is laid during these meetings, typically very little is consummated right now. Which is why my mind is centered on the walking wounded. One of the problems with the offseason is that we don’t get updates [...]
Near the end of May in 2017, fans were clamoring for Dominic Smith to come up and replace Lucas Duda for the Mets. This may be one of the least bright things for which fans have ever advocated. At the time, Duda had a .963 OPS for the Mets while Smith had a shiny batting [...]
Below we have destinations and contract terms for 17 free agents. None of us claim to be experts on the subject – some claim a lack of expertise here more vociferously than others – so the last thing you should do is use this as a betting guide. Instead this is an opportunity for us [...]
The Mets cleared spots on their 40-man roster earlier this offseason by outrighting five players. Four of those became free agents and one, Wuilmer Becerra, remains in the organization but eligible to be picked in the Rule 5 Draft. Of the four who became free agents, one – Phillip Evans – has already re-joined the [...]
This is a project where 30 people got together to act as the GMs of the 30 MLB teams with the idea of conducting the offseason in one week. This is what happened in this simulation, not a prediction of what will happen in real life. The Mets were one of the more interesting teams [...]
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