Relievers are fickle by nature. There are two main reasons for this. The first is that the better pitchers are most often starters and the second is that because relievers pitch fewer innings, they’re more susceptible to small sample size issues. When Jacob deGrom has a lousy eight inning stretch, he’s going to have 190 [...]
The Mets have seven U.S. based minor league teams, which means they have a minimum of 175 guys in their farm system. Factoring in the disabled list, it’s a little more than that – let’s call it 180. Typically, in any year there are somewhere in the vicinity of 40 guys who will one day [...]
Here in late July, many people are unhappy with the makeup of the 2017 Mets. That’s not really different from the way many people felt when Spring Training opened. However, the prevailing thought in February was that the offense was too one dimensional to be ultimately successful and the reality today is that on days [...]
MLB.com's Anthony DiComo tweeted that the Mets will call up Chris Flexen to start on Thursday. Flexen started this year in Hi-A and received a promotion to Double-A, where he has excelled in 48.1 IP. This marks a major departure from how the Mets have treated their pitchers previously. In the past, they wanted to [...]
The Mets have a half a dozen guys on the disabled list, the pitching is in shambles, the infield defense is terrible and the general manager has all but admitted that half the team is available in trades. Meanwhile, the team is playing its best baseball of the season. In their last 23 games, the [...]
Wilmer Flores cracked a solo homer with two outs in the ninth inning to lift the Mets to a 6-5 win over the A's Saturday night. The win leaves the Mets once again looking to complete a sweep on a Sunday. While Flores delivered the big hit, the Mets' offense had plenty of stars, as [...]
The Mets claimed their third straight win with a 7-5 win over the visiting A's Friday night at Citi Field. There were a bunch of good things that happened in this game but let's focus first on the bullpen moves, just because they were so interesting. The Mets trailed 3-2 with one out in the [...]
The Mets get a rare walkoff win and end up splitting their four-game series with the Cardinals, 3-2, Thursday afternoon in Citi Field. A two-out single by T.J. Rivera put runners on the corners and brought Jose Reyes to the plate. The Cardinals had an odd defensive alignment, with the third baseman pinching in and [...]
But if the electronic strike zone ever became a real thing -- and I agree with the players and executives who think that’s it’s inevitable, and perhaps closer to being implemented than a lot of folks realize -- MLB and the players' association will be able to sort through a whole lot of interesting ways [...]
Stop me if you've heard this before but the Mets had a chance to complete a sweep on Sunday but came out on the wrong end of a 13-4 blowout against the Rockies. The Mets have not had a home sweep all season. Steven Matz came out and for the second straight game he got [...]
Since David Wright has succumbed to injury problems the past few years, the Mets have struggled to field an adequate replacement at third base. They’ve tried 12 different players at the hot corner besides their captain and no one has come close to replacing Wright’s production on both sides of the game. In seven of [...]
Coming off his shortest outing of the year, one where he was removed after a 41-pitch second inning, Corey Oswalt rebounded with six shutout innings for Double-A Binghamton Saturday night. It was the ninth time in his last 13 outings that Oswalt has limited the opposition to fewer than two runs and he has a [...]