What might have been...
Here on the final day of the regular season, the Mets are 14th in the National League with a .676 OPS with RISP. The average NL team has a triple slash line of .256/.341/.415 while the Mets check in with a .225/.305/.372 line. It’s pretty amazing that they’ve made the playoffs with those numbers. But [...]
The Mets are going to the playoffs for the second consecutive season, as they edged the Phillies, 5-3, Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia. It's just the second time in franchise history the club has made the postseason in back-to-back years, joining the 1999-2000 club. Today's win means the Mets will host the Wild Card game on [...]
According to ESPN, the Mets have a 98.6% chance of making the playoffs as a Wild Card team. A quick Google search appears to show that the Wild Card play-in game is its own separate round, meaning you can have a 25-man roster for that game and, if you win, immediately turn around and adjust [...]
Jim Bouton's big project between being a sportscaster and resuming his MLB career.
Jay Bruce vs. Michael Conforto
No one knew how both teams were going to handle the emotions around tonight's game. The Marlins seemed to use theirs in the best possible way. They jumped on top early and cruised to a 7-3 win. Terry Collins indicated prior to the game that the Mets had the best possible starter given the circumstances, [...]
The baseball world was shocked and saddened to learn of the death of Marlins young ace Jose Fernandez. The Marlins had just adjusted their rotation so that Fernandez would face them in the upcoming series. You hear so much about how Player X performs well against the Mets. This was certainly case with Fernandez. To [...]
On this third weekend of NFL action, the Mets broke out a football score, as they put up two touchdowns and a field goal to beat the Phillies, 17-0, in the last regular season game of 2016 in Citi Field. The game started on a somber note, as the broadcast started with a tribute to [...]
Last year’s playoff run was led somewhat equally by players acquired by Omar Minaya and Sandy Alderson. On the Minaya side, there was Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, Steven Matz, Jeurys Familia, Daniel Murphy and Lucas Duda leading the way. On the Alderson side, there was Noah Syndergaard, Bartolo Colon, Travis d’Arnaud, Michael Conforto, Yoenis Cespedes [...]
The Mets broke a three-game losing streak in most unusual fashion, scoring two runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie it and then scoring three runs in the bottom of the 11th to win it, 9-8, Thursday night. Jose Reyes crushed a two-run homer to send it to extra innings and Asdrubal Cabrera [...]
Poor Jay Bruce. The guy was an All-Star this year, comes to the Mets and now couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a boat. No one doubts that he’s trying. Yet it’s undeniable that he’s been lousy since arriving and he’s even turned it up a notch here lately. In his last 12 [...]