One of the feel-good stories of the early 2016 season has been the performance of Phillies starting pitcher Vincent Velasquez, who has come on to pitch two great games here in the early going for a Philadelphia team that is a few years away from competing for the playoffs. After two starts, Velasquez' line reads: [...]
Lucinda Williams went to Slidell to look for her joy, meaning that the Mets going to Cleveland to look for their offense is not the unlikeliest road trip ever. The good news for Mets fans is that it appears to have happened, as the club has hit seven homers in two games, after delivering just [...]
The Mets hit three more homers but the pitching didn't hold up its end of the bargain, as the Mets fell to the Indians, 7-5, Saturday afternoon. The game started off great, with Curtis Granderson hitting a leadoff homer. And it got better in the bottom of the frame, as Matt Harvey struck out the [...]
The Mets' offense is still essentially missing in action but they were able to eke out enough to earn a 2-1 win over the Marlins to snap a four-game losing streak and salvage the final game in the series against Miami. Logan Verrett made a spot start in place of the injured Jacob deGrom and [...]
When we last saw the Mets in 2015, they didn’t hit well, they didn’t pitch well and they didn’t field well. That’s a tough trio of things to overcome and unsurprisingly, they lost four of their final five games. Flash forward to 2016 and the fielding has been sort of okay, the hitting has been [...]
The Mets' offense came alive, scoring in three different innings and putting up crooked numbers in two of them, which led to a 7-2 win over the Phillies in the team's home opener on Friday afternoon. New York pounded out nine hits, with Michael Conforto and Neil Walker contributing two apiece. Conforto had 3 RBIs [...]
It's pretty simple - all the Mets have to do to defeat the Royals is start Noah Syndergaard. He combined with three relievers on a dominating outing, leading the Mets to their first win of the year, a 2-0 victory over Kansas City Tuesday afternoon. The big difference in this game from the opener was [...]
It was Groundhog Day for the Mets, as they re-lived some of the darker moments from the World Series in dropping a 4-3 game to the Royals in Kansas City. Royals took an early lead with an unearned run that scored on a weak single. Two singles and a SF for their second run. Their [...]
Each year with the predictions column I start by going back to the previous year’s piece. After a dismal year with just two correct prediction in 2014, last year I rebounded to get six right and missed out on another when Curtis Granderson finished with a .259 AVG instead of his predicted .261 mark. But [...]
One of the things done during the offseason is to sign veterans to cheap contracts without the guarantee of a roster spot, invite them to Spring Training and see what happens. Typically these are Quad A type guys or guys who once were roster-worthy but who’ve run into injury problems. Frequently these guys end up [...]
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In 2015 from the beginning of the year until the end of July, the Mets hit 89 homers in 103 games and had a 53-50 mark. After the acquisition of Yoenis Cespedes, the Mets hit 88 homers in 59 games and went 37-22. Obviously there was more to the Mets’ hot streak at the end [...]