Coming into this year, Jonathan Villar had a lifetime OPS+ of 95 in 3,209 lifetime PA in the majors. That’s a little misleading, as he struggled in his first two half seasons in the majors and was terrible last year. From 2015-2019, he had a 101 OPS+ in 2,472 PA. After yesterday’s homer and HBP, [...]
Marcus Stroman turned in another strong start and Francisco Lindor did it at the plate and in the field, leading the Mets to a 4-1 win over the Padres Saturday afternoon at Citi Field. The win put the Mets eight games over .500, a season high for the club. In the bottom of the first [...]
On the 48th anniversary of Secretariat's monster win at Belmont, the Mets payed homage. Taijuan Walker was excellent and the Mets put up their best offensive night of the season, leading the Mets to a 14-1 win over the Orioles and a split of their two-game series in Baltimore Walker struck out nine in seven [...]
David Peterson came into Tuesday night’s game struggling with walks and homers. The good news is that he allowed just one walk and did not serve up a gopher ball. The bad news is that he gave up eight hits and four runs without making it out of the third inning, as the Mets got [...]
Marcus Stroman gave up just an unearned run in 6.2 IP, while also contributing an RBI double, leading the Mets to a 6-2 win over the Padres Sunday afternoon and a split of the 4-game series. The Padres put runners on base in six of the seven innings against Stroman but were able to get [...]
In the last five games, the Mets have used their five best available starting pitchers, something which hasn’t happened very much this year. But because of a lousy start from David Peterson, the bullpen needed to provide 19 innings. And this despite three road losses that only required eight innings from the staff. In an [...]
Jacob deGrom continued to be the best pitcher in baseball and the Mets decided to score some runs for him and the result was a 4-0 win for the Mets Saturday night in San Diego. deGrom had one inning where he had trouble, as the Padres loaded the bases with one out in the fourth [...]
The Mets are now 2-12 against teams with a winning record. The offense just hasn’t been able to score runs against the better teams. Here is the offensive output in those 14 games against teams .500 and above: CHC – 1, 4, 3 BOS – 1, 0 STL – 5, 1, 7, 4 TBR – [...]
For the second straight night, the Mets did just enough to lose, getting shut out by the Padres, 2-0, Friday night in San Diego. The Mets were held without a hit until Francisco Lindor singled leading off the seventh. Lindor wound up on third base thanks to a fielding error and with nobody out, it [...]
The Mets need David Peterson to be solid, more or less league average, and, well, he isn’t. Coming into the year, the hope was that eight pitchers would make the overwhelming number of starts for the team. The problem is that three of those are on the IL and Peterson has to take a turn [...]
The Mets fell behind 4-0, cut the deficit to one run, put the first two runners on in the ninth inning but couldn’t tie the game, falling to the Padres, 4-3, in the first game of a four-game set Thursday night in San Diego. This promised to be a pitcher’s duel, with two of the [...]
Everyone knows that the Mets have struggled offensively at the start of the 2021 season. The NL has an average runs per game of 4.33 and the Mets have a mark of just 3.73, which ranks 14th in the 15-team league. There are multiple reasons why, ranging from the slow starts for most of the [...]