Later tonight, NC State begins postseason play with an opening round NIT game against the Davidson Wildcats in Texas. Nothing about that sentence seems right. The Pack wasn’t supposed to be in the NIT and if they were, surely, they would have had a home game. The idea that two NC teams would travel to [...]
Five years ago, an article was posted here with the premise of the Mets not making a trade in a dozen years. Little did anyone think we would have to revisit that topic again so soon. Except this time, it’s not a dozen years, it’s two years. Would the Mets be better now if when [...]
At the conclusion of the 2020 season, it seemed like a pretty safe bet that David Peterson would be in the Mets’ rotation in 2021. After all, it looked like the Mets were going to need to sign three starters and how likely was it that they were going to get three or four guys [...]
The top 50 column is one of my favorites; but a challenging piece becomes just about impossible with the missing minor league season in 2020. No one has any idea who the layoff will affect the most, which means this list will likely be a bigger guess than usual. Anyway, about half of these entries [...]
The Mets don’t seem to believe in J.D. Davis as a starting third baseman and after his performance in September of 2020, it’s not too difficult to understand why. After looking good initially upon his return to 3B, he got progressively worse defensively. And in his last 28 games, Davis put up a .202/.336/.330 line [...]
NC State begins its 2021 postseason with a noon game Wednesday against Syracuse in the second round of the ACC tournament. Outside of the start time, the draw worked out as well as State could have hoped for. No one wants to play a noon game, pretty much ever. The lousy game against Virginia Tech [...]
Juan Lagares was and is a better defensive player than Brandon Nimmo. And even though he’s no longer on the team, the specter of Lagares and his defensive play still hangs over us, both the fans and – it seems to me – the actual decision makers of the club. No one is suggesting that [...]
When I was a kid, I loved the Olympics. Dave Wottle in ’72, the U.S. Olympic boxing team in ’76 and of course the U.S. hockey team in ’80. Things started to change in ’84., although the U.S. basketball team was still a big deal. The nationalism which is at the heart of the Olympics, [...]
Back in December, in an article about starting J.D. Davis at 3B, the idea was broached that this Mets’ lineup could score 1,000 runs in a season, a feat that’s only been done once in MLB history. Now, two assumptions went into that piece, the first being that there would be a DH in the [...]
After truncated seasons in 2018 and 2019, Taijuan Walker pitched a full year in 2020. Of course, 2020 itself was a shortened campaign. So, with three years where he combined for just 67.1 IP, how will the computer models forecast him for 2021? Will any of them project him to surpass 150 IP, which is [...]
Dominic Smith spent the offseason trying to improve his speed and agility. Taijuan Walker changed everything about his cutter to get more depth and a little bit of cut on the pitch. J.D. Davis is working with Francisco Lindor to improve his throws to first base. For sure, one of the rites of spring are [...]
There were high hopes coming into the 2020-21 season for the Wolfpack. However, Covid disruptions, injuries and a longer break-in period for the freshman than hoped for have all contributed to a disappointing season. However, the team seems to have finally found its footing, despite the season-ending injury to Devon Daniels, and nowhere was that [...]