Where does Travis d’Arnaud’s breakout leave Kevin Plawecki?

Travis d’Arnaud has just over 200 at bats this season for the Mets and has put up an OPS (on base percentage + slugging percentage) of 911. To put that into perspective Buster Posey’s OPS is around 880 although he has stayed healthy and on the field far longer than d’Arnaud. Simply put d’Arnaud has [...]

How should the Mets set up their round one playoff rotation?

OK, this may be premature. As of Saturday morning Fan Graphs was giving the Mets an 80% chance of winning the NL East and just a 0.8% chance of winning a wild card spot if the Nats overtake them for the division flag. A few more outings by Bobby Parnell and/or Eric O’Flaherty and it [...]

Were David Wright not the Mets’ captain who would be?

In the early days of the internet a popular worldwide discussion system was called Usenet.  It consisted of newsgroups.  It started up in the early 1980s and still exists today.  The plethora of social media sites has made Usenet close to irrelevant but – call it tradition – I still pop in and look at [...]

Defensive grades that Strat-O-Matic might give the 2015 Mets

Broadcasters Howie Rose and Keith Hernandez sprinkle allusions to the Strat-O-Matic Baseball game they played extensively in their teens. It is a game that is still going strong and the defensive grades it assigns players are respected for accuracy and consistency. In recent years as a service to my fellow league members I give them [...]

A scenario explaining the Mets/Gomez trade fiasco

I realize that the trendy thing to do is write about the big Yoenis Cespedes swap the Mets made on Friday but I thought I’d reflect on the almost-Gomez trade that didn’t happen on Wednesday. Some people are more into conspiracy theories than others. I am kind of into that stuff. A good conspiracy theory [...]

Should the top four Mets young stud pitchers all be untouchable?

In Sandy Alderson's press briefing on Thursday he touched on a number of trade related subjects. And, of course, we have to dismiss much of what he says because his history (and that of most of his fellow GMs) is that he will often say one thing and do another. After all, Michael Conforto wasn't [...]

Would MLB ever force the Wilpons to sell the Mets?

Fred and Jeff Wilpon are probably the worst owners in professional baseball at this time, possibly the worst in all of professional sports. They are immensely unpopular with the fan base of their own team. Whenever Mets fans discuss the Wilpons I am reminded of the line Buddy Hackett used to use referring to sportscaster [...]