The Mets cruised to an 8-2 victory over their division rival the Phils before a crowd of 37,445 at Citi Field. The first-place Mets improved their record to 31-17. The home-town nine drew first blood in the second when Starling Marte motored into third base on a single to right by Mark Canha, and then [...]
The case could be made that Jeff McNeil has been the best hitter on the Mets this year. OPS is a commonly used metric to rate batters, and McNeil’s total of .835 leads the team, just ahead of Pete Alonso and his .833 OPS. Yet, more often than not, McNeil has been hitting toward the [...]
The visiting Mets prevailed over St. Louis Tuesday night 3-0, assuring the Mets of winning this series, and making the Mets 6-0 in winning series to start the season. The game was nowhere near as exciting as the barn-burner of an opener of the series, but it counts the same in the scorebook as they [...]
The Mets starting rotation seemed set as Spring Training was drawing to a close. It did not include lefty David Peterson, who started the year in Syracuse, or righty Tylor Megill, who seemed likely to join Peterson in the minors or at best be a long-relief pitcher. However due to injuries to ace Jacob deGrom [...]
Most analysts/fans seem to think that the 2022 starting Mets catcher will be incumbent James McCann, who just completed the first year of his four-year contract. McCann will be playing in his age 32 season this year. His 2021 year was not inspiring, and he is at an age where players tend to decline, particularly [...]
As we all know Gil Hodges, the skipper of the 1969 world champion Mets, was chosen for the Baseball Hall of Fame in December. Even though his plaque will undoubtedly show him with a Brooklyn Dodger cap, he was a vitally important member of the Mets family as well. Perhaps when the Golden Days committee [...]
Rod Gaspar was a switch-hitting backup outfielder with the champion 1969 Mets, who managed to leave an outsized legacy. Gaspar was listed as 5’11” and 165 pounds, so with that frame he was not a power hitter. He was a speedy, slick-fielding outfielder whose best tool at the plate was probably his good discipline resulting [...]
What if the Mets had made no external moves over the past few years, that means no trades, no free-agent signings, but also would mean retention of their own free agents. This obviously is not practical, but it might be interesting to see what the roster would look like going into 2022, if the Mets [...]
The MLB winter meetings run from December 6 to December 9 this year, and one of the highlights will be the results of Hall of Fame voting from the Golden Days Era committee. One of the nominees of special interest to Met fans is the late Gil Hodges, skipper of the World Series champion 1969 [...]
The Mets will surely be in the free agent market this offseason, and they are likely to target at least one and maybe two outfielders, depending on whether or not Michael Conforto is retained. Brandon Nimmo was great all season in center, but right and left fields are question marks. Names like Chris Taylor, Starling [...]
The Mets are in a somewhat common position for them, that is going into the offseason needing to hire a new manager. They’ve had three in just the past three seasons, with Mickey Callaway skippering the team in 2019, then Carlos Beltran for about a nanosecond, and Luis Rojas then managing for the past two [...]
The task at hand is to revamp the Mets to prepare for the 2022 season. Spoiler alert. I will propose a few big moves but all in all I imagine my recommendations will be less splashy than some of the other off-season scenarios done by other writers. The first order of business is to hire [...]