The assorted baseball websites have been assessing Jeff McNeil’s forecast for the New York Mets 2023 season for a week or so since his participation in the World Baseball Classic. McNeil posted 5.7 bWAR in 2022, in about 600 plate appearances. He posted a 1.5 in 2020 in about 200 PAs. In 2019, 5.1 in [...]
Mets fans, after decades of poor efforts from the Wilpons, have been blessed by the Mets being acquired by Steve Cohen. He has made big free agent signings and key personnel extensions in a significant way. That matters because Cohen has also gotten results. The Mets’ NL East best 101 wins demonstrates spending results in [...]
The New York Mets have their own Hall of Fame with plaques and stories in Citi Field. Mind you, these are not retired numbers; they are Mets Hall of Fame members. When Nelson Doubleday purchased the Mets (including the Wilpons), they created the Mets HOF. And of course, Joan Payson was the first inductee. The [...]
When Steve Cohen purchased the Mets from the Wilson’s for $2.4 billion, and a 95 percent share, every Mets fan got excited. Right out of the gate Cohen traded for Francisco Lindor and then signed him to a long term contract. And the Mets competed for most of the 2021 season, before injuries had them [...]
The 2022 New York Mets were quite good. Historically, the Mets teams have been completely dominant pitching-wise, and hit-or-miss offensively. In 2022, the Mets offense was pretty good. This is critical for 2023, and free agency or call-ups trying to fill roles of players no longer with the team. The Mets entire starting offensive roster, [...]
One of the biggest issues with the New York Mets in many seasons in recent history was their willingness to over-trade offense for defense. This was always evident in the outfield and definitely a known issue with third base, in the years between Felix Mantilla and Robin Ventura. There is no need to have everyone [...]
Since Buck Showalter took over the helm for the New York Mets, there was very little question he was a players’ manager, and believed in the analytics, but also would periodically rely on his feel for the in-game moves needed. The Mets got off to a great start and have largely held serve, so there [...]
Three weeks ago, the New York Mets were staring down a tough 21-game stretch, including eight with the Atlanta Braves and seven with the Philadelphia Phillies and two with the New York Yankees – all contenders for the World Series. The stretch started with the Mets just 3.5 games ahead of the Braves. The Mets [...]
The Mets have made it to August with a 3.5 game lead. The next three weeks will be the determining stretch on where the Mets end up. They play 18 of their next 21 games against the better teams in the league, including nine against Atlanta, seven against Philadelphia and two against the Yankees. The [...]
The standings on May 30 showed the Mets with a 10-game lead. Four weeks later it is down to five games. The Mets won 13 of 23, which is a .565 clip, but that is 100 points lower than April-May. The Braves managed to close the gap by winning 19 of 24, making up five [...]
As Thomas Paine once noted, these are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot, and the fair-weather fan will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their ball club; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. June, like hell, [...]
We are 10% of the way through the season and league-wide statistics are starting to take shape and stabilize – home run rates, strike out rates, batting averages, etc. which are going to tell us how the ball is reacting, which in turn can lead us to consider how to manage our expectations for seasonal [...]