Pitchers and catchers reporting to Port St. Lucie and placing seven prospects on the Baseball America Top 100 list dominated the Mets-related headlines this week, but there were a few other pieces of news that came out as well. The…
On Friday night, Marc Carig of Newsday reported as news something that has become painfully obvious to anyone paying attention to the hot stove this offseason: The Mets are unlikely to move any starters unless an opportunity presents itself during…
Last offseason Lucas Duda, Wilmer Flores, and Juan Lagares were asked by the Mets to travel to Michigan to train with Mike Barwis, who has been a strength and conditioning consultant with the Mets since 2011. This offseason Barwis opened…
When teams are competing for championships, their “window” for contention is often talked about. The Texas Rangers had a short championship window, from about 2009-2012. The San Francisco Giants’ championship window opened up in the 2009 season and is still…
Next up in our projection series is Zack Wheeler. Wheeler’s first full season in the major leagues was promising as it was frustrating – with him realizing improvements in most of his underlying peripheral stats including strikeout rate, walk rate,…
In Juan Lagares’ first three seasons in the Mets organization – from 2006 to 2008 – he committed 73 errors in 195 games. He was also a shortstop. In 2009, the decision was made to move Lagares to the outfield,…
The big news this weekend, as usual, had nothing to do with the Mets acquiring a shortstop, and once again had everything to do with Fred Wilpon and finances. Except this time, the news is that Fred Wilpon has been…
Here are some news and notes to get you caught up on all the recent happenings in Mets land. You may know that Ben Zobrist was traded to the Oakland Athletics this past weekend, but according to Ken Rosenthal of…
With Mike Piazza once again being snubbed for the Hall of Fame, garnering 69.9% of the vote from the BBWAA, people have taken to sharing their outrage that the “greatest hitting catcher of all time” isn’t in the Hall. But…
As we digest from the end of the holidays and a weekend of football, here are some things to get the first work week of 2015 started. With the announcement of the Hall of Fame voting results coming up tomorrow,…
At FanGraphs, Josh Barnes posted a wonderful piece of community research concluding that Jon Niese is poised to have a breakout season in 2015. Before continuing reading this article, I’d highly recommend reading what Barnes wrote if you haven’t already.…
A pleasant good Monday to you, the last one in 2014. Here’s some news and notes to get your abridged workweek started. A picture went viral on Twitter showing that Las Vegas has the Mets at 12:1 odds to win…
