For years the debate raged on. Should the Mets keep Ike Davis or Lucas Duda as their first baseman? Some thought that Duda was the clear-cut better choice, while others steadfastly defended Davis. I flip-flopped my stance on Davis more times than your average Washington politician. Coming into this season, my stance was I thought [...]
During Sunday's matchup with the Chicago Cubs, the chatter in the SNY booth turned at one point toward the minor league systems of both the Mets and Cubs. This is understandable, as both teams are largely out of the playoff hunt (barring any miracles) and possess top-5 rated systems. Gary Cohen and Keith Hernandez mentioned [...]
On this day in 1969, the Mets dropped 10 games behind the first-place Chicago Cubs in the NL East. On this day in 2014, the Mets are 8.5 games behind the first-place Washington Nationals in the NL East, and six games behind the second-Wild Card team, the St. Louis Cardinals. It's unlikely that the Mets [...]
After Sunday's brutal 7-6 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies, Mets closer Jenrry Mejia disclosed to reporters that he has been pitching with a sports hernia for the last three weeks, in addition to the calf injury he has dealt with this week - likely the reason for his recent struggles. Mejia is 0-2 over his [...]
With one of the most flurrious and activity-filled trade deadlines, the Mets decided to stand pat with the cards that they had, and there's nothing wrong with that. But of course, just because the July 31st trade deadline has come and gone, there still can be trades made until August 31st when the waiver trade [...]
"While we were active in conversations—although not super active—we didn’t make any deals, I think going in we didn’t intend to be sellers and we didn’t intend to be buyers necessarily. We were looking at the market and what it would dictate. We set a price on some of our players, and under the circumstances [...]
July 28th marks the three-year anniversary of Sandy Alderson's first 'big' move as General Manager of the Mets, trading Carlos Beltran to the San Francisco Giants in exchange for right-handed pitcher Zack Wheeler. At the time, the move was cheered by many as the first step in the arduous process of rebuilding the Mets from [...]
Throught the first 100 games of the season, the Mets pitching staff has a nearly identical Fielding Independent Pitching (3.77) as it did last year (3.79), but it's ERA has greatly improved (3.53 vs. 3.78). So with peripherals that indicate similar outcomes, the results have been much better this year. That 0.25 difference translates to [...]
Now in his fourth full-season spent on a major league roster, and the first in which he's been afforded adequate playing time, Lucas Duda is blossoming right before our very eyes. Is he a star? No. But is he developing into a good first baseman? Yes. After getting off to a slow start, he hit [...]
Abraham Lincoln once said, “It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt." Apparently nobody ever told that to Mike Puma of the New York Post. Not only has Puma gotten himself in trouble this year for an unprofessional and unfunny joke about Mets starting pitcher Bartolo [...]
It has been less than two weeks since the Mets announced their round of minor league callups, ans so far at the AA level, both Steven Matz and Dilson Herrera are tearing it up, albeit in a small sample size. Saturday night, Matz was the talk of the farm system, coming up with coming up [...]
Much has been made about the dearth of hitting in the Mets minor league system under the Alderson administration, and for good reason. It seems as if the prevailing philosophy as far as the minor league system goes, has been to build up the pitching depth, while the bats have lagged behind. The emergence over [...]