Sometimes you gotta tip your cap. It’s a common sports cliche that we’re all familiar with, particularly when it’s our team that’s on the short end of a game or match. In this context, however, it pertains to the Mets and their players unequivocally and in no uncertain terms forcing yours truly to firmly place [...]
As the Mets circle the drain at the wire to end yet another season, the drafts of various postmortems are inevitably being written as you read these very postmortem-like words. One of the topics will concern the Mets’ offense, which as of this writing remains in the top ten in baseball with a wRC+ of [...]
Say one thing for the 2024 Mets, say they keep it interesting. The team hit what could have been the low point of their season as they dropped to 10+ games below .500 when the calendar flipped from May to June. In the process they somehow looked even worse than the mediocre team most expected [...]
Oh what a difference a month (give or take) can make. When my byline last hit the Mets360 front page, the Mets were in the midst of a 6-15 skid in May with optimism for a reversal of fortune close to its nadir. Since then they’ve gone 15-9 and won 12 of their last 15 [...]
We’ve arrived at a fairly standard juncture in a baseball season when fans and pundits opine on where the season is headed based on the results thus far. We’re roughly 30% into the 2024 campaign and, depending on your personal viewpoint, it’s either getting late early or we still need additional time to assess. The [...]
Note: All stats in this article include games through the Mets’ April 24th, 2024 game against the Giants. It would be an understatement to call the start of the Mets’ 2024 season uneven and unexpected, and perhaps no other aspect of their overarching team performance illustrates that better than what’s been going on with their [...]
Yesterday the Athletic’s Jim Bowden published one of his trademark articles (subscription required) wherein he ranks a thing, and in this case that thing is the quality of all 30 MLB teams' opening day lineups. Somewhat surprisingly, the Mets are slotted in at 14th behind the likes of the Cubs, Reds, and Padres even with [...]
A lot of digital ink has been dedicated to assessing the expected performance of the 2024 Mets, and the general consensus is unsurprisingly to anticipate a middling season with perhaps a sniff at a Wild Card spot. That doesn’t sound very exciting, of course, but as Mets fans we’re used to hanging our hat on [...]
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Maya Angelou’s famous quote was commentary on relationships rather than the state of an MLB franchise, of course, but it nonetheless seems fitting when assessing the Mets’ offseason. As Brian touched on earlier this month, they’ve done what they said they were [...]
There are three primary narratives playing out this season for the 2023 Mets, and all of them are having an impact on the team’s underwhelming performance in a season preceded by sky-high expectations: the state of an old starting rotation that is struggling both with performance and health, another year in which we’re discussing a [...]
Expectations are an interesting aspect of human psychology. They can be sky high, subdued, or somewhere in between. They’re sometimes called “premeditated resentments” when there’s a high probability that they won’t be met, which leads to all kinds of disillusioned heartache and regret. At a very basic level, we’re content when they’re met and disappointed [...]
To say that the Mets during the Sandy Alderson years undervalued defense would be putting it lightly. In fact, and usually to their detriment, there were times that the team deliberately sacrificed defense to get more pop in the lineup. Anyone remember Lucas Duda in left field? Actually, throwing players into the outfield to shoehorn [...]