This is the third entry in our prospect series, where we’re counting down the top 50 prospects for the Mets. Four people were involved in this project and what you see is a group consensus, not the results of one person. You can view 46-43 if you have not already seen it. Here are the [...]
Last week I wrote that the Mets should open the coffers and sign Jason Heyward. The reasons are outlined in that article, but what was left unstated was that it should not be the only significant signing the Mets should make. Significant in this case doesn't mean tons of money but simply players that would [...]
Jason Heyward is going to get paid this off-season, and he's going to get paid a lot. Part of that has to do with how Major League Baseball free agency works, what with insane contracts that get crazier and crazier each year. Most of it, though, is because of just how great a player he's [...]
You've undoubtedly read many, many articles today about the Mets and the Royals in Game 3 of the World Series. It was a great win for the Mets in a series where both teams appear to have strong futures, what with the Mets' stable of young aces and the Royals'....relentlessness and foul language? It's with [...]
One of the main (baseball-related) story lines for the Mets National League Championship Series (NLCS) against the Cubs was high-end pitch velocity. Specifically, the Cubs as a team hit poorly (.228 BA according to Baseball Savant) as a team against pitches 95mph and above. The Mets, as a team, threw 2,510 pitches at 95mph or [...]
Lucas Duda is certainly not the only Mets player that has struggled at the plate so far this postseason. Travis d'Arnaud has an OPS under .500 and David Wright has a batting average and slugging percentage of .063, for example. Both of these players contributed, however, to the Mets' Division Series victory against the Dodgers [...]
Terry Collins stayed true to his word, mostly, and ran his best players out there last night rather than one of his all righty lineups against lefty Clayton Kershaw. It worked. Kershaw gave up four hits, all of them to left-handed hitters, including a solo homerun to Daniel Murphy. There was some concern that Collins [...]
Rejoice, Mets fans! The team is getting ready for its first playoff appearance in nearly a decade. It's an unfamiliar feeling, and one that we know all too well can be fleeting. It's something we should all enjoy. The lead-up to the post-season isn't without it's question marks and issues, though. Home-field advantage Home-field advantage [...]
Who here is kind of afraid of the lineups that Terry Collins is going to trot out against the Dodgers in the National League Division Series? That's a general question, but more specifically applies to the rotation that the Dodgers will be throwing out against the Mets. The team from Los Angeles will have a [...]
Rookie Noah Syndergaard has had a good if unspectacular debut for the Mets this season. He’s got an ERA of 3.39, a FIP of 3.34, a K/9 of 9.64, and his B/9 is an even two. The results have been somewhat uneven, though, and he’s had a few clunkers. What’s really interesting is how his [...]
Wilmer Flores has had an interesting season, to say the least. Heading into the 2015 campaign there were two big and related questions: how would Flores fair at shortstop and, if he was bad, would his hitting develop to the point where it didn't matter? The shortstop experiment sort of ended in late June without [...]
There's been a lot of rumbling over the years about major league baseball's divisional format and the impact it has on postseason play. Specifically, guaranteeing a spot in the playoffs to each division winner has led to instances of teams in strong divisions missing the playoffs even though they had better records than some division [...]