Major League Baseball’s first week of its version of “stop and frisk,” wherein umpires check pitchers for illegal foreign substances, has been unsurprisingly eventful. The Mets’ Jacob deGrom, who recently became the victim of unfounded conjecture regarding sticky substances, was the first to experience the inspection during the first game of the Mets’ doubleheader on [...]
With the addition of Pete Alonso and Tommy Hunter to the injured list, the Mets’ walking wounded count is now up to seventeen (!) players. Not only are seven of the team’s nine opening day starters currently out with various ailments, the backups and backups to the backups are dropping like flies as well. Cameron [...]
The 2021 Mets were, by many accounts (ahem), predicted to field a potent offense in addition to a potentially elite pitching staff and solid overall depth. The rotation has thus far been as advertised, leading the league in xFIP and second only to the Dodgers in fWAR. The bullpen has some work to do, to [...]
The sunk cost fallacy is something sports fans are intimately familiar with, even if they don’t realize it. Very generally speaking, the concept is described as continuing an endeavor simply because you’ve already invested a significant amount of time, money, and/or resources on it despite it not being in your best interests. In sports, this [...]
It’s been quite the eventful offseason for the Mets both in terms of the players they actually acquired and the numerous others they’ve reportedly been “in on.” Some of the non-moves, like losing out on George Springer to the Blue Jays and the seemingly 11th-hour change of heart (to put it kindly) from Trevor Bauer, [...]
The Mets, rumored to be one of a handful of teams seriously in the mix for him, lost the George Springer sweepstakes when the slugging center fielder struck a deal with the Toronto Blue Jays earlier this week. Reports suggest that the team was unwilling to meet the total sum of the six-year, $150 million [...]
One of the first moves that new Mets owner Steve Cohen announced as he worked through the sale approval process was the return of former General Manager Sandy Alderson as the team's president. This move was generally met with praise, and to some a sign that Cohen wasn't simply going to storm in with his [...]
There was a time, long ago, when yours truly was so aboard the hype train for a certain young Mets slugger that he preposterously suggested that said slugger could become the franchise's future home run king. To be fair, the Mets aren't exactly known for having an illustrious history of mashers. Darryl Strawberry, the franchise [...]
One of the first roster decisions Mets General Manager Brodie Van Wagenen, or whoever is running the show in the Steve Cohen era, will need to make as the team retools for 2021 is whether or not to pick up the $10 million team option on catcher Wilson Ramos. Ramos was one of the first [...]
As another season in which the Mets were expected to compete (even before the playoffs were expanded) whimpers to an ignominious end, there do remain some bright spots in an otherwise weird and disappointing campaign. One of the shiniest is the youthful offensive core that ranked as one of the league's best as the young [...]
Leave it to the Mets to take a seemingly obvious decision and make it in the most excruciatingly inept way with what appears to be an almost embarrassing lack of forethought. After days of refusing to commit to Steven Matz's next start and flirting with the idea of moving Seth Lugo into the rotation, the [...]
It might be slightly hyperbolic to call 2020 a hellscape, but the good news is that baseball is officially back to return some sense of normalcy to our everyday lives. Despite feeling like we're in the opening montage of a post-apocalyptic movie, baseball provides a welcome reprieve from the onslaught of seemingly endless bad news. [...]