Analysis of the home runs by Pete Alonso in 2022

For the fourth year running, I am taking a deeper dive into the home runs of Pete Alonso for the season. You can see the progression of these stories in 2019, 2020, and 2021, which shows what a total beast Alonso has become. In reviewing my article for the 2021 season, my closing thoughts looked [...]

Understanding the Mets’ official press pins as collector’s items

Let’s see, the players want much needed fairness in the game and greedy owners, led by the master negotiator, Rob Manfred, want nothing but to preserve superiority over the MLBPA. It is a lousy old tune. Breaking word that the highly respected Jeff Passan has managed to upset the MLB and now is on the [...]

Connecting the lawsuit of Brian Flores versus the NFL and the on-going MLB lockout

In the absence of actual baseball news of any sort, the combination of the Olympics and Premier League Football in full swing makes it difficult to find any new lanes of interesting things to write about for me. The truth is, the MLBPA and the MLB/owners are miles away from resolution if the “breaking news” [...]

Analysis of the home runs by Pete Alonso in 2021

About the only thing that Brodie Van Wagenen did right and that paid off in spades was bringing up Pete Alonso to The Show for the 2019 season in what might have been considered an “early” move that would start expending Alonso’s controllable time window. Since that decision, Pete went on to win the Rookie [...]

Assessing the Mets’ young core with BABIP and OPS+

We talk a lot about advanced metrics here at Mets360, to the point that Brian has even provided expert guidance on navigating data in Baseball Reference. At the same time, writers here at Mets360 have been posting ideas about to improve Cohen’s Mets for the upcoming year. Hot Stove indeed. We hear a lot about [...]

The first critical move the Mets must make for the 2022 season

Every Spring the Mets faithful cannot wait to roll out predictions of 90 or more wins, buoyed by a battery of predictions from a string of prognosticators bullish on the team. The enthusiasm runs right into opening day, where the Mets have the most admirable record in the game. At the top of this sits [...]

Evaluating the Mets’ string of one-run games in August 2021

There is nothing like playing quad-A teams and some palace intrigue to change the tone of things in Queens. Gone is the month of August and play against tough competition, which was replaced by as soft a schedule as imaginable and a string of wins that is balancing the run of losses the previous month. [...]

Evaluating the Mets’ string of one-run games in August 2021

There is nothing like playing quad-A teams and some palace intrigue to change the tone of things in Queens. Gone is the month of August and play against tough competition, which was replaced by as soft a schedule as imaginable and a string of wins that is balancing the run of losses the previous month. [...]

Pete Alonso’s July home run roll, trade-deadline thoughts and the final push to win the NL East

Last month I took stock of the NL East with the Mets having been atop the Division for some time, despite a modestly over > .500 record and a +2 run differential. That was good for a four-game lead on the two chasers, namely the Braves and Phillies. One concern I expressed was that a [...]

Is there any sense to the NL East at the half-way mark?

As the All-Star game rapidly approaches, heat records fall, and trade-talk heats up, it seems time to take stock of the NL East for the second half of the season. June was not a particularly strong month for the Mets, as we have become accustomed to, but thankfully not as horrific as usual. Coming out [...]